I’m not only a dad but I just became a grandfather. I have twin boys and we loved playing together before they left home to be adults.

I’m not the quickest and sometimes I throw to the wrong base or go after the ball with the wrong player (remembering afterwards to that I should have pressed L2 to switch players) but I love playing the game. I spend my time in franchise mode developing my team year to year.

Talk about an embarrassing confession...🥴

@Vipersneak said in Dads playing The Show:

How about a grandfather league? LOL

Heh. I qualify for that league too...just barely, like a month ago.

@DeadPhish1976 said in Dads playing The Show:

@bostondirtdog21 said in Dads playing The Show:

Ok. So I fell way behind in this. Awesome posts. I found one of my Atari “Baseball” games from 1982 in a box over the weekend - need to figure out how to share the pic.

Anyway, so we’re locked in on:

1. No limits on overalls
2. No CAPS
3. All Star mode so us old guys can see the ball coming

Just need to decide between the following for lineups:

1. DD lineups (with all the new cards there is bound to be variety)
2. Pick a team and use all time team
3. Some other theme (only 80’s and 90’s players?) for our generation

Lastly, Over 40 league or Dads of any age? I am both so I don’t care lol - just want to keep this a fun league and not have to play crazy good full time players

I'm good with what you laid out.

No limits on overalls
No CAPS

I only have one pair of overalls...do I need to buy more? Does this help while playing?

Darn on no CAPS. I have three of them I could wear...Twins, Angels, and Dodgers.

See what you’re dealing with here? 🥴

What a great positive, upbeat thread. Thanks for doing this GrizzBear. I've been playing the show since 2008 (Franchise mode and only Franchise mode) but in October of 2020 I joined a league and for the first time ever started playing DD (Diamond Dynasty for all you new Xboxers joining us). It's been a huge learning curve for me to get online (I've played with my settings on Beginner the whole time).

So here is my tip - join a league. Find a group of players that will help you be a better player. They're out there. Playing against guys that you chat with on a regular basis is so much better than playing random people. They can give you tips and hints on how to get better. Nod to the Dad's League - you guys are the best! Sure - I'm still the cellar player in the group but I've gotten better and will continue to do so as long as I stick with it.

Welcome to MLBTS - hope you like it as much as we do!

If you haven't tried it yet, next to the Play Now button on the PS5 main screen are three dots. Click on those. The third line down should say PS5 Full. If you did the thech test, that will be on the same line.

I accidentally installed the tech test version first and then had to go back and install the Full version.

@Vipersneak said in The Bank:

Can't you just turn off money altogether?

I like having to stay in a budget. Keeps the other team's more competitive.

I’m game but I need to go out and buy ‘20. It sounds like this will put me behind the curve not having cards to build a DD team. I wouldn’t be opposed to picking a team and sticking with it also.

Will putting a minimum age requirement be possible? Young dads may be quicker than us old guys (I’m 59) but they’ll have more on their plate in real life too.

Sounds like a fun Franchise. I've been playing Franchise for four years BUT, my team is 90% created players...Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Oliver Queen, Peter Parker, Ben Grimm, Tony Stark...you get the idea.

Have a great time with your Franchise!

I did say no CAPS, but I'll give you a pass on the Twins and Angels. I'm a Padre fan though so I will implement a no Dodger cap policy.

I saw it at Best Buy for $10 the other day. I picked up a used copy at game stop, so there’s another option.

Yes. Whatever system you are playing it on, you will need a copy for it (xbox and/or PlayStation). Check out the FAQ for detailed information: https://theshow.com/faq/

@steelymacbeam said in Is there a way to tell if you've hit the daily max XP?:

@blind_bleeder said in Is there a way to tell if you've hit the daily max XP?:

@steelymacbeam said in Is there a way to tell if you've hit the daily max XP?:

You should have gotten a message saying you hit your daily max. The message looks similar to the one you would get if someone offered a friendly.

Thank you. I didn't see a message (maybe I missed it because I was dumbfounded by the blank area where the XP was supposed to be?) so maybe something else happened.

I'm not sure I made 60k XP but it's possible, I did clear a lot yesterday (I'm trying to catch up because I'm behind on the 6th inning).

Whatever happened, I'm earning XP today and I'm keeping track of what I'm earning to just in case it happens again.

Thank you again!

No problem, bud! Glad to help out. I think the only way to hit 60K XP is when they do double XP. I know when it was double XP weekend and they instituted the 35K cap I hit it in 3 hours.

Heh...or if you're retired and play the game for 12 hours in a day... (yeah...I did).

Thank you again!

@steelymacbeam said in Is there a way to tell if you've hit the daily max XP?:

You should have gotten a message saying you hit your daily max. The message looks similar to the one you would get if someone offered a friendly.

Thank you. I didn't see a message (maybe I missed it because I was dumbfounded by the blank area where the XP was supposed to be?) so maybe something else happened.

I'm not sure I made 60k XP but it's possible, I did clear a lot yesterday (I'm trying to catch up because I'm behind on the 6th inning).

Whatever happened, I'm earning XP today and I'm keeping track of what I'm earning to just in case it happens again.

Thank you again!

When my last CPU game ended, on the rewards screen were the packs and cards I was rewarded but below the line where it reports the XP and Stubs, it was blank. I'm assuming that I hit the max XP but I'm not sure that I did. Wouldn't it report the stubs I earned anyway?

I've been doing POTM for the last hour and didn't know there was a problem. I jumped on the forum to look something up and saw all the people having connection problems. I got out of the game and now I can't get back in. I hope all of the POTM progress I made sticks!

It's back now. I'm glad they fixed whatever it was.

What's up with the game? It got super slow all of a sudden. It's taking a long time to go from menu to menu.

Anyone else seeing this?

Edit: And now I just got a network connection error.

Directional hitting. Power swinging. I've been on this for 2 days. I can't even get a double when the ball is grounded down the third baseline to the track...I'm about to pay someone to do this for me! (not really).

@frstdwn_xbl said in Players not licensed for the Show:

Imagine the bat breaking animation

Strike out Machado and you might get to see that animation. I did it on 4/26/21 and it was awesome! (I only know the date because I told my buddies about it in Discord).

Okay...again. I was able to open an Items JSON file in Excel and get it into a table. Is there a way to get Excel to pull the data automatically so I don't have to download all 98 pages and import them individually after each roster update?