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@dmc04005_PSN I am a terrible bunter. I can get bunt hits with Jackie Robinson and Rap Dixon, but that is about it. I don't have any problem moving runners along, once they get on, but have trouble bunting for hits. I would freaking pay $100K in stubs for the right to buy one of those Negro League players that are locked behind the Showdown.

@GoozeFn_PSN I have 17 of the 18 vouchers needed for Rolen. The two that I don't have are the Negro Leagues and Spring Breakout. Both of those are locked behind the Showdown mode, so unless I can somehow get them done, I won't be able to get Rolen. I know it is a "me" issue, but I hate that they don't have a way to finish the collection without being able to complete a Showdown.

@dap1234567890_PSN Thanks! That is what I was afraid of. I guess I won't be getting Scott Rolen.

For whatever reason I just can't beat a Showdown to save my life and I am stuck one voucher away from Scott Rolen, with only the Negro Leagues Showdown or the Spring Breakout Showdown left to do. You have to beat the Spring Breakout one 4 times, so no chance on that one. You only have to beat the Negro Leagues one once, but I just can't do it. I need one more card for the Negro Leagues. Does anyone know if there are additional Storylines to come?

My experience was very similar. My total was just over $15K and my only Diamonds were a uniform, an Easter Hunt Tony Oliva, and the Chase Pack was Joe Ryan. I typically don't play online at all, but decided to try out the Moonshot Event, which gave me a good headstart on the MP program. This is the first one I have finished all the way. I pulled a couple of pretty good diamonds from packs along the way, Skenes and Acuna, but the results of the 50-pack were disappointing.

@BigBodyBen30_PSN I totally misread your post. I thought you said that you were finished with all programs, and I was like...........you can't be!! I am pulling for you to make it!

There is no way that you are done with all Programs, Conquests, and Mini-Seasons and still short of XP for the 2nd inning pass. I don't play online at all and am done with those and have finished the Inning Pass and had 2 of the extra spins, and approaching a 3rd. Also, I did not get the 30,000 bump for collecting the bosses from Inning 1. I sold them for the stubs for Live Series. Now the x-factor is how much you are taking advantage of the Double XP being offered this week. If you are only short 55K, you can get there easily by playing more this week. There is also a Spotlight program dropping today that will have XP in it.

Crazy that this isn't going to drop for over a month. I only started playing DD two years ago, so I only know the previous way of TA, and this is a huge improvement over that way of doing it, however, this one can feel overwhelming and get stale if there isn't a card reward to grind for on the TA pass for each Team. I was motivated to get all 30 of the Jolt cards, but there is currently a huge void between that card and the All-Star voucher, filled with not a lot to grind for.

@BJDUBBYAH_PSN Tomorrow's is Double PxP, not XP, so no help for the Program XP path. I am currently at 250K, so I don't have any concerns about finishing the XP path, but I also do all the offline Programs. I don't play online at all currently. I didn't collect the bosses from Inning 1, as I was prioritizing accumulating Stubs for the Live Series and sold both of them.

I am starting to believe that gaming companies have eliminated beta testing of all games as a "cost savings", instead allowing the general public to be their "beta testers". It is rampant in Madden, and appears to have made its way to SDS. The Weekend Classic was the cornerstone of what was new in MLB 25, and it is probably too kind to call it a mess at this point. Cheating/Tanking is rampant, the servers are terrible, and honestly playing the game feels like there have been ZERO innovations this year, or really any of the things that we identified in years past fixed.

Yes, you will continue to earn PXP with the player already at P5 for the challenges requiring PxP with the team they play on, but as you said you won't earn it for the player already at the max upgrade.

This is what a lifetime of "participation trophies" does to the mindset of our youth. None of them can fathom losing at anything, let alone have it be their fault.

I am terrible at Showdown and tried it once. I beat the first two bosses really easily and was cooking on the third one, but had a couple of line out double plays and it went downhill from there. I decided that grinding the PxP was better for my mental health than trying it over and over with no success. The fact that stats in the mode don't count for anything is a turnoff as well. Once I got Chase Dollander the grind wasn't that bad. He contributed tons of the needed PxP himself.

I had the color issue. My main uniform color is black and the Orioles still had one space on the board right next to me, but their color is almost identical to mine.

I finished with $1.6M, but haven't actively sold any cards for a LONG time now, so the binder value is WAY higher than that. It was the easiest SHOW I can remember for making coins with little to no effort.

I watch LittleMan17, as much for entertainment as for the actual gameplay. I honestly get little to nothing out of watching other people play a video game, especially The Show. In Madden, you can sort of watch how people attack certain Defenses, but they pick plays and audibles so quick that I can rarely follow. Watching someone else play baseball really reveals nothing that will help me be a better player.

@Redd666ish_PSN

This is the truth. I had only played the game on my 65" television screen, sitting about 15 feet away, so my failures being able to hit were all I knew. I went to a buddy's house and he had an entire gaming setup with a really nice monitor. Sitting close to the screen on a computer monitor was a game changer. I could regularly hit pitches that I really couldn't even see on the television. I realized that I spend the majority of the time on the television trying to guess when to swing early, which means I can't hit anything offspeed at all.

@JDHalfrack I am a newbie to trying to use the app. Where would I go on the app to see this?

I have earned 4 spins so far and only had it let me spin 3 times.