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This is by far the worst iteration of the show.

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This is my post on reddit. The amount of crazy things that has happened in RS this year to make me lose has been demoralizing. I’ve lost games in every way imaginable I’m 68-68 at one point 15 over .500 and steadily declined until I got here. I won WS 3 times last year and maxed out at 986. I enjoy collecting and playing with the cards but winning games you played well in was also fun too. Now it’s like idk if I’m playing roulette or baseball anymore. I just want to have fun like hers past. Not dominate a game then in the bottom of the 9th walk the bases loaded and give up a GS to lose.

MANNY RAMIREZ idc if its Indians Manny or Red Sox just give me his sweet swing! If not him I need some Jim Thome love. Hell if we are talking realistic players to see in the game I have a bunch and most I think are people I haven’t seen named in previous posts.

Bobby Abreu
Mo Vaughn
Kevin Youkilis
Andy Petite
Brad Lidge
Octavio Dotel
Chris Carpenter
Carlos Delgado
Edgar Renteria
Chuck Knoblauch
Paul Oneil
Scott Brosius
Bernie Williams
Troy Glaus
Byung Hyun Kim
Jermaine Dye
Magglio Ordonez
Moises Alou
Carlos Zambrano
Carl Everett
Freddy Garcia
Lance Berkman aka The Big Puma
David Eckstein
Mark Grace
Robin Ventura
Miguel Tejada
Barry Zito
Mark Mulder
Mike Sweeney
Raul Ibanez
Larry Walker
Carlos Baerga
Andres Galarraga
Jay Bell
Chili Davis
Chuck Finley
Kevin Appier
Ellis Burkes
Nomar Garciaparra
Hideo Nomo
Brady Anderson
Raul Mondesi

So many more could be named and the obvious requests from years past but we have so many borderline HOFs missing and just plain old cool players from the 90s that hopefully we will get since this year is predominantly new 90s legends.

This game is worse than 18. 19 was decent in comparison but this is a [censored] show like my team in 2k and MUT in Madden. It’s only made for those who know how to play the video game. Trying to apply baseball logic to a video game no matter how bad of an attempt at it being a simulation, will make you go crazy. No need to go into detail about all the problems with the game just enjoy what you can from it. The more we complain about it the more frustrated we get. I’m at a point where once this pandemic is over I don’t really want to play this much anymore it’s honestly become a bad game because of micro transactions people use to obtain who they think will make them better.

I’m 91-91 and honestly feel like I’m my own downfall. Yea I run into guys occasionally that hit everything but it happens it’s a video game not a realistic simulation. I feel like finally figuring out how to avoid as many meatballs as possible has helped. I just can’t ever consistently replicate my PCI placement to get good hits game to game. I made it to 706 DS but have been stuck in WC since. Last year I made WS 914 max 3 out of 7 months of trying. So I don’t feel I’m terrible but I’m not the best either obviously. I just feel like this years game is way more random than last year. I wish they would push out more updates to fix issues because more people are playing but also more developers are home seeing game data that obviously needs adjustments.

The issues I’m having with the content is 80% is recycled. If we want to get technical outside of the Team Affinity Prospects its 100% recycled. Each Inning program so far has included someone that was a mainstay in line ups last year. They also are already recycling the new “Legends”. Roberts has already been in lineups as a gold since week 1. Victorino also has been widespread from team collections. Chipper has been around forever. At this rate we wont get too many ‘new” legends until near end of the games life. We will get the best versions of Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz, Ortiz, etc at a time when The game is almost obsolete. SDS could have had some decency to sneak in an Albert Belle or player of his quality its been 2 years. I’d rather have him again instead of Bob Feller’s racist [censored] again and again.

The pitching is by far the worst in a release I’ve played. I hope they compensate people with packs for this especially since it has caused so much grief and for those that aren’t “elite” a significant number of unnecessary losses.

Lindor’s speed is the most disrespectful thing I’ve seen. He may not steal at the rate he used to but he is not this slow.

