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I posted this as my response to another thread and think it's a valid thought others might appreciate.

After years of Madden, I'm happy I get to still use the cards after completing the set. Any game is the same thing with new clothes. Heck, COD hasn't been much different in 25 years. Just new clothes. I love the game of baseball. This game brings it closer to me. Building my team with my favorite players? Awesome. It also adds history. Before the NBL program, which is great, we got players like Honus Wagner. Heard the name, Knew the card value, but didn't know a thing about him. After enjoying his play, I looked him up online. Now I know more about him and really appreciate his role in baseball history. There is so much more than Babe Ruth and I love discovering it. DD makes that possible.

I love this game, but the only way to change things is with our pocketbooks. Or, their pocketbooks.

I don't know about Xbox, but PS5 has a starred rating system. I just changed my rating from three to one. I urge those that are as frustrated in this years game to give your honest assessment as well. Currently 2/3 of ratings are 5 stars. I'll change it back if fixed, so should you. They don't want to listen to us. OK.

Yesterday was the most exciting day in baseball I have ever witnessed in my life. Forget calling them games. They were five possible movie scripts made out of four games. It was a beautiful thing to watch. From "Field of Dreams" to "The Natural," I always get emotional when I see a good baseball story. I wrote some treatments for fun. They're a little melodramatic, but it was fun to write. But really, how can you not be sentimental about baseball? I hope you enjoy.

A scrappy team comes out of nowhere in a "rebuilding year" to just miss the playoffs. The next year on the back of a rookie, that shouldn't be ready yet, they make the playoffs for the first time in twenty years. Then they come from a seven run deficit to clinch a spot in the second round. Surprising the team that was predicted to win it all at the beginning of the season.

One of the greatest pitchers of the age falls from their former glory, horribly falling from the heights of his earlier talent. Under the leadership of an injured hero, a team comes back from a disastrous first game to tie up the series.

Two future hall of famers play their last game after a season of success no one thought they would be able to achieve. Just short of their quest for one last championship, they take in their former glory and thank the people that supported them though the years.

This was supposed to be his year. The reigning MVP was ready to lead his team to the promised land. Struggling to win games the manager was fired, then a bad swing at a bad pitch puts his season in jeopardy. Behind their pitchers, the team comes back to secure the last spot in the playoffs. Our MVP, maybe too soon, comes back in time to defeat a seasoned contending team in the first round.

One game to win. The opponent is a team known to be able to face adversity and win. For the fourth year in a row they weren't supposed to make the playoffs. For the fourth year in a row, they came out of nowhere to play where they never should have been. The home team was up one game to none, but this opponent hasn't missed the second round in the last three seasons. Made from the pitchers duel of legend, fifteen innings of a scoreless game finally broken up by a young rookie from a small town in the Dominican Republic. One swing changes fate.

@MRAD2010_XBL said in quick poll of what I should do:

@ItsShotimee_MLBTS said in quick poll of what I should do:

I’m currently flipping vida blue — he’s going for 21k and selling for 31k.

That’s a great flip if he’s moving. Sometimes the quicker flips are where it’s at. I’ve bought cards to flip and they end up dipping and price and I barely break even. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

I was flipping yankee golds the other day and made 100k in no time. finished my rollins collection finally.

@SuntLacrimae50 said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:

@BJDUBBYAH said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:

@SuntLacrimae50 said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:

@BJDUBBYAH said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:

I can’t imagine what it’s like, to consider the inclusion of Women, Women, who make up half of the world’s population, into literally anything as “woke”. That sounds like an awful life.

It very much is if it's a new feature added at the expense of real substantive improvements when women -- WOMEN -- have accounted for literally 0% of MLB gameday rosters, ever.

Here’s some light reading for you, from the MLB HOF

https://baseballhall.org/women-in-baseball

And? You really should take a class in debate or basic argumentation.

Nothing -- literally nothing -- in that timeline refutes what I wrote, that no woman has ever been on an actual MLB roster in any competitively meaningful way.

I don't really care about this that much. But for you to see people who question SDS's motivation for or implementation of this feature as miserable people or as woman-haters (lol, seriously) says way more about you than about me.

The game is called....?

MLB the Show.

NOT -- "Baseball in Society" or "Baseball and Social Change" or "Baseball for Everyone."

And before you bring up the Negro Leagues not being MLB, that's an entirely different thing. Many of those players would have been superstars in MLB had the racial landscape been just. NO WOMAN would have made an MLB roster, let alone become a star.

Make an NCAA softball game! Make a LLWS game! All good, and I'd probably check them out....

I've already spent way more time going back and forth with a person who lacks basic emotional maturity ("yer a woman hater!") and basic reading/reasoning skills.

By the way, tonight I will go home to my wife and probably go to the park to give BP to my 11 yo and 15 yo daughters, who love softball. Woman-hating me...

Goof.

