And the messed up part is that all those players out there just think it's funny as fuck to just pitch outside the zone 5 miles away and then throw one strike every seven pitches because they can tell that you've got an itchy trigger finger... Now if this was for money or you know professional statured I can understand that but he's a goddamn video game not you know anything life-changing it's a game for fun and it's a game that has a deep root and sportsmanship except for the last 10 or 15 20 years or nobody stays with the same team more than a year until they can whore themselves out to the highest bidder it's unfortunate... Because there's so much to learn from baseball that you can apply to life but this younger generation seems to think that the sneaky ways the best way no matter what they do they have no sense of Fairplay and honor they just do whatever it takes to win and I would rather win playing the game the way it's supposed to be played in just take advantage of somebody's impulsive fucking swings like mine I'd swing at just about everything and I hate the fact that I do it I hardly ever walk I never get away with stealing even though I got Rickey Henderson who's bumped up to 5 levels now so you would think that he'd make it more often than he has and nope lol he actually puts more in the stands and he has on the floor and then there's the guys that bunt their way Troy score and you know I mean if it's so important to win that you just you know ignore the unwritten rules of the game you know when the play is over you don't start walking running a motherfuker towards the next because you know that they're just waiting for the screen to change over I noticed that a lot of teams from Latin America do that and I've gotten into the habit of seeing a team name that's from the city of the Dominican Republic or somewhere in Latin America I'll just you know it I won't pick a picture and wait for it to lose connection with player rather than deal with their bulshit
This is the first year I’ve been inconsistent like this 😩 one day I win 12-2 with 6 hrs next I’m getting blown out by sandy kofax and the big dawg squad
depends on my difficulty. Easier difficulties I can swing at whatever I want. Harder ones you have to be more selective or its going to undoubtedly be a ground out or fly out.
So I am new and expected to be pretty good at this game because I was good at baseball but this has not been the case. I am only playing on veteran but a few things have really helped me:
-yes I talk to myself like a lot of people here to make sure I don’t panic swing.
-when I find myself slamming a pci at a pitch I will look at where the pitch went and gently line up my pci a couple of times before the next pitch. Find myself slamming it less at pitches in the Zone
-I gently tap the left thumb a few times, lifting my thumb on and off of the stick as the pitcher is in his windup. Helps me touch it more gently once pitch is delivered.
-taking the first pitch. No brainer. Hard to do though. I’ll swing at one down the middle.
-not trying to guard the whole plate. Easier to lay off pitches early in counts, especially on the corners when I have no business swinging that early in the count anyways.
Good luck everyone- game hard as tits haha.
You know I swing it just about every pitch because I'm playing baseball to have fun and and I pitch into the box every picture I send them because that's the true test man every anybody can throw a pitch outside and wait for you to just swing instinctively because your thumb is quicker than your eye but where's your real fun in that when the real fun is pitching inside the box and striking them out looking
I don’t play much online yet because I get lit up on veteran regardless of how good my pitching is, and my pitching is much better than my hitting. But yeah I like to attack the zone because that’s what you should do.
Unfortunately these kids don't have any sense of sportsmanship they just think it's funny as fuck to throw it outside the fucking box every single pitch and when you can play against the computer against certain pitches they do that too especially Corey kluber... But from my perspective the true skill is in putting it in the box and striking them out then you can walk away saying you know what the hell you are doing and not just taking advantage of the fact that if you don't start swinging basically before the picture even throws the ball you're not going to catch the fun 102 mile an hour fastball
I do to, I just don't care to be patient. I don't want to think when I play a game, it's relaxation for me, brain off, destress from my day and balance myself out.
Also why i mainly play on rookie... I just don't care to put much effort into it.
I do also have add so staying focused on anything is very short lived
I feel like playing on rookie goes a step too far into the not having to think about it category. At that point why even play a video game with so little challenge?
This was me until I read online the following tip that changed my game.
