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New content:
Week 2 Team Build Missions (same as last Program)
Collect MA Lightning for 10K in XP
Exchange 225000 in LS for 15K
Mother's Day Conquest Map
MA Program that gives you a TON of packs, 6 88 OVR MA cards, 3 90 OVR MA cards, and runs up to 215pts. Stage 2 has 11 MA Moments, 13 different MA/TN missions, and a collection. Stage 3 is just 500 PXP with MA Lightning Rizzo and 2000 PXP with MA cards. Both repeatable for 10 pts each time.
New Event: Use MA, TN, and LS players. 90 OVR max team. 3 Inn on AS. Runs until the 12th. Packs and stubs. Notable are Event Rewind at 10 and 25, TN Madbum at 14, and TN Story at 20. Caps at 30 wins. Story looks PHENOMENAL
New collections is FB and Legends Collections tabs. MA 5 for a BIAH pack and 10 TN, inc Gold Cole and Silver Soto, for 5 The Show packs.

Tomorrow is the first set of Topps Now cards for the May POTM Program.

Prepare yourself for the multitude of posts from people complaining that they can't get to Stage 2 and the program is broken.

@lioned-33_xbl said in So when is the first stub sale?:

Trying to sell everything before then lol

Why are you selling BEFORE the stub sale? Prices go UP when there is a stub sale.

@tonythetiger2k16 said in SDS Just Got Too GREEDY & Filled Up Their Plate Way Too Much:

@allday9128_psn said in SDS Just Got Too GREEDY & Filled Up Their Plate Way Too Much:

I'm pretty sure the MLB made them go to Microsoft and Nintendo. Dont think it was their choice

WRONG!!!!!! It was SDS that chose to do this to get a 3 year head start on Xbox & a 2 year head start on Nintendo for when EA will bring back & re-release MVP Baseball in 2024 which is official. SDS wants to make sure Xbox owners & Nintendo Switch owners get to play MLBTS before they get to play MVP Baseball. SDS feels if MLBTS is played "NOW", then they will have established a loyal customer base which will NOT even give EA MVP Baseball a try. However If SDS would have waited for EA to be released in 2024 & then SDS themselves went cross platform, then it would be too late because now EA would have the clear advantage of being the 1st Baseball game played on Xbox & Nintendo

In 2019, MLB announced that the organization had entered into a multi-year deal with Sony Interactive Entertainment to continue developing and distributing MLB the Show video games. However, part of the deal requires San Diego studio to develop for multiple platforms.

MLB The Show 21 went on to top sales charts upon release.

Here's the article

Some of them also like to use this stadium during the day with a tall LHP so you can't see the release of the ball.

First game of the day. Event game. My opponent held R2 for the ENTIRE 3 seconds for EVERY pitch I threw.

Also replayed EVERYTHING.

Well, if you all want to play toxic; we can play toxic.

If you match up with me be prepared for me to do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING I can do to make a simple 3 inning game last an hour or more.

@balsamicarrow88 said in Where is the supercharge?:

This man Kyle Farmer needs supercharged. Epic game.

Why? So you can use him and complain about how the game isnt performing the way you want it to perform?

@wkward83_psn said in Big Collection:

How many stubs to you you guys think it will take to complete Fridays big collection? Thanks .

Tree-fiddy

For anyone that wanted to know how this guy cheated:

First he messages me and tell me that he is one win away from Hoffman; can I please quit.

When I tell him how do you know I'm not one win away myself (I'm not. I already got him) and maybe he should quit.

He then proceeds to tell me that he's going to make this game last forever.

I say go ahead.

He then proceeds to quick pause on and off for about 25-30 secs between pitches.

Finally after the fourth time of doing that the game freezes.

He then messages me and says 'Good Luck getting Hoffman'.

I reply back that I already have him and good luck to him because I'm not leaving the freeze off.

It stayed frozen until the Event ended and popped up as an Unplayed Game.

No Roster Restrictions
Max Team 92 OVR
3 innings on AS
Ends June 7th

Rewind Pack at 7
2nd Half Cliff Lee at 12
2nd Half Rollins at 15. (weird the 2nd Half card is his old AS card I think)
Rewind Pack 20
Rewind pack 30

Mix of Show packs, BIAH, and HL packs in-between with random stubs.

And Hoffman is in the Rewind Packs

*do not

Sorry, pet peeve of mine.

@macorson_psn said in Well, that was… interesting:

Runners on second and third and the CPU pitches out. And the announcer keeps telling me that pitch outs are rare, every time they keep pitching out.

I like when right after the CPU tries to get you out by throwing the ball to first, and your guy is safe, the announcers say 'nice try trying to save the perfect game' and it ALWAYS happens after you hit a homerun with the batter before this batter.

@go4stros25_psn said in And There It Is:

@raesone_psn

People who say "I don't wanna spend X amount of money" sound extremely entitled to me, because if they don't wanna spend money that's totally fine. Nobody is forcing anyone to do so. But you can not expect the premium while not willing to pay for it and it's basically a big F you to all those who did put down that money. Consider yourself being one of those people for a minute and you hear PS4 owners make these arguments.

I remember when the PS4 came out. I was in college and had no money to upgrade right away from my PS3. I understood that I would not have the same benefits as those PS4 users and never even thought of complaining about it, because that's how the world works.