For this BS that SDS has given us to deal with and no need of an update to fix it. Do you think they will gift us packs to make up for the terrible quality of RS? I’ve never seen it this bad before and I feel we are owed something for the trouble.

Gagne Vulcan change and curveball if locates and mixed in with a slider or fast ball are literally unhittable

Spent $50 and had $25 balance ($75 total) Flipped cards for the rest packed trout and sold. 265k stubs banked currently

C : Ivan Rodriguez 91
1B: Todd Helton 91
2B: Mookie Betts 89
SS: Jimmy Rollins 91
3B: Gary Sheffield 86
LF: Vladimir Guerrero 91
CF: Duke Snider 91
RF: Reggie Jackson 99

Bench
Shane Vicotorino 86
Steve Finely 87/Christian Yelich 89
Luis Gonzales 88
Ketel Marte 88
Jose Ramirez 86/ Francisco Lindor 87

SP1: Roy Oswald 93
SP2: Greg Maddux 88
SP3: Tom Glavine 88
SP4: John Smoltz 88
SP5: Max Scherzer 92/ Chris Sale 88

LRP:Charlie Morton 86
MRP: Cody Allen 88
MRP: Mariano Rivera 87
MRP: Josh Hader 88
SU: Dennis Eckersley 93
SU: Rollie Fingers 96
CL: Eric Gagne 92

Best Hitter (Starter) 3 way tie Vlad Mookie and Pudge

Best hitter (Bench) Jose and Marte

Worst hitter- Reggie Jackson (swing is long and haven’t gotten used to yet 20 games in .240 7 HR 16 RBI)

Best pitcher (SP) Maddux
Worst (SP) Scherzer

Best Bullpen Gagne is the GOAT
Worst- I wanted to like Pleasac Yates and Cody Allen but with only 3 pitches and the inconsistencies with meatballs I have had bad luck with them smh

Have a few more diamonds I swap out on the occasion but since my luck has turned for the worst I don’t as often. I was 703 and cruising to WS then I got in a slump and now sitting at 521 and demoralized lol.

If you are farming stubs and you have people trying to buy low on cards it becomes a battle of wit vs desperation. I see buy orders skyrocket 20-30% when there aren’t many orders in at lower prices. I understand not everyone that uses the market buys stubs but to see them put a desperation buy let alone multiple that’s that high of a mark up is extremely inept. If in turn this is SDS trying to avoid too much devaluation of cards for the people who farm its a little more understandable. If this is some one or some people that are just throughly not understanding what they are doing some simple math refreshers would be suggested to help your cause and others also. If you see a SELL NOW order for a player at for example 1030 and their BUY NOW is 1250 why would you drive up the SELL NOW price to 1100 and put in multiple orders? If you are in turn trying to flip for profit is there any sense in marking up the price to that extent. I wont go into details of other examples of this stupidity because then it may bring hoards of other people to the market to butcher the stubs mining community. I just am not understanding the inconsistencies.

Not all balls straight down the middle are homeruns 100% of the time. Seriously this may be a video game but if you know baseball you know this is a true statement.

Who cares who spent money and who didn’t. Pocket watchers are no worse than know it alls if someone is happy doing something that doesn’t harm another let them be. I spent some money on this game I mined some stubs. Idc what y’all do I just care about the game being consistent. Enjoy what you can control.

Pitch speeds got me all out of whack. My PCI placement is becoming the main reason I can’t win consistently. I’m not really complaining anymore since I can somewhat control the pitching issues but I think that the new hitting system needs to be tweaked. I’m getting so man fly outs to the warning track that are just good okay hits it’s becoming infuriating.

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The issues I’m having with the content is 80% is recycled. If we want to get technical outside of the Team Affinity Prospects its 100% recycled. Each Inning program so far has included someone that was a mainstay in line ups last year. They also are already recycling the new “Legends”. Roberts has already been in lineups as a gold since week 1. Victorino also has been widespread from team collections. Chipper has been around forever. At this rate we wont get too many ‘new” legends until near end of the games life. We will get the best versions of Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz, Ortiz, etc at a time when The game is almost obsolete. SDS could have had some decency to sneak in an Albert Belle or player of his quality its been 2 years. I’d rather have him again instead of Bob Feller’s racist [censored] again and again.

