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@jrsox28_PSN said in Banned for no reason:
I was on vacation with out my PlayStation and got a notification that someone was stub manipulating and got home and had a year ban
Might want to touch base with your housesitter. Sounds like they decided to manipulate both you AND the market!
Oh wait. You're lying, because the only reason you'd be banned for a full year was if YOU did the manipulating or something else you're not willing to admit.
@Dolenz_PSN said in Upcoming All-Star cards:
@MRAD2010_XBL said in Upcoming All-Star cards:
He’s out there making highlight catch night after night like it’s nothing.
And occasionally forgetting how many outs there are and letting the winning run score from second on a sacrifice fly
It might come down to one game by season's end for best NL record, but I'll risk that as a Cubs fan. Everything PCA does on a daily basis (outside of that massive brain fart) more than makes up for it.
Also, you know how often that has actually happened this season across the league? Quite a bit. He's not the only young cat getting caught up in his thoughts out there.
@JenkinMeyer_PSN said in Am I the only one?:
3 Braves and Bobby grich. Tell me you’re excited. No one is. They see chipper and move on.
And also, Chipper is one of the worst defensive players of all time. Hit it to chipper used to be our chant. Also allegedly hit his wife. He’s a switch hitter that’s all that matters. He’s a [censored] person and a [censored] card.
Our other chant was Larry Wayne.
Red cheeked switch hitting [censored] with a chud. Thats all he is. He was an arrogant [censored] redneck which is the opposite of Aaron or Maddux.
So what you're saying is he's a man of integrity, honesty, and genuine southern charm?
(In all seriousness, the abuse thing is purely speculation and I can't seem to find anything with my research on the matter. He has, however, said and done some pretty stupid [censored] when it comes to other people... particularly parroting dangerous and awful conspiracy theories.)
@kadylac1_PSN said in Sammy Sosa:
Here are Sammy’s numbers with the Tier 3 boost from the Nico Hoerner captain card.
100 Contact vs R
92 Contact vs L
125 Power vs R (gets +15, but 125 is the max)
102 Power vs L
101 Batting Clutch
60 Plate Vision (gets +15 & goes up to 75)
71 Fielding (gets +10 & goes up to 81)… IMO, the Soriano card is a better boost.
Appreciate you doing that. 
Thank you.
@kadylac1_PSN said in Sammy Sosa:
@JediEl1823_PSN said in Sammy Sosa:
I like the program, Sammy's gonna be my RF when it's done.
That said, thi[censored]ting a homer off of Grant Anderson moment can eat expired ice cream.
Sammy’s numbers get a nice upgrade with the Tier 3 boost from the Alfonso Soriano captain card.
100 Contact vs R (gets +15 goes up to 115)
92 Contact vs L (gets +15 & goes up to 107)
125 Power vs R
102 Power vs L
101 Batting Clutch (gets +15 & goes up to 116)… and even better if you parallel him.
Would you mind breaking down how he'd be with the Nico Hoerner captain card? Asking for a friend. Thanks!
@TheGoaler_PSN said in Denver’s New Threads card:
'Denver?'
As in John Denver? Lol. The Rockies could use him, but sadly for them, he went to a team with equally lame City Connects, the Giants.
'Denver Devers' has a nice ring to it, though, plus he could've used 'Rocky Mountain High' as his walkup.......
Missed opportunities......
I'd give this a dozen likes if I could. Excellent play.
@LIONED-33_XBL Dude, settle down. Some of us are simply talking about our experiences. Get off it.
@Sarge1387_PSN Yeah, it's a bit strange with the pitching on these moments. I basically have to get lucky with a pitch middle-in in order to knock one out. Sammy is a hit machine but I'll be damned if that sweet spot window ain't as small a gnat with his swing (his vision doesn't help either).
After I got home from work last night I hopped on to explore the latest content. Lots to do but more of the same (outside of the rather unique extreme missions that increase in difficulty as you proceed and succeed).
I also continued to wonder how on earth anybody is able to complete everything that this game throws at us. I got three hours in last night and barely felt like I made any headway. There's definitely plenty to do for those of us that have limited time and I do appreciate that.
