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@jz2016cubs said in BREAKING NEWS:
The MLB has informed NL teams to not expect to play with a DH. This means that there will most likely be no universal DH, so no DH in DD.
First ive heard of this but I hope its true! Not a fan if the DH here. Strategy is one thing that makes baseball the great game it is, having the pitcher have to hit just adds to it in my opinion.
The Zebra has spoken....it shall be done.
Love this post! I'm with the rest of you, 43 year old Dad of 2 here. Been playing baseball games since I was very young on the old Intellivision which I believe rivaled Atari at the time. From there graduating to Nintendo and so and and so on. Like some others have mentioned I loved the old game Baseball Stars. Fake teams and fake players but the ability to play a season and track stats and all that was awesome. I did the same as someone else said too, playing RBI baseball and tracking my own stats. My friends and I used to play seasons and track are stats and all that kind of stuff. At one point we even made up a D and D (Dungeons and Dragons) type dice based baseball game. We would have drafts and form teams with baseball cards and had several different types of dice and roll for hits and all that. It was so long ago I can't even remember all the details but we had it down pretty good. We would roll a hundred sided dice and use a players batting average on the back of their card to determine whether they got a hit or not. Like if a guy had a .340 average you would have to roll under 34 on the dice to get a hit. We then had a system similar to that to determine what type of hit it was. Good times!
I get made fun of too by my wife and kids for playing this game and getting as into it as much as I do. I usually play later at night to have more peace and quiet since this game requires so much concentration. I play a lot more now than I used to with more time at home due to the pandemic and all that. I think it would be an awesome idea for a league made of with some of us older guys and I'd definitely be down for that!
And thanks to you my good man for being the OP and starting the "Dads playing the show" post a while back. A few of us from that post got a nice little league going out of that and it's been a ton of fun being part of it. Good people playing some good games!
I agree with you, this forum has helped me a ton over the past few years learn the ins and outs of this game. Definitely a good place to come and most people on here are good people and willing to help.
@TheGoaler said in What is the best Kontrol Freek to use? Ever made a homemade one? LMK please!:
Home made? You're talented. I wouldn't even know what materials to use.
I'd have to agree, that is pretty impressive. Dudes like MacGyver.....see how many get that reference.
@scottswann said in What do you all do for work in the real world:
I drink beer, and I know things.
My good man, is your company hiring?
@writetoshawn said in Opponent Team Names:
@jz2016cubs said in Opponent Team Names: @lazy_toast said in Opponent Team Names: y wasn’t even in his lineup nor did he ever bring him in. Wake up bro lol Confession: I once had a "HR with (someone, can't remember who) and I quit" GASP I know, sad. After I played that game, I forgot to change the name, so I used that name the next game. LOL Not sad bro. They set this prestige thing up that way. If you ask me, it’s a flawed system in a major way.
@jz2016cubs said in Opponent Team Names:
@lazy_toast said in Opponent Team Names: y wasn’t even in his lineup nor did he ever bring him in. Wake up bro lol Confession: I once had a "HR with (someone, can't remember who) and I quit" GASP I know, sad. After I played that game, I forgot to change the name, so I used that name the next game. LOL
@lazy_toast said in Opponent Team Names:
y wasn’t even in his lineup nor did he ever bring him in. Wake up bro lol
Confession: I once had a "HR with (someone, can't remember who) and I quit" GASP I know, sad. After I played that game, I forgot to change the name, so I used that name the next game. LOL
Not sad bro. They set this prestige thing up that way. If you ask me, it’s a flawed system in a major way.
Agreed!
I played a RS game last night and his team name was....easy win for you. It may have been, easy win 4 u or something like that but the still. The person requested a friendly quit before the first pitch and I accepted. People with names like that often times don't offer the best game experience so I went ahead and just accepted.
I have Sale and love pitching with him. He's gotten rocked a few times for me but has been extremely effective way more than the times he's been hit. I think Sale is the type of card that once you get a feel for him and learn how to use his pitch mix he can be nasty. I know a lot of people don't like to throw the changeup but I use it a lot when pitching with Sale. When I do throw it though, i almost always throw it down in the zone. Either a borderline strike at the bottom of the zone or down and out of the zone. If you can throw his fastball in that same range it can be touch to pick up on what it is, fastball or changeup. Mix in the slider on top of it and he's tough. I try and mix up the fastball, changeup, and slider down in the zone and moving it east and west on the corners. Occasionally coming up and in with the fastball as well. If you can tunnel em well, the fastball, changeup, and slider can all look like the same pitch out of the hand.
100% agree. So much so that I dont even play madden or 2k anymore. Havent played madden in probably 4 years and this is the first year I didn't buy 2k.
