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  • Whitesox
    Closet pyromaniac
    • Mar 2009
    • 5287

    #1456
    Re: MLB 09 "Road To The Show" thread

    Originally posted by totalownership
    Life in the big leagues is tough. Guys definitely hit better up here. LOL. Well we're wearing are fatigues today. As much as I love the Army theme for some reason these uniforms are just ugly. I guess because in the Army when we played sports we never wore BDUs. Maybe the pants but never the shirt. Strictly PT gear or personal stuff.






    Man I wish I could get traded. I wish the Yankees would come a knockin'. I definitely pitching like a Yankee. Hot as hell one day and colder than a mother the next outing.
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    • BrandH
      Rookie
      • Feb 2007
      • 268

      #1457
      Re: MLB 09 "Road To The Show" thread

      I have a question. Does Plate Vision and Discipline do anything for you if you don't sim at bats? I don't know whether to dump points into them or not.

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      • Whitesox
        Closet pyromaniac
        • Mar 2009
        • 5287

        #1458
        Re: MLB 09 "Road To The Show" thread

        Can someone help me? I'm a speedy Center fielder and I got drafted by the A's. The only problem: I don't get nearly enough playing time to fulfill my goals, or stop my attributes from decreasing. I asked for a trade and got one to the orioles but it is no different. Is there anything I can do?
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        • WTF
          MVP
          • Aug 2002
          • 20274

          #1459
          Re: MLB 09 "Road To The Show" thread

          Nothing really noteworthy as far as milestones go, but I just hit a 475 foot blast into left center at Coor's field. My furthest blast by far. An up and in circle change to boot.
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          • Ratfink
            Banned
            • Jun 2009
            • 34

            #1460
            Re: MLB 09 "Road To The Show" thread

            I'm into May 2011 of my third year as a Reds SP. I'm the 5th starter with Volquez, Cueto, Arroyo, Harang. Now in the majors this team is exactly the same as 2009. They only lost Rosales(now starting for the Padres), Homer Bailey(retired due to injury) and Willy Tavares(Atlanta). 2009 they went 79-82 and 2010 they went 83-78. So far this year 16-15. Guess I'm stuck on a .500 club. They're bullpen has over 5.00era and is 2-12. Starters have around a 3.50era and 14-3. The craziest thing I've seen this year is the Yankees have an All-Star at every position and are 31-2 with a 14 game lead on Boston. Team Average is .378 and ERA 1.92. Glad I don't face them. Their starters are C Mauer, 1b Texiera, 2b Cano, SS Jeter, 3b Rodriguez, LF Holiday, CF Ichiro, RF Crawford. Rotation Sabathia, Chamberlain, Halladay, Cain, and Haren.

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            • super44444444
              Rookie
              • Sep 2006
              • 16

              #1461
              Re: MLB 09 "Road To The Show" thread

              some where there is a thread that explains how to use the training session to where your players will not regress so much can someone point that out to me please....

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              • deucepoppi17
                MVP
                • Apr 2006
                • 991

                #1462
                Re: MLB 09 "Road To The Show" thread

                Originally posted by Ratfink
                I'm into May 2011 of my third year as a Reds SP. I'm the 5th starter with Volquez, Cueto, Arroyo, Harang. Now in the majors this team is exactly the same as 2009. They only lost Rosales(now starting for the Padres), Homer Bailey(retired due to injury) and Willy Tavares(Atlanta). 2009 they went 79-82 and 2010 they went 83-78. So far this year 16-15. Guess I'm stuck on a .500 club. They're bullpen has over 5.00era and is 2-12. Starters have around a 3.50era and 14-3. The craziest thing I've seen this year is the Yankees have an All-Star at every position and are 31-2 with a 14 game lead on Boston. Team Average is .378 and ERA 1.92. Glad I don't face them. Their starters are C Mauer, 1b Texiera, 2b Cano, SS Jeter, 3b Rodriguez, LF Holiday, CF Ichiro, RF Crawford. Rotation Sabathia, Chamberlain, Halladay, Cain, and Haren.
                Thats sick! Alot of people have mentioned that their RTTS team actually goes really young or stays the same....and I have seen other teams like the Yanks in both franchise and RTTS stack up on every big tyme FA. Not sure how this happens, but it does. I think next year the RTTS should try to stack ur own team, but not at your position. That just wouldn't be fair, LoL!

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                • lordbah
                  Rookie
                  • May 2009
                  • 6

                  #1463
                  Re: MLB 09 "Road To The Show" thread

                  I've played 1.5 seasons and yesterday for the first time as I was batting I saw a red flashing circle around the pitcher's glove, before he made the pitch. Any idea what it means? Didn't seem like anything special happened. I hadn't recently changed any settings so it was a surprise for something new to happen.

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                  • Mekias
                    Rookie
                    • May 2009
                    • 177

                    #1464
                    Re: MLB 09 "Road To The Show" thread

                    Originally posted by BrandH
                    I have a question. Does Plate Vision and Discipline do anything for you if you don't sim at bats? I don't know whether to dump points into them or not.
                    Yes, they definitely do. Vision is good stat as it enlarges your batting PCI and consequently allows you to foul off a lot of pitches AND get a little better contact on pitches you hit.

                    The one thing I know that Discipline does is it will force a check swing sometimes when you swing at pitches outside of the zone. I'll sometimes be completely fooled and swing at a pitch and it will check my swing (even though I didn't tap the button). I'm still not sure if it helps the 1st base/3rd base ump's decision (i.e. successfully check your swing). The jury's still out on that.

                    Of the two, Vision seemed to help me more as it's easier to hit the ball with a bigger PCI.

