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Last year's game came out after the season started. Hard to have Topps Now when there's nothing to pull from yet.

I've put in over a thousand hours each of the last three years and have never played an online game of any kind. I see all the constant toxicity being posted about and the constant freeze offs and whatnot and that just doesn't appeal to me. Sure maybe I'll have a good game against someone once in a while but my time is too valuable to have to hope for that.

As someone said earlier, I know exactly what I'm getting with offline and truly enjoy it. Maybe part of it is generational. I'm 45 and so growing up playing RBI Baseball and Bases Loaded on NES on into each future console generation there was obviously no online play until the 2000's. So anyone in there twenties or younger has pretty much had online available for their entire life. Now of course plenty of you could me my age or older and only play online, but for someone like me who is simply a diehard lover of the game of baseball and baseball cards, I will always only play DD offline. It has the perfect amount of new content weekly for me to keep up with amidst the real world.

Yeah I've been going back and forth with support on this. The problem is that you can't link prior to playing. So it forces you to go through the DD tutorial to get the option to get the code and link and then it's too late.

@mlbarf_psn said in Kenny lofton ... fred mcgriff ...:

Really weird rewards…no Andrew Jones or Kirby Puckett still? Starting to think they forgot they got Kirby Puckett as a new legend this year? Did they somehow lose his rights after releasing his first cards?

Wasn't Puckett accused of a bunch of terrible stuff from multiple women? Maybe there was some backlash and they went the Alomar route with him.

Dude’s paid his price. Do you know how many scumbags there are in pro sports? If he’s not actually found guilty of anything against the law, the court of public opinion alone shouldn’t keep him from his job. Her texts proved she wanted it kinky and there’s nothing wrong with that between consenting adults. I don’t like the guy but he should be playing baseball.

@thegoaler_psn said in Trout's Price:

@joeselser_psn said in Trout's Price:

And people already have him par 1 and 2 Lol....

Even the 99 Randy Johnson card...it's ridiculous. Haha

By the time I get back on tonight, those early end game cards will probably already be P5.

Wait.
You mean the collection reward Randy??

It happens every year. Mostly YouTube streamers that are well compensated and can write off the purchases.

Those of us who preordered still have the advantage of one extra card from the series so the benefit still holds true. All things being equal we’re at the exact same point as before. Not sure what there is to complain about. I went digital deluxe on all three systems so I’ve had Miggy, Tatis, and Ohtani from day one and I still see this as a total win.

This is amazing! I do wonder if they will allow you to do offline DD stuff but I have to think an internet connection will be required.

So you think they commissioned a very famous manga artist to throw something together in a day? Gotcha.

@toast2thegodz_psn said in Randy Johnson and Ryan Howard:

Gosh I can’t wait until I have the big unit in my hands

That's what she said.

I can't believe nobody beat me to that lol

MLB The Show being on Game Pass the last two years was not Sony’s idea. MLB threw a ton of cash their way to make it happen to get more people playing videogame baseball. Sony likes making money and having the game on both subscription services is not a smart business decision. Sure they have a revenue stream from selling stubs, but in no way is it anything close to what games like Fortnite rake in that allows those games to be F2P. The fact that there are this many replies in a thread based on a clickbait article some idiot that has no clue about anything wrote is mind-numbing.

He’s never been worth his cost from an actual usability standpoint. His worth is obviously tied to being the perennial gatekeeper for the live series collection although he’s getting passed quite a bit these days. There are a ton of better OF options if completing the live collection is not your motivation.

To be clear, I have a Series X and PS5 so I’m well aware the Switch will be inferior in every possible way. But no doubt this is going to make daily logins while vacationing easier and fill a need in a few other situations.

I played 21 from release until December on the Series X because I couldn't find a PS5 at the time. I finally got a PS5 in October but didn't get The Show for it until December. I'm offline only so I can't speak to things that matter there, but I gotta give the edge to the Series X.

I was so pumped for the Dual Sense experience and sure, it was fine and it is a million times better than the PS4 controller was, but there is a weird lag (you get used to it) and it still feels a tad cheap compared to XBox controllers. And while I always have my second controller fully charged and ready to swap out, the fact that the XBox controller literally lasts 5 times longer than the Dual Sense is worth mentioning.

You’re missing something.

Yeah this shouldn’t be this complicated. Can you imagine that whatever you purchased with the stubs that were locked to the system were also locked to that system? Making you use the system you purchased the preorder on is only logical to redeem but the actual post-redemption product will be shared. They would get crucified otherwise for promoting such a big feature when probably at least 75% of Switch users will be using another platform as well.

They got back to me within a day and I had multiple exchanges with different folks over the course of two days. Maybe I asked nicely?

I'm an offline only player, but compared to other guys in my lineup, he's flat-out terrible lol

Harper -.419
Tatis -.317
Grandal -.417
Cabrera -.524
Tork -.462
Soto -.448
Mantle -.179

I think it’s great. In a perfect world flipping would not be a thing or involve an ungodly amount of effort to pull off. Some will still find a way which is unfortunate.

@ericulous1_psn said in I can't wait for the new roster update!:

@arvcpa_psn said in I can't wait for the new roster update!:

Rendon as a switch hitter with 125/125 from the left side! And Supercharged. And Diamond.

A boy can dream...

Can Anyone explain why he did that?

I have to assume it was being up double digits with a position player on the mound. Probably intended for it to appear that you're not trying to run up the score that ultimately backfired but nobody can be mad given the situation. Pretty perfect scenario actually lol