MLB 14 The Show: Road to the Show Thread

[Chaos81]

Re: MLB 14 The Show: Road to the Show Thread

Just finished up 2014 with my Nationals SS. Ended up starting in AAA most of the season, as Jamey Carroll was called up to the majors to be a backup. Finished with a .284/.299/.488 line with 24 homers.

Well, the off-season rolls around and the Nationals offer me the starting SS job... in AA. Sim through everything, and come March, Zach Walters is the Triple-A starter (61 overall, I'm at 75). Guess those 525 ABs in AAA weren't enough to show I could preform there and the Nationals decided I need more seasoning in AA. Ahh, well. Hopefully I'll get promoted soon.

[Cole416]

Re: MLB 14 The Show: Road to the Show Thread

Just finished up 2014 with my Nationals SS. Ended up starting in AAA most of the season, as Jamey Carroll was called up to the majors to be a backup. Finished with a .284/.299/.488 line with 24 homers.

Well, the off-season rolls around and the Nationals offer me the starting SS job... in AA. Sim through everything, and come March, Zach Walters is the Triple-A starter (61 overall, I'm at 75). Guess those 525 ABs in AAA weren't enough to show I could preform there and the Nationals decided I need more seasoning in AA. Ahh, well. Hopefully I'll get promoted soon.

Stop complaining lol. They told me that and then stuck me on the MLB bench for the whole season. I asked to play more and they didn't do *.

[Chaos81]

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They told me that and then stuck me on the MLB bench for the whole season.

Sure sounds better than riding the bus.

[jmik58]

Re: MLB 14 The Show: Road to the Show Thread

Just finished up 2014 with my Nationals SS. Ended up starting in AAA most of the season, as Jamey Carroll was called up to the majors to be a backup. Finished with a .284/.299/.488 line with 24 homers.

Well, the off-season rolls around and the Nationals offer me the starting SS job... in AA. Sim through everything, and come March, Zach Walters is the Triple-A starter (61 overall, I'm at 75). Guess those 525 ABs in AAA weren't enough to show I could preform there and the Nationals decided I need more seasoning in AA. Ahh, well. Hopefully I'll get promoted soon.

Is your player 18 years old or did you "return to college" for a few years?

If he's older I'd be pretty impatient about trying to get called up, but look at those AA opportunities as a great chance to boost those stats and attributes.

[BSUFAN]

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Playing 3rd base for the Braves,we are playing @ Safeco against the Marniers, I had a first with RTTS: Runners on second and third no outs, I hit a screaming line drive in the gap the CF dives for the ball , he just misses it and goes all the way to the wall, I am chugging around the bases and I get to third base and the third base couch is waving me in and I score without a play at the plate. Wow I just hit a " Inside The Park HR " along with three RBI's. It was so cool. Something I had never had happen or seen before in the Show at least for me.

[jmik58]

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Playing 3rd base for the Braves,we are playing @ Safeco against the Marniers, I had a first with RTTS: Runners on second and third no outs, I hit a screaming line drive in the gap the CF dives for the ball , he just misses it and goes all the way to the wall, I am chugging around the bases and I get to third base and the third base couch is waving me in and I score without a play at the plate. Wow I just hit a " In The Park HR " along with three RBI's. It was so cool. Something I had never had happen or seen before in the Show at least for me.

That's awesome. In my 2013 RTTS, my player's first career HR in the Majors was an inside the park shot. The OF crashed into the wall and that was all it took. Totally caught me by surprise.

[Rand]

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My RTTS team just scored 19 runs. In a single inning!
17 of those runs coming with 2 outs.

Has anyone ever seen an inning as absurd as that?
Insane. And my team is anything but strong with the bat. Normally, anyway.

[olig23]

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Thanks in no small part to the fact that Friday and Monday were "Bank Holidays" here in the UK (we get Monday off too America) coupled with the fact that my girlfriend seems to have developed a unhealthy relationship with Sims 3 a lot has happened to the career of Oliver Thornton, Center Fielder from the International Region. Perhaps too much to cover in one post in fact. I'm considering contacting a publisher and having his exploits serialized in some low quality publication, the type you only find in airports and on the table in barbershops. However, it could be a while until that plan becomes reality and so I am going to forgo my half season update policy and see how long this bad boy gets before I feel the urge to split it up... These are the tribulations of the biographer.

For those of you who care, here are some links to the prior updates:

Part 1: Give me my Sushi, of the International Region
Part 2: 74 walks in the hills of Comptacoma

Oliver Thornton hasn't been the same since that trip to Vegas. Knowing a team called the 51's exist was a life changing experience. After all, it's not like a player has much to live for beyond his stats. So simple things, like playing for a team that have an alien head for a logo and reference a top secret military base in the desert, is perhaps all any man from the International Region can hope for. That and close proximity to casinos and other vice stimulating venues, maybe. Maybe.

