MLB The Show 17 Live Twitch Stream and Developer Blog Schedule Revealed

[Spokker]

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To be honest I would love to have a female in the booth, either Heidi Watney or Lauren Shehadi. Both of these ladies really seem to care about and know Baseball. I think they would add a breath of fresh air.

Do you mean as an analyst or a color commentary person?

I think I would be disappointed if they included a female color commentator. The problem for me is that for the majority of MLB teams, it would not sound like the real thing. I know of two female announcers in baseball, one local and one national (and that's only because Schilling got in trouble). That's out of the hundreds of radio and TV guys. In the video game simulation of baseball, you can only have one commentary team. And the typical commentary team consists of a deep voiced traditional broadcaster and a color guy who may be a former player and/or a more jock type.

I think that if they include female announcers or players in the game, they are leading with what they think reality should be rather than simulating a real life sport as it is.

[Bullit]

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Do you mean as an analyst or a color commentary person?

I think I would be disappointed if they included a female color commentator. The problem for me is that for the majority of MLB teams, it would not sound like the real thing. I know of two female announcers in baseball, one local and one national (and that's only because Schilling got in trouble). That's out of the hundreds of radio and TV guys. In the video game simulation of baseball, you can only have one commentary team. And the typical commentary team consists of a deep voiced traditional broadcaster and a color guy who may be a former player and/or a more jock type.

I think that if they include female announcers or players in the game, they are leading with what they think reality should be rather than simulating a real life sport as it is.

I was kind of thinking something new. Sorry I did not me solely in the "booth" I meant more of along the lines as part of the team. Like an on field reporter. Several teams/Broadcast use women in this role. The Nationals had one for a while, I can't remember her name right now. But she was a lot of fun and really knowledgeable about the game and players.

I dont know if she still does it because I did not follow Boston at all last year, but Heidi Watney was the old field reporter for them for a while.

[Spokker]

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Sideline reporters and pre- and post-game analysts would be very realistic. And that's something that's missing from The Show that would be a big improvement.

[knich]

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My favorite broadcaster in real life doesn't repeat the same lines over and over like the commentators in the video game do. Even if he says the same words it's different every time because it's real life and not a recording. In the game it's the same audio clips repeated over and over. It's not the same comparison.

I think the main issue is that the lines were never good to begin with.

I play NBA 2K and I might hear lines over again but they don't annoy me on the same level The Show does because the lines actually make sense, are relevant, and are things real commentators would say.

A good 70-80% of the lines used by commentators in The Show would never actually be said in real life by any baseball booth during any MLB baseball game. Many of the lines are nonsense generalizations, and sound like something a person would cluelessly say when watching baseball for like the first time.

I had said I think they need to add more lines and context. I think that addresses your concerns. I disagree about IRL. There are many lines that are said IRL broadcasts throughout this game. Unless SCEA is able to have MAtt V and whomever else in the booth in SCEA studio each week of season, there are going to be repetitive lines. In 2k, I am sick of hearing about how much Blake Griffin is a cancer in the locker room. Those lines have been in the game for a couple years and are repeated every single game played as Clippers. I get what you're saying but 2k has same problem.

[JohnDoe8865]

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File this entire post under 'highly speculative'...

FWIW, if it is to be an MLB Network package and the amount of letters bleeped out as ****** ******* and *** ***** actually do indicate the amount of letters in the names (they may have only realized after the fact how easily OS would inevitably decipher this and are now trying to divert, lol), the only fits that I see on the MLB Network website are Lauren Shehadi and Dan O'Dowd. Not sure what to make of that, if anything. That might not mean anything per Ramone's tweet that the amount of bleeped out letters are meaningless. It does seem slightly odd that they'd randomly pick a 6 letter/7 letter name and a 3 letter/5 letter name as opposed to simply not using stars at all. Unless, of course, they got a kick out of trolling. For all the abuse they take, I certainly wouldn't mind!

Another 6 letter/7 letter name they're already using for the radio show is Justin Allegri, but it wouldn't really make sense to take him off the radio show and put him in "in the booth" with another pbp guy in Vasgersian.

Anyway, if Shehadi and O'Dowd are the new additions, it might mean that Lyons and Karros are staying in the booth and they've added a studio show of some kind ala the NCAA Football series with Rece Davis and David Pollack. However, if they did simply add a studio show and without replacing any commentators, the text on the release schedule about "join the booth..." wouldn't really make sense.

I feel like replacing both Steve Lyons and Eric Karros, as little as they added, with brand new talent in a single dev cycle would be pretty hardcore. You'd imagine they'd need more time to build up enough lines for adding a new voice (or two) to the booth. So, either they went hardcore and knocked it out in a few months, or they've been working on it for much longer, or the number of lines might end up being pretty limited for the new talent.

If they put Lauren in the game (not just her lovely voice, but her beautiful face as well) I'll buy three copies and post pictures on OS lol.

[kaptainkarl76]

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The commentary is problematic when it comes to those who play season only..After 10 games you hear the repeating..

[parky_17]

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The commentary is problematic when it comes to those who play season only..After 10 games you hear the repeating..

As I said before, there's only so many lines they can record but I feel the show has the biggest problem of repetition in the sports gameso that I play... the same lines get said in certain situations every time, there needs to be a bit more variety then they currently have

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[SilverBullet1929]

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If there is a MLB Network presentation/segment and we had some of these guys along Matty V and Peter Gammons I think it would be up there with NBA 2k presentation. We need that kind of presentation broadcast finally for this game. It would be incredible since MLB Network cameras are all in all the ball parks that SCEA could include some live footage in MLB 17 or with cut scenes etc.

Mitch Williams doesn't work for MLB Network anymore if I'm not mistaken. Just putting that out there.

[PhilliesFan13]

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As I said before, there's only so many lines they can record but I feel the show has the biggest problem of repetition in the sports gameso that I play... the same lines get said in certain situations every time, there needs to be a bit more variety then they currently have

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[Caulfield]

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In the video game simulation of baseball, you can only have one commentary team.

I have a dream that one day the Show will have 3 or 4 commentary teams to choose from.
That would help cut down on the hearing of the inevitable repeated lines.

[TexasDBack]

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I have a dream that one day the Show will have 3 or 4 commentary teams to choose from.

That would help cut down on the hearing of the inevitable repeated lines.

Didn't Madden do that? Mix up the commentators so it is a bit different game to game with various combos? That's what I was thinking might happen here if it isn't my pre/post/launchpad theory.


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[NAFBUC]

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I'm guessing MLB Network implementation with Harold Reynolds and Ron Darling joining Matty V in the booth.

Harold just said 'fake news'.

[capa]

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The only way to keep the commentary semi-fresh is to do what Madden does. Have the guys come in periodically throughout the year and record new lines. May not be logistically doable based on the travel schedules for these guys who are working all summer, but that's the only way to keep new lines coming into the game.

Personally, I wish they would just have a PBP announcer and really tighten up that presentation. I shut off the color guys anyway.

[tessl]

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I should know the answer to this but I don't. The gameplay deep dive is Feb 9th. Does that mean the final build of the game will be by the time of the live stream on Feb 9th and the only thing left to do is mass produce and ship it?

Obviously after the "final build" they continue to work on the game which is why there are updates.

[jgb3]

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Just gonna leave this here...


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