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@IIJACKINTHBOXII said in What do you all do for work in the real world:

I work at SDS as a developer.

Based on the gameplay this year, I wouldn't expect a raise.

In an otherwise total dog [censored] year, this game has been my escape. I’ve had to work straight through the virus as an essential worker and the stress and anxiety of finding out someone you work closely with got a positive test is impossible to understate. I haven’t seen my friends or family in person since February. Through it all I’ve sunk literally days of my life into this game and despite the RS rage fits and hanging changeups it is just so much frickin fun. I look forward to the Inning program live streams literally for days to find out who the new bosses are. I get excited like a 12 year old (I’m 31) when they release cards of my favorite players. I’ve got a stacked team and haven’t spent a dime since I bought the game.

I know you folks at SDS read these posts sometimes and I hope you read this one. I’m sure it’s been challenging for you guys to adapt to working in 2020 and not being able to use the office and working from home. Despite the toxicity on these forums, you guys are doing a great job. Please fix the pitching, but otherwise, you guys rock.

If my wife reacted to anything the way I react to this game I’d have serious questions about my life choices. And yet she continue to give me full reign over the tv whenever I want it. I snagged a good one.

I'm sorry your mother didn't love you enough.

Is this just me? Ever since the patch I can’t hit AT ALL. I started off RS 12-0 and am 5-7 in my last 12. Aside from a weird fluke game where I hit 6 HRs, I can’t hit worth a darn anymore. It’s a shame because I was having the time of my life when the game first (pre) released.

Last few weeks it feels like I'm swinging a pool noodle. Balls with near perfect PCI placement and good timing just dying on the warning track like 5 or 6 times per game. It's like playing 19 again. Mickey Mantle in particular cannot drive a ball to the opposite field, PERIOD.

I'm the manager of a Grocery department, at the Grocery chain you've probably made fun of for being bougie and too expensive that's now owned by Amazon.

@Hikes83 said in What do you all do for work in the real world:

I work for a Federal Law Enforcement Agency. Currently on sick leave though

The drugs are definitely not in the hidden compartment of the master bedroom closet. Definitely not.

I'M IN BOYS, IM FINALLY IN!!!!!!!

It was about as cheap as humanely possible, but I'll take it.

Game 1- He starts prestige DeGrom, I've got prestige Bauer on the mound. I load the bases in the first, Griffey smashes a center cut fastball and I think I'm about to take a 4-0 lead.... annnnnd then it dies at the warning track. My opponent was in full blown toxic mode with Cobb, Brock, and Mondesi at the top of the order bunting at every opportunity. In the 3rd or 4th inning he gets a cheap, wall scraper HR with Foxx and of course does a full replay. I'm not playing great, not playing terrible either, can't get rewarded and now he's dotting with full-confidence DeGrom. Still, I'm definitely hitting better than he is and I know all I need is one hit to change the whole game, and with DeGrom pulled after 5 I'm still 100% in this game.

Top 6, the game freezes and I get the disconnect W. It's really lame, but after taking a disconnect L in my last WS play-in game, I don't feel that bad.

Next game, I matchup with a Top 50 player who was like 350-150. I just laugh and figure I'll try and not get mercied. I've won a handful of games against players like this, so I tell myself to focus up and maybe I'll somehow manage to squeak out a win. I don't offer a friendly because I just don't out of principle. And then second pitch, he offers a friendly and I swear I broke the sound barrier smashing the accept button.

Third game, still my WS play-in game. I get matched up at home against a guy with a sub-.500 record. I know the only way he's above 700 with a sub-.500 record is probably because he quits as soon as something doesn't go his way. The fact that he had 1.000+ OPS's with every batter seems to confirm this for me. I tell myself to focus up and score early, and he's probably gone.

I set him down 1-2-3 in the top of the first. Bottom first, I lead off with a double with Trout. I think he either misplayed it or was using a different fielder than he expected because he took a weird route to the ball. Regardless, it probably would've landed anyway, I was yelling at my monitor that it should've been a HR because the PCI was smack in the middle and I was on the early side of good.

The ball hops over the wall, and I get the "lost connection with opponent" screen.

907 rating boys. Second time ever and first time this year. I'll be cracking open a beer as soon as I finish typing.

Who do I take with my pack?

They cannot do away with it fast enough... it’s almost always trash players who watch it after a lucky hanger down the pipe. I’ve made a point not to watch a single one, it’s just such a dumb delay in the game.

Pulled Trout for the second time in like a week and she didn’t divorce me for reacting like a complete dork.

Trout, Greinke, and Baez from the Babe program 20 bundle. Pretty [censored] good haul.