I am by no means a Dodger fan. In fact, being a Padre fan makes me the exact opposite of a Dodger fan. I HATE the Dodgers and am hoping with all that I have that the Rays can win this series. That being said, whoever wins this series even if it is the Dodgers, I don't feel as though there should be an asterisk next to this title. Sure, it's a strange and unusual season but it was for every other team out there competing for the same thing. Every team was on a level playing field dealing with all the same issues so I don't think there should be an asterisk next to anything.
@formallyforearms said in Rob Manfred:
@savagesteve74 said in Rob Manfred: Double header needs to go, as well as relief limit. I don’t mind the extra innings rule, speeds it up. No one enjoyed 14+ inning games, ruined the teams for weeks. The real fix needs to be the defensive shifts, data doesn’t lie, it’s killing baseball. BABIP is in serious decline, fans like action, shifts offer no action. (I said this in a different post earlier) Shifts are just putting players in positions to where the batter hits most often. The reason fielders have been aligned in their positions for over a century is because those are the spots on the field that allowed the defense to have the greatest opportunities to get outs. Taking away the shift is pointless. It would be like not allowing infielders to play in for the bunt, or to try to get the out at home. The problem is the mentality against the shift, rather than the shift itself.
@savagesteve74 said in Rob Manfred:
Double header needs to go, as well as relief limit. I don’t mind the extra innings rule, speeds it up. No one enjoyed 14+ inning games, ruined the teams for weeks. The real fix needs to be the defensive shifts, data doesn’t lie, it’s killing baseball. BABIP is in serious decline, fans like action, shifts offer no action. (I said this in a different post earlier)
Double header needs to go, as well as relief limit. I don’t mind the extra innings rule, speeds it up. No one enjoyed 14+ inning games, ruined the teams for weeks.
The real fix needs to be the defensive shifts, data doesn’t lie, it’s killing baseball. BABIP is in serious decline, fans like action, shifts offer no action. (I said this in a different post earlier)
Shifts are just putting players in positions to where the batter hits most often. The reason fielders have been aligned in their positions for over a century is because those are the spots on the field that allowed the defense to have the greatest opportunities to get outs. Taking away the shift is pointless. It would be like not allowing infielders to play in for the bunt, or to try to get the out at home.
The problem is the mentality against the shift, rather than the shift itself.
100% agree. They didn't even attempt shifts back then because the hitter would've thought it was a joke, and just poked the ball to the side of the field which is basically empty for an easy base hit every time up. Hitters today are too HR happy and continue to try and pull the ball right into the shift.
@cincyplaya5150_psn said in Did the servers just go down:
@urbanphilosophy_xbl said in Did the servers just go down: The state of this game can be likened to a 90 year old woman driving the wrong way down the interstate at 80mph with two blown rear tires in a rain storm completely oblivious to the world around her. While reading a text.
@urbanphilosophy_xbl said in Did the servers just go down:
The state of this game can be likened to a 90 year old woman driving the wrong way down the interstate at 80mph with two blown rear tires in a rain storm completely oblivious to the world around her.
While reading a text.
On her jitterbug phone
@doobiebross66-72 said in Showdown.:
@deadphish1976 said in Showdown.: @doobiebross66-72 said in Showdown.: @deadphish1976 said in Showdown.: @doobiebross66-72 said in Showdown.: @deadphish1976 said in Showdown.: @doobiebross66-72 said in Showdown.: I’ve played more showdown than one person should to start the day lol Just grinded for 3, Team Affinity 42 Series players all via Showdown For you math nerds out there, that’s 10 showdowns straight lol I give you some serious credit for having the patience to pull that off. I've been doing a lot of showdown and between loosing out on wins and rewards due to the server issues and loosing focus due to boredom I'm going crazy. Aside from getting booted from the server all morning/day, I was lucky to get my vouchers every time I completed a showdown Would’ve been a lot faster if the servers were working properly. It’s definitely the fastest way to complete affinities outside of blowing stubs in exchanges That's good you got your vouchers every time. The worst I've had is beating the final showdown and then afterwards I get the server error message and then it counts it as a loss. Even though I played and won. I also beat a showdown yesterday and exchanged my vouchers, but then when I went on later last night to play I was back at 61% which is where I was before I won the previous showdown. It's like the fact that I won and exchanged the vouchers never happened. Yeah those are straight kicks to the nads man, sucks to hear that I’m just grateful to be able to make progress today, considering others couldn’t even play. Shits gotta get corrected ASAP Big time kick to the nads. But, I know it's the risk I take at this point in time by playing the game. Good you were able to make some progress though, I'll probably be giving it a shot again shortly. Hoping it goes smoothly and I agree, gotta get corrected ASAP. Best of luck to ya!