Don't we play to win the game? I need to call Herm Edwards and have his [censored] get on these boards!
@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Pack odds:
@GoldenGamingKM_PSN said in Pack odds:
Something definitely changes in the coding for pack odds once we get to November and beyond. I noticed it dramatically w/ '24 after the WS. I was able to pull decent diamonds in regular packs about 1:10-1:15 ratio...and that's not fabricated. (And feel free to correct me if they actually increase diamond odds in the Shop come November and I didn't look closely enough at the fine print.)
I'm sick of the defending of SDS on this as well, because there is definitely something skewed just beyond the grey line of the unknown. We'll of course never know and continue to speculate, but when Bobby Witt Jr is the only decent pull I've received since March, I find myself siding with the frustrated majority.
I mean, the odds for every card are posted. Nothing is a secret.
Its possible the high diamond odds are lower this year (I have no idea what they were in the past), but to claim SDS is manipulating the odds makes you look like a tin foil hat idiot.Nobody is defending SDS, people are just calling out that the tinfoil hat nonsense is just that: nonsense.
And yes they changed diamond from 1:50 to 1:8 for the forever season last year.
Something definitely changes in the coding for pack odds once we get to November and beyond. I noticed it dramatically w/ '24 after the WS. I was able to pull decent diamonds in regular packs about 1:10-1:15 ratio...and that's not fabricated. (And feel free to correct me if they actually increase diamond odds in the Shop come November and I didn't look closely enough at the fine print.)
I'm sick of the defending of SDS on this as well, because there is definitely something skewed just beyond the grey line of the unknown. We'll of course never know and continue to speculate, but when Bobby Witt Jr is the only decent pull I've received since March, I find myself siding with the frustrated majority.
I can't tell if you DO or DO NOT want him to get a card. First part of your post indicates the former; the second part the latter.
Which is it man!?
@dbub_PSN said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
@GoldenGamingKM_PSN said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
I submit that perhaps the underlying problem here is trying to turn the game of baseball into a grind fest, where instead of just trying to play and win baseball games, the goal is to earn stubs, points, rewards, perks, etc ...
The further away from the pure honesty of just playing and winning baseball games this title gets, the more trouble SDS finds itself in. Bunting isn't cheating. It's part of the game. And it is matter of opinion whether someone is bunting too much.
Moreover, in real baseball, any time a team perceives a weakness they will exploit it. During World War II Monty Stratton was a minor league pitcher when he shot himself in a hunting accident and endured the amputation of his right leg. After years of pitching using a prosthetic limb, he managed to resume pitching in the lower minor leagues. Teams constantly bunted for base hits because they believed he was slow trying to field them due to his injury.
In short, exploiting a weakness is part of the game of baseball and has been since the inception of the sport. SDS appears chasing ghosts because of complaints lodged by some that there is some perception of weakness in the game code. I think many of these complaints are just players frustrated because they don't win games as often as they feel they should.
Worse, it also seems SDS is motivated by their own belief that earning rewards is too easy and must be made more difficult. Again, that's a purely subjective conclusion, and ends up causing more complaints than it solved.
This was actually a pretty decent five-paragraph essay. Thesis (a bit choppy but understood), supporting material (particularly the historical approach), and a conclusion that almost ties back into the thesis. I enjoyed reading this.
Before I left education after 15 years, I taught high school English. I would have been thrilled had a student of mine written something like that during most of my days. Even if it really isn't an actual 5-paragraph essay, it had the potential to fly with more detail.
Now I just farm. And play this game when time allows.
Ha I used to teach five paragraph essays to 6th graders. There was a wide variety in quality.
Hell, I couldn't get a lot of my sophomores to even write a cohesive sentence.
One of the most horrendous things that occured in our district (and still does) is the extreme dumbing down of curriculum and the lack of accountability for simply pushing kids through. When, clearly, they come up to us without the necessary skill sets. Wasn't the case with all of them of course, but I'd say at least 60-70% of my high schoolers struggled mightily with critical reading and writing skills.
