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Also 2 more days of work until vacation for me it couldn’t come fast enough. I can’t wait. I’m going to open packs with my puppy on thurs night and we’re going to have fun

The game is a few short days old, already I’m seeing things like “increase pitch speeds” “nerf perfect/perfect” “giving up too many runs” lets all just take a minute here. This game is a few days old, no one here has even played a single game ranked on hall of fame, all on all star and below. It’s always been a slugfest in these lower levels, always. The pci is massive because it’s SUPPOSED to be massive at the lower levels. Pitch speeds are slower because there SUPPOSED to be slower on the lower levels. Remember we all would call it “all star hell” whenever we finished a RS and they place you back down in the pennet race division? Let’s give the game a full ranked season and then revisit these topics. Will things need to be adjusted? Perhaps. But without getting to those higher divisions and playing in them we won’t know exactly for sure. I’m not saying the game won’t need to be tweeted at some point, I’m just saying now is not that point. No one here has played in division series or higher. I believe that’s when it goes to HOF if I remember correctly. Let’s give the game 1 full ranked season and then evaluate from there. So far I think the game is really good. Being rewarded for good swings is great, I love it. I don’t even really get mad if I line out on “good/squared up” because I know that had i perfect/perfected it it would’ve been different, and that’s on my input. In past game where good/squared up was the best input you could get it would frustrate me because then I felt like I had done everything I could and just got RNGed into an out. This year you really know if you did hit it perfect which is awesome

@ChArTeRBuS said in No investing this year:

The baseball season could be canceled and your excited that people can’t invest in MLB the shoe 20 as a result?

Today is your big day bro!!

Yeah I’m more worried that baseball season might be canceled than I am about possible upgrades to cards in the game. I enjoy watching baseball and look forward to it all offseason. Plus my padres have made some moves that I’m personally excited for and wanted to see if we could break .500 this year.

I took a week off starting Thursday. I get 4 weeks off a year so I decided to spend one to enjoy the game

@A_PerfectGame said in 1st Inning Reward : Your choice?:

@bradphil87 said in 1st Inning Reward : Your choice?:

I’m not really excited about those 3 personally so I’m going to sell the first inning one. If I were to keep one I’d be leaning Helton

They are gonna go for big stubs with the prestige in play.

That’s good then. I hope I can get good stubs out of one of them and then use them to try to work on collections

@Zooropa_U2 said in Request: No Astros Flashbacks (17,18,19) for MLB20:

@bradphil87 said in Request: No Astros Flashbacks (17,18,19) for MLB20:

@SMASHEDonEM said in Request: No Astros Flashbacks (17,18,19) for MLB20:

@thinkbluedgr said in Request: No Astros Flashbacks (17,18,19) for MLB20:

@yankblan said in Request: No Astros Flashbacks (17,18,19) for MLB20:

@thinkbluedgr said in Request: No Astros Flashbacks (17,18,19) for MLB20:

I don't want to see any Astros flashbacks for MLB 20. These disgracefull cheaters don't deserve them. If I see one, it gets beaned automatically.

This is death penalty worthy, but trading for a wife beater and bragging about it, no biggy.

People are weird. Baseball probably has seen the most cheating in NA sports history and continues to do so. Must be nice living your youth in the "triggered era".

Death penalty worthy? I love when people exaggerate things. I simply requested no flashbacks of these cheaters, not the death penalty.
And you're right, people are weird, especially when they try to defend cheaters.

What if we are not defending the fact that they cheated because it is very disappointing and embarrassing. Are we still allowed to support our team though as baseball fans?

As a baseball fan you should denounce your 2017 WS title as well as altuves mvp award. Doing so would gain back way more respect from other fans. If their organization does the same it would really speed up the healing process from this debacle. Other fans are more upset that they cheated and the punishment was way too light in other fans eyes. Now if the punishment fit the crime (taking away the trophy and rings, and the mvp award.) Then more fans would agree that they were punished more on par with what the crime calls for and that they’ve then at least not gotten just a slap on the wrist.

ok, then go back and wipe everything in baseball having to do with cheating. Good luck with that. Like it or not, cheating is embedded deep in the game's history. Not saying what we did is correct. It was awful and as a lifelong fan I am disgraced by it.