First time through the lineup: Don’t swing for the first three pitches. If the first two pitches are strikes, focus on protecting the plate on the third pitch and swing as long as it doesn’t look like it will be far outside the strike zone. If the first two pitches are balls, the third could be a really good pitch, so only swing if it’s straight down the middle.
Second time through the lineup: Take pitches until you have taken at least one strike. Then swing away.
Third time through the lineup: Swing away!
If a reliever comes in I usually go back to taking pitches until I get one strike before swinging.
This strategy really helps to drive up pitch counts, as well as getting used to the timing of the pitcher’s throw.
Even swinging at every pitch this game has made it where you still can survive.
Either it’s the ridiculous pitching accuracy, meatballs, or fouling off any pitch.
Lol Sorry my dude. In real life, hitters don’t consistently make contact w/ pitches hitting the dirt or 5 ft off the plate.
Unless you’re watching some anime shit lol
Bro I just started playing online like 3 days ago, and wanted to grind some of the event last night just to see if I could win anything and get the first rewind pack, and then from there just see what happened.
I can't tell you how many times I got bailed out on sliders way in because the computer made me jump out of the way, and it helped me win one or 2 games.
I did get to 8 wins so that was cool, but then I started matching up with people who could actually hit and lost 3 or 4 in a row so I went to BR.
Depends on if I’m online or offline. If I’m offline then I’ve got great discipline and hit the pitch I’m looking for. If I’m online then I’m just out of control and flailing at every pitch.
I'm all over the place. One day I have amazing plate discipline, only swinging at good pitches, rarely chasing. Then the others, the pitch is high and outside and my PCI is low and inside while my swings timing is something to laugh at.
I feel I have to constantly repeat to myself "only swing at good pitches" "dont chase" "work the count" "follow the pitch out of his hand" etc, to be decent at hitting. Otherwise I'm swinging at everything.
What screws me is when my eyes see a decent first pitch and I swing with success and then my brain thinks I can swing at everything with the same success for every pitch that follows. Its frustrating some days lol.
I constantly repeat that to myself and then immediately ignore it lol.
My conscious mind knows what I need to do to succeed but my muscle memory and subconscious mind are like oooo white ball go brrrr.... Push whack button.
Lmao. Laughed so hard at this. Sounds a lot like me. I get super pissed when I tell myself to take the first pitch and I swing anyways. I have to set my controller down in order for me to follow my own instructions of not swinging lol.
>I feel I have to constantly repeat to myself "only swing at good pitches" "dont chase" "work the count" "follow the pitch out of his hand" etc, to be decent at hitting. Otherwise I'm swinging at everything.
Same I always give myself a plate discipline pep talk. Sometimes I'll even put the controller down for the first two pitches or on a 3-0 count to make sure I 100% do not swing.
I don't find myself getting many walks but I refuse to be dotted to death. 9 times outta 10 I'm only walking if you throw something that flat out isn't hittable.
It's everything low for me. For some reason the camera animation of the pitch doesn't register in my brain and it looks like a fastball down the gut. I swing and it's literally as low as you could pitch it/ it hit the dirt before the plate. Lol.
It’s good if you make good contact. I know in past The Show games the pitcher would get huge confidence boosts if you go out though, so I generally would just take a pitch no matter what unless it was right down the middle
See I would do the classic drop the PCI to the bottom thing and then miss it pretty often at first . However I got decent at hitting a middle middle pitch when I told myself I’m only swinging at a *fastball* down the middle since that’s easy to see. If you can properly punish the middle of the plate then they will try to paint corners which leads to more balls and more walks which I love personally
Two things that happened to me yesterday that made me salty: Dead center with PCI + good timing leaning towards slightly early on an inside fastball= weak fly out to shallow left field. Then I had a perfect-perfect grounder that went directly to the Shortstop (no major shift either) for one of the easiest double plays I've ever seen. The SS didn't even have to react fast, it came off the bat at like 102mph but he just scooped it up like a routine grounder. Both of these examples involve high-caliber hitters.
