MLB The Show 18 Video - Mark DeRosa Joins Commentary Team with Improved Presentation

[Mr_Met]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Video - Mark DeRosa Joins Commentary Team with Improved Presentat

This addition is my personal favorite this year. I really never liked Harold Reynolds on the broadcast. I think DeRosa will bring a fresh sound to the game.

[Caulfield]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Video - Mark DeRosa Joins Commentary Team with Improved Presentat

It has worked well IMO in Madden



Except Showalter



If fans only show up for 3 innings, is it still a sellout...lol.

It is....in LA

[ninertravel]

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Really looking forward to seeing the dynamic crowd stuff in action. But empty parks in and of themselves won't be new: I've played many, many games with sub-10,000 attendance. I love those games.

Btw, is anyone else surprised that MLB doesn't stop The Show from portraying bad teams drawing poorly? They block other things they perceive as being bad for their brand and I can't imagine the Phillies ownership, to use one example among many, would be happy knowing that the premier baseball video game made their park look abandoned these past couple years.

You know the funny thing with madden and EA was they stopped doing dynamic crowds because the NFL didn't wanna be seen as having empty seats with jags games etc at least that was the execuse anyway.

[Belkbuzze]

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One other little piece I noticed in this video.............don't know what cleats these are, but they are definitely not in 17

Generic NIKE cleats I would say.. at least not a model they seems to be producing ( https://m.nike.com/us/en_us/pw/mens-...bumZoi3?ipp=72 )

[seasprite]

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Generic NIKE cleats I would say.. at least not a model they seems to be producing ( https://m.nike.com/us/en_us/pw/mens-...bumZoi3?ipp=72 )

Yeah, you don't see the outside of the shoe in the video so you don't know exactly which one it is by comparing it to those in that site. I doubt they have a generic Nike shoe in the game.

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[Belkbuzze]

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Yeah, you don't see the outside of the shoe in the video so you don't know exactly which one it is by comparing it to those in that site. I doubt they have a generic Nike shoe in the game.

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Yeah you’re right, my bad!

[seasprite]

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Yeah you’re right, my bad!

Nah I thought the same thing initially

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[sweny5632]

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Nah I thought the same thing initially

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The new Trout 4's say NIKE on the inside of the shoe like that. If you click on one of that model in the link that was provided, and look at the different pics you can see thats what it is

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[Bobhead]

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I think Steve_SDS liked a couple of the posts early in this thread speculating about how Harold decided not to return. That spells it out to me. There's not going to be 3 color guys in the same booth anyway, lol.

Get with the times, man. They can put as many color guys in the booth as they want.

[Bobhead]

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I had a pretty extensive suggestion about this once last year. The crux of it is this: they need shorter lines.

This post sums up my beef with commentary pretty well.

It's like SDS goes out of their way to make commentary be attention grabbing and distinct, when really it should be the opposite.

I feel like The Show could make their commentary WAY better in the course of about 10 minutes, just by deleting a few lines, and changing the programming so that certain situations have only, say, a 30% chance of triggering any line at all (as opposed to the current setup where every tiny event in the game has a 100% chance of triggering commentary specifically about that event.

[SmashMan]

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It's like SDS goes out of their way to make commentary be attention grabbing and distinct.

Really? I don't see (or hear) that.

I agree that you could make a case that they could/should have the announcers shut up and leave more time for the game to 'breathe', but I don't know that it's designed to be "attention grabbing and distinct". While they're constantly talking, there really isn't a ton of emotion in the commentary, let alone anything that really tries to grab your attention.

[WaitTilNextYear]

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Get with the times, man. They can put as many color guys in the booth as they want.

Maybe baseball should go the NFL route and cram as many guys into a booth as physically possible. Like the pre/post-game shows where more is always more. Let's get Al Leiter, Bob Costas, Buck Martinez, Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Jim Bowden, Keith Law, and Shannon Sharpe into a booth together and just see what happens.

[stephenk24]

Who else is actually quite excited about the attendance logic? God I'm a nerd....

[geisterhome]

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Who else is actually quite excited about the attendance logic? God I'm a nerd....

count me in. lol

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[Rob_NYY]

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Who else is actually quite excited about the attendance logic? God I'm a nerd....

It would be awesome if they added near-empty stadiums after long rain delays.