However, everyone coming out and acting holier than thou has us Astros fans pissed. "Take away the trophy", ok then take away the Giants' 1951 pennant, take away Aaron's HR record since it was done with greenies... hell stop idolising The Babe who happened to cork his bats.

STOP BEING SO HYPOCRITICAL

Thank you for becoming the example of how Astros fans are. This right here. First they “say” they don’t agree with it. Then they minimize the cheating by comparing it to other offenses. Then they defend it. This post right here is how every Astro fan I’ve interacted with has been. That team is a disgrace to the game.

I’m pretty sure I’m going to go judge, I don’t hit well with Harper and that rookie Griffey hasn’t ever really been that good for me personally. His diamonds have tho

@dbarmonstar said in Anyone taking the day off work or school on launch day?:

I have 3 birthday are Jan, Feb, and Jun so I am good, my wife she does not care that I play. Been married almost 20 years so she is used to it already. My kids come first. When I know I have to help them with homework or with there electronics, I do not play online so I am not pausing that much. If I do play online I tell them ahead of time that they will have to wait until game is over.

I say the same to my wife, I’ll tell her “hey I’m going to start a game online, it’ll take about 45 mins, if you need anything done tell me now so I can do it before or if it can wait 45 mins I’ll do it after” lol

@Capt_awesome34 said in Can’t wait till Friday!!:

Told my wife that I am virtual invisible Friday lol ...she gets it fortunately its my only real vice

Same here. My wife plays games too so she gets it. She’ll probably play her game while I’m on the show lol

I’ve had plenty of k’s so far online.....if anything I’ve had more than expected playing on beginner and veteran so far

I just keep my team and every now and again I’ll go back and play a game if I want a break from the new one. I played 17 I think a few months ago, had fun. 18 I believe was the worst game they’ve put out so I’ll probably never go back and play that one again. But I’ll keep my 19 team and if I get an itch to play with them sometime again I will

I wouldn’t be that mad, still a faster win than playing 5 more innings and I can save my bullpen/starters energy

You know how you can get like the 5x battle royal 12-0 nameplates and such by exchanging them? I would like it if you could do the same with WS nameplates, I think it’d be a cool way to show if you made WS 5 times, 10 times, etc. I’m hoping they could possibly add this later

@SMASHEDonEM said in Request: No Astros Flashbacks (17,18,19) for MLB20:

@thinkbluedgr said in Request: No Astros Flashbacks (17,18,19) for MLB20:

@yankblan said in Request: No Astros Flashbacks (17,18,19) for MLB20:

@thinkbluedgr said in Request: No Astros Flashbacks (17,18,19) for MLB20:

I don't want to see any Astros flashbacks for MLB 20. These disgracefull cheaters don't deserve them. If I see one, it gets beaned automatically.

This is death penalty worthy, but trading for a wife beater and bragging about it, no biggy.

People are weird. Baseball probably has seen the most cheating in NA sports history and continues to do so. Must be nice living your youth in the "triggered era".

Death penalty worthy? I love when people exaggerate things. I simply requested no flashbacks of these cheaters, not the death penalty.
And you're right, people are weird, especially when they try to defend cheaters.

What if we are not defending the fact that they cheated because it is very disappointing and embarrassing. Are we still allowed to support our team though as baseball fans?

As a baseball fan you should denounce your 2017 WS title as well as altuves mvp award. Doing so would gain back way more respect from other fans. If their organization does the same it would really speed up the healing process from this debacle. Other fans are more upset that they cheated and the punishment was way too light in other fans eyes. Now if the punishment fit the crime (taking away the trophy and rings, and the mvp award.) Then more fans would agree that they were punished more on par with what the crime calls for and that they’ve then at least not gotten just a slap on the wrist.

@reprezent22 said in My Favorite New Feature:

I wonder if the stats displayed in the middle of RS/BR game will be the online only stats for that card though? Or will you only be able to see the online specific stats on the details of the card in your collection?