@deadphish1976 said in Showdown.:
@doobiebross66-72 said in Showdown.: @deadphish1976 said in Showdown.: @doobiebross66-72 said in Showdown.: @deadphish1976 said in Showdown.: @doobiebross66-72 said in Showdown.: I’ve played more showdown than one person should to start the day lol Just grinded for 3, Team Affinity 42 Series players all via Showdown For you math nerds out there, that’s 10 showdowns straight lol I give you some serious credit for having the patience to pull that off. I've been doing a lot of showdown and between loosing out on wins and rewards due to the server issues and loosing focus due to boredom I'm going crazy. Aside from getting booted from the server all morning/day, I was lucky to get my vouchers every time I completed a showdown Would’ve been a lot faster if the servers were working properly. It’s definitely the fastest way to complete affinities outside of blowing stubs in exchanges That's good you got your vouchers every time. The worst I've had is beating the final showdown and then afterwards I get the server error message and then it counts it as a loss. Even though I played and won. I also beat a showdown yesterday and exchanged my vouchers, but then when I went on later last night to play I was back at 61% which is where I was before I won the previous showdown. It's like the fact that I won and exchanged the vouchers never happened. Yeah those are straight kicks to the nads man, sucks to hear that I’m just grateful to be able to make progress today, considering others couldn’t even play. Shits gotta get corrected ASAP Big time kick to the nads. But, I know it's the risk I take at this point in time by playing the game. Good you were able to make some progress though, I'll probably be giving it a shot again shortly. Hoping it goes smoothly and I agree, gotta get corrected ASAP.
@deadphish1976 said in Showdown.: @doobiebross66-72 said in Showdown.: @deadphish1976 said in Showdown.: @doobiebross66-72 said in Showdown.: I’ve played more showdown than one person should to start the day lol Just grinded for 3, Team Affinity 42 Series players all via Showdown For you math nerds out there, that’s 10 showdowns straight lol I give you some serious credit for having the patience to pull that off. I've been doing a lot of showdown and between loosing out on wins and rewards due to the server issues and loosing focus due to boredom I'm going crazy. Aside from getting booted from the server all morning/day, I was lucky to get my vouchers every time I completed a showdown Would’ve been a lot faster if the servers were working properly. It’s definitely the fastest way to complete affinities outside of blowing stubs in exchanges That's good you got your vouchers every time. The worst I've had is beating the final showdown and then afterwards I get the server error message and then it counts it as a loss. Even though I played and won. I also beat a showdown yesterday and exchanged my vouchers, but then when I went on later last night to play I was back at 61% which is where I was before I won the previous showdown. It's like the fact that I won and exchanged the vouchers never happened. Yeah those are straight kicks to the nads man, sucks to hear that I’m just grateful to be able to make progress today, considering others couldn’t even play. Shits gotta get corrected ASAP
@doobiebross66-72 said in Showdown.: @deadphish1976 said in Showdown.: @doobiebross66-72 said in Showdown.: I’ve played more showdown than one person should to start the day lol Just grinded for 3, Team Affinity 42 Series players all via Showdown For you math nerds out there, that’s 10 showdowns straight lol I give you some serious credit for having the patience to pull that off. I've been doing a lot of showdown and between loosing out on wins and rewards due to the server issues and loosing focus due to boredom I'm going crazy. Aside from getting booted from the server all morning/day, I was lucky to get my vouchers every time I completed a showdown Would’ve been a lot faster if the servers were working properly. It’s definitely the fastest way to complete affinities outside of blowing stubs in exchanges That's good you got your vouchers every time. The worst I've had is beating the final showdown and then afterwards I get the server error message and then it counts it as a loss. Even though I played and won. I also beat a showdown yesterday and exchanged my vouchers, but then when I went on later last night to play I was back at 61% which is where I was before I won the previous showdown. It's like the fact that I won and exchanged the vouchers never happened.
@deadphish1976 said in Showdown.: @doobiebross66-72 said in Showdown.: I’ve played more showdown than one person should to start the day lol Just grinded for 3, Team Affinity 42 Series players all via Showdown For you math nerds out there, that’s 10 showdowns straight lol I give you some serious credit for having the patience to pull that off. I've been doing a lot of showdown and between loosing out on wins and rewards due to the server issues and loosing focus due to boredom I'm going crazy. Aside from getting booted from the server all morning/day, I was lucky to get my vouchers every time I completed a showdown Would’ve been a lot faster if the servers were working properly. It’s definitely the fastest way to complete affinities outside of blowing stubs in exchanges
@doobiebross66-72 said in Showdown.: I’ve played more showdown than one person should to start the day lol Just grinded for 3, Team Affinity 42 Series players all via Showdown For you math nerds out there, that’s 10 showdowns straight lol I give you some serious credit for having the patience to pull that off. I've been doing a lot of showdown and between loosing out on wins and rewards due to the server issues and loosing focus due to boredom I'm going crazy.