Brilliantly said good sir. If you don't want to spend the extra money for a first class ticket that's fine you can fly coach, but we aren't grounding the plane because you don't have the same leg room.

That's not the point. Flying first class doesnt get you to your destination faster than if you fly coach. You both get there at the same time.

Being able to play a competitive game, that awards players for winning, on a system that performs better than another system isnt fair.

Same thing with Stadium creator. If you have a PS5, and want to us a created stadium, you have to match up with another user that has a PS5. This should be the same for 120 Hz.

And to counter act anyone saying that it's fair to be able to benefit from 120 Hz when your opponent can't; just look at everyone who wanted to/did leave for Xbox because the PS5 didn't support 120 Hz.

They didn't think it was fair to be matched up with a console that had an advantage.

But now these same people are saying 'tough' if you don't have a PS5.

@toeter83_psn said in Optional: Collect all April Monthly Awards:

Lol I iam so happy I don't want Rizzoli to much pain

What about Isles?

@arvcpa_psn said in A new wrinkle in Mini Seasons...:

I know some of you have been getting losses you don't deserve. This season, I've played 5 games, and my record shows as 9-3. So...

So THATS where everyone's wins are going. Lol

@cdnmoneymaker93_xbl said in Only thing to do is grind potm:

@sportpimpin_xbl said in Only thing to do is grind potm:

For a 92 ovr Rizzo worthless to any real player and they'll drop a 97 legend in Chase packs in a few days but somehow yall will defend that right? Lol fn clowns I swear

Hey I'm good with being a clown who enjoys playing this game and working on the task and don't care what the card. This program is great for just doing that thing called grinding something this community has clearly forgotten what that actually is

Can you imagine what some of these 'new' players would have to say if SDS brought back the 'Immortal' grind?

@cdnmoneymaker93_xbl said in TA1 vs Spring Clean up:

As the debate rages on over SDS scalling back packs and stubs this year compared to 21 and the removal of TA I went backed and looked at TA1 vs Spring clean up as it's the comparable info I have available thanks to Operation Sports breakdown and the active program

TA 1

Stubs = 45k / 7500 stubs per division program

TA packs = 102 packs / 17 packs per division program

Ballin packs = 24 packs / 4 packs per division program

There was also a bunch of booze and silver packs which I haven't counted cause who cares

Spring Cleanup

Stubs = 45,500

Show pack = 69 packs

HL packs = 8

Ballin packs = 11

Now I will not dispute that there are less packs being given out never have however I am more looking at how this forum along with the YouTube community has made it out that TA gave out rewards hand over fist when it came to packs and stubs.

TA 1 stubs amount to me is laughable that over 6 programs only reward 45k in stubs Spring clean up has a net increase of 500 stubs

TA 1 had a net pack of 51 packs...51 packs most of which are TA packs which are just show packs as they had the same odds it's net difference was 33 packs. Based on this pack difference it is not nearly as significant a difference as people make it out to be. Now yes I am looking at TA 1 vs Spring clean up which are totally different styles of programs and I am currently reviewing Inning 2 vs Spring clean up to see the stub and pack difference which I k ow will change the net pack difference to the 2 games however I think it's important that we actually look at these numbers to see what the actually variance is.

There is alot more that needs to be compared like player programs and such and I will but I wanted to start with this comparison

Reference used
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.operationsports.com/mlb-the-show-21-team-affinity-season-1-players/amp/

I just want to know how I missed those booze packs. Unless I did open them and don't remember because of the effects.

@tonythetiger2k16 said in POM Cards not sellable?:

From what I seen, the last 3 packs are sellable with what you choose to pull from them. It's the first 6 packs that are not sellable. You might want to ccheck that you have none of those cards within your DD Team at all & as well in Events. The selleable card may be the 1 tied to DD or Events & just has the Non-Sellable as your extra & is why you can not sell either of the 2

That's backwards. The last three packs, after Rizzo, are unsellable.

The first 6 you get on the way to getting Dawson and Rizzo are sellable.

But if the OP didn't pay attention to who they locked in they will be stuck with two sellable cards per player.

@tonythetiger2k16 said in How do teams start RPs and relieve with SPs in head to head:

When you select who you want to use as a starter, just keep scrolling down to the bullpen arms & pick the LR, MR, SU or CP you want to use. The down side is in a 9 inning game. His stamina may only take you 3 to 5 innings at max until out of energy.

To bring in a SP to replace a RP. Just use a SP as a pinch hitter for that RP & The SP will be your pitcher coming next inning. However the downside to that is that he is not warmed up. Even if you throw all of the 8 warm up pitches, he will only be 50% to maybe 80% at most warmed up. That can negatively effect his control, velocity & confidence. How much depends the lower he was warmed up.

Or you can just go into your Bullpen and hit R1 to pull up the SP screen and warm them up.

@jkooch66_xbl said in Sorry but all the programs especially featured program is impossible to beat for casual players:

I'll also add that in addition to team pxp missions being extremely easy, individual player missions are not a new thing. They've just replaced the [censored] from last year which was like hit 3 home runs or 5 extra base hits, etc. This system is so much better. You don't have to keep track of who needs to do what, just throw them in a lineup and play. And you get progress no matter what. It was so frustrating when a guy needed home runs and you'd have a bases clearing triple and get ZERO progress. Same as striking out.

They censored cr@p...

Or a double and you hit one in the gap and the dang CPU runner, who was on first, stops at second