@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
I submit that perhaps the underlying problem here is trying to turn the game of baseball into a grind fest, where instead of just trying to play and win baseball games, the goal is to earn stubs, points, rewards, perks, etc ...
The further away from the pure honesty of just playing and winning baseball games this title gets, the more trouble SDS finds itself in. Bunting isn't cheating. It's part of the game. And it is matter of opinion whether someone is bunting too much.
Moreover, in real baseball, any time a team perceives a weakness they will exploit it. During World War II Monty Stratton was a minor league pitcher when he shot himself in a hunting accident and endured the amputation of his right leg. After years of pitching using a prosthetic limb, he managed to resume pitching in the lower minor leagues. Teams constantly bunted for base hits because they believed he was slow trying to field them due to his injury.
In short, exploiting a weakness is part of the game of baseball and has been since the inception of the sport. SDS appears chasing ghosts because of complaints lodged by some that there is some perception of weakness in the game code. I think many of these complaints are just players frustrated because they don't win games as often as they feel they should.
Worse, it also seems SDS is motivated by their own belief that earning rewards is too easy and must be made more difficult. Again, that's a purely subjective conclusion, and ends up causing more complaints than it solved.
This was actually a pretty decent five-paragraph essay. Thesis (a bit choppy but understood), supporting material (particularly the historical approach), and a conclusion that almost ties back into the thesis. I enjoyed reading this.
Before I left education after 15 years, I taught high school English. I would have been thrilled had a student of mine written something like that during most of my days. Even if it really isn't an actual 5-paragraph essay, it had the potential to fly with more detail.
Now I just farm. And play this game when time allows.
Stub rewards, in general, are just awful across the board. Would be nice to earn more while playing instead of having to rely on flipping. Some of us just don't have the time to be doing that.
@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS said in One big win for TA:
@RealPudgyPanda_MLBTS said in One big win for TA:
Because it punishes people that prioritized grinding it in order to ensure people that didn’t can still get the same rewards, as it doesn’t give any of the people that prioritized grinding it anything for actually spending the time.
If SDS says this is what you have to do, you do it, and then SDS gives the cards to everyone else too anyway, it is an L. As I said in my reply, a competent company would have given those people that did it something for actually doing it (like my suggestion of removing any grind to get the Color Storm cards). Instead, they just screw over the people that actually listened.
Good gravy. Nobody is getting “punished.” So many people think of this as some sort of zero sum game. Just because some people are getting a boost doesn’t mean you’re somehow getting screwed. Such a weird way to view this. It’s not a “punishment” unless SDS is taking things away from you. How is your life any worse because someone got to an all-star voucher easier than you did lol
Did you enjoy the time you spent grinding toward those vouchers? Hopefully the answer is “yes” (otherwise why would you even do it lol). So what’s the problem here big guy?
^^^This. Completely agree.^^^
I'll take this for sure. Between August-June I work [censored] near 12-13 hr days 6 days a week. Another 3-4 on Sundays driving around checking fields. Being able to play for a few hours here and there actually keeps me grounded.
More and more I'm seeing people not working and just either collecting unemployment or disability OR purposely choosing to let others pay for their existence. I understand there are exceptions and some folks have no choice, but more and more it's becoming a choice.
I've gone completely away from having the PCI reticle visible. I'm 44 and have noticed that as I've aged and as I've played baseball games for over 25 years now, I require less distractions on screen in order to make decent contact. I highly recommend playing without the PCI for those that may have similar issues with hitting. It's now all about see and react. Plus, I find it makes it a bit more enjoyable.
@IrishFist412_MLBTS said in It can't just be me...:
It’s not just you OP. I’m experiencing the same things. This year’s game is just not it. I think years from now MLB 25 will be mentioned in the same breath as Superman 64, Redfall, ect….Just pop a gummy and enjoy it for what it is - A beautiful ascetically pleasing baseball game that has broken gameplay.
Hey...thank you for some vindication of my madness. Might be easier just to use one of my pre-rolled Maui Wowies and then attempt to hit more line drives to nowhere.
