The “42”
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So is this gonna be 42 African American/POC player cards? Or is gonna be like the 50 from Madden which had some of the best players from NFL history.
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Insert 'Why Not Both' GIF here.
My question is will be is this how we get Satchell Page into the game as a collection reward?
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@savefarris_psn said in The “42”:
Insert 'Why Not Both' GIF here.
My question is will be is this how we get Satchell Page into the game as a collection reward?
That’s what I’m guessing. Makes the most sense if they were going to introduce them this year.
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I am an agreeable man. But if we don’t get Josh Gibson into this game soon, I’m going to electrocute a ton of horses.
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@schnauzerface said in The “42”:
I am an agreeable man. But if we don’t get Josh Gibson into this game soon, I’m going to electrocute a ton of horses.
That would be the noob hot pocket move schnauz
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@lil_ramram12_psn said in The “42”:
So is this gonna be 42 African American/POC player cards? Or is gonna be like the 50 from Madden which had some of the best players from NFL history.
What do you think. It’s 2021... likely all black players . Which is fine but kinda political... would have been better is it was like that dudes negro leagues cards../. That would be great and a honor to the players that should have been mlb
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@crimson_monk said in The “42”:
@lil_ramram12_psn said in The “42”:
So is this gonna be 42 African American/POC player cards? Or is gonna be like the 50 from Madden which had some of the best players from NFL history.
What do you think. It’s 2021... likely all black players . Which is fine but kinda political... would have been better is it was like that dudes negro leagues cards../. That would be great and a honor to the players that should have been mlb
It’s extremely political honestly. Stuff like this does more to cause racial divide than a lot of other things. Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, etc., they’re all baseball players, and I don’t see a reason to have a whole series of cards that explicitly excludes other races, other than for purely political reasons.
I mean, people would riot if SDS made a series of cards that was explicitly white players only.
We haven’t seen all of them yet though, so maybe they’ll include Bruce sutter since he wore 42 or something.
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I think putting politics into a video game by celebrating anything based on identity is pretty lame. I think we should progress as a society and start thinking and looking at everyone as human beings and not what group they identify with...
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@a_perfectgame said in The “42”:
I think putting politics into a video game by celebrating anything based on identity is pretty lame. I think we should progress as a society and start thinking and looking at everyone as human beings and not what group they identify with...
I believe its possible to celebrate a culture and what it represents to the sport, while simultaneously looking at everyone as human beings. This has nothing to do with politics. Jackie paved the way for all of these players, so we should celebrate it every year, never let it be forgotten.
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IMAGINE the outrage if they did an all white player program, leave my baseball alone please and LEAVE politics out of it!
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I think putting politics into a video game by celebrating anything based on identity is pretty lame. I think we should progress as a society and start thinking and looking at everyone as human beings and not what group they identify with...
since i cant quote literally ANYTHING in this thread ill do it the old fashioned way....
completely agree here. identifying by color and not just being a special human is just NOT IT.
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Some people will never understand!!
If you really think this is political...
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It's not political. Y'all are giving SDS too much credit. It's 5 ball players and it's a pre order pack. 5 more to get revealed next week.
They'll all be low diamonds, they'll have these packs scattered everywhere in the game as well for a collection.
Oh. The skin tone of the 5 revealed happen to be people of color.
Let's play ball here.
If you want political stuff or cancel culture discussion, I'm sure you can find a reddit thread about Aunt Jemima, Mr Potato Head, Gina Carano, or D Watson.
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Why are so many of you making this about race??? Mariano Rivera isn’t African American. Jackie is on the cover for the deluxe editions.
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I took it as a celebration of Jackie and what he accomplished,nothing more.
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I’m curious if any of the diamond choice packs will include any white players.
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@hoboadam_psn said in The “42”:
It's not political. Y'all are giving SDS too much credit. It's 5 ball players and it's a pre order pack. 5 more to get revealed next week.
They'll all be low diamonds, they'll have these packs scattered everywhere in the game as well for a collection.
Oh. The skin tone of the 5 revealed happen to be people of color.
Let's play ball here.
If you want political stuff or cancel culture discussion, I'm sure you can find a reddit thread about Aunt Jemima, Mr Potato Head, Gina Carano, or D Watson.
They got political last year. They threw it everyone’s face on the game and the forum. What you talking bout Willis.
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@yee-its-bean_xbl said in The “42”:
Why are so many of you making this about race??? Mariano Rivera isn’t African American. Jackie is on the cover for the deluxe editions.
He wore 42, and is still a minority as well. We’ll truly know if it’s about race if they don’t include Bruce sutter in the pack, given that he was also a prominent player that wore 42.
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@sean_87__psn said in The “42”:
@hoboadam_psn said in The “42”:
It's not political. Y'all are giving SDS too much credit. It's 5 ball players and it's a pre order pack. 5 more to get revealed next week.
They'll all be low diamonds, they'll have these packs scattered everywhere in the game as well for a collection.
Oh. The skin tone of the 5 revealed happen to be people of color.
Let's play ball here.
If you want political stuff or cancel culture discussion, I'm sure you can find a reddit thread about Aunt Jemima, Mr Potato Head, Gina Carano, or D Watson.
They got political last year. They threw it everyone’s face on the game and the forum. What you talking bout Willis.
Last years was political, we all know why they did it and nobody blames them for sharing their stance on it. Not going down that rabbit hole, but this is quite a bit different since this is just celebrating the man who changed the game, and thats Jackie Robinson.
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@ikasnu_psn said in The “42”:
@sean_87__psn said in The “42”:
@hoboadam_psn said in The “42”:
It's not political. Y'all are giving SDS too much credit. It's 5 ball players and it's a pre order pack. 5 more to get revealed next week.
They'll all be low diamonds, they'll have these packs scattered everywhere in the game as well for a collection.
Oh. The skin tone of the 5 revealed happen to be people of color.
Let's play ball here.
If you want political stuff or cancel culture discussion, I'm sure you can find a reddit thread about Aunt Jemima, Mr Potato Head, Gina Carano, or D Watson.
They got political last year. They threw it everyone’s face on the game and the forum. What you talking bout Willis.
Last years was political, we all know why they did it and nobody blames them for sharing their stance on it. Not going down that rabbit hole, but this is quite a bit different since this is just celebrating the man who changed the game, and thats Jackie Robinson.
Sharing their stance? You do know the political group they backed is anti-America right? Do a little research and you will see what they really stand for and it’s not about their t-shirt slogans either.
