I’m going to make a list of all the things I did to make it to World Series. Some may help you. Some may not. But the most important thing is that you know that I made it to World Series.

1. Somehow make it to the 800’s.
2. Before each game, practice hitting against Billy Wagner on Legend.
3. Stop practicing after 5 minutes because you can’t freaking hit Billy Wagner on Legend.
4. Be the home team.
5. Have Mantle, Ruth, Dibble, Hersheiser, and other very good players.
6. Strike out a lot. (Hitting not pitching).
7. Keep your hits for each game under 5 (Hitting not pitching)
8. Beg your pitchers to stop missing their spots.
   Also 8. Get all of your wins on walkoffs in the last inning after being outhit all game.
9. Make it to 886 three times and lose.
10. Miraculously get two consecutive disconnect wins to get to 898.
11. Give up a game tying homerun in the top of the 9th to Larry Freaking Walker in the 898 game.
12. Pause and literally cry for about a minute.
13. Win on a duck snort over first base in the 12th that scores Your 47 speed Stan Musial from second.

Anyway. If you do most of these things, I don’t see why you can’t be a World Series Champion Hero just like me.

Often times, when a server’s flux capacitor goes into retrograde, it will trigger an unhandled server expectation. Programmers should know this though, which is why it’s so frustrating. There are two simple fixes when this happens:
1: Reconstitute the narflap so that the jabberwock no longer garflumples.
2: Propitiate a haberdash every time the charcuterie board frittatas.
It’s not that hard.

I think it’s just a Baby Ruth.

@Ikasnu said in A Quick Note and Friendly Reminder:

@vagimon said in A Quick Note and Friendly Reminder:

@Ikasnu said in A Quick Note and Friendly Reminder:

@DrewshBag420 said in A Quick Note and Friendly Reminder:

@GrandpaShaft said in A Quick Note and Friendly Reminder:

They will fix nothing

Run along troll

To be fair, since 17 the final patch usually comes in late may-early June. I could see some very minor things being tweaked, which will make a very little footprint on how the gameplay actually plays. Next patch is going to seal 20 for the rest of its cycle.

That’s a little disconcerting. The pessimist in me fears the next patch will deal more with too much xp being rewarded in some game mode rather than anything to do with hitting or pitching.

That's about what I expect to. We will get a line that says "improved pitcher acuraccy" and notice no change to boot. Beyond that, I don't think we see anything.

Maybe we’ll get more terms to label why our contact is bad: rolled over, out in front, cracked bat, closed eyes, limp wrists, dropped shoulder. The possibilities for this patch are endless.

I’ll accept a 98 for speed if every time he steals a bag, he lifts it over his head and refuses to give it back.

@raesONE said in I am World Series. You can too.:

@vagimon said in I am World Series. You can too.:

@will_cusk3 said in I am World Series. You can too.:

biggest flex of the year

You are not wrong, my friend. As I mentioned at the beginning, the most important thing I wanted people to take away from this was that I made it to World Series- a feat that I am in complete disbelief that it actually happened. It was honestly, just a string of very good luck. All the bad things that usually happen to people playing ranked, happened to my opponents. Having said that, I’m still just tickled pink that I made it.

Congrats on making it and kudos for your honesty. Don't mind a flex when you admit it was one.

Thanks, man. It’s nice to be able share your success with people who actually know what you’re talking about. I tried to tell my coworkers but I think they just judged me for still playing video games at my age.

My hope is that this strategy starts to backfire. This is the only game I really want to play, but I absolutely hate it. It makes me miserable. I would consider myself an average to below average player. I would be much more likely to spend money on a game that gave me consistent and repeatable feedback on my input, rather than most of my outcomes just chalked up to chance. I feel as if there’s no point to having better cards. I would like Mantle, and I would be tempted to spend a little of my actual money to acquire him if I thought that for one second, he would make that much of an impact on the game. This game feels so off right now, and hopefully enough of the marginal players will start giving up on it like I am tempted to do. Then maybe they will reconsider the type of game they want to put out.

@halfbutt said in 109 mph exit velocity:

How does a well hit ball with 109 mph exit velocity become a routine fly ball? Anyone have an explanation for this? Launch angle was good. So the ball just hit a huge amount of resistance? The air was really humid that day? Windy?

At this point, nothing surprises me. If the giant gorilla from the Ready Player One movie started randomly showing up in the outfield to swat would be homeruns out of the sky, I probably wouldn’t bat an eye. There’s plenty of lag today for anybody who’s interested. Get it while it’s hot.

For The Show 20, I’ve bought a monitor, a tournament stick, gaming glasses, and I bought the rubber replacement joystick from an Atari 2600 that I have attached to the top of a kontrol freak. All this has made me maybe a fraction better. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to throw a sinker down the middle that I aimed up and in and lose on a walk off three run jack.

Me playing a ranked seasons game: I’m so frustrated, I want to die. I’m never playing again.

Me five minutes after turning off my PlayStation: That wasn’t so bad; I think I’ll hop into another game.

