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I like to take a one step lead at least a few times.

Usually I have no plans to steal, but I want to make sure my opponent sees that I just might, especially with a runner on first with higher speed. If they throw over more than 3 times though, I'll not take that 1st step. However, I may take a step again and then quickly step back to the normal leadoff.

The idea is to get their attention on that runner and hopefully slide step one too many times and throw a meatball or at the very least have to alter their pitching strategy.

I notice this only works for 1st base. If you try to take leadoff at second you can get picked very easily with a one step lead - even with a runner with a high stealing attribute and if you quickly get back to the base. (Note with two outs, the SS or 2nd base arent as close to the bag though so you can safely take that one step lead.)

I've got it for the PC.

Can't wait. Probably will be the only thing I play.

I think it's overrated.

Definitely sell him.

Gets me that much closer to my 1 mil buy order for him being filled.

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

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

In today's politically charged climate, this seems like a bad thread idea...

I assume you all have mortgages to pay and kids to feed. You never know who is digging through your social media feed from 2008 trying to see if there's anything that can be used to get you fired from your job.

Remember everyone, your company will sacrifice you the second theres a possibility of bad PR drummed up by newly created anonymous Twitter accounts even if you've been there for 15 years. That's the world we live in now.

Stating your occupation is going to get you in trouble?

Not necessarily, but considering how easy it is to find people's personal information, it might be the the crucial piece of information that allows people to figure out the company you are with - especially in white collar and higher paying jobs.

In today's politically charged climate, this seems like a bad thread idea...

I assume you all have mortgages to pay and kids to feed. You never know who is digging through your social media feed from 2008 trying to see if any popular opinion you expressed back then that's heresy now and if it can be used to get you fired from your job.

Remember everyone, your company will sacrifice you the second there's a possibility of bad PR drummed up by newly created anonymous Twitter accounts even, if you've been there for 15 years. That's the world we live in now.

Yea their prices will go down - assuming you can get any of each 3 bosses for previous innings.

@raesONE said in 12-0 Flawless Idea for 21:

@ICantHelpFalling said in 12-0 Flawless Idea for 21:

@raesONE said in 12-0 Flawless Idea for 21:

Ideas like these have circulated before. I don't think this will ever happen because despite them being unsellable, this would take a lot of stubs out of players pockets who live in BR because the demand for those exotic cards will drop substantially. Those million stubs should go to the players who did the work and put in the effort to get where they are, not to the developers (basically just erasing stubs from the game's economy).

So let's say everyone can buy a 99 Chipper Jones for 1M in a non-sellable pack, everyone has millions and so everyone who can't go flawless will get him this way instead. Then I go flawless in BR the legit way, but I can't unload my Chipper because the demand for the card is now nonexistent as a result of these packs.

As a regular 12-0 player myself I therefore strongly oppose the idea and I think this whole market development where everyone has millions of stubs but can't buy cards because of the lack of availability should be mitigated in a different manner.

I get this, but you are in the top 1% of this game as a player that can go 12 - 0 in BR in this game.

We need to think about the other 99% and make sure everyone else has some kind of chance at these BR rewards. Otherwise it systematically creates a kind of inequality of access which shouldn't be the case.

Sure, perhaps BR rewards should be somewhat hard and expensive to attain, but not the current state with this limited of a supply. Its a surprise that this kind of structural advantage for 12-0 players exists.

It massively rewards players who are already reaping more rewards than the rest of us considering how good they are at the game.

I don't agree with this. The game is already incredibly generous towards players to make stubs and attain free end game cards. The flawless rewards are the only cards that are somewhat exclusive for us that you describe as 1%.

But that's not even the main point. The main point is that I, and players like me, worked very hard to be able to go 12-0. Some of us on a consistent basis. We didn't wake up one day and all of a sudden we were able to have success, we spent countless amounts of hours upon hours to develop a skill level that puts us in this situation, endured all the frustrations that go along with going into a deep run. We have earned the right to be somewhat exclusive in this regard and to just walz into the conversation and say "hey, think about the other 99% of the game. I don't care about your achievements and efforts", I think that sounds very selfish and also a little bit entitled.

Yes, you worked hard and put in countless amount of hours to get to the level you are at over the years. That's a privilege unique to you and the 1% of those who can go on flawless 12 - 0 BR runs.

However the rest of us who are late to the party and havent been able to invest all that time don't have that same amount of privilege. Does that mean the other 99% of us should be held down and deprived of access to these BR rewards?

You should stand in solidarity with the other 99% of us who will never be able to go on a flawless run and encourage SDS to consider equal access for all of it's player base.

Plenty of us haven't been able to invest the time needed to get as good as players like you who can pull of these flawless BR runs - which is not necessarily a fault of our own. Newer players - especially in the last year or two - will always be at a structural disadvantage when it comes to the experience and reps that help one go on a BR run.

We can't catch up in that regards. That's a level of privilege that older players will always maintain - a definite structural advantage just on time played. You and other players are already standing on the top of the tower in that regards.

We are just asking that you allow the other 99% a chance to stand on the top of that tower as well - something the current BR reward system doesn't allow and essentially reinforces the current system of rewarding the 1% of players who are privileged to be incredible at this game.

