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My main forum account (the PSN one) was banned two months ago and no one at SDS customer support will answer what I did wrong or if it will ever be unbanned. Therefore, I -- just like SDS God Tatis -- have learned nothing from my punishment.

Head's up for SDS: I used to play your game every single day and the forums kept me involved with the community and, by extension, your buggy mess of a game. Since banning me, my enthusiasm has been nearly zapped and I only bother firing up the ol' PS4 about once a week or so. Couldn't care less anymore. And the irony is that i used to be one of the very, very few people in this community who defended your horrible customer service and your disaster of a game. Keep treating your dwindling few faithful fans like garbage and your player base will look like the attendance at an Oakland A's game.

Anyway. I'm here. Not sure why.

@theBlindRhino said in I guess I'm back:

Your also one of the most legitimately funny posters. What on earth did you get banned for?

I am 99% sure it was back in mid-June when some mental giant at the SDS social media team made a typo on a Twitter post that turned a regular tweet into something very filthy. I can't even remember what it was tbh. Someone made a post on this forum to alert all of us to the hilarious tweet and everyone who replied in the thread got taken down.

Look, I always own up to my stupid posts that get me banned (and wear it as a bit of a badge of honor), but I swear on my life that all I posted in that thread was a quote of the OP and "LOL." I'm fairly certain almost everyone who posted anything at all in that thread got banned. Not sure why it was for a lifetime and not the usual week or month.

But we have this new Ninja doofus running around and insulting everyone in the community and it's just radio silence from SDS. Unreal.

I wonder how many hours (days?) of my life have been spent simming hexagons over the last 5 years. The new Season 3 conquest is such a slog. The CPU is stacking hexes so fast. It's taking forever to get through this and it has nothing to do with baseball. There is absolutely nothing entertaining about simming, reloading, simming, reloading, simming, reloading, etc. Can we rethink the entire format next year?

This is full-on cartoony, arcadey muppetry. I am often accused of being an SDS apologist, but I won’t mince words on this one. SDS — this is the dumbest thing you’ve done in years. Truly awful. I feel like I’m playing Super Mario Baseball Galaxy or whatever. And now if I want to buy a card on the market, I have to learn stupid nicknames? Good grief. I’m playing showdown right now and it’s “The Cat Man” on the mound vs. “Chicken Man” at the plate. I mean… come on.

This game is so frustrating. It’s always 2 steps forward, 3 steps backward with these guys. The gameplay is better (at least it was to start the year), but now we have a manipulated market, giant jellyfish monsters hovering over the batters eye, and little league nicknames. To quote Aaron Boone, “tighten it up!”

@Jacky-Chan1_XBL said in Give back real names:

People complain about the silliest things.

I 1000% agree that SDS deciding to change the names was unbelievably silly and pointless and killed any realism. So, yes, we are complaining about the silliest, most obnoxiously and indefensibly cartoonish change that the game has implemented in years.

I feel like SDS couldn’t care less about selling stubs. They are giving out packs and cards like candy this year (and they always really have). If you go to the equipment collections, you’ll get like 10 packs for meeting stupidly low requirements, like 1 glove and 1 bat and 1 shin guard, etc

SDS has a lot of faults, but a greedy microtransaction model is not one of them.

6K per hour translates to 144K per day, or 4.32 million per month, or 51.84 million over the course of the game cycle. If you need more than 51.84 million stubs then you have a shopping addiction, my friend.

By the way, you lost out on 25 stubs if you took 15 seconds to read my post. Get back to work!

The first time I said "I love you" to Robin, he got scared. So scared that he ran out of the restaurant and started acting very distant. Cold. I wanted to pretend everything was OK, but I knew deep down (perhaps not even all that deep) that I had gone too far. When I finally pressed and asked what was wrong, he said he wasn't even sure what "love" meant. He was scared of my feelings. Of his feelings. Perhaps of all feelings.

He said, "Schnauzer, we're only 14 years old. These feelings... when did you know?" I made him promise not to laugh. I sat him on the bed and I took his hand in mine. I said, "Do you remember the time when we were in my backyard chasing fireflies? And you had, like, 20 in your jar, and I had one with a broken bulb? And then Tim Anderson came outside and started teasing us?" Robin remembered. Like it was yesterday. We recalled how TA7 mocked me by chanting "Schnauzer loves Robin!"

Embarrassed, and unwilling to own up to my feelings in front of my peers, I denied the truth. My truth.

"Yuck!" I cried. "I hate him!"

But, I tell Robin... that's when I knew. That's when I knew I loved him, and that no other shortstop would ever be as good. He ruined me for all shortstops. Yet we were just children.

"Schnauzer! We were only 6!"

I wait for the laughtrack to die down and then I say, "Who cares?"

