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I think most people would pick the decade that they were in their influential teen years.

For me that is the 70's. The late 70s to be exact (early Journey, Heart, Cheap Trick, Rush, REO Speedwagon, Queen, The Runaways, Foreigner, Styx, etc).

Many of these bands that lasted lost my interest in the 80's as many of them changed their style and seemed to be chasing the radio friendly power ballads.

I disagree also. I can't imagine SDS wants to make it even easier for a handful of stub rich players to clog up the buy queue for any single card.

If you and I both want to buy the same player at the same time but you get your buy order for a qty of 500 in before my buy order for 1. I am not 2nd on the list anymore I am 501st. That is beneficial to only a small percentage of players while inconveniencing a much larger percentage.

@Teak2112_MLBTS said in New Captain Blizzard Cards - 45 Saves Club and Old Timers - Make your guesses before clicking to see the cards:

I think there is more than that, Edwin Diaz at least

Yeah, not sure how I missed him but there could be more. It was a quick look at the list so I could have missed some

@TheBigPapa55_PSN

Bruce Sutter
Robb Nen
Gagne
Eckersly
Lee Smith
Kimbrel
Trevor Hoffman
Kenley Jansen
Clase
Helsley

Problem is about half of them don't have 99s with Sutter having the lowest rated card of them with a 87

@sullivanspring_MLBTS said in Looking at the front page franchise 1,000 topics and 5,000 posts. Storylines 9 topics 33 posts:

With all the potential additions to franchise that are neglected annually why are they spending developer hours on a mode that has miniscule interest.

I am not saying that Franchise doesn't need some love but comparing the forum sections is the wrong way to gauge interest. Storylines provides cards that are used in DD so most discussions about Storylines ends up in the DD sub-forum.

Plus the Storylines sub-forum only has posts from this year, making me think it was a new sub-forum while the Franchise sub-forum has been accumulating posts for, what appears to be, 6 years with messages dating back to 2019

@DrBear100_PSN said in What's Your Favorite Movie:

all the the Rocky movies but Rocky 4 particularly.

Strangely enough I enjoy all of the Rocky movies (I lost count on how many times I watched the first one) but #4 is my least favorite by a long shot.

Personally, I have always said that my favorite movies were ones made before I was born.

It's a Wonderful Life (Since we are officially heading into Christmas)
The Apartment (Jack Lemon and Shirley McClaine)
12 Angry Men

If we go with something a little more recent then maybe The Shawshank Redemption.

@Melbobainey_MLBTS said in Gameplay:

Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 comes out December 8th so I'll be deleting MLB The Show 25 off of my console PS5 until MLB The Show 26 comes out in March.

I have jumped back into MS Flight Sim again recently on Xbox.

I had ChatGPT come up with a US Tour to fly me around the US. I am flying it in a Cessna 172 so it is 57 legs.

I am definitely picking up the PS5 version for the PS VR2 integration when they release that feature later. Flying in VR is the best!

Make sure you have free space on your internal drive. The title streams in a lot of data and has a 16GB rolling cache by default. I tried playing once when the Xbox drive was full and it was a pretty bad experience.

@Mr_Cant_Drive_PSN said in Gameplay:

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@xRatedGProdigyx_PSN said in Better Beltran?:

Clemens has 2 99s.

Good point and I forgot about the two double agent players too. I still think it is doubtful though with so many other legends needing better cards.

I am going to say it is doubtful but who knows. I am basing that off the fact that I don't believe any "Legend" has gotten two 99s yet and that there is still the list of legends and Hall Of Famers without an end game card at all yet.

The ones with an * are actual MLB Hall of Famers

@TheBigPapa55_PSN said in Free Agency Trades:

Cardinals got fleeced god [censored]

For anybody paying attention to the Cardinals and the messaging from Chaim Bloom this is not a surprise. They are trying to build back to having a sustainable pipeline of homegrown players. They are going to get who they can for whoever has value while freeing up payroll. I am not sure many players are safe. There is a lot of talk of trading Donovan with JJ Wetherholt (who is MLB's #5 prospect for the league) waiting in the wings.

As sad as it is, if the ownership is not willing to spend more on payroll then this is the path they have to take for now. Arenado will be tough to move and they will have to eat a ton of that contract as well but I know that they are trying to move him. I would not bet against Contreras going either although all of these guys have no trade clauses.