I think it was about a decade ago there was a television show called Pitch. It was a fictional story about the first female in the MLB. Wasn't bad until it became more about her intimate relationships instead of the hardships of breaking a barrier. One of the things I think the show got right is that it will happen. Chances are it will probably be a specialist. Maybe a contact hitting 2B or breaking ball throwing LRP. Most likely the latter. Maybe not for a long time, but, in my opinion, it will happen.

I have a problem of this supposition, "And before you bring up the Negro Leagues not being MLB, that's an entirely different thing. Many of those players would have been superstars in MLB had the racial landscape been just. NO WOMAN would have made an MLB roster, let alone become a star." You state your opinion here as fact and throw away any possibility of equivalence between female and pre-Robinson black players. With the exception of a wartime female league, women were seldom given the opportunity to even play baseball. Softball was sanctioned just for women. Women were taught to play only softball. That would be tantamount to keeping a sect of the population away from baseball by selective inclusion. Even the AAGPBL started as a hybrid of baseball and softball, and slowly went more towards baseball during it's eleven year tenure.

More recently, girls have been allowed to join little league and some high school and college baseball teams. The sheer number difference of women still playing softball instead of baseball is staggering. How many high schools would you have to go to, to find one girl playing baseball instead of softball? At that level, you should find some. However, those "girls are funneled from baseball into softball." (https://www.espn.com/espnw/culture/story/_/id/24943645/shutout-women-battle-play-baseball)

Yes, men are typically stronger, faster, and taller. The great thing about baseball is that those things don't always matter. If it did, we might have never heard the names Altuve, Kemp, or Betts. The best should be the ones playing. If that's a woman, I will cheer them on.

In the end, this is a video game. I'm not a ballplayer. Haven't picked up my glove since playing catch with my niece over a decade ago. I do get to play this game with my likeness and last name on an Angel's jersey. Kelsi Whitmore is closer to doing that in real life than I am. If I have the ability to do that, shouldn't she?

@RazorForte45_XBL said in SDS has answered prayers:

Did you take a look at that program.
It is gonna take you a month to unlock that card.

And have to play with players/cards I have zero interest in.

So i now move on to J Rollins.

I'm already almost done. It's only 150 pxp per and mostly pitchers and 500 pxp per team. Did a lot while doing the conquest and I'm finishing my June monthly awards at the same time.

@Mike__Honcho_361 said in How the bleep do you steal bases?:

@InigoMontoya_75 said in How the bleep do you steal bases?:

I am thrown out 90% of the time against the CPU, using guys with 90+ speed and steal against pitchers with slow windups and catchers with 60 arms. Surely I'm not doing this right....

You need to have 6 fingers on your right hand.

My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die.

The colors impress me the most. On World of Warships, I have a dragon on the side of one ship. It looks like it's swimming the colors and contrast are so stark. Some colors look almost neon.

@Ericulous1_PSN said in Why I play and enjoy MLBTS.:

Solid post. I’m a baseball history nerd so I appreciate that about this game. Love playing with old legends.

If you’re a baseball book enthusiast. There are so many solid ones, lately I’ve grabbed a biography of a player I’ve been using on the show or a book about that team and time period. I’m a nerd though haha.

When I was a kid my dad gave me "My Turn Up at Bat," by Ted Williams. He's from MA so he grew up a Sox fan. At 11 I started loving the stories behind the game. He told me stories of Williams and Yaz, and ditching school for a day game. We'd watch Boggs and Mattingly on TV and saw Gwynn play live in SD. This was all started by guys like Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, and Walter Johnson. Such a wonderful History.

@X-FREEZE-OFF-X said in Let's try to discuss this without getting the thread shut down.:

Wow. That lasted long. Third post and we're already off topic. Guess before this gets shutdown; I can at least thank @broken_toy1 for having a discussion.

Guess certain people want to watch the world burn.

everyone should block that joshjay guy. He's a troll with nothing positive or worthwhile to add. I've had him blocked for months and been better off for it. I don't just block anyone either.

I'm going to hold my full opinion until later. From what we've seen so far, it looks to me like, the new additions are only for the addition of women. The addition of women, cool. New scenes and interviews and more immersion into the development of your player, awesome. However, it seems as though you can't have one without the other. I hope I'm wrong.

I do want to add that I usually prefer to play as female characters. Female Eivor and Kassandra in AC or my hot chick pirate in Skull & Bones. So I will use this. I tend to make them look as close to my wife (who passed away) as possible and plan to do that here. Plus my last name will still look awesome on the back of an Angel's Jersey.

I'm pretty sure that's not coming out until the Christmas program. All I'll be able to pull is the 90 Holly Gennaro card.

@GoozeFn said in New Blog Post: MLB THE SHOW 24 UNVEILS ROAD TO THE SHOW: WOMEN PAVE THEIR WAY:

@BJDUBBYAH How many of them make up Major League Baseball? How about minor league baseball.

By that argument, you shouldn't be allowed to make a CAP. It's a false argument. Since you say women don't play in the MLB/MiLB, women can't be in MLB/MiLB games. I've never played pro ball, does that mean I can't make a CAP that looks like me?

