HOP, the Yanks were better off normal :rant:

BUT HONESTLY, HOW THE FUCK DO YOU HIT? Every god damn time all I do it get jammed and ground or foul out. Occasionally I get one down the middle, but I can't string anything together even against the worst pitchers :mad: Whats the deal? How does the aiming work? Is it sensative or not? Its rediculous how annoyed I am right now.

Basically I point the left joystick uptowards the batter, and that seemes to work out well.

I have such a ragtag team for my dynasty. Such an underdog black sheep group of people. Quite the challenge.

What do you mean, point the joystick upwards towards the batter?

Chros, how about you just stop sucking?

you need to aim. if you swing at a ball that's outside while aiming the joystick inside, you'll either foul it off or swing and miss. you basically need to guess where the pitch will be. swing if it's there, if you get fooled let it go. waiting for your pitch is the best advice i can give.

Is it like ultra sensative or something? Like if its on the corner of the strike zone and i move the dual shock thing to the corner, is that too far? It seems like my aim should be on, but I just keep getting jammed :mad:

nah, it's not that sensitive. there are eight directions. up, down, left, right, and then stuff like up-right, up-left, down-right, and down-left. just look at your hot zones and aim there and be patient.

This game has create-a-player, right?

Yes indeed.

Alright, because I have to have myself in the game (it makes me feel happy inside). The real question is: is it any good?

The game or the create a player? I've only used it once. I made myself like really good, a free agent, and then I was gonna sign myself to my dynasty team...then realized I didn't have the money to sign anyone. So basically I haven't really used a CAP in game...

I've already read (most) of the thread and the game sounds pretty good (plus it's $30 instead of $50, which doesn't hurt). I was talking about the CAP in particular though.

Anyway, probably gonna buy it tomorrow.

Is it really hard to get a stolen base in this game or is it just me?

It's just you.

You have to slide away from the tag. Press Up/Right in the joystick.

Na, I figured out you could lead the runners with R3. Stealin' like a pro now.

the best way to steal is to lead one step, hit the steal button, then lead the second step before the pitcher throws. this way, you don't get picked off and get the best jump.

I can barely get hits on All Pro or whatever so I am staying with pro @@!

I started "Owner Mode" with the Red Sox..I am like 3-3 right now. Wells had 13 K againest the Yankees though. Pretty hot.

Randy Johnson is pretty ridiculous in the game too, I only got 3 hits off of him.

I started owner mode and got all these really good trades and free agents, and Carlos Beltran is on pace to hit 124 hr

doin pritty hott, moved up to all-pro already. Like 12-2 in my Owner Mode. Just have trouble hitting homeruns. I dunno, everytime I go for a hormerun I seem to pop out, so I try to focus more on hitting line drives.

I dunno with time you will get used to every batters style. for me I hit different pitches with every batter. Whenever im batting left handed with Beltran, if I see a pitch up and away it is pretty much gone right away. Just play in exhibition a bunch and get used to them.

Just bought the game. Look forward to playing it tonight after the Warriors' game.

Owner mode with the Red Sox. Middle of my lineup is ridiculous. Manny is 2nd in the leauge with 21 HRs, Ortiz leds the league with 22 and Nixon has like 19. Nixon is unreal in the game though, I don't start him againest Lefties so he has 19 with way less at bats.

I am the Braves and I made some legit moves to get JD Drew back just because he's my boy. Little did I know he would have 40 homeruns and we haven't even reached the All-Star game yet. Pretty sick considering the second place guy has like 16. The pitchers just haven't learned not to go up and in.

You have to mess with the sliders.

My game is a lot more realistic. That is, if I didn't steal too often and didn't make my created player. But other than that, everything is where it should be.

That's just it, I don't get jacks with very many other people (not even my created guy, who's power rating is actually higher). It's the only aspect of the game that isn't realistic.

Mine is slightly random. It very obvious, if you play every game, which players are having a hot streak and which ones aren't.

At the moment, Byrnes,Crosby, and Thomas are doing well hitting the ball. In the begining though it was Chavez and Kendall. So you never know.

Also, I have to mess around the pitching sliders a whole bunch to get it even remotely realistc. The meter difficulty is like at -35 and my control is at -40. I still haven't walked anyone in forever, so I'm still tweaking it. Also, its hard to get the stamina right for everyone. I think I have mine at -6 or so and the cpu at +1.

I still suck at stealing bases though. I'm not sure why either. I tried the technique you posted with the one step, steal, then another step and nothing seems to work.

Yeah, the pitching sliders were hard to get right, but I am in the same situation with you on that one (not giving up any walks).

Just bought it today, I am 1-4 with the Tigers but I'm playing it on All-star. Last Game Gary Knotts pitches 5 hit shutout ball and I win 1-0 on an Omar Infante Home Run...In my season, the Royals are 5-0 :(

I kept the team the same except I traded Doug Mechiewhieh4yagag and Byung Yung Kim for Julio Lugo(Vaquez is garbage) and I traded Scott Williamson for Mike Myers. Myers is actaully on the Sox now and Williamson isn't but Williamson is on the Cubs I think - not the Cardinals.

The game is a lot of fun once you get used to it though. Except I just swing at everything pretty much, I get like 0 BB

I'm not patient enough to take walks or bother throwing around opposing batters. Seems to be working though.

I need some help on stealing bases..hook it up

I just use Furcal and myself (90 speed) and guess when I think the pitcher is throwing a offspeed/breaking/not a fastball. Also, I lead off two steps and go when I see him start to deliver, as opposed to the way Roxer does it.

Slide away from 2nd

Up/right

Seriously, Kotsay has 50 something steals.


That only stsat that isnt too realistic is the aount of steals (because I like to hit run at almost 80% of the time), team ERA (because I can't figure out hard enough sliders), and the team batting average is a little high, but that includes my created player so its on track I guess.

Yeah, I always slide up and right as well. Maybe that's your problem.

No idea what my team would be like right now if Drew wasn't on fire. Probably would be focusing alot more on the small ball (which I love).

I don't know. I will try it

Man, haven't played this in a couple months. I should try to get my dynasty back into shape.

Yeah I had this created player who hit 65 HRs before the allstar break, but I have played like 40 games since then and I only hit three homeruns with him, and they were all like 330 feet at some small stadium. whats goin on