@Victor_SDS ?
Good question, I hope that the stats they show (like batting average etc) during online games are the online ones. If not, that’s not a dealbreaker or anything, it’d just be nice if it was

@FreshasaMint123 said in Free packs etc.:

i emailed SSDS, they said there is no Countdown to launch promos this year. sadly
Probably because people abused them last year unfortunately.....it’s sad really

@JEEZY-E said in Let’s not all be hasty here....:

@bradphil87 said in Let’s not all be hasty here....:

The game is a few short days old, already I’m seeing things like “increase pitch speeds” “nerf perfect/perfect” “giving up too many runs” lets all just take a minute here. This game is a few days old, no one here has even played a single game ranked on hall of fame, all on all star and below. It’s always been a slugfest in these lower levels, always. The pci is massive because it’s SUPPOSED to be massive at the lower levels. Pitch speeds are slower because there SUPPOSED to be slower on the lower levels. Remember we all would call it “all star hell” whenever we finished a RS and they place you back down in the pennet race division? Let’s give the game a full ranked season and then revisit these topics. Will things need to be adjusted? Perhaps. But without getting to those higher divisions and playing in them we won’t know exactly for sure. I’m not saying the game won’t need to be tweeted at some point, I’m just saying now is not that point. No one here has played in division series or higher. I believe that’s when it goes to HOF if I remember correctly. Let’s give the game 1 full ranked season and then evaluate from there. So far I think the game is really good. Being rewarded for good swings is great, I love it. I don’t even really get mad if I line out on “good/squared up” because I know that had i perfect/perfected it it would’ve been different, and that’s on my input. In past game where good/squared up was the best input you could get it would frustrate me because then I felt like I had done everything I could and just got RNGed into an out. This year you really know if you did hit it perfect which is awesome

just so you know, perfect/perfects still go for outs, I have had a perfect/perfect fly ball die at the track with Gleyber, and a few perfect/perfects that went straight at fielders for outs, which is fine, maybe not the flyball swing but I get that hard hit lineouts happen. My problem is if your going to implement that type of user input for hitting and fielding you need to implement it for pitching, which it is not, perfect releases are a game of roulette, you dont know if its going to hit its spot, end up centre cut, or end up in the dugout. Maybe I just don't know anything about baseball but I always thought pitching was a pretty important part of the sport, user input for pitching should matter, I dont need every perfect to paint or be pin point but it shouldn't hang or miss its spot by 3 feet.

I’ve had some perfect perfect outs as well. But there’s no denying those balls were smashed. They said on stream that something like .800 batting average with them. That’s good, there should be. Still can get out, hey that’s baseball sometimes you hit a ball as hard as you can and it’s right at someone, sometimes you make poor contact and it sneaks through a hole. But that’s the exception not the norm. MOST of the time the harder you hit the ball the better chance you have to get a hit, and the softer you hit one the opposite

Download is usually around 48 hours before release. Since yours doesn’t release until 4 days after you’ll probably be able to download it 48 hours before you can play. The reason everyone else could is because with early access on their version it was under 48 hours away

I can see the logic in the original collected ones being no sell/no exchange. But I think a fair compromise would be to allow duplicates to at least be exchanged.

@MathMan5072 said in Anyone taking the day off work or school on launch day?:

@bradphil87 said in Anyone taking the day off work or school on launch day?:

@dbarmonstar said in Anyone taking the day off work or school on launch day?:

I have 3 birthday are Jan, Feb, and Jun so I am good, my wife she does not care that I play. Been married almost 20 years so she is used to it already. My kids come first. When I know I have to help them with homework or with there electronics, I do not play online so I am not pausing that much. If I do play online I tell them ahead of time that they will have to wait until game is over.

I say the same to my wife, I’ll tell her “hey I’m going to start a game online, it’ll take about 45 mins, if you need anything done tell me now so I can do it before or if it can wait 45 mins I’ll do it after” lol

A very common question in my house is, “Are you playing online or can you help me?” Pretty awesome to have a wife that understands where the priorities are.

Then she’ll start heckling me while I play. “Why did you swing at that.” Or she’ll make fun of me because I’m talking to myself.

Lol, mines very familiar with the pause timer we get. She’ll ask if I have a lot of pause time left if she wants me to do something real quick haha