How exactly is Bob Feller racist?

Look up Bob Feller on google. All the back handed remarks and word choice for people of color was blatant. I’m a tribe fan so I heard it on the radio for years and read numerous articles. Eventually some one called him out for it. He decided to call into a radio show argue he wasn’t but it didn’t fool anyone he got mad and hung up. His demeanor was easily read as not caring much for people of color whatsoever.

Gonna need some links/proof of that bud

https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=2133101

https://www.minorleagueball.com/2010/12/16/1879695/bob-feller-dies

Outside of him pushing to get Satchel Paige signed and allowing Negro League players to tour with him his comments about Hispanic players as he got older and his public feud with Jackie Robinson told the true story. This isn’t like Ty Cobb who many believed him to be racist but only went off here say. There’s numerous people over the decades that will tell you Feller was ignorant in many different ways.

So, the first article about the radio show really doesn’t mean much. From what I can tell, the interviewer just kept asking the same question after it had been answered, then kept calling Feller a racist even after he explained that he wasn’t. I don’t blame him for hanging up in that situation. If people have an agenda they want to carry out, there’s only so much you can do to change their minds.

As far as the feud with Robinson goes, I think it’s clear that they had two distinct personalities that clashed, not because of race though. Robinson asked why baseball didn’t have a black manager after 20 years of integration, and fellers response was basically that a black man shouldn’t get a job just for the sake of diversity. If he earns it, he earns it. That’s my interpretation of it. Besides, everything I’ve read says they were good friends again before Robinson died.

Feller clearly had many black teammates and willingly played with/against them without issues, so calling him a blatant racist seems incredibly unfair.

Blatant racist maybe not but a John Rocker type yes. Rocker wasn’t a racist, he’s done some interviews years later and seems pretty cool even has a black gf now and had others in the past. He just was a bigot that said what he pleased and did what he pleased. Sometimes when you are raised a certain way its hard to be impartial to every one when your environment seems to target certain types of people. Was he a product of his environment, maybe, but did he do anything to try to keep from being labeled one, no. Saying and doing are two different things. Anyone can say something to try to defend themselves but if their actions contradicted the perception then a direct explanation wouldn’t be necessary, People who feel they have to publicly defend themselves in a less than calm manner always have something to hide,

But what did he do that would label him as racist though? I don’t think disagreeing with a black man makes somebody racist, especially when there’s been many other cases of him supporting and helping lots of other black players.

As for your last point, I don’t think that’s necessarily true. When you’re defending yourself against somebody that clearly is going to call you a racist no matter what you say, I’d imagine it gets extremely frustrating to deal with said person. At some point you just have to realize that the person is a lost cause, and there’s no point in wasting your time on them anymore.

His way of talking about Hispanic players was what really set people off. I see you most likely want to defend him because you are white and I understand but the bigger picture of things is the fact that when a person of color says something it’s teen for what it was perceived. When a white persons does there’s always a loophole or way to advert. I am multi racial I see every aspect, I am in no way pro Black Lives Matter or Make America Great Again but I do see the scrutiny behind how people tend to favor an explanation for one rather than the other. So take it for what you want “bud” but I like baseball and the people involved but Bob Feller wasn’t a stand up guy.

There’s no baseball skill in this game. I hear people taking about you’re just not good etc. If you play it like it’s an unrealistic arcade game then you can’t call it a real baseball simulation because this year is abysmal in that perspective.

18 was no where near this bad. Pitching and fielding are horrible this year.

It’s sad anyone that defends pitching this year. I’ve played DD for years and it’s never been this bad. Most of the time pitch locating would be a few inches here and there. This year it legit hangs right over the middle. No excuses for pitching or hitting this year. The game is just bad.