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I'm the best at anticipating pitches and smoking them foul
I'm also the best at telling myself not to swing at change ups below the zone, then ignoring myself and swinging at those things

Does the pitcher shot gun a mountain dew and smash the can against his head before he strikes you out?

Just got my high diamond pack at prestige xp level 45. Wanted to pick the highest priced guy to sell. Thought Betts was at 147k...Hes 14.7k. I don't know why I'm the way I am

Joe Morgan

I faced a guy who kept sending me voice mails. Like wtf, I don't want to hear your creepy voice, out of breath, asking me to help you prestige Belli. Send a text message like a normal human. Also do it in the event, not ranked

I think the point is to have fun with them. The Bo card is maybe the only legit card of the bunch. A lot of the hitters can mash but are really slow or not great defensively. Most of the pitchers have good pitch selection and per 9s, but have less than ideal velocity. I like that it gives us playable cards from teams or players we like that otherwise wouldn't have a high diamond card.

@TheHungryHole said in It is what it is:

one of the weirder posts on this thread in the past week, and that is saying a lot

There have been a couple weird analogies about unattractive men and beautiful women this week. Neither really made much sense

Bonds would need 200 vision

I pop out more than I ground out bc I usually try for Home Runs and I have noticed that lately, I am getting more IF pop ups on good timing with the ball at the edge of the top of my pci

I manage a baseball team...fantasy league

I want to see what TA4 is

I faced a guy who tunneled with Giolito so well, I thought the game was broke.

I'm trying. Got to 720 tonight and beat a guy (with a little (a lot) of RNG help) who was 140-40. Weird side note- I looked him up and saw he played @mitchhammond24 recently. It was cool seeing a forum member's name I recognized in someone else's game log.

After that thrilling game, got my [censored] handed to me by another good player. Unlocked Griffey tonight, so all is good for the WS run

Purple Saphire Roy Oswalt. That's right, I've double prestiged the dude

@Ikasnu said in Today is The Day:

Fellow The Show players, I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails. When we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship - but that is not this day, an hour of showdown, before the world of Men comes crashing down - but not this day. This day WE FIGHT!

Never thought I would die fighting side by side with bunt cheesers

I'm almost 100 percent sure Altuve never wore a buzzer. It's insane how something someone said without a shred of evidence has become almost common knowledge. I am rooting for Altuve to give Chapman grinch face again if the Yanks can even get there

@ddbake said in Diamond dynasty guide:

@cosmic_wonders said in Diamond dynasty guide:

Go straight for Mike Trout with all the stubs you earn ( for live series collections) a lot of people make the mistake of buying every card besides the top 5 or so most expensive but it's way quicker to buy from the top down.. (most important)

Can you elaborate on why this is the right way? This was my first year playing enough to worry about the collections and not knowing any better, I went about it the opposite way.

I think it's just because if you have the top 5, any time you save up 20k, you can complete a team. Less stressful than trying to save up 320k for trout and 200k for the others

It's like buying a house. I don't worry if I'm not selling when the market is at its highest, bc I know I'm also buying at the right time if that makes sense. I'm just saying, you can buy more with those 270k stubs right now than you could with 320k stubs when his price was higher.

Is your family at one place and the other is like an out of town place for work. You may have more going on around you at one place

@dcordash1 said in Why can't I hit?:

@thumpasery said in Why can't I hit?:

play virtually all my games on All Star difficulty in Ranked Seasons and am hitting around .225 online, which I know is really bad. I've watched tons of hitting tips videos and nothing seems to work for me. I try to look for the "bump" at the release point to determine if it's an offspeed pitch, but a fastball released just a little high looks the same to me, so I'm either late on the fastball or early on offspeed. I feel like I have to swing early to catch up with the fastball, so I'm often swinging at pitches out of the zone. I try batting practice with the sliders turned up, but I just flail for however long I take batting practice and don't notice any improvement, so it feels pointless. I play on a 55" Samsung TV in game mode, and for a variety of reasons a monitor isn't really an option, so I'm wondering if not having a monitor is the majority of my problem, or if there could be other factors at work. Does having a monitor make pitch speeds look slower? I have the original (pre-Pro) PS4; does having a Pro make a difference? My internet is Comcast with a WiFi connection and averages about 25Mbps when tested on the PS4; is that good? Bad? Irrelevant? I've read that connection quality can impact pitch speeds pretty dramatically; is this true, and how much of a factor is it compared to the difference a monitor makes? Do any of the TV settings apart from game mode (which HDMI input you use, HDR setting on or off, 1080 vs 720) matter?
I'm also probably at the upper end of the age spectrum for people playing this game (I'm 48) and my eyesight isn't perfect. I'm just wondering why I'm so bad at hitting and if it's one issue or a combination of things, and if there's anything I'm missing or if it's possible to just not be very good and not able to improve.
Thanks!

I'll take a shot. First, I believe there is a good chance this is a bait post where the "good samaritans" from the forum can give everyone tips while offering up the illusion that it really makes any difference because the AI decides the outcome of everything in this game.

If not, I apologize for my cynicism.

When it comes to batting the AI is exceptionally covert with it's dictating of outcomes. It's coded to use the vibration of the controller as well as the audio..along with the PCI animation of course, that suggests how your swing matched up against the pitch. In reality nothing the batter nor pitcher intended..actually happened to the degree the animation-audio-vibration suggests. It's smoke and mirrors.

So, that's the first hurdle to getting better. Realizing it's not so much your ability as what the software is coded to depict. Then just living with the truth. You can't, no matter how much you practice, get better at a game that is not a true simulation. It takes you for a ride and you enjoy the experience when you win...try not to get to upset when you don't.

I call bs on all of this. You can absolutely get better. And your timing and pci placement absolutely are the main ingredients in having success in this game. I say all of this as someone who is not very good at this game. I know my timing and pci placement are off when I am doing terrible. It's not the game just randomly making me have bad outcomes