What I want to know is how long do you think these guys practice their different "oh" faces for their headline image to go along with Titles like "I unlocked xxx and he broke the game and got my sister pregnant"?

Someone needs a snickers.

Yeah, not really cheating, it's just not very sportsman like. When I play RS now I take a different attitude. I treat it like a real baseball game. I drink some beers, curse at the screen and scratch my balls a lot. Spitting seed casings on the floor seems to be the line the wife has drawn however...

I know with the weekend coming up some people might just be hitting the 300 stars for the boss pick. I have a few thoughts after using them all for a few days now.

J-Roll. My initial pick. His style jives well with what I'm trying to do on my team, contact, speed, solid D. None of these 3 have affected the outcome of games more than J-Roll. My last game I won 1-0, J-Roll went 2-5 with 3 stolen bases and the winning run off a sac fly. He's as solid as it gets and will impact the game the most often of these 3 picks, he's is in a position to benefit greatly from prestige.

Stan. I put him at 1st replacing ortiz as he's much to slow to be an outfield consideration for me. While Ortiz was solid, Stan is an immediate defensive improvement and will get better with prestige. I was on a tear with him before I got a little lazy with my focus at the plate. His PCI is so big that it's kind of made me lazy. If I focus, he crushes everything. His lack of speed is an issue, but in my opinion he makes up for it with his RBI's. Personally I just have to pick and choose the slow guys as I don't want many of them on my starting squad.

Maddux. He has honestly surprised me. I got hit a bit in my 1st outing with him, but once I got better at using him he's been great. I was worried about his lack up velo but with his accuracy, a 93-94mph fb on the edges is pretty good, especially seeing as I typically use it as a break up/ pace change pitch. He doesn't have the kind of stuff that will blow you away but he induces a lot of weak contact. I enjoy using Orel, I really enjoy Maddux. Since the first game I don't think he has given up a single run. I wasn't sure if I was going to keep him but I'm sold on him now.

Hope this helps some.

@ItsaCanesthing said in Level 99 prestige:

You unlock 99 OVR Luis Tiant

Cigar and all. Actually the game shuts off and you're forced to go outside.

Eh, I don't care, I'll wait and get one in jan/Feb. Nothing I'm really interested in at debut. Cyberpunk will keep me busy till I can get one.

Im gonna be 40 in Jan. Have a great Job that I only have to show up to 3 days a week unless theres a disaster or emergency or something. I'm married, active, play a bunch of sports as well as train in jiu jujitsu and striking a few days a week. I dont do triathalons or race bikes anymore but I still run and ride, and swim sometimes... I will be getting a ps5 and I'm gonna play the [censored] out of it.

Forgive me if this has been addressed, but SDS, can we do something about opposing team stadium sounds playing in my home stadium? Isn't part of the home field advantage forcing them to listen to you're cheesey stuff and you not having to listen to theirs? I don't want to hear cows moo or bells ring or whatever. I'm ok with the announcer yelling about pudding but really I don't want to hear the cheese every time I strike out or their run scores on my home turf.

I like the environment at Polo and enjoy playing there. I'd like to see more classic stadiums like Navin (Old Tiger stadium), War Memorial (Buffalo), even Doubleday in cooperstown. I like the old sandlot feel to these mega stadiums. It would also be cool if you could design you're own park for you're team.

I really do see some really cool possibilities in the future on the PS5... Especially if we can get good VR.

Please add the option to save you're current event lineup. If not in this game for the next one. -J

I'm in the middle of a freeze off right now.. this has been happening A LOT to me lately. This is getting ridiculous and SDS needs to figure out a way to deal with this because it's becoming unplayable. Guy is down 6 runs to 0 in the 2nd.. Requests friendly quit, I of course don't give it to him.. Freeze off.

Honestly I think there were a lot of things going against SDS this year.. Not the least was trying to develop things for multiple platforms while dealing with the restrictions. Lots including me have said that we didn't expect a whole lot this year. I personally however, expect a way more polished and better designed MLB 22. They will have the benefit of actual play data for the new systems. If next years game isn't leaps and bounds above this I will then, be very disappointed.

Never seen that before.. but I'm 15 min into my 3rd freezeoff in 3 games... And they're event games... I don't understand how these cheap bs tactics are still a thing... Seems worse than last year.

