Anyone else borderline excited/not excited for tonight?
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This year is cool insofar as adding suppan, McGee
Man I forgot that Suppan was a Cardinal. His best War years came with KC. But he did have a better ERA, WHIP, H9, K9, BB9 as a Cardinal.
So lets see that is
McGwire - A's
McGee - SF
Simmons - Brewers
Pendleton - Braves
Carlton - Phillies
Beltran - Mets
Berkman - Astros
Suppan - RoyalsNow, I don't expect they would all get 99 Cardinal cards. I could see Beltran not getting a Cardinal Card at all (he got one last year). I would like to see Berkman at least get a mid 90s Contributor Card (he had a year where he hit 301 with 31 HRs as a Cardinal and played a key role in the 2011 World Series season).
I would hope at some point to get a Carlton. This is his 3rd straight Phillies card since being added. Fine, he made his name mainly as a Phillie, but as I said before the Cardinals, outside of Gibson, have never really had a good legend Starting Pitcher.
Again, these players played for those teams and in some of the cases are more iconic for those teams so it is fine. But it does mean that we'll need to wait at least a few months before we see a Cardinals versions of any of them.
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Suppan forever in my mind for his amazing game against the Mets.
A lot of cards could be tremendous as Cardinals later in the year if they’re say “postseason” cards.
Berkman in 2011, max clutch
Kolten Wong in the series against the Giants whatever year.Wish they’d play around with card series more.
Jack Flaherty 2nd half of the season we smoked the Braves he was in Cy Young consideration.
Stuff like that. Imagine a young Carlton to go with our usual Gibson. Pepper in a 2nd half Flaherty and a postseason Wacha and all of a sudden we have more than Gibson and a 64 OVR Palente.
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Kolten Wong
Not in the game anymore is he? He retired.
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Yeah I just mean in past years with Wong.
Just examples of cool cards they could / can do with the series of cards they already have in place.
They make insanely overpowered Topps Now cards that have stats better than Legends that maybe got a hit in their first game.
Meanwhile they have these card series they waste with an 82 OVR gold postseason card of some absolute stud.
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@JenkinMeyer_PSN that McGee card should come with a trigger warning for the younger folks
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I’ve linked it before but John Morris’s impression of him is amazing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DdSoFvmoaWI
All hail Willie. My favorite baseball player and overall great human being.
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Son of a b......
I wanted to buy the game on PS5 but didnt want to pre-order or pay full price and wasn't so excited.
Turn on my Xbox for the first time in a while and I got like $60 of Xbox Rewards credit sitting there - half of it expiring in 3 days.
Well....can't let free money go to waste.....went ahead and purchased the pre-order for like 30 bucks.
So does this game come out at 9pm pacific tonight or do I have to wait til midnight pacific?
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@LuvMyXBOX_XBL 9 for the left coast
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@LuvMyXBOX_XBL 9pm pacific tonight!
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I got a real baseball game after school tomorrow but as soon as I get home, I will be grinding 26. I am incredibly excited for this game, cant wait to actually be able to play it
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I’m excited because it’s fresh. Really hoping the glitches from last year are fixed. Hope the game feels better online and off compared to last season. Looking forward to just taking my time with it. Every year I rush through it chasing players I rarely use because I chase the next player. This year I’m going to play with who I like, get cards I want to try, and just have some fun. I’m going to stop watching the streamers and rarely look at the socials this year to avoid the temptation to grind and waste tons of hours forgetting to enjoy the game. Hopefully it’s a great game overall.
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This is like my Christmas as an adult. I'll open my 75 packs tonight, most likely disappointed at the lack of diamonds....put together a team and start knocking out some TA.
75 packs? How did you get that many?
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I caved and preordered it. I work overnight and can bring in my ps5 to play during slow times over my hotspot.
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This is like my Christmas as an adult. I'll open my 75 packs tonight, most likely disappointed at the lack of diamonds....put together a team and start knocking out some TA.
75 packs? How did you get that many?
20 for the deluxe edition
26 now and laters
28 twitch dropsand then the gold for the deluxe pre-order
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This is like my Christmas as an adult. I'll open my 75 packs tonight, most likely disappointed at the lack of diamonds....put together a team and start knocking out some TA.
75 packs? How did you get that many?
20 for the deluxe edition
26 now and laters
28 twitch dropsand then the gold for the deluxe pre-order
Nice
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I caved and preordered it.
I KNEW IT!
Hmmm... those are pretty lame fireworks. Here:
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Even less excited now.
- No Cardinal Cards in the WBC (which I expected)
- Only Extra Cardinals card beyond TA (and NL Collection) is in my least favorite mode DQ as an Epic reward (Musial). Can't wait to start flipping coins to see if I can get lucky.
- Most Cardinals I would be excited to use are starting with cards for other teams (McGee, Simmons).
- Free WBC Schwarber having more power than Signature Series and NL collection Pujols
That said there is no doubt that it was a ton of content and rewards that they just revealed.
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That Schwarber card is a joke. They buffed his power but still gave him FAR better contact than he deserves. He is a career .230 hitter. If we are giving people with low power 60 power shouldnt a guy with low contact get penalized too?
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Well, keep in perspective at least in particular Schwarber:
Dude hits tanks.
Pujols is a 700 HR hitter but having him 125 in everything isn’t realistic.
His stats seems more realistic. They need to make more cards more realistic.
Like having a Tony Fernandez or whoever gold card that has 99/99 speed steal just diminishes Rickey Henderson and real speedsters so much it’s dumb.
sDS doesn’t control their stats well enough. It’s dumb as [censored] that a gold card can undermine the greatest of speedsters.
So why want Ricky when you can have Fernandez?
They give guys with 40 stolen bases 99/99 treatment and it’s so dumb.
But that’s when you realize - their stats don’t matter at all - it’s all just a gimmick. I can steal with Paul Goldschmidt every at bat 100% of the time. Other than in ranked.
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Well, keep in perspective at least in particular Schwarber:
Dude hits tanks.
As I am sure he wil be well represented when he gets his 4 or 5 other cards during the All Star break and post season if Phillies make it