Still, Robin isn't sure. "How could you know then? I'm not even sure what 'I love you' means now."

I reached over and brushed some old flecks of food out of his mustache. I pull out a stiff-bristled brush and I scruffed some dead skin out of his horrifically acne-scarred face.

"Look," I tell him. "All I know is that you and I belong together. I've always been able to talk to you, to make you laugh and I've always, always wanted you to bat 7th on my god squad..."

He seems to soften a little.

"So that's what I love you means?"

"Yeah," I tell him. He's silent. For a long time. A long, uncomfortable amount of time. So I head to his window, and I prepare to climb out of his room and out of his life. Forever. "Bye."

"Schnauzer?" he calls as I'm already out of frame. "I love you too."

Then I throw him back my jean jacket. Or maybe that was a different episode. Maybe that's when he told me his family was moving to Pittsburgh and that we would have to break up. Or maybe it was after I caught him pretending to be a French foreign exchange student at that party at Hamilton High. I don't remember. We broke up so many times.

Things were great after that. For a while. Then we went skiing on a class trip and I sprained my ankle. I spent the whole night talking to 99 Honus Wagner, and, in the morning -- after we watched the moon pass over the mountains -- he kissed me. Of course, Robin found out. We split up. But only for a while. Because, you see, true love -- like the love between a Schnauzer and a Yount -- it can overcome anything. Everything! Even if I made out with the girl from Freaks & Geeks and then lied about it.

After graduation, he proposed. We knew it would be hard, but we made it work. He was my shortstop for life, and there was nothing anyone could do to change that.

Thank you, SDS. Thank you for bringing my shortstop home.

@Weshill627_PSN said in Topic for anyone to respond. All feedback is welcome+:

Biggest problem is that SDS has the monopoly on baseball games. If EA or 2K released a game I'd go play it, but they have not.
If I believe the game has issues. I should bring them up and tell SDS how bad their game is in hope they put actual effort in next years game.
If no one said anything and said the game is amazing, they wouldn't strive to make next year's game good, they would take the easy road like 22. And make another boring game..

So many things I want to say, but I actually enjoy this game so I’ll keep it as brief as I can.

First, making a game of this scope and magnitude is an absolutely mind-bogglingly complex undertaking. I will never ever understand this insistence that they are being lazy or “taking the easy road” just because, like, you line out more than you think you should. There is no “easy road” taken here. You may not like perfect/perfect fly outs, but that’s not a result of “laziness.”

Second, we often complain because SDS doesn’t interact with their community enough, but do you see why that’s the case? Because there are half a dozen posts exactly like yours every single day. And this is, depressingly, the most positive community for this game. The cesspool of hate, entitlement, and negativity on Twitter, Reddit, and IG make this forum seem like a weekend with Anne Hathaway.

So if you think SDS is somehow blissfully unaware of what a comparatively small but wildly vocal group of angry gamers think, then you needn’t worry. They know what you think! But they are privy to mountains upon mountains of data that we aren’t. By that, I mean they are making the best possible version of a game that needs to appeal to an enormous range of consumers. It has to simultaneously be enjoyable for, like, 8-year-olds who barely understand baseball and only play video games once in a blue moon, as well as to hardcore competitive esports gamers who make a living in front of their consoles.

Everyone thinks their specific demographic is all that matters. It’s not! They’re not in business to go out of business. They know what they’re doing. This is not some kid’s lemonade stand. So when people post tirades because they think it’s going to somehow help SDS or enlighten them with brand new insights that have never occurred to them, I can’t help but shake my head and laugh. This is a big company that’s been in businesss for longer than some of their customers have even been alive. They are not going to do an about face and drastically rewrite their game because of some whiney Twitter posts and YouTube videos made by angry gamers who are all convinced there is a massive conspiracy in the code to keep them from winning.

I know everyone gives him a hard time for this, but Ramone meant what he said when he said the game plays as intended. This is the game they want to make. You can choose to enjoy it for what is, or you can just move on to a different game. But contributing to the most toxic underbelly in this community — especially under the guise of posting some sort of inspirational, altruistic one-man focus group that only wants to help (by being needlessly negative) — is not going to help anyone or anything.

Now if you’ll excuse me. I’m going to go back to watching Boy Meets World and playing the new conquest map.

If you want a serious answer and a serious discussion then perhaps you should consider posing a serious question. I didn’t read a word after the first sentence, and no one who would otherwise be interested in engaging in an objective, productive, open-minded discussion will read past that silly question either. You’re either going to get the ridiculous echo chamber hyperbolic responses about how this game is the worst plague ever set upon humanity, or you’ll get people purposely derailing what is clearly an antagonistic thread by engaging in some good old-fashioned trollsmanship.