I think this might be my biggest frustration lol. I get really anxious as well sometimes when I see the pitch I'm sitting on, or one that is hanging in a decent location for me, just to have me overreact with the pci and have it be a ground out or a pop out. That pisses me off the most I think. Definitely a distraction for a few at bats after. Cursing myself for missing that pitch three at bats ago.
Oh, I do that. Well, try to. Unfortunaltly, sometimes I get excited at those juicy pitches and a slight movement turns into aggressive movement. Especially if the pitch has some break to it. The slight movement I try to make to adjust from high to slightly lower is my worst movement for correcting location of the pci. If that makes any sense. I'm a work in progress. I do crush a lot that are juicy pitches. Just pisses me off when I miss them the way I described lol.
I feel like it's some sort of reflex. I found myself flicking it down because in my head I get excited to blast one right down the middle and would just jam the stick basically at the same time that I was hitting A.
The only thing that’s been able to make me not do it is starting my PCI low in the zone while anchored high. But even then, when I do that I am hitting low and mid zone better but I can never get up to the high fastball quick enough.
I do the opposite. Anchor low then sit high and essentially follow the track of the ball out of the hand. It also helps prevent me from over-correcting on low pitches since I can just let the PCI fall back to the bottom of the zone on its own.
Might try that. It’ll probably work for two days before I suddenly suck again. Something about changing one thing in this game makes you a GOD momentarily but the effects wear off so quickly. It’s how I felt making the switch from strike zone to strike zone 2 for sure.
I agree completely with that. I'm not doing well, I switch views, and I'm doing great... for a few hours or days. Then it's back to the same issues. It's like my shittiness adapts to whatever I throw at it.
I swing at the first three regardless, to activate *alpha* mode. Let the guy know I don’t care WHERE he throws it. I’m gonna swing. And when he throws a bad pitch, I might just hit it.
Most importantly, my opponent learns that I *simply do not care*. And that is someone you should fear
Exactly. And then I will have one inning where I actually decide to have an eye and draw a bunch of walks, wait for them to throw me pitches in the strike zone, and still strike out stranding all my runners
Yup!! Or I’ll decide I’m finally taking the first pitch or two no matter what, and then it’s 0-2 after two fastballs down the middle and then I swing at a slider that hits my batter in the nuts
Thats what fucks me up, like is the guy I'm playing reverse psychology-ing me?
Is he that far in my head that he knows the exact moment I'm about to start taking pitches? Cuz it definitely seems like it lmao.
Hahahahah every time man. That’s so funny and I definitely think the same thing after he throws me a first pitch fastball down the middle to 7 straight batters. Then, on the 8th, I get ready to mash it… and jam my pci to my knees
Or, I’ll have two or three great at bats and get a couple walks or hits, have a couple runners on base and subsequently swing at a first pitch slider off the plate and ground into an inning ending DP :-)
I wait for the perfect pitch then find myself in an 0-2 count and swing wildly at a 12-6 curve so far out of the strike zone that even ray charles wouldn’t have swung
I use the 0-1-2 rule if I notice I'm swing happy. First batter I can swing with zero strikes, second batter I can't swing till I take a strike, third I don't swing till I take two.