Clarke has had limited outings but so far in the Minor has a 14.2 K/9 rate and a 4.0 H/9 rate in very limited minor league action. So there is some potential there. He will be coming up along or just behind Liam Doyle.

Easier to just post the graphic

He was our finest player and two weeks later is gone.

Of course every twitter pundit thinks that it is an awful deal and that they could have probably done better.

Looking at the last game you lost 2-1 both you and your opponent struck out 10 times. Your opponent hit a perfect/perfect into a Double Play. All other perfects went for hits.

But we get it, your opponent is always the one who gets the breaks and you never do. Every one of your hits this season has been earned. You have never had a lucky break yourself. You have never won a game you probably should have lost due to a lucky hit or two or an inopportune error by the opponent.

Nobody claims the game is perfect or that the hitting engine doesn't need tweaks. I may not even pay attention to these posts if you simply complained about the bad contact. But it is always "My opponent was trash and caught all the breaks while I got none". If this is a Weekend Classic game and you played on Hall of Fame doesn't that indicate that you were both good enough in Ranked to reach that level and that your opponent was probably pretty good too?

Whoever SDS thinks will help sell copies. That is the only real criteria that matters.

Personally I would love to see more legend covers.

Acuna's cover should have been a couple years back, after one of his only 2 seasons (out of 8 ) where he played more than 120 games.

@TheBigPapa55_PSN said in My All-Time Team Lineups in MLB The Show 25:

Again, I think Rolen was the better Cardinal than Arenado, so that's why I started him instead. I was only able to get the tier 2 boosts from Gray and Donovan. Kinda sucks.

They are closer than you might think, especially considering the cliff Arenado has fallen off the last few years. Even though Arenado has been with the Cardinals one year less than Rolen he has actually played more games.

That said, Rolen's overall stats were better.

@TheBigPapa55_PSN said in My All-Time Team Lineups in MLB The Show 25:

All-Time St. Louis Cardinals:
C. Hall of Fame Ted Simmons
1B Awards Mark McGwire
2B 2025 All-Star Brendan Donovan
3B Awards Scott Rolen
SS Moonshot Ozzie Smith
LF Hall of Fame Lou Brock
CF Awards Jim Edmonds
RF Spooky Stan Musial
DH Finest Paul Goldschmidt
Bench
3B Milestone Joe Torre
3B Finest Nolan Arenado
CF Home Run Derby X Rick Ankiel
LF Moonshot Matt Holliday
Rotation
Awards Bob Gibson
2025 Finest Sonny Gray
Milestone Steve Carlton
Signautre Jim Kaat
Hall of Fame Cy Young
Bullpen
Spotlight JoJo Romero
Spotlight Luke Weaver
Awards Dennis Eckersley
Spotlight Matt Svanson
Cornerstone Bruce Sutter
Hall of Fame Lee Smith
Finest Andrew Miller
New Threads Ryan Helsley
@Dolenz_PSN what do you think?

Looks good to me. The only thing I do with my theme team is always have Victor Scott II on the bench for pinch run situations (99 Speed and 99 Steal). Donavan then gives me a lot of flexibility allowing me to move him to any of 6 positions to bring in a sub after the pinch running.

I would have also started Arenado over Rolen. The Arendo Finest card is better than Rolen in every single attribute except the baserunning ones.

Although it kind of stings, since I only do a true theme team that can be boosted with the captain to see you use 99 versions of Arenado, McGwire, Goldschmidt, Holliday and to a lesser extent Rolen. They did the Cardinal fans no favors this year with cutting us out of all of those guys best cards in the same year.

@capardo_XBL said in Even though this is the Last XP path program there is more on the Schedule:

We need a DQ Rewind pack….badly! Get these card prices down to manageable levels!

Doesn’t need to give us all of them, but a choice pack would be awesome!

The fact that these cards still go for so much is, at least to me, an indication that the mode is a bit of a failure.

I mean, can't you still play them all?

As one example Sonny Gray has multiple people willing to buy him for over 50K (with one current buy order at 99,001). Only three cards are listed for sale at 299K, 300K, and 400K

If people enjoyed this mode I can't understand why these prices have stayed high and have actually continued to go up?