If you think the game is as boring as that question implies, then why are you wasting your time on this game AND on this forum? When you look back on your life, aren’t you going to wish you had spent time doing things that actually being you joy and peace? If this game isn’t doing it for you, then I’ve got great news! There are a million other games out there, and odds are good that a lot of them will give you a good punch in the ol’ dopamine bone.

Go read a book or pet a dog or karate chop a baby. Whatever makes you happy. Because this game clearly doesn’t do it, and this kind of whineballing just gives you an excuse to wallow in your own unhappiness and it makes the community a more toxic, divisive, and miserable place.

And the white Sox just lost in the 10th to the tigers. So everything is terrible. Thanks.

I would do anything for Judge…
But I won’t do that

@arvcpa_MLBTS said in Does montana run on dial up:

@Pennstatefencer_MLBTS said in Does montana run on dial up:

This just in. Someone with a better record wins a video game, and the losing party comes to the forum to complain and cry foul.

We will bring you more updates as this develops.

Thanks, @Pennstatefencer_MLBTS for the update. The weather in Billings today will be beautiful, with partly cloudy skies with a high of 75 this afternoon.

Now over to @SchnauzerFace_MLBTS for an update on national news...

Many of you know that Montana runs on dialup, but did you know that America runs on Dunkin?

Will you also throw in a set of steak knives??

It's an Error card. Beckett says it's worth 10,000 stubs.

I am really enjoying the game this year. One of the best MLB launches since I’ve been playing. But I have one potentially wildly, wildly unpopular opinion.

I’m over the WBC, guys.

I loved watching the games, and having the program to welcome us at launch was cool. But it’s over. It’s over. Just dump the rest of the WBC cards you have on deck and let’s move forward with MLB content.

I think part of the problem is that I am still slogging through the WBC program. I haven’t made much of a dent in TA because my lineup is all WBC dudes to complete those missions. And we keep getting new WBC packs or WBC cards in the new Headliners thing. I don’t know. It feels like we’re spending too much time looking at our high school yearbooks. Let’s move on.

I’m selling my WBC Yu Darvish so I can buy FS Corbin Carroll. Let’s gooooooo!

@TheGoaler_PSN said in When did Oprah Winfrey take over "The Show"?:

SDS can't win

If SDS mailed $20 to everyone who plays this game, half the ”fans” would complain about the way they folded the bill.

In my opinion, this is the worst year for content in a while. Putting aside the ridiculous nickname thing, everything just feels haphazard. There is not a flow that makes sense. Too many new series and sets and seasons are happening and it’s all just blurring into white noise. The release schedule is nuts, and they bit off more than they could chew with all these new types of cards. Captain, charisma, kaiju, incognito. They need to do one thing well rather than overwhelm us with a ton of stuff that has no connective tissue and feels like a cornucopia of madness.

That’s right. A cornucopia.

Bring back the Innings Program model. Get rid of expiring cards. Ditch the “seasons” idea. Have a logical progression of OVR so cards aren’t outmoded before they drop. Reduce the number of card types. Release the Storylines gradually throughout the year rather than all at launch. Make the LS collection rewards usable for more than a day. There is so much more, but basically I think they need to turn back the clock to 2019, which was the best year for content in recent memory (again, just in my own opinion).

But seriously… these nicknames are insane.

The hardest hit ball ever recorded in the statcast era was a groundball double play. Not every barrel is a homer.

@TheNinjaRaven_PSN said in I guess I'm back:

@jake98833_PSN said in I guess I'm back:

@TheNinjaRaven_PSN said in I guess I'm back:

Calling me a name when you say thats what I do is priceless.

#1 I never attacked unless provoked. They know Im a normal person and have committed no crimes besides making some of you severely butthurt. I also talk real things and dont troll or attack people. You were banned cause you like the others deserved it.

Anymore im not going to waste my time responding with immaturity to match. Not worth my time.

It is hilarious that you have the audacity to question anyone's maturity on this forum

Where would you like me to send your box of tissues?

Nobody likes you or is amused by your schtick. If you're going to troll, do it in a way that adds to the conversation. Otherwise, you're just using up precious minutes of your life to mildly annoy other people. I don't mean to get deep, dude, but you don't get this time back. Do something good for yourself and the world. Wasting away the hours thinking "how can I make strangers' lives 1% worse" is a very sad use of your time on this earth. And I do mean sad. I hope you find things that make you and other people happy.

I would like to be the first person to whine that [insert name here] was overlooked! I can't believe they gave a card to [whoever] when [some dude] had an [obscure sabremetric stat] that was [completely unclear number] more (or less) than [some other dude].

It's obvious that SDS hates [my team] and that they have a propensity for [horrifyingly deviant behavior with a tropical fish].