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Correa back to the Astros
Suarez back to the Mariners

@LYNX6937_XBL said in Time to Blow This Game Up:

Agree game is scripted and user skill is irrelevant.

if game is scripted and user skill is irrelevant, I'd be winning a WHOLE lot more.

If you don't do it live, you'll have to re-create it.

Use Pack History to find out which cards you pulled, then use the Roster Update pages to walk each card back in time.

Needlessly time-consuming, but doable.

@blitz77tw_PSN said in Speedway content but Conquest Map -- WHAT????:

I wish people would learn to read -- I said it was a easy map . Also never said it was hard just that is was a MISSED opportunity

I can only speak for myself, but I'm fine with every program not being a cookie-cutter copy of previous ones.

Have a Program that rewards points for a Conquest completion? Great!
Have a Program that doesn't? That's fine too!

Topps Now really dropped the ball on their Seranthony Dominguez card. They should have combed through the footage to find a shot of him in his Orioles uni during Game 1 of the Doubleheader.

Now I don't care whether we get the card next week or not.

FOR SHAME, TOPPS! FOR SHAME!

@PAinPA_PSN said in New Spotlight cards for Wednesday Jul 30th:

Rather have a milestone card down the road instead

@PAinPA_PSN wins!

@MarioMendoza935_XBL said in Not paying 100K for an outdated Nolan Ryan:

@virusts_XBL said in Not paying 100K for an outdated Nolan Ryan:

I would say pulling diamond stadiums also super rare lol

This is the first year that I don't have all stadiums. I refuse to pay thousands of stubs for them. It's weird that they're still so expensive entering August. I think in year's past SDS released them in packs? I can't remember.

You'd see a Stadium Choice pack hidden in a Conquest Map or at the tail end of a XP Path every once in a while. Not (yet) this year.

SDS didn't help demand by making Kingdome the Collect reward instead of Polo Grounds like it had the past few years.

@MarioMendoza935_XBL said in Not paying 100K for an outdated Nolan Ryan:

Once these cards enter the "Multiplayer Program", the prices tank. Then, a hack like me can get them.

Plenty of repeatable missions in Speedway that the lack of Conquest points is irrelevant.

Couple of them were down to 20K a few weeks ago. (I know. I was in the middle of flipping them when they went down) before the Bautista Collection dropped.

With BR handing them out as Flawless rewards, it shouldn't be too long before enough of them enter the ecosystem to get prices back down to reasonable levels.

@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in Bryce Harper:

Again, folks, this is where a negotiated salary floor will force these selfish owners to raise their payrolls to at least meet the floor, or if they refuse, then the league per the new contract could step in and take over the team.

Problem with the salary floor is that are some occasions where an entire teardown is needed to build from scratch.

Take the 2013 Astros. They wound up with a $26 million payroll because they tore it down to the foundation. But that gave plenty of playing opportunities and empty roster spots for Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, George Springer, Lance McCullers, Brad Peacock and Dallas Keuchel.

2 years later, they drafted Bregman, Tucker, and Daz Cameron (trade bait for Justin Verlander.)

2 years after that, Rings (and trash cans) for everyone!

Sometimes getting rid of everything and starting over is the right move. The issue is when you do hit on rookies and draft picks (like the Astros did), they backed it up by trading for Verlander, and spending money on Morton, Beltran, & Reddick.

Would the 2013 Astros been better off spending a bunch of money on Joe Blanton or Jonny Gomes or the dessicated remains of Torii Hunter and block up all those roster spots?

@The_Joneser_PSN said in Bryce Harper:

If a Raising Canes owner in South Carolina doesn't want to pay his two best employees $20 an hour and instead chooses to replace them and staff his entire business with minimum wage workers, he has every right to do so and Todd Graves can't do a [censored] thing about it.

… until that store misses sales projections for three quarters in a row. At which point the head office steps in.

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@JenkinMeyer_PSN said in Ranked is a MAJOR fail:

Not sure what the argument is here. I guess the answer is yes, they don’t have right to Montreal anymore?

He played for the franchise that is currently called the Nationals.

No different than Walter Johnson playing for the franchise that is currently known as the Twins.

Walker played for the franchise that is currently known as the Nationals.

If they gave him an actual retro card instead of an SDS generated card...

FYI, they did the same thing to Tim Raines's Egg Hunt card.

@BiigD008_XBL said in 99 Acuna coming today!!:

Acuna is gonna be in a pack or collection reward.

Wouldn't rule out World Series reward.

@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in Bryce Harper:

Yeah, you set the tone for that kind of world. Spend about $1 billion for a team, then place your daily ownership in the hands of someone else who didn't pay a nickel for the team, but who had God-like powers to take it away from you on his personal whims!

That's how every other franchised operation works.

If a random Raising Canes owner in South Carolina decides they're going to stop distributing Cane's sauce because they can save 0.2% on operating costs, Todd Graves absolutely has the power to revoke their business.

@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in Bryce Harper:

Lot's of people tossing around this concept of "force an ownership change." Folks, unless the owner in question violates a written rule of the league, one that explicitly states that violation may result in the league taking over the team to sell, the owner is a courtroom away from having MLB told to pound sand.

That's why MLB needs to write a rule. Or have a Landis-level Commissioner with the power to enforce it unilaterally. (Obviously less likely but still technically doable.)