@KierannosaurusK said in My polite gesture:

They say to be the change you want to see in the world, that’s why after every win, I personally message my opponents and tell them why they lost and how to improve. For example earlier today I said, “Good game (username). The reason you lost was because you hung sliders and your overall skill could use improvement.”

It’s a small gesture but I know it can make someone’s day, which is why I go out of my way to do it

Here's a towel to wipe off all the tomatoes that the crowd threw at you while you were on stage.

@Antdog1080 said in MLB20 Is Disappointing, So Randomly Playing MLB19:

There were plenty of issues at the beginning of MLB 19 too. Just be patient.

By the same token, there were plenty of issues at the beginning of MLB19, that never got addressed by the end of MLB19 either.

So I'm in a tight ball game, it's tied and he has the bases loaded with nobody out.

I bring my infield IN, because I can't afford to let him score on a ground ball, so I know automatically that my only play is home to first for the double play.

Sure enough he hits a ground ball to my 3rd baseman, which right before he gets it, I'm already pressing and holding 'X' waiting for the meter to quickly appear so that I can release a "green metered" throw to home, then to first for the double play...except that as soon as he fields it, the game takes control and on its own begins running towards 3rd base for the force out overriding and completely ignoring the fact that I had already anticipated throwing it home, subsequently allowing the runner on 3rd to score.

LOL Are you serious?! So now the game is going to decide for me and make plays on its own, despite the fact that my User Settings is suppose to prevent that from happening? I mean, what's the point of playing if you're going to hold the opponent's hand to victory and completely disregard user input? What a great frustration starter...it's ridiculous and laughable.

@KierannosaurusK said in MLB The Show Weight Loss Idea:

One of the biggest problem with today’s youth is obesity and I think it’s time to address the elephant in the room (Pun intended) And video games don’t do much to help the cost, so I think it is MLB the show’s duty to help prevent obesity.
That’s why I am proposing MLB the show weight loss, in this mode you get rewarded a daily amount of stubs based on how much you weigh. The people who weigh let’s get more stubs and the people who weigh more get less.

So someone like me in perfect shape might get 5000 stubs a day, whereas a chubby kid might only get 2000.

Last time, I had to hand you a towel to wipe off the tomatoes the crowd threw at you while you were on stage....this time, all you hear are the noise of crickets in the background.

@BigBadBosc44 said in Do you think next years game?:

After 3 innings i have struck out 7 of his nine hitters he has struck out 0 of my 9 hitters 7 of my outs good/squared up
But i am losing 1-0 eight of ten games i played was like that.

Did this happen to most?

Yes it does.

This game is straight garbage...Final Answer.

I personally think that having control over pitch location is atrocious and extremely inconsistent. I'm not saying it happens all the time, but feels like it happens more times than none.

Majority of times when aiming for corner strikes with perfect meter (analog pitching), it either misses outside intended corner for a ball, or even worse forces the pitch to go right down the middle which usually gets punished with a big hit.

And then there are times that I dont care if it pitches it down the middle (like 1-0. 2-0, 3,0 against pitcher for example), and still pitch is completely shanked outside of the zone. I don't get it.

It's so bad that I've had to remedy this by allowing pitch automation to take over by selecting pitch and then not touch anything. But then, it's so obvious to the hitter because of how long it takes for the pitcher to go into motion.

I deal with it, but its definitely frustrating and feel like it's something we should'nt have to deal with.

I strictly play DD RS, and can say that analog pitching for online gameplay is straight garbage.

This is indisputable not because I say so, but because anybody who has played online has experienced it themselves.. Pitch control is horrendous regardless of the pitcher's control attributes.

I think we can all agree that if we aim to hit the outside corner of the plate for a strike, that's where it should go, and not outside the zone for a ball, or right down the middle of the plate, or even worse, hit the batter. If you think we shouldn't be able to hit the spot we aim for every time, fine, I'm ok with that. But missing it more times than not is frustrating and nonsense which is how it currently plays. Like I said, straight garbage.

@DriveByTrucker17 said in Do you think next years game?:

@onnagood1 said in Do you think next years game?:

@DriveByTrucker17 said in Do you think next years game?:

@onnagood1 said in Do you think next years game?:

@Ikasnu said in Do you think next years game?:

@onnagood1 said in Do you think next years game?:

@BigBadBosc44 said in Do you think next years game?:

After 3 innings i have struck out 7 of his nine hitters he has struck out 0 of my 9 hitters 7 of my outs good/squared up
But i am losing 1-0 eight of ten games i played was like that.

Did this happen to most?

Yes it does.

This game is straight garbage...Final Answer.

I wouldn't say straight garbage, it's better than 18, and that is literally a fact. Half of this board doesn't even recognize 18. At least 19 will be known for stepping the franchise back in the right direction.

Your facts are wrong. This year is worse than 18, arguably the worse ever. I strictly play DD RS, so its strictly from that perspective, and not any of the other game modes including franchise.

Yeah no, you’re clearly the one in the wrong here.

Yeah no, you're the one clearly in the wrong.

I said strictly from a DD RS perspective, and you're a CPU player, Playing CPU vs. online DD RS is like night and day, so you wouldn't be able to relate

I’ve played enough RS and events to know that 18 was far, far worse than 19.

A whole type of hitter was completely unusable in 18, yet you think 19 is worse.
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18 had abysmally slow pitch speeds making fastballs even more ineffective than they are now. Defense didn’t matter at all in 18, and contact hitters were useless.

