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@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN, that's a bit of tongue-in-cheek, friend... I'm making fun of the post. These complaints run the gamut, and I'm pointing that out.

Two singles and a home run... complete BS. Never happens. I defy anyone to show me a documented instance of two bloop singles followed by a home run, anywhere, in all of recorded history, because that kind of thing doesn't exist in real life. Just in this game, and when I see it, I quit. So should you.

Yeah... the game won't let you catch up because it cheats you if you fall behind. And the game cheats you by letting your opponent back into the game with its comeback logic. And it picks winners and losers before the game even starts (because you can tell you're going to lose within the first two batters).

FFS...

With his shades on (defense and post-game celebrations), the 99 Rod Carew looks just like Eazy-E, and that's enough to make him the best card.

Knowin' nothin' in life but to be legit...

@VortexNukezz, my apologies for attributing the 80-99 category to you, then. I'll acknowledge that error. You must have realized, however, how useless a metric that is for supporting your argument; there's a big difference between an 81 mph lollipop and a 99 mph drive that hits the seats. Who wouldn’t take one of the latter over 10 of the former?

In that light, your use of it was a type of manipulation, though I'm not necessarily assigning a value judgement to that. I'm not saying it makes you a lesser person. It just makes your argument spurious.

I guess what I'm saying is that your "objectively better" input is essentially tantamount to counting hits, because in that regard you were better.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with the feedback in this game; who cares if you get a "perfect / perfect" if it's a line drive to the second basemen? I'd personally rather have a good contact at a 32 degree launch angle that results in a 99 mph fly ball to left. Even if I got a little lucky to get it. Might not be perfect, but it is a homerun most of the time.

And maybe you are better than the guy that you played (from my perspective, you're both monsters), but the data you provided in no way supports your assertion.

@Talkingben9558_XBL, Ah... I think that's Jacob Young.

I just saw Jacob Wilson, went to the A's in my brain, and connected to Denzel, who is an amazing defensive CF.

@Talkingben9558_XBL said in Roberto Clemente Program:

Did you forget Jacob Wilson and PCA exist? Hes good, but not the best

Maybe you meant Denzel Clarke, who plays on the same team as Jacob Wilson, but isn’t a poor fielding shortstop?

If you did, he may very well prove to be better than the lot of them (7 DRS in roughly 330 innings is pretty amazing, and watching him is a jaw-dropping experience), but the best may be a bit premature, given he has yet to play a full season.

But, yes, Doyle is not the best defensive fielder in MLB.

And to Clemente, the man made a fair amount of errors in the outfield… maybe 90 isn’t so unfair (I do understand he made 0 errors in 1961). I mean, they gave Gold Gloves to Jeter.

So… you both had very good offensive games but he hit 3 more home runs and won by 5. And this means the hitting engine is “randomized.”

I’m not going to look, but I wonder how many of the other guy’s batted balls “between 80-99” were actually well over 90… my guess would be more than the poster, since the other guy hit 9 HRs in total, but only 5 came off of exit velocities higher than 100. And why choose 80-99, when the types of hits at either end of that spectrum are very, very different?

It’s interesting the things a human mind can convince itself of when the alternative is that someone else did better than you did when it mattered… Statistics can be reported in ways that support a version of the narrative the reporter likes best, and just because you don’t know or understand how other factors aside from placement and timing affected the result doesn’t mean it must therefore be a “random calibration of the hitting engine.”

@PAinPA_PSN, yeah, I believe that they can happen, but I think the amount of disdain from the original post might be a wee bit disproportionate considering how rare and inconsequential this “issue” is.

More complaining for the sake of complaining.

I’ve played nearly 200 RS games and a significant amount against the CPU. I’ve haven’t seen one.

But if we’re each just going to take turns complaining about our own non-essential, non-issues that bother us anyway, then I’d like to stop imbeciles from playing stupid sounds or “you’re killing me, Smalls” over my PA system during home games. That sort of thing ought not be encouraged in any situation, let alone in my house.

Madness, and I say no.

