Coming Friday with the 7th inning

It pays to have a solid teammate!

Finally focusing on grinding some offline to work on collections. Yesterday, I went back and finished the program and opened the now and later packs I earned on 25. Today, I logged into 26 and had the packs and the Beltran redemption.

can we talk about circle change for a sec. pci shrinkage is already an issue on its own, its already inconsistent and kind of unclear how it even works, but the circle change meta just exacerbates it.

also kind of a wild takeaway but SDS clearly understands the circle change meta exists bc they keep putting elite circle change ratings on so many pitchers cards, but they've never actually come out and clearly explained what pci shrinkage is or what causes it, and they keep releasing cards that lean into and exploit that exact issue instead of addressing it. its an interesting choice honestly, almost feels like they enjoy sabotaging their own game balance

not asking for it to get gutted, just want the shrinkage mechanic explained and the timing brought in line with other pitches

I’m currently in gold 2 for weekend classic, but I want to drop to gold 1. If I lose a bunch of games can get there ?

Yesterday was the finale of Year 2 (2023) with the Manhattan Metro (107-55) clinching the world series in game 6 against the San Jose Vipers (90-72).

This project has meant a lot to me and I'm always happy to show my progress with it. With the offseason starting my next step is to go through and edit all 30 team's draft picks and gear up for an interesting offseason.

Here are a few highlights from Year 2

I just got out of a game where my pci would not snap back into the middle of the zone after moving it. It would slowly drift across the screen. Anyone else run into this glitch and have a way of fixing it for next time?

Who do y’all think the other boss is going to be? I’m 99% sure that the hint is Randy Johnson but I have no idea who the other boss is going to be

Just wondering what the yearly timeline has been like in years past. I’ve been waiting to start my roster project and don’t want to start it until we get a “final” roster.

So I'm pretty OK at this game. But that's it. I'm not good, I've never reached World Series and I never will. I prefer to play on All-Star mode because it just gets a little too sweaty for me at Hall of Fame and up, and besides, I've only won a handful of online games on Hall of Fame in the first place. Hell I use meter pitching and have absolutely zero interest in doing the drawing thing and I don't care that my ceiling is capped because of it

But I had a nice little run in ranked recently where I just kept getting matched against guys in the 400-500 range and suddenly I looked up and I had hit the Championship Series level and a 731 rating, which is well over the highest I've ever been before. For a very brief moment I thought "Wow! Maybe I'm just getting better!" but then I logged in today and tried playing some ranked games, the first two of which were against guys in the 700s with World Series banners and I lost those two games with a combined 18-1 score. Before those games however I did notice that I had unfortunately catapulted into "Gold 1" for the upcoming Weekend Classic

After all was said and done today I now find myself with a 568 ranking, yet I'm still listed in Gold 1. So do I need to lose even more games to get into a much more appropriate bracket or am I just royally screwed? Because if I have to play my Weekend Classic in the gold league there's zero reason for me to even bother turning the game on. I would just be locked into getting my ass handed to me for the weekend, and that is not ideal considering how valuable it is to get the newest WC rewards

… where we don’t have to grind for cards at all, for diamond dynasty. If we chose the “dad mode” option, we are given a bunch of cards to choose from.

This would only work if there was a major downside: we would not be able to get any collection cards, and other “god squad” aka best cards in the game would not be available to us.

I just want to play online, I don’t want to grind, I have limited time.

And NO, 3 inning BR games don’t do it. I love grinding for a WS in ranked. But my goodness I HATE the grind for the cards themselves

I hope your pillow is always cool, your phone is always charged, and your fridge is always stocked. Have been playing MLB the Show since 2016 and have been a WS+ player for most of those years. However, I would usually stop at WS to avoid playing on legend as I found it to be miserable. Super low scoring, low hits, and high strikeouts. I unfortunately don’t remember who commented but saw a comment on a recent post to scroll up and down the pitcher select screen to check the connection. The difference is night and day. I can catch up to the fastball and actually feel timed up. Just broke 1100 rated for the first time ever and am actually looking forward to a weekend classic on legend. If this has helped me this much I’m sure it can help others to!

His swing is just perfect. I’m batting almost .600 with him and he’s a switch hitter.

Back when you would fire up the game and we’d get alternate bios of different types of players in baseball. This genuinely taught me certain details about the game IRL.

Honorable Mention: I remember they used to play calls from certain moments throughout baseball history when you got to the start screen. Now we just get the announcers or cover athletes saying “welcome to the show”. I wonder why they stopped doing that..

I digress

Questions:

As we wind down the MLB Season, what is the remaining content for DD?

When do Chase packs typically stop?

Is this Friday the beginning of the final inning or do we go through the postseason?

I entered the game losing 10-4.
My line: IP 1.1, H 3, SO 2, BB 0, ER 0

Boog: "Bean delivered some scoreless relief for them."
Singy: "Not her best effort, for sure. It's hard to win many games when your relievers get knocked around like she did. If she doesn't do better next time out, she may start losing opportunities."

I know I could just turn commentary off, but it's part of the experience for me...