Outfielders still not locking onto balls. Fielders running full speed at balls to the enter into a give up and stumble animation. Get your act together man, this just isn't fun.

No quick selling locked cards is reasonable. Preventing users from exchanging locked cards is ridiculous.

Don't need to steal signs to know beanballs are incoming...

You to must not read much about the history of baseball...

Awesome reward there SDS. I haven't completed the Cardinals collection yet, but you were nice enough to give me two silver Wongs in the same pack. I'll enjoy looking at these two since we can't exchange or quick sell locked delicates

Is there a difference in crush or CRUSH?

It's the fear of losing that makes you play different. There is a stress factor because unlike moments and conquest you can restart or try again.

Showdown is fun for me. I can't tell you the last time I locked in on a game playing on veteran. I went down to two outs before hitting a walk off in the NL Central last mini showdown. I was fist pumping and letting Luis Castillo know what I really thought about him.

MLB failed here more than anything. It's the reason this situation has evolved the way it did.

There was no disciplinary system in place for players set up by MLB. Any attempt by MLB to push it off on the union is a farce. The MLBPA wasn't preventing any discipline, their stance was any discipline should follow policy. MLB never instituted any kind of penalty system for players, only against teams and ownership.

When this all broke open MLB had no grounds for player discipline. The penalty system for players is not applicable to the timeline of the Astros cheating.

Manfred fined the Astros the maximum and suspended Hinch and Lunhow. That's all they could do. Of course MLB was made aware of potential cheating by Houston in 2017, but no one had any proof.

This only came to light because of Fiers, but to suggest he only waited till now it's also false. Bob Melvin stated he went to MLB with information from Fiers but did nothing.

That's where this all went haywire. MLB sat on it's hands and then the skeletons fell out of the closet.

Crane is a snake and the Astros players are chodes, but what else does it matter. The sign stealing scandal did not definitively determine the Astros winning the WS but they'll have to live with their reputations being tarnished.

Y'all can keep arguing about 2017, I'm here in 2020 enjoying spring training and the start of a new season of the greatest game on Earth ️

They're listening

Can we turn the beta back on? I don't like 19 no more...

Outfielders still not locking onto balls. Fielders running full speed at balls to the enter into a give up and stumble animation. Get your act together man, this just isn't fun.

One day you'll learn that this is a simulation based game so statical norms will be implemented regardless of how much complaining is done. It's a game for profit above all, just like every other game that is made.

There's no profit in a game that is 100% user skill based, people that aren't good at the game would have no incentive to play or but stubs. The cards do have to matter to an extent.

My frustration lies in the fact that pitching has been neutered the last two years when hitting was finally opened up enough to counter good pitching. Now hitting dominates pitching because of the RNG applied to pitch location.

17 the PCI couldn't move around enough to cover the edges of the zone and people had trouble with fastballs. 18 they drastically reduced pitch speeds but by design flaw the lower part of the zone could be peppered with off speed aka "Suttering" the zone.

Last year they implemented the penalty system for over using secondary pitches. It's carried over again to this year and pitching RNG is at its worst. There's no indication when it's a bad idea to throw a pitch again. Pitching is just a frustrating experience. The outlier perk is the only chance for an equivalizer.

What happened to the game we played during the Beta? Check swings were strikes more. There were swings and misses in the zone. Pitching felt rewarding and controllable. I'll take that game back please

Josh Hader calls me Papi now, these showdowns aren't nothing.

Awesome reward there SDS. I haven't completed the Cardinals collection yet, but you were nice enough to give me two silver Wongs in the same pack. I'll enjoy looking at these two since we can't exchange or quick sell locked delicates

You have to go to Stage Two. In there there is an option to complete an online mission, offline mission, or complete an exchange. You only do one.

I did the 5 xbh offline with Rockies players.

@nflman2033 said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:

@Chuck_Dizzle29 said in I honestly don't get how I can be so bad at Showdown:

It's the fear of losing that makes you play different. There is a stress factor because unlike moments and conquest you can restart or try again.

Showdown is fun for me. I can't tell you the last time I locked in on a game playing on veteran. I went down to two outs before hitting a walk off in the NL Central last mini showdown. I was fist pumping and letting Luis Castillo know what I really thought about him.

Not sure which part I like less. The fact you like Showdown or that you are bashing Castillo.

CASTILLO SUCKS!!!

It's the fear of losing that makes you play different. There is a stress factor because unlike moments and conquest you can restart or try again.

Showdown is fun for me. I can't tell you the last time I locked in on a game playing on veteran. I went down to two outs before hitting a walk off in the NL Central last mini showdown. I was fist pumping and letting Luis Castillo know what I really thought about him.

@wantaskittle said in Can someone tell me how to get the Diamond:

Eddie Mathews? I got his silver and I completed all of his moments in the evolution series but haven’t figured out how to get the diamond.

Once you finish all the moments you have to go to stage two. There is an online mission, offline mission, and an exchange mission. You have to do one of the three. I'm cheap so I did the 5 xbh to finish CarGo.

To view this you go to programs > player programs > select Eddie

The final Showdown for me was Kenley Jansen. I only needed to store 5 runs though ‍️

@CDNMoneyMaker93 said in Showdown for Program Stars:

The idea behind it with place stubs on the line is that the can make rewards better because there is risk. This system is so much better then what's come before. I have failed the 1st boss twice now and I am ok with it as the single players stuff has tension to it it's not just Vs CPU on Rookie. They nail this now just a matter of seeing where they take it

I get it for the other Showdown modes. So far the starter is free, the 1st inning is 500, and the 6 for each division are a 1,000.