19 has way more problems, not because I say so, but it's already been echoed throughout this forum. Excessive lineouts on perfect timing/pci placement, excessive pass balls (that little leaguers could block) and yet catchers like 99 Molina has trouble with, horrible pitch control for analog pitching despite control attributes by diamond pitchers, poor AI baserunning, inability to have sense of urgency to get rid of the ball on close plays, but instead player will hold onto the ball before getting rid of it, inability to tag runners out at times, etc., etc.,

Not gonna go back and forth, i'm done.

@DriveByTrucker17 said in Do you think next years game?:

@onnagood1 said in Do you think next years game?:

@Ikasnu said in Do you think next years game?:

@onnagood1 said in Do you think next years game?:

@BigBadBosc44 said in Do you think next years game?:

After 3 innings i have struck out 7 of his nine hitters he has struck out 0 of my 9 hitters 7 of my outs good/squared up
But i am losing 1-0 eight of ten games i played was like that.

Did this happen to most?

Yes it does.

This game is straight garbage...Final Answer.

I wouldn't say straight garbage, it's better than 18, and that is literally a fact. Half of this board doesn't even recognize 18. At least 19 will be known for stepping the franchise back in the right direction.

Your facts are wrong. This year is worse than 18, arguably the worse ever. I strictly play DD RS, so its strictly from that perspective, and not any of the other game modes including franchise.

Yeah no, you’re clearly the one in the wrong here.

Yeah no, you're the one clearly in the wrong.

I said strictly from a DD RS perspective, and you're a CPU player, Playing CPU vs. online DD RS is like night and day, so you wouldn't be able to relate

@TheHungryHole said in Can anyone sell me a Gagne tonight?:

@onnagood1 said in Can anyone sell me a Gagne tonight?:

@raesONE said in Can anyone sell me a Gagne tonight?:

@onnagood1 said in Can anyone sell me a Gagne tonight?:

@skepple15 said in Can anyone sell me a Gagne tonight?:

@onnagood1 said in Can anyone sell me a Gagne tonight?:

THE most overpriced and overrated card on the market.

Incorrect, Gagne is elite tier for relievers

LOL

I said he was overpriced and overrated. Never said he wasn't part of elite tier, and to your point, 99 Jansen is also part of elite tier but another example of an overrated card.

Cards like 95 Gossage, 94 Sutter, 93 Romo, are just as good, if not better, especially from an economical standpoint.

You strike me as a guy who keeps a spot in his pen reserved at all times for Ryan Feierabend.

Don't own R. Feierabend, I never would. Shows how bad your intuition is.

how are you even remotely arguing with RAES here? the dude did a nice deed for OP and simply sold his card to another guy who wanted it

jesus h mary joseph where are the three wisemen you need some of the mary jane in your life dude

You're right. I apologize.

Cant argue that.

@LookatTheRhino said in Opponents quitting when you hit the homer:

This is getting ridiculous with all the people quitting when the opponent hits a homerun and it doesn’t count. Usually I don’t mind because you still get points but when this has happened more than I can remember, I start to get annoyed with how easy this game makes it for [censored] players to just quit their way through the game.

That's hilarious.

Since when does winning get annoying? You still get same results on wins whether you grind out 9 innings or more or if the opponent prematurely quits, which I have done plenty of times myself.

Hmm, would I rather grind out 9 innings for a win that takes usually 30-45 minutes (god forbid it goes into extra innings), or take a win from someone quitting in 5 minutes or less? People who quit against me never gets annoying and is always welcome

I think it just comes down to who you use well with. For me, Rivera, L. Smith, and Hader seems to always get shelled. Other pitchers not mentioned:

80 Gossage - 19.0 IP, 0.95 ERA, 22k's
80 Miller - 18.2 IP, 0.00 ERA, 31k's
77 R. Iglesias - 7.2 IP, 0.00 ERA, 19k's

have worked out well for me thus far. Their stats listed are strictly related to online DD RS gameplay for me.

Still don't understand the justification and gap in cost difference and it seems that Whitley would obviously be the better valued purchase. Thanks for the feedback guys.

@LankyRyan said in Pitch speeds way too fast:

@onnagood1 said in Pitch speeds way too fast:

Comment strictly for online DD RS players:

What's the rating tier for the different levels? For example, All Star 300-500, HOF 501-600, etc., etc.? I know these numbers are incorrect, but does anybody know?

0-299: Veteran
300-699: All Star
700-899: HOF
899+: Legend

Thank you.

Comment strictly for online DD RS players:

What's the rating tier for the different levels? For example, All Star 300-500, HOF 501-600, etc., etc.? I know these numbers are incorrect, but does anybody know?

Both are prospect diamond 87 rated cards. Their attributes are pretty comparable across the board. Only difference I notice is that Kopech has 4SFB and 2SFB averaging 99mph and 96mph respectively, vs. Whitley with Sinker and Cutter averaging 95mph and 93mph respectively which overall doesn't seem like it's that significant.

I was considering purchasing one of these pitchers, but wanted to have a better understanding of where the value of $20k+ difference resides. Can anyone share some insight or their opinion on why SP Kopech is more than double in value est. $46k vs. SP Whitley est. value $22k?

My random thought evolved more around the irony that the logo for Showdown looks like he's wearing a face mask amid this pandemic.

Not sure about other games modes, but for DD RS, it easily has to be the fact that you can choose your SP and that their energy level matters. It forces you to choose other SP's in your rotation, as opposed to last year where it was random, so you might be using the same pitcher 3 or 4 times before being able to use any other pitcher once.

After reading the 2nd line, ....Zzzzzzz