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Road to the Show has gotten so stale, predictable and mind numbingly boring it's almost unplayable anymore.

Please for the love of this game, redo the mode so it features a ton more immersion and brings you into the game. Start out by playing your Senior Year in High School as a kid to watch from Baseball America. Based on your season earn a ticket to the Bowman Showcase or agree to college ball where you play thru a series of mini games to become a better prospect. Make the draft process more intense, show us getting passed over a time or two from where our agent thought we might go - added layers of immersion make it worth all the more. Bring in more Video Clips from MLB Network personalities discussing you as a player and your various accomplishments (back to those mini games and senior season) Give us a set of mini games on top of the Bowman showcase during draft prep to fine tune and tweak.

And why is it we start in AA? Seriously, that doesn't happen near often enough to be an actual starting point. You go thru A Ball if not Rookie Ball in most cases. If you don't want to commit to that presence roster wise give us another round of developmental mini games with grades to earn our promotion.

Give us more cut scenes where we interact with our team mates and coaches. Let there be a feature / option where you can go directly to the Managers office or call your agent on the fly because of something that happened or something you want to try and make happen. Give us a write up from MLBTradeRumors when we ask for a trade if we are a prospect or a player of a certain ranking that paints us as someone who isnt happy in their current situation more to follow type stuff. Present us in that moment teams we are linked to. Offer us the opportunity to discuss team / player options in our contract negotiations and let us set a list of teams we would allow a trade to and ones we won't.

Bring back personality traits, but allow those to actually develop quirks that further define our player.

Once in the minors, can we discuss the logic and AI of our teammates on the field. Far to often a challenge is presented and taken off the table due to their inability to get their end of the job done.

Lineup Discussions - Skip comes to see you because of your track record against a team or a certain pitcher and says were moving you in the lineup or starting you or benching you because this a couple of times a season would be a nice breath of fresh air. Or to prevent it from happening, complete a training mini game the coach throws at you that helps to sharpen you for that match up.

Immersion, Immersion, Immersion. Draw us in, Take us deeper into the experience. Give us more to do, more to watch. More to build on, Be more involved in the creation of your players arc beyond the stats.

The Wife and Kids are going to go see extended family for spring break which is during early access weekend - I normally don't pay the extra but knowing I could play all weekend completely uninterrupted is very tempting.

@PhillyDawg3 - I have been saying for years that Franchise and RTTS seriously need to more resemble the 2k MyCareer model.

Hernandez behind the plate missing calls left and right with Joyce calling people safe at 1B would have so many players breaking their controllers and tv's

Wishful thinking, much of what you are referencing would resemble the MYGM and or MyCareer modes from NBA2k. Been asking about a lot of this for years as well. Franchise is the Forgotten - It sucks to be a fan of the mode that made the game.

@Dinger_Dan19_PSN - Yes, This!! I am tired of going thru the setup of making my lineups and signing free agents or making trades to have certain pieces in the lineup or on the bench only to find when I sim thru a stretch of games or just in between Key Moments on my Franchise file that when I jump into a Key Moment people are playing out of position and out of where I had them in the lineup. I understand there are rest days, but I swear I never seem to jump into a game where it's the lineup I set.