It's non-stop in this event, I don't get it! It's an event game! For the love of god let a man get his prestige stats. I swear that 50% of my home runs are getting dashboarded.

Why is it so prevalent in this event? I don't get it. You still get an L. Do event losses seriously upset people that much? Just re-enter, it's FREE!

@Hikes83 said in What do you all do for work in the real world:

@Dino-might_not said in What do you all do for work in the real world:

@Hikes83 said in What do you all do for work in the real world:

I work for a Federal Law Enforcement Agency. Currently on sick leave though

The drugs are definitely not in the hidden compartment of the master bedroom closet. *
Definitely* not.

Haha not DEA. Good guess though!

Good because I've also never illegally gambled, shoplifted, jay walked, criticized the US government, ran a red light, downloaded music from Pirate Bay, or failed to pay a parking ticket.

Just finished the Rivera collection this morning, finished Jackie and Chipper in the last two weeks. This is weird. I've never been able to do the LS collection this fast let alone the other ones not top of it. This is my third year playing DD and in the first two, my early-year pack luck was HORRIBLE. This year, BIAH packs have been a steady stream of diamonds. DeGrom is the only gate keeper I packed, but it's sure easier to finish stuff when you get a steady stream of low diamonds to supplement your stub count. That, some good investments, and continuing to get better at the game and getting some event/BR rewards really paid off this year.

If you're struggling to get any collections done, I feel you. Just keep grinding. It's worth it in the end.

20 is better than 19 prove me wrong:

• Perfect/perfect
• Way less lineouts
• Player programs are great more offline content
• Yearly cards and a slower progression of overalls, less SS cards
• New legends are great
• Event reward system is great, really good rewards and incentives to play them for a while
• Frequent headliner updates
• PROSPECTS
• Expanded TA with better rewards
• Fielding matters more (I get it that it's had a lot of bugs but seems better recently)
• Contact and not vision determines PCI size
• THERE ARE SO MANY PHILLIES CARDS THIS YEAR (yes I know that's only important to some people)

Yeah there have been a lot of bugs but they've also been super responsive to fixing them, they're straight up soliciting feedback on the forums this year.

My only serious gripe with the gameplay is the pitching, and it's a big one that desperately needs attention, but overall I think 20 is a big step over 19.

Let the hate responses begin.

Just played a guy rocking a 5x flawless banner in BR and stomped him, 6-2. So he decides to start pause-spamming during his last AB. If you’re going to rock an elite banner, don’t be a total loser if you get beat. Take your L and move on.

Side note, don’t risk your flawless run when you’ve had too much to drink. I’ve got a 9-1 run going right now, have beat the 5x guy, two other flawless banners, and a WS banner. Only loss was last night when I had one too many G and Ts and should’ve gone to bed.

More HR's than Harmon Killebrew, Mike Schmidt, Micke Mantle, or Jimmie Foxx.

More H's than Babe Ruth, Ken Griffey Jr., and Rogers Hornsby.

More RBI than Frank Thomas, Reggie Jackson, and Jim Thome.

12th all time in Win Probability Added.

25th all time in Adjusted OPS+, ahead of Albert Pujols, Honus Wagner, and Willie McCovey.

2 MVPs.

1956 ROY.

And somehow when you think of "inner circle" HOF'ers, he's probably not near the top of the list.

I played a dude last year who’s team logo was just the N-word. Thankfully I steam rolled him and then reported him as soon as the game was over. I get it, you think you’re being provocatively funny, but really you’re just being a complete scumbag. Utilize a single brain cell and get a life.

@eatyum said in What do you all do for work in the real world:

@JediOfArgonath said in What do you all do for work in the real world:

@eatyum said in What do you all do for work in the real world:

Work at a Walmart Neighborhood Market, not the most exciting job I know, but it pays the bills and I enjoy it there.

The Rays lost & you work at Wal-Mart...Ouch!

I enjoy it, great coworkers, steady hours. I really don't care if you thumb your nose up at it, just shows your ignorance.

Dude's a troll, just ignore his entitled [censored]. I'm sure he's the first to come yelling at you if he can't find what he's looking for.

I’m currently sitting at 874 in ranked. I have off work tomorrow and have the day free until about 2:30 when I’ve got plans with the wife. So far, I’ve lost two WS play-in games this season, the last one on a disconnect I made a separate post about. I want nothing more than to just finally make frickin World Series this year so I can set the controller down for a bit and play other games without feeling like I have unfinished business.

I need all the good juju you kind people can muster. Please send the perfect/perfect energy my way. Say some prayers. Have a seance. Sacrifice a child. Whatever you can do to help me have two good games and cross that [censored] 900 boundary. The games will commence around 9:30am or whenever I’ve had a sufficient amount of coffee.