With 1/4th of a degree under his belt Oliver Thornton knows though that the truth of his situation is that he is a slave. With no control over his own destiny. How valuable is 1/4th of a degree anyway? 1/4th of a degree in Travel and Tourism studies isn't going to be enough... How the optimism of draft day has waned... But the hope of one day eating the finest Sushi is still something to cling to. Even if he were able to finagle a trade to the 51's the Mets are so bad he'd no doubt get called up to the Majors and what's the point then?

Focus on the sushi meant continued high level performance with the Rainiers. The playoffs were a perfect platform for that. Oliver Thornton took his hot bat into the playoffs and hit .324 with 2 Homers and 10 RBIs in the playoffs. He was the star of the team. No doubt about that. After a comfortable win against El Paso (no cacti in the out field), the Rainiers had to dispatch the funkily named and ideally affiliated (go Brewers!!!) Nashville Sounds to take the Pacific Coast League crown.

Next up was a championship shootout against the Columbus Clippers. In the bottom of the 9th the score stands at 5-4 in favour of the Clippers. Thornton comes in to bat with two outs and a man on first. He's been struggling in "clutch" situations all season. But not today. Boom!!! First pitch. Fastball, down and in, my favourite (damn American auto-correct. FavoUr, ColoUr). That ball was gone!! Walk off Home Run! Tacoma are AAA Champs. That was a good feeling. Everyone was hopping around on the screen and looking very happy.

However, after the initial excitement of - Need to to hit home run - actually hit home run - Woo I rule - I realized that Oliver Thornton has become the kind of sportsman I never expected I would become. I could care less for the championship. Or the Rainiers for that matter. Has The Road to the Show given me a glimpse of the reality I have been railing against all my life watching football (soccer)? I realized I care about my stats, the team's colours, the possibility for sushi. But my interests and those of the fans don't really match. I'm one of those players. A mercenary.

The only way that can change is if I join the Brewers. But I have no way of getting there. Not to mention Carlos Gomez. Time to for some reflection.

The off-season brought some new challenges. A low ball contract with "AAA Bench" designation. I took it in the end. $80,000. I converted that to £ and I earn nearly as much as my baseball pro. It was disappointing. The AAA Bench thing was less of a concern though since I had that all of 2014 and played every day anyway. On the plus side my coach sent me and email congratulating me on leading the league in triples... who knew.

So there is some reshuffling on the Mariners roster. Ackley goes up to the majors. Fair play to him he had a great season. I'm ready to play, and have a big year in 2015. It's opening day and... what the ****... I'm not in the starting lineup. Day 2... still nothing... Unril day 5 I get a game. I go 3-4 with a 2 RBI double. But next day I'm out of the team. Chris Dickinson starts. I complain mightily. the Head Coach is a moron. He's like Mugatu in Zoolander, he's all "Dickinson is so hot right now". He's hitting .258 after 30 games. I'm hitting .370+ and playing only every three or four games.

45 games in I have a .384 average. 3 Home runs and 15 RBIs. I'm so hot right now!!!! But feeling low. I also now realize I don't earn enough to live near Vegas and live THE life. I dare not check my credit card bills.

A week goes bye. Then I get another email. Maybe I lead the league in wasted talent? I click on it. I am to say the least shocked....

You know how we want that Sushi? Real bad. That's not going to happen.

I've been traded.

To the Atalanta Braves!!!

I'll leave it there for now. These things get long...

[ckittle2518]

Re: MLB 14 The Show: Road to the Show Thread

Thanks in no small part to the fact that Friday and Monday were "Bank Holidays" here in the UK (we get Monday off too America) coupled with the fact that my girlfriend seems to have developed a unhealthy relationship with Sims 3 a lot has happened to the career of Oliver Thornton, Center Fielder from the International Region. Perhaps too much to cover in one post in fact. I'm considering contacting a publisher and having his exploits serialized in some low quality publication, the type you only find in airports and on the table in barbershops. However, it could be a while until that plan becomes reality and so I am going to forgo my half season update policy and see how long this bad boy gets before I feel the urge to split it up... These are the tribulations of the biographer.

For those of you who care, here are some links to the prior updates:

Part 1: Give me my Sushi, of the International Region
Part 2: 74 walks in the hills of Comptacoma

Oliver Thornton hasn't been the same since that trip to Vegas. Knowing a team called the 51's exist was a life changing experience. After all, it's not like a player has much to live for beyond his stats. So simple things, like playing for a team that have an alien head for a logo and reference a top secret military base in the desert, is perhaps all any man from the International Region can hope for. That and close proximity to casinos and other vice stimulating venues, maybe. Maybe.