I’ve played more showdown than one person should to start the day lol Just grinded for 3, Team Affinity 42 Series players all via Showdown For you math nerds out there, that’s 10 showdowns straight lol
I’ve played more showdown than one person should to start the day lol
Just grinded for 3, Team Affinity 42 Series players all via Showdown
For you math nerds out there, that’s 10 showdowns straight lol
I give you some serious credit for having the patience to pull that off. I've been doing a lot of showdown and between loosing out on wins and rewards due to the server issues and loosing focus due to boredom I'm going crazy.
Aside from getting booted from the server all morning/day, I was lucky to get my vouchers every time I completed a showdown
Would’ve been a lot faster if the servers were working properly. It’s definitely the fastest way to complete affinities outside of blowing stubs in exchanges
That's good you got your vouchers every time. The worst I've had is beating the final showdown and then afterwards I get the server error message and then it counts it as a loss. Even though I played and won. I also beat a showdown yesterday and exchanged my vouchers, but then when I went on later last night to play I was back at 61% which is where I was before I won the previous showdown. It's like the fact that I won and exchanged the vouchers never happened.
Yeah those are straight kicks to the nads man, sucks to hear that
I’m just grateful to be able to make progress today, considering others couldn’t even play. Shits gotta get corrected ASAP
Big time kick to the nads. But, I know it's the risk I take at this point in time by playing the game. Good you were able to make some progress though, I'll probably be giving it a shot again shortly. Hoping it goes smoothly and I agree, gotta get corrected ASAP.
Best of luck to ya!
Thanks man, and to you as you continue the grind!
@wingspan1985_psn said in My feelings towards SDS and this game at the moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhe3RlzgTiQ
Haha....I love it!
One of the all time classic Seinfeld episodes.
Cartright....Cartright
Whos's Cartright?
I'm Cartright
You're not Cartright
OF COURSE I'M NOT CARTRIGHT!
@xx9tarasenko1xx said in Showdown glitch - missing runner?:
@deadphish1976 said in Showdown glitch - missing runner?: Yup, I had this happen to me last night in showdown, I had a runner on third and then all of a sudden he wasn't there anymore. I thought maybe I was just wrong and didn't have a guy on third or I was going crazy so in some ways it's good to know this has happened to others. If you can remember (or anyone else who has had this issue), by any chance, whichever runner you had on third, did they disappear when they also would've been coming on deck? (i.e. you've almost batted around the order). In my earlier post I said I was in a mini-boss game and Ramos disappeared off third when he came up to bat gain, but after looking at the replays I realized it was actually when Ramos came back on deck. Seems everyone has lost their runner when they've been on third, but I'm curious if it's also when the game tries to bring the same player into 2 places (on base and on deck). Either way I submitted a ticket and included video, so hopefully they can resolve the issue, but I figure if we can pinpoint what triggers the issue, we can at least try to avoid it and avoid the frustration while we're waiting for a fix.
@deadphish1976 said in Showdown glitch - missing runner?:
Yup, I had this happen to me last night in showdown, I had a runner on third and then all of a sudden he wasn't there anymore. I thought maybe I was just wrong and didn't have a guy on third or I was going crazy so in some ways it's good to know this has happened to others.
If you can remember (or anyone else who has had this issue), by any chance, whichever runner you had on third, did they disappear when they also would've been coming on deck? (i.e. you've almost batted around the order).
In my earlier post I said I was in a mini-boss game and Ramos disappeared off third when he came up to bat gain, but after looking at the replays I realized it was actually when Ramos came back on deck. Seems everyone has lost their runner when they've been on third, but I'm curious if it's also when the game tries to bring the same player into 2 places (on base and on deck).
Either way I submitted a ticket and included video, so hopefully they can resolve the issue, but I figure if we can pinpoint what triggers the issue, we can at least try to avoid it and avoid the frustration while we're waiting for a fix.
This is a good point that you bring up as to a possible reason why it would happen. I hadn't thought about that. I wish I was paying enough attention to remember if that was the scenario for me but I can't remember.
I've been wondering about this too. I can't access the market on TSN and I don't know if thats because the site isn't working properly yet, or if it's due to not linking accounts. I don't remember linking accounts previous years. Obviously at some point you'd have to but I dont remember it being something you'd have to do every year. I've been holding off doing so because of some saying it erases your progress but I do want to access the market from my phone.