Do all players have to have played in the MLB/MiLB to be in this game? Do all CAPs have to look exactly, and be named after, ballplayers that have played in the MLB/MiLB? That argument is also irrelevant because of the Negro league players. Most of the players from last years program never played in the MLB. Therefore they shouldn't be in the game? Not the same thing? I argue that it is. Women have been told since 1910 that they have to play softball instead of baseball. Look at my post above. Please read the article I posted on there.

If you don't want to use it, then don't. I do.

I bought a PS4 to get play this and get away from Madden. After 4 years, I tried M23 and couldn't play it for more than a month when I'd play it for hours every day before. When people refer to me as an SDS sycophant, I just have to say try playing Madden and you'll be thankful for SDS. SDS does have it's issues but they're nowhere near as bad as EA.

Coming from me this might sound weird, EA does one thing right. Start at a lower Ovr, and work up more slowly. First 99 being the WS MVP. No 90s to start Live series. First non collection 90+ in first program. Pretty much all 99s by Dec/Jan. Set restrictions hasn't worked. It's time to try something else. Put all cards in standard packs, people will buy if there is a chance they will get the current top card in the game and a guaranteed Diamond. All current programs can still be used. Just don't go overboard or use multiple currencies.

They went all in when they were three games down and two months to go. I was glad they tried. I can tell you the fans were tired of them always being sellers, never buyers. Add the possibility of resigning Ohtani. Trout in a generational player. Up there with Griffey, Mantle, and Rose. Ohtani could be more. Possibly the only player up in the stratosphere with Babe Ruth. It was a gamble that didn't pay off. I'm sad about it, but what if it worked out? Minasian would be the next Billy Bean. I'm still glad they tried.

Rangers and Diamondbacks

Gotta go for the underdogs. Considering the 3/4 of the DS winners were underdogs, it doesn't seem so odd. I also think the DBs are better than their record with the momentum to win. I still don't think the Astros should be in the AL, but they are a darn fine team. Just can't root for them though.

@X-FREEZE-OFF-X said in The 40/70 Acuña card:

I like pizza

No you don't! It is not the best food there is. I'm just stating a fact to correct you for not putting IMO.

@SkunkyTrees1977 said in Online players need some love next year.:

@broken_toy1 I'm not talking about Ranked Seasons rewards or BR rewards or event rewards. I'm talking about cards you have to unlock by playing Showdowns and moments.

If you didn't like to have to play online to get a reward I would expect you to understand the opposite scenario.

I view moments as having to take a timeout from actually playing the game. I've got to sit there and pump up and in fastballs to the CPU or just keep taking hacks until the programming says I'm good to go. What if a guy can't play all day?

I've player 10 event games since getting this game 2 days ago. Not one person has acted crazy. I haven't witnessed one bunt attempt let alone bunt dancing. Online isn't as crazy as you make it out. My issue is that I've only gotten 1 TA 5 voucher in those 10 event games. It doesn't add up. I'm still 1 more inning away from my 2nd voucher. I don't think I'm getting credit for an inning pitched if I change pitchers because something isn't adding up.

"I'm not talking about Ranked Seasons rewards or BR rewards or event rewards. I'm talking about cards you have to unlock by playing Showdowns and moments." That's part of my point. You can earn most offline rewards by playing online. To earn online rewards you have to play online. Your complaint of playing moments for a half an hour to start a program because you don't have all day? I don't enjoy online, so I understand I'm not going to get those rewards. That doesn't mean I don't want them. If thirty minutes keeps you from wanting to play one program, and it is only one, I'm surprised you want to play this game at all.

I understand not caring for showdown. I don't like it either. However the only program you have to play showdown for was the WBC program. The only program you've had to do moment for was the Finest program. That's only if you want the 97ovr cards. You can finish the Finest program without doing the moments, it'll only take longer.

I'm glad you had a good experience with other player online while you had messaging off for all ten of those games. Your experiences are not common. I'm far from the only one that feels that way.

You got a TA5 voucher for playing events? That's not right. I have to play mini seasons to get them. You also get 1.5 times the PXP I do simply for playing online. You can also use the cards from TA5 online to finish it. Ten event games? You have to win five mini season games to get one. Use the cards correctly and you can finish TA quicker than I can. I'm not upset about that. I just don't care for the grass is always greener mentality. The person that complains that the directional hitter has an advantage over the zone hitter without even knowing if they were playing against a directional hitter. They just assume that since they lost to someone, it's because the other person had a perceived advantage. Even if that advantage never existed.

So to recap. Online play gets more EXP, PXP, offline mission credit, online only mission credit, plus TA vouchers, and online only earned rewards. Offline players get less EXP, PXP, TA vouchers only with TA mini seasons, and offline mission credit without the ability to earn online rewards making it more difficult to complete collections. I'm just curious how much greener the grass looks over here. My grass is mostly brown and full of weeds. I think you're missing the weeds

@X-FREEZE-OFF-X

Just for my sanity, could you please change here to hear in the thread title?

I suppose you could mean her instead of here, but that should be on a whole other type of forum.