With 1/4th of a degree under his belt Oliver Thornton knows though that the truth of his situation is that he is a slave. With no control over his own destiny. How valuable is 1/4th of a degree anyway? 1/4th of a degree in Travel and Tourism studies isn't going to be enough... How the optimism of draft day has waned... But the hope of one day eating the finest Sushi is still something to cling to. Even if he were able to finagle a trade to the 51's the Mets are so bad he'd no doubt get called up to the Majors and what's the point then?

Focus on the sushi meant continued high level performance with the Rainiers. The playoffs were a perfect platform for that. Oliver Thornton took his hot bat into the playoffs and hit .324 with 2 Homers and 10 RBIs in the playoffs. He was the star of the team. No doubt about that. After a comfortable win against El Paso (no cacti in the out field), the Rainiers had to dispatch the funkily named and ideally affiliated (go Brewers!!!) Nashville Sounds to take the Pacific Coast League crown.

Next up was a championship shootout against the Columbus Clippers. In the bottom of the 9th the score stands at 5-4 in favour of the Clippers. Thornton comes in to bat with two outs and a man on first. He's been struggling in "clutch" situations all season. But not today. Boom!!! First pitch. Fastball, down and in, my favourite (damn American auto-correct. FavoUr, ColoUr). That ball was gone!! Walk off Home Run! Tacoma are AAA Champs. That was a good feeling. Everyone was hopping around on the screen and looking very happy.

However, after the initial excitement of - Need to to hit home run - actually hit home run - Woo I rule - I realized that Oliver Thornton has become the kind of sportsman I never expected I would become. I could care less for the championship. Or the Rainiers for that matter. Has The Road to the Show given me a glimpse of the reality I have been railing against all my life watching football (soccer)? I realized I care about my stats, the team's colours, the possibility for sushi. But my interests and those of the fans don't really match. I'm one of those players. A mercenary.

The only way that can change is if I join the Brewers. But I have no way of getting there. Not to mention Carlos Gomez. Time to for some reflection.

The off-season brought some new challenges. A low ball contract with "AAA Bench" designation. I took it in the end. $80,000. I converted that to £ and I earn nearly as much as my baseball pro. It was disappointing. The AAA Bench thing was less of a concern though since I had that all of 2014 and played every day anyway. On the plus side my coach sent me and email congratulating me on leading the league in triples... who knew.

So there is some reshuffling on the Mariners roster. Ackley goes up to the majors. Fair play to him he had a great season. I'm ready to play, and have a big year in 2015. It's opening day and... what the ****... I'm not in the starting lineup. Day 2... still nothing... Unril day 5 I get a game. I go 3-4 with a 2 RBI double. But next day I'm out of the team. Chris Dickinson starts. I complain mightily. the Head Coach is a moron. He's like Mugatu in Zoolander, he's all "Dickinson is so hot right now". He's hitting .258 after 30 games. I'm hitting .370+ and playing only every three or four games.

45 games in I have a .384 average. 3 Home runs and 15 RBIs. I'm so hot right now!!!! But feeling low. I also now realize I don't earn enough to live near Vegas and live THE life. I dare not check my credit card bills.

A week goes bye. Then I get another email. Maybe I lead the league in wasted talent? I click on it. I am to say the least shocked....

You know how we want that Sushi? Real bad. That's not going to happen.

I've been traded.

To the Atalanta Braves!!!

I'll leave it there for now. These things get long...

i really wish there was an oliver thornton novel. it would be a best seller.

[acts238shaun]

Re: MLB 14 The Show: Road to the Show Thread

Thanks in no small part to the fact that Friday and Monday were "Bank Holidays" here in the UK (we get Monday off too America) coupled with the fact that my girlfriend seems to have developed a unhealthy relationship with Sims 3 a lot has happened to the career of Oliver Thornton, Center Fielder from the International Region. Perhaps too much to cover in one post in fact. I'm considering contacting a publisher and having his exploits serialized in some low quality publication, the type you only find in airports and on the table in barbershops. However, it could be a while until that plan becomes reality and so I am going to forgo my half season update policy and see how long this bad boy gets before I feel the urge to split it up... These are the tribulations of the biographer.

For those of you who care, here are some links to the prior updates:

Part 1: Give me my Sushi, of the International Region
Part 2: 74 walks in the hills of Comptacoma

Oliver Thornton hasn't been the same since that trip to Vegas. Knowing a team called the 51's exist was a life changing experience. After all, it's not like a player has much to live for beyond his stats. So simple things, like playing for a team that have an alien head for a logo and reference a top secret military base in the desert, is perhaps all any man from the International Region can hope for. That and close proximity to casinos and other vice stimulating venues, maybe. Maybe.

With 1/4th of a degree under his belt Oliver Thornton knows though that the truth of his situation is that he is a slave. With no control over his own destiny. How valuable is 1/4th of a degree anyway? 1/4th of a degree in Travel and Tourism studies isn't going to be enough... How the optimism of draft day has waned... But the hope of one day eating the finest Sushi is still something to cling to. Even if he were able to finagle a trade to the 51's the Mets are so bad he'd no doubt get called up to the Majors and what's the point then?