@xxdeathreyxx_psn said in eroding margins in the Market:

Remember that a huge number of people are flipping so a lot of the time you are just selling to other flippers. Volume>>>>>Margin. You might get a better price but another guy just sold 5 while you waited.

This is big too.. Volume, you need volume. I got into a little spiff with a streamer not too long ago who insisted people were breaking the market by doing stupid things... I tried to explain, to no avail, that those mistakes actually created the market. He was pointing out these bigs gaps on cards also and I tried again, unsuccessfully to explain that sometimes those big gaps you see are on cards that don't move, no volume... whats the point in making 20k if in that amount of time you could have made 40 by flipping cards that move...

@ny_giants4_life said in eroding margins in the Market:

@raylewissb47_psn said in eroding margins in the Market:

There’s an influx of cards right now because of the bundle SDS just gave out. You’ll just have to wait until it levels out again.

No i get that, I just dont understand why anyone would see a listing for 50k and then decide to list theirs for 43k. doesnt make sense

So, if you know the market is going to tank for whatever reason, makes sense to drop you're price and try to sell it at 43 before it tanks to 20 or less, for the guy who doesn't realize what's happening it looks like a deal at 43.. Honestly these things you guys look at that seemingly disrupt the market, like big undercuts, etc actually create the conditions later where there are gaps to exploit. Those impulsive mistakes by people create opportunity, if a card you want to sell starts getting crashed by underbids just hold and find something else to flip right now.

If everyone always bidd up or down by 1 perfectly you would have nothing to exploit and there would be no $$ in flipping.

I was just looking at linking my acct for twitch stream, it gave me 2 options, older ps4 data, or mlb the show current data but it says I'll reset all my progress... what gives, how do I get twitch drops? I had no problem last year...

@htonsecurity5x said in Do not listen to streamers regarding collections:

Honestly a lot are a joke.. I remember a guy last year saying he made $300k stubs on one evening of flipping. Yah that’s bogus

I did that a few times, the Topps Now cards when Tatis was going to be the collection card moved fast and loose... during busy times I was hitting 50k an hour. One day I just flipped Chapmans and Sale's live cards to the tune of 2-3k profit each flip.

@quackpack4_psn said in Cmon meow:

@quackpack4_psn said in Cmon meow:

@hubijerk_psn said in Cmon meow:

I'll do it sometimes in big games... Just like in real life. You have a chance to hit WS it's all hands on deck.

Just like in real life???? They don’t bring SP out of the pen in real life??

If it’s a WS game tho, ok I can see that. But it’s all the time. I swear last year it was an every game occurrence

Yeah.. They do... In playoff games and WS games.. Absolutely they do. Honestly though I'd rather face some starters out of the pen than a 8 ft. tall 100mph submariner named yo mama like lastyear...

I'll do it sometimes in big games... Just like in real life. You have a chance to hit WS it's all hands on deck.

@sheyworth_xbl said in SDS: Can we retire the Roberto Alomar card please?:

I find it comical how everyone comes in here yelling saying “don’t make it political” and those yelling are the ones bringing up politicians. I just want SDS to stand for values they put on the table. They’re pro BLM and aren’t shy about it. They’re pro LGTBQ+ and aren’t shy about it (again, you can add ally flags to custom stadiums), but they still put out extra cards of abusers just because they’re good at baseball. It’s that simple. I’m not trying to cancel anything. I’m just trying to seek consistency here. Were they apolitical, I wouldn’t have started this thread. But quite simply, stand up for all or stand up for none. Ask the dev team to give us a card exchange and lock the topic @Collin_SDS_PSN because the loud ones have consumed this thread and pulled it well beyond the boundaries of the discussion.

The problem with consistency is that these issues are complicated. Once you weigh into the waters of moral and political issues it becomes messy... One big reason guys like Michael Jordan and TW stayed out of it.

You mention BLM for example, I'm sure SDS, you, most people believe in the slogan, the idea.. but the reality and background of the founders, who just happen to be padding their pockets with sucker corpo cash is much different... https://nypost.com/2020/07/01/the-agenda-of-black-lives-matter-is-far-different-from-the-slogan/

Right now the popular thing to do, both for individuals and business seemingly is to signal to everyone how morally just you are... Some of us have been around long enough to recognize it's all an act, and people are getting their strings pulled dancing around like puppets.