@iBonafideScrub__PSN, I think that was self-deprecating humor rather than a passive aggressive insult… at least it’s written that way.

I would think advice to lighten up is more aptly directed to the guy who suggested punching a pillow, but, hey, what do I know?

Really good post. 100% agree.

I’m now on my second run through it, and loving playing against the theme teams. Makes it much so much more interesting…

My only thing, even though it was kind of fun, at first, would be that I’d rather see MS transition from GBL to all new teams, where they can have a single stadium for a new team that remains static, like now, but from MLB team regions, where the North East could be, say, a Red Sox theme one MS, a Mets the next, then Phillies…

This was a good one, though. Kudos for the content and the original post.

@TheBigPapa55_PSN, cheers, man.

@TheBigPapa55_PSN, of course I do. And that’s certainly my preference. You seem a reasonable person and not a [censored], so I’d enjoy a respectful exchange and there’s no reason why it would devolve like this did.

I understand that there’s no nobility in my popping off to [censored] here. I know it’s stooping. I know it’s childlike. But there are just some people that need to get slapped in the face with a glove.

And, yeah, while not quite the equivalent of starting a fistfight at a kid’s birthday party, I get that it’s not the most pleasant thing to read, so my apologies for any offense to you or other decent people put off by it.

But I’ll probably do it again.

@TheBigPapa55_PSN, yeah… except I didn’t say the few, very specific things I commented on didn’t exist. I said that they did not happen to most people, that they seem more like odd behavior resulting from a connection issue, and that the connection issue may very well not be the fault of the game itself or it’s infrastructure. It all seems something unique to a smaller subset of users.

Flat out, I don’t really like that guy, and I don’t at all feel bad about trading insults with people who don’t treat others with any semblance of respect; if someone, or, in this case, a small handful of people, just constantly [censored] on everything and then get snippy with people who engage, I see no point in playing nice.

You might be a turn-the-other-cheek guy, and that’s great (though you did kind of jump in here with some edge, too), but I’m just tired of these guys saying the same [censored], lying when getting called on it, and then just coming back to say the same thing later.

That’s okay if you think that’s wrong. I’ll still sleep just fine.

@RAisEdByGoAt_XBL, please do. Not a comma splice in there… not the most succinct or elegant sentence I’ve ever written, but it is grammatically sound.

Should I ask my question again?

@RAisEdByGoAt_XBL, tell me: why do dumb people insist on advertising it?

Though I’ll admit, unlike you, that I had to look that one up, I understand what it means when a word is an adjective, and I would have used it correctly.

Nice try, though.

@Ditka06_MLBTS, yeah... I should look at the "thousands of Google reviews complaining about the same stuff."

Of course, there are only 544 Google audience reviews (only 415 with any actual commentary that say anything at all), and a quick scroll through several revealed exactly zero mentions of the specific things I've pointed out as not being real issues.

Maybe if you weren't lying you could point some out.

Yes, when I read obvious [censored] I point it out. I'm sorry if that makes you feel "discredited," but perhaps you should feel that way when you're just making [censored] up and someone calls you on it.

@DemIsE4_XBL, your sad attempt at a logical argument:

If all you saw from the start were warping pitches you wouldn't know any better. You would think that was the normal game play.

My response:

Anyone who has even the slightest conception of baseball knows that pitches don't "warp," and no one would think that was normal game play.

Does that read like I was claiming that you, personally, have no conception of baseball? Perhaps your ability to understand written language is as bad as your logic.

Nice flex, though... I never would have guessed that you think so highly of yourself.

@DemIsE4_XBL, your logic is astoundingly bad. Let's step out of Plato's cave for a bit.

Anyone who has even the slightest conception of baseball knows that pitches don't "warp," and no one would think that was normal game play. And complaining online is an industry unto itself (see Yelp). The truth is actually the opposite of what you're clumsily trying to say.

Those without issue tend to stay silent and go about their lives. Those with gripes are overrepresented in every forum. And, yet, there are only a handful of people in a forum known for complaining who are complaining about warping pitches, endless freeze-offs, and unplayable offline lag.

What's the logical conclusion, there?