Focus on the sushi meant continued high level performance with the Rainiers. The playoffs were a perfect platform for that. Oliver Thornton took his hot bat into the playoffs and hit .324 with 2 Homers and 10 RBIs in the playoffs. He was the star of the team. No doubt about that. After a comfortable win against El Paso (no cacti in the out field), the Rainiers had to dispatch the funkily named and ideally affiliated (go Brewers!!!) Nashville Sounds to take the Pacific Coast League crown.

Next up was a championship shootout against the Columbus Clippers. In the bottom of the 9th the score stands at 5-4 in favour of the Clippers. Thornton comes in to bat with two outs and a man on first. He's been struggling in "clutch" situations all season. But not today. Boom!!! First pitch. Fastball, down and in, my favourite (damn American auto-correct. FavoUr, ColoUr). That ball was gone!! Walk off Home Run! Tacoma are AAA Champs. That was a good feeling. Everyone was hopping around on the screen and looking very happy.

However, after the initial excitement of - Need to to hit home run - actually hit home run - Woo I rule - I realized that Oliver Thornton has become the kind of sportsman I never expected I would become. I could care less for the championship. Or the Rainiers for that matter. Has The Road to the Show given me a glimpse of the reality I have been railing against all my life watching football (soccer)? I realized I care about my stats, the team's colours, the possibility for sushi. But my interests and those of the fans don't really match. I'm one of those players. A mercenary.

The only way that can change is if I join the Brewers. But I have no way of getting there. Not to mention Carlos Gomez. Time to for some reflection.

The off-season brought some new challenges. A low ball contract with "AAA Bench" designation. I took it in the end. $80,000. I converted that to £ and I earn nearly as much as my baseball pro. It was disappointing. The AAA Bench thing was less of a concern though since I had that all of 2014 and played every day anyway. On the plus side my coach sent me and email congratulating me on leading the league in triples... who knew.

So there is some reshuffling on the Mariners roster. Ackley goes up to the majors. Fair play to him he had a great season. I'm ready to play, and have a big year in 2015. It's opening day and... what the ****... I'm not in the starting lineup. Day 2... still nothing... Unril day 5 I get a game. I go 3-4 with a 2 RBI double. But next day I'm out of the team. Chris Dickinson starts. I complain mightily. the Head Coach is a moron. He's like Mugatu in Zoolander, he's all "Dickinson is so hot right now". He's hitting .258 after 30 games. I'm hitting .370+ and playing only every three or four games.

45 games in I have a .384 average. 3 Home runs and 15 RBIs. I'm so hot right now!!!! But feeling low. I also now realize I don't earn enough to live near Vegas and live THE life. I dare not check my credit card bills.

A week goes bye. Then I get another email. Maybe I lead the league in wasted talent? I click on it. I am to say the least shocked....

You know how we want that Sushi? Real bad. That's not going to happen.

I've been traded.

To the Atalanta Braves!!!

I'll leave it there for now. These things get long...

Don't even own MLBTS14 yet, but I check to read the updates, your included. Bravo my good man!

[jmik58]

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After a little slump, "Grand Slam McMahon" is back!

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[LetsgoNatsFTW]

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Anybody else having baserunning issues where after stealing or stopping at a base he starts going forward on his own?

Yeah its weird because the camera angle changes or something and then my player just keeps turning around. It's really annoying.

[metal134]

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Yeah its weird because the camera angle changes or something and then my player just keeps turning around. It's really annoying.

Yeah, same here. And this is also an issue when playing the field. If I'm running for a ball over my head and my player (CF) misses the catch, instead of continuing to run toward the wall, where the ball is, he is now running toward the infield because the camera has swung around. And is momentum is such that, by the time I correct it, the double has turned into a triple, if not an inside the park homerun.

[kcchiefs1984]

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Will the potential rating ever change? Got drafted in the 6th round, started with a D pot. I'm early into my 2nd season with a 77 overall, currently with an 83 adjusted ovr. I figured I was drafted late so the potential would start off rough but progress to at least stay current with my overall rating.

[olig23]

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Will the potential rating ever change? Got drafted in the 6th round, started with a D pot. I'm early into my 2nd season with a 77 overall, currently with an 83 adjusted ovr. I figured I was drafted late so the potential would start off rough but progress to at least stay current with my overall rating.

I can't speak to specifics but mine has changed. I began with a C. It remained that way until near the end of my second season. It is now a B. I was rated around 79 or 80 iirc when it changed. To be honest though I don't think it makes a great deal of difference to the game itself. It may have some impact on how you are viewed by the team you play for but if you're at 85 player for example I am sure you will play regardless.