@raesONE said in 12-0 Flawless Idea for 21:

Ideas like these have circulated before. I don't think this will ever happen because despite them being unsellable, this would take a lot of stubs out of players pockets who live in BR because the demand for those exotic cards will drop substantially. Those million stubs should go to the players who did the work and put in the effort to get where they are, not to the developers (basically just erasing stubs from the game's economy).

So let's say everyone can buy a 99 Chipper Jones for 1M in a non-sellable pack, everyone has millions and so everyone who can't go flawless will get him this way instead. Then I go flawless in BR the legit way, but I can't unload my Chipper because the demand for the card is now nonexistent as a result of these packs.

As a regular 12-0 player myself I therefore strongly oppose the idea and I think this whole market development where everyone has millions of stubs but can't buy cards because of the lack of availability should be mitigated in a different manner.

I get this, but you are in the top 1% of this game as a player that can go 12 - 0 in BR in this game.

We need to think about the other 99% and make sure everyone else has some kind of chance at these BR rewards. Otherwise it systematically creates a kind of inequality of access which shouldn't be the case.

Sure, perhaps BR rewards should be somewhat hard and expensive to attain, but not the current state with this limited of a supply. Its a surprise that this kind of structural advantage for 12-0 players exists.

It massively rewards players who are already reaping more rewards than the rest of us considering how good they are at the game.

Mookies live quirks are very good actually. Hes got like 6 of them that are actually active.

I'm not talking about descriptive ones like sniper, cannon, or hitting machine that are based off the card stats, but ones like fastball and breaking ball hitter, as well as runners in scoring position under two outs - stuff that will actually make your PCI bigger.

Mollie has like 8 of these from what I recall. The older legend guys like Hornsby rarely do besides pressure cooker.

@onnagood1 said in Just fix hitting... that's all we ask.:

That's all we ask? Who's we? I feel like you're standing alone on this one. If we had a vote on the ability to fix one thing, I don't believe the majority would choose hitting as you described.

Although getting good timing/good pci go for outs may be frustrating and a valid issue amongst some, I feel like pitch accuracy and check-swinging issues would be in the forefront of gameplay issues. At least that's what seems to be the consensus based on previous posts in this community forum.

Yep.

Pitch accuracy. Basically every game is a slugfest because of how many hangers the game forces. This shouldn't be.

I dont know what happened, but the pitching is 19 wasn't like this.

Good players already score a ton of runs, but aren't able to keep below a 4 era? Pitching is broken - especially offspeed and breaking pitches forcing a meta that involves the sinker and cutter focus. Top that off with often needing velocity to make your pitcher usable.

Movement and guys with incredible breaking stuff should be usable and competitive. Curveball should actually be useful. Pitchers with nasty breaking stuff should have insane h9s or something to reflect how hard it is to square up their stuff.

That makes things arguably even worse pitching wise.

I've made 500k so far just selling some diamonds and maybe 20 or so 84 golds.

Yep.

I remember playing 97 Triple Play baseball on the PC with my dad. Played a bunch of MVP 2004 and 2005 baseball a ton. Even really liked OOTP too. Played little league for several years. I even recall a baseball card game a buddy of mine used to play that you could get from card shops. (They only release its for like 3 years from what I remember back in the early 2000s.)

My interest diminished a bit for several years, came back when the Cubs were doing well in 2015 - 2018 and kind of diminished till I really played DD hardcore this year. My first show that I played was 19.

My two boys are very young though, but my oldest is already showing an interest in baseball.

I'm not sure what's going on since its not specifically a gameplay update, but perhaps there's a stealth one.

I for one have had an awful time hitting since the update. I was able to hit okay on HOF in the previous event and now I'm struggling to do anything with an arguably better squad.

I've managed 3 wins in the event. Two of them because people were doing dailies and the 3rd win was because of two fluke hits and a baserunning error that ended up in my favor where I ended up scoring and the guy quit - understandably considering the fluke hits.

For some reason I can barely make any solid contact. I've also been late on alot of pitches. I'm using a monitor and even moving up my PCI for high fastballs, but still late. Probably some reaction issue on my part, but I didnt have this problem in the previous event.

Happened to me in the one ranked game I played where I couldnt get any hits with my God squad..

Ive been using Prestiged POTM Bellinger recently because of his defense and good enough offense. Normally Ill use Ruth or Foxx there though.

Yea its been brutal.

Crashes constantly. My orders keep appearing and disappearing.

@Nanos_McGregor said in J Rams Defense is not 84 lol:

Using him in the event, getting smacked around not gonna lie. This card just lets balls go past him left and right. And my previous game he drops one and the next pitch my opponent just drills an outside slider(wasn’t a bad pitch, dude just smashed it) for a 419 left center tank. Almost certain solely lost me 5 games by himself. That’s just one of the few crazy things I’ve seen this event.

Dude I had similar problems with him. I dont know what it is but he constantly gets bad defensive animations and either makes way too many errors or just let's balls through he should stop.

It's not really.

Alot of other people though have bought these 3 pack headliners and have drove the prices way down, so if there's someone you want to get and try out, id just simply spend it on them.

Only exception I can think of is Dibble

I dont know.

The rays offense besides like two players barely produced any runs this world series. You can't win if you don't score.

I hope so. Would be a speedy power guy - granted in the OF, but still would be nice.