@mrreacti0nzzz_psn said in Conquest Reward Glitch:

I completed the Nation of Baseball (Albert Pujols) Challenge conquest map. After hours and hours of playing, I conquered all strongholds and territories but I didn’t get the final 10 pack/3500 stub reward. It says 386/386 but isn’t shown as completed. Submitted a ticket a while back but no response. Any advice or others in this situation?

Did you steal all the required fans?

You kidding? Olerud is a doubles machine. Granted I can’t ever string two hits, so he’ll get stranded at second a lot, but that should count for something.

@codywolfgang_xbl said in It's painfully obvious yet again:

How to get a static IP address….google that. Says you can purchase a static IP address from your ISP and that is the difference. You purchase it per device.

That’s interesting. It would be nice to know if having a static up address would help. How could having a dynamic ip address impact gameplay?

I just played an event hof game from somebody with Philadelphia in their title. I live in central VA. It played so smoothly. Now I know this person isn’t necessarily from Phili. He could be next door. But recently, the smoothest games I’ve played were against this dude I just mentioned, somebody with St. Louis in their name, and then somebody with Midwest in their name. I have no idea what this means. If the matchup is p2p, I don’t know how distance from opponent impacts ping. I don’t even know what it’s pinging to. In every matchup, is one player given an advantage based on proximity to a server before opponents are connected?

@genopolanco_psn said in It's painfully obvious yet again:

@vagimon_psn said in It's painfully obvious yet again:

@genopolanco_psn said in It's painfully obvious yet again:

Yeah dude I get your complaints but don’t discredit your opinion by saying stuff like coast players have better connections and streamers see everything slower. We all deal with what you’re experiencing. No need to exaggerate or say you’re at a disadvantage compared to others.

I thing what he’s referring to about ping has a lot of merit. And I do think people are having different experiences with this game. Do most of the games you play run smoothly, or are most of them where the pitches seem like they’re going 200 mph?

For the most part my games have been fairly smooth but I have definitely experienced games with warping pitches that look like they’re 200mph out of the hand. Combine that with someone who’s pitching very quickly and it is pretty hard to be successful.

So imagine someone’s frustration if their experience is the adverse or yours where they are seeing ungodly pitch speeds on a regular basis, and the games that run smoothly are few and far between. How would you feel about adding a ping indicator or being able to set some sort of ping threshold for matchmaking purposes?

@genopolanco_psn said in It's painfully obvious yet again:

Yeah dude I get your complaints but don’t discredit your opinion by saying stuff like coast players have better connections and streamers see everything slower. We all deal with what you’re experiencing. No need to exaggerate or say you’re at a disadvantage compared to others.

I thing what he’s referring to about ping has a lot of merit. And I do think people are having different experiences with this game. Do most of the games you play run smoothly, or are most of them where the pitches seem like they’re going 200 mph?

@d_e_m_i_s_e_psn said in It's painfully obvious yet again:

that people are playing this game with different pitch speeds. I am sitting in all star and have to sell out to hit a fastball yet a streamer on legend I can call out balls and strikes almost immediately. Not sure what happened but the game the last few weeks has pretty much been unenjoyable and borderline unplayable. Can I physically play it? Yes but when I have to sell out on all star to hit a 95 fastball and have to take 3 innings to see what pitches my opponent likes to throw just to hit, it isn't playable. I'll hang around in the 500's and get my 40 wins at some point but when my squad gets on I'll be jumping over to PUBG immediately.

I typically enjoy a challenge but do you really think I want to play this game on HOF/Legend when I can't read/react pitches on all star. Once again, the first month was pretty fun. Guess that is the expected life cycle of this game. This game hasn't been a challenge the last few weeks but a joke. Game is the same every year because someone at SDS thinks everyone can play everyone despite what internet connection you have. Game is long overdue for a ping indicator. No sense for 95 to feel like 80 one game and 110 the others. I guess as long as it plays well for pitching_rebel and other content creators it's all good.

There have been a handful of games that have felt completely different than the others. In those games, I could read the pitches. I could keep my pci in the middle and then just react. My contact results were more rewarding. It was awesome. Most of the other games have more accurately represented by what you’re talking about. It does seem that people are experiencing this game quite differently.

@king_dome30_psn said in Home game:

Can I get a [censored] home game? I mean out of the last like 25 matchups , I’ve been the home team maybe 5

I’m in the same boat, my friend. I’ll be the away team 8 out of 9 times. There’s been some speculation as to why this happens, but it would be nice to know officially how the server chooses who will be home. My internet is 400mbps and I’m hard wired to the modem. So it isn’t my internet. Maybe it’s proximity to the server. Maybe it’s buffer bloat. Who knows.

And Nicholas Castellanos was your reward?

I played a Hof game recently where I struck out 24 times and my opponent struck out 32. It went 13 innings. At the end of 9, it was 0-0. And we each had 3 hits. I honestly think I’m just going to start quitting out on games like that. I never quit games, but it was such a surreal experience that I don’t particularly want to relive.