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[Ghost Of The Year]

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Astros have unveiled their new City Connect uniforms, and they're a huge upgrade over the Space City look (it seems the original CC uniforms were only for a 3-year cycle, so I assume the new ones are also a 3-year cycle)

Spoiler

It's a nice combination of the early-mid 90s branding with the 80s/current color scheme.

I terribly dislike Houston but their Space City is one of the very few City Connects that I actually like. This new one is on par with most everybody elses. Meaning, ''meh''.

[Master Live 013]

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Yeah, those are "ok".

[Majingir]

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If this is true, it's even more evidence of the ineptitude in Toronto's front office. It's one thing if you're sticking to your guns, ie "paying Vladdy anything more than 300-350M is ridiculous", so be it! But if you're willing to give him 530 million but not 580, that's truly bizarre. 530M is already an insane overpay! An extra 50M over 12-15 years is a drop in the bucket to Rogers. Either pay him what he wants, or resign yourself to him leaving and deal with the fallout. Why quibble like this?

The front office better also realize that overpaying him is better than letting him walk because overpaying at least means he's still here, selling jerseys, bringing in ticket sales.

If he walks, it's gonna leave a sour taste in fans mouths that'll literally cost the team money.

[steelerfan]

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Astros have unveiled their new City Connect uniforms, and they're a huge upgrade over the Space City look (it seems the original CC uniforms were only for a 3-year cycle, so I assume the new ones are also a 3-year cycle)

Spoiler

It's a nice combination of the early-mid 90s branding with the 80s/current color scheme.

Like the Space City unis, I think the best part of these is the hat, and the Space City hat is better than this one.

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[Majingir]

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The Skenes card ended up getting 1.1m in the auction.

Obviously way better than the Pirates trying to pass off season tickets as a better deal.

Let's say the pair of tickets cost 20k total for a season. Multiply for 30 years, that's 600k. Might be closer to 1m as the years go on.

But this was basically like those lotteries where it's like "x amount over the next 25 years or lump sum now".

Lump sum now, especially if most is invested, it's obviously the way better choice.

[TripleCrown9]

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Nationals new City Connects

[Master Live 013]

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Their regular W gets mocked as the Walgreens and this one ain't good either.

[Majingir]

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A small but notable thing the league has been "forced" to do this season in ST because of the challenge system, because of the automated strike zone during challenges, they needed 100% accurate measurements for guys.

So some guys heights from what I saw online seemed to be +/- 3 inches of their previously listed MLB.com heights.

Most guys were just changed an inch or two, but there's some drops like Wong who went from 6'1 to 5'10 (maybe it was just cold...)

[zello144]

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Nationals new City Connects

Actually like these better than the Cherry Blossom ones.

Their regular W gets mocked as the Walgreens and this one ain't good either.

I love the curly W. Really hate the block W they've secretly been pushing mainly because of the Walgreens jokes.

[steelerfan]

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Their regular W gets mocked as the Walgreens and this one ain't good either.

The Walgreens one deserves to get mocked. This City Connect hat has the silhouette of the Capitol Building at the base of the W if you look closely. That's a lot better than the block W on the batting helmet, imo.

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[Speedy]

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The fun stuff, mostly.

My main responsibility was the player database:
- player rosters (lineups, bench, rotation, bullpen)
- player ratings (Contact, Power, Speed, translating splits into hot/cold zones, etc.)
- pitcher repertoires (pitch type, velocity, break, etc.)
- player "attributes" (jersey number, batting stance, bat/glove colour, skin tone, etc.)

Basically anything to do with players that was editable, the default came from my database (a couple dozen sheets in a gigantic excel file). This includes all the fake players on the minor leagues, the 1000+ placeholder guys with generated names (Ichiro Sheffield, etc.) and the custom fake players who were the Baseball America Top 100 prospects. A lot of the top prospects were named after dev team members or friends/relatives of mine. For example, the Smallenberg triplets (Chris, Mark, Dick) were named after one of my high school friends, his brother, and his dad, all of whom were/are huge Yankees fans.

I was also the one who got to choose which star players received non-generic faces, which batters and pitchers warranted signature stance/windup animations, which alternate and retro uniforms for each team got included, stuff like that. Verifying that all the logos and uniforms had been updated to the current style guide (our actual artists tended to know little or nothing about baseball, and the style guide itself often contained errors) and tediously recording or screenshotting stuff like this for MLB to sign off on.

Lots of dynasty minutiae. I created 6 custom MLB schedules (including a 30-team ASG rotation), 1 schedule for each of the minor leagues, made sure all the minor league playoff formats were true to life, etc. I worked on logic tables for CPU players - pitch selection/location, when to bunt, steal, issue intentional walks, etc. Trade logic, free agent logic, draft/development logic. I'm not a programmer, mind you - I worked with a database SE (software engineer, who was thankfully also a baseball fan) on a lot of this. I wrote up the bios for all the Cooperstown players and did their player ratings as well. A lot of formatting, a lot of data entry.

This is in addition to playing the game constantly, testing gameplay features, verifying bugs (the downside to making a baseball game in western Canada: very few of our testers were baseball-savvy, so producers like myself would have to go through the thousands of entered bugs to make sure they were legit: if so, we passed them off to the appropriate programmers/animators, etc.)

I had other tasks on earlier titles (like the pbp scriptwriting I mentioned earlier), but pretty much just the above for MVP 2005 because I was worked double duty on NHL 2005 at the time for a few months (a much less memorable game, LOL, but it was fun as a hockey fan!)

Doc...

Were you on MLB Network??

[Picci]

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Played this last year for opening day. Such an excellent piece put together of our national pastime. Gets the baseball juices going.


Happy Opening Day!


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[DrJones]

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Doc...

Were you on MLB Network??

Yup, that was me last week. Kinda nerve-wracking!

[Formula1Racing]

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Watching the Yankees/Brewers game on ESPN. I just notice Radon sporting a beard!..Is that allowed now on the Yankees "Clean Cut" Organization? I must have missed the memo!...lol

[TripleCrown9]

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Watching the Yankees/Brewers game on ESPN. I just notice Radon sporting a beard!..Is that allowed now on the Yankees "Clean Cut" Organization? I must have missed the memo!...lol

You did miss the memo. They have to be "well-groomed and professional", but they're allowed now.

Steinbrenner announced it shortly after the start of spring training.