                    I still think Power is the best hitting stat but Vision and Contact are probably in a tie for 2nd best with Discipline a bit more behind.
                    Last edited by Mekias; 06-18-2009, 06:02 PM.

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                    • S2S
                      Rookie
                      • Apr 2009
                      • 288

                      #1465
                      Re: MLB 09 "Road To The Show" thread

                      Just made the Braves 40 man roster going into Spring Training 2010, Only 3rd baseman ahead of me is Chipper so it's looking good.

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                      • rake2244
                        Rookie
                        • Jun 2009
                        • 5

                        #1466
                        Re: MLB 09 "Road To The Show" thread

                        Originally posted by totalownership
                        Life in the big leagues is tough. Guys definitely hit better up here. LOL. Well we're wearing are fatigues today. As much as I love the Army theme for some reason these uniforms are just ugly. I guess because in the Army when we played sports we never wore BDUs. Maybe the pants but never the shirt. Strictly PT gear or personal stuff.
                        Yeah there's some ugly uniforms out there. If you end up on the Astros sometime, you'll see the horrid ones they used to wear every day.

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                        • rake2244
                          Rookie
                          • Jun 2009
                          • 5

                          #1467
                          Re: MLB 09 "Road To The Show" thread

                          Originally posted by deucepoppi17
                          Thats sick! Alot of people have mentioned that their RTTS team actually goes really young or stays the same....and I have seen other teams like the Yanks in both franchise and RTTS stack up on every big tyme FA. Not sure how this happens, but it does. I think next year the RTTS should try to stack ur own team, but not at your position. That just wouldn't be fair, LoL!
                          Teams definitely make interesting moves. In my pitcher's RTTS, the Yankees ended up with Manny, and once Jeter retired, they replaced him with Theriot. My Astros traded away Oswalt for someone, and a few days later traded that someone for Halladay. Oh and they traded for Joe Nathan too, so at least if I make it to the 8th with a small lead, that's mostly safe. Other interesting moves, Ichiro to the Rays, Ortiz to Atlanta. I don't remember most of them because lots have retired now (ortiz, manny, pujols, and vlad all retired the same year, Pujols because of injury though).

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                          • totalownership
                            Banned
                            • Jul 2004
                            • 3838

                            #1468
                            Re: MLB 09 "Road To The Show" thread

                            Originally posted by rake2244
                            Yeah there's some ugly uniforms out there. If you end up on the Astros sometime, you'll see the horrid ones they used to wear every day.
                            I don't need to see those things again. I think my retina is already damaged from looking at them when they wore them for real back in the day on TV. Good thing I lived in NY and was a Yankee fan and didn't have to see them on the regular.

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                            • totalownership
                              Banned
                              • Jul 2004
                              • 3838

                              #1469
                              THOSE LOW DOWN DIRTY MOFOS

                              Well check this out. I'm rolling along in the bigs helping the Padres get a shot at the playoffs. Go into my next start with a 5-2 record. Doing pretty good work up there. So my next start I'm on a roll. Got them popping up, striking out while get the run support. 7th inning I got them shutout so far. Get into a little bit of trouble but work my way out. 8th inning I put'em down 1 2 3. Still got the shutout going. 9th inning I get the first batter out. Just 2 more to go. But , uh oh, I walk the hot hitter. Ok I can recover. Next batter I get to pop up. Wish it could have been a double play grounder but ok just one out away from the complete game shutout. HE HITS!! But it's a grounder! I get the complete game shutout. Player of the game and 505 nice juicy training points. Things are great up here in the Big Leagues.

                              Well so how do I get rewarded! I GET FREAKING OPTIONED BACK DOWN TO AAA ball. WTF IS THAT!?!?!?!?!? I just pitched the game of my life and I get sent back cause some chump came off the dl who's probably gonna stink up the joint?!?!?!?

                              Of course I went to interactions to see my recourses. I want outta here NOW!!!! But obviously I don't have the time in to make such demands from the looks of things. That "RETIRE: RIDE OFF INTO THE SUNSET" was looking mighty tempting. This stinks. I can't believe they did me like that. I'm at least better than the 5th guy in almost all regards. WHAT GIVES?!?!?!?!??

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                              • Whitesox
                                Closet pyromaniac
                                • Mar 2009
                                • 5287

                                #1470
                                Re: THOSE LOW DOWN DIRTY MOFOS

                                Originally posted by totalownership
                                Well check this out. I'm rolling along in the bigs helping the Padres get a shot at the playoffs. Go into my next start with a 5-2 record. Doing pretty good work up there. So my next start I'm on a roll. Got them popping up, striking out while get the run support. 7th inning I got them shutout so far. Get into a little bit of trouble but work my way out. 8th inning I put'em down 1 2 3. Still got the shutout going. 9th inning I get the first batter out. Just 2 more to go. But , uh oh, I walk the hot hitter. Ok I can recover. Next batter I get to pop up. Wish it could have been a double play grounder but ok just one out away from the complete game shutout. HE HITS!! But it's a grounder! I get the complete game shutout. Player of the game and 505 nice juicy training points. Things are great up here in the Big Leagues.

                                Well so how do I get rewarded! I GET FREAKING OPTIONED BACK DOWN TO AAA ball. WTF IS THAT!?!?!?!?!? I just pitched the game of my life and I get sent back cause some chump came off the dl who's probably gonna stink up the joint?!?!?!?

                                Of course I went to interactions to see my recourses. I want outta here NOW!!!! But obviously I don't have the time in to make such demands from the looks of things. That "RETIRE: RIDE OFF INTO THE SUNSET" was looking mighty tempting. This stinks. I can't believe they did me like that. I'm at least better than the 5th guy in almost all regards. WHAT GIVES?!?!?!?!??
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