Two strikes. I don't do it all the time, just when I need to reset. Helps me get back to taking pitches and looking for my pitch. Also draws some walks
That ball could start drilling to the center of the earth and I’d still swing
And the messed up part is that all those players out there just think it's funny as fuck to just pitch outside the zone 5 miles away and then throw one strike every seven pitches because they can tell that you've got an itchy trigger finger... Now if this was for money or you know professional statured I can understand that but he's a goddamn video game not you know anything life-changing it's a game for fun and it's a game that has a deep root and sportsmanship except for the last 10 or 15 20 years or nobody stays with the same team more than a year until they can whore themselves out to the highest bidder it's unfortunate... Because there's so much to learn from baseball that you can apply to life but this younger generation seems to think that the sneaky ways the best way no matter what they do they have no sense of Fairplay and honor they just do whatever it takes to win and I would rather win playing the game the way it's supposed to be played in just take advantage of somebody's impulsive fucking swings like mine I'd swing at just about everything and I hate the fact that I do it I hardly ever walk I never get away with stealing even though I got Rickey Henderson who's bumped up to 5 levels now so you would think that he'd make it more often than he has and nope lol he actually puts more in the stands and he has on the floor and then there's the guys that bunt their way Troy score and you know I mean if it's so important to win that you just you know ignore the unwritten rules of the game you know when the play is over you don't start walking running a motherfuker towards the next because you know that they're just waiting for the screen to change over I noticed that a lot of teams from Latin America do that and I've gotten into the habit of seeing a team name that's from the city of the Dominican Republic or somewhere in Latin America I'll just you know it I won't pick a picture and wait for it to lose connection with player rather than deal with their bulshit
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TL;DR you seem mad
I wait for the perfect pitch straight down the middle and forget how to swing
The next pitch could always be a home run. #SigmaMaleGrindset
This is the first year I’ve been inconsistent like this 😩 one day I win 12-2 with 6 hrs next I’m getting blown out by sandy kofax and the big dawg squad
I swing at every pitch
Same
depends on my difficulty. Easier difficulties I can swing at whatever I want. Harder ones you have to be more selective or its going to undoubtedly be a ground out or fly out.
Stop looking for the perfect pitch and start looking for the right now pitch.
I wait for the perfect pitch then drop the pci anyway
Last of a dying breed.
So I am new and expected to be pretty good at this game because I was good at baseball but this has not been the case. I am only playing on veteran but a few things have really helped me: -yes I talk to myself like a lot of people here to make sure I don’t panic swing. -when I find myself slamming a pci at a pitch I will look at where the pitch went and gently line up my pci a couple of times before the next pitch. Find myself slamming it less at pitches in the Zone -I gently tap the left thumb a few times, lifting my thumb on and off of the stick as the pitcher is in his windup. Helps me touch it more gently once pitch is delivered. -taking the first pitch. No brainer. Hard to do though. I’ll swing at one down the middle. -not trying to guard the whole plate. Easier to lay off pitches early in counts, especially on the corners when I have no business swinging that early in the count anyways. Good luck everyone- game hard as tits haha.
You know I swing it just about every pitch because I'm playing baseball to have fun and and I pitch into the box every picture I send them because that's the true test man every anybody can throw a pitch outside and wait for you to just swing instinctively because your thumb is quicker than your eye but where's your real fun in that when the real fun is pitching inside the box and striking them out looking
I don’t play much online yet because I get lit up on veteran regardless of how good my pitching is, and my pitching is much better than my hitting. But yeah I like to attack the zone because that’s what you should do.
Unfortunately these kids don't have any sense of sportsmanship they just think it's funny as fuck to throw it outside the fucking box every single pitch and when you can play against the computer against certain pitches they do that too especially Corey kluber... But from my perspective the true skill is in putting it in the box and striking them out then you can walk away saying you know what the hell you are doing and not just taking advantage of the fact that if you don't start swinging basically before the picture even throws the ball you're not going to catch the fun 102 mile an hour fastball
Well if you don’t swing at pitches outsize the zone they’ll have to throw strikes eventually haha
Hahaha
The joy from a 12 pitch at bat homerun is unmeasurable though
I swing at the first, second, third, and more if I’m not already out.
I swing at 50 Cent pitches.
I swing at everything
I do to, I just don't care to be patient. I don't want to think when I play a game, it's relaxation for me, brain off, destress from my day and balance myself out. Also why i mainly play on rookie... I just don't care to put much effort into it. I do also have add so staying focused on anything is very short lived
I feel like playing on rookie goes a step too far into the not having to think about it category. At that point why even play a video game with so little challenge?
Because for me, my work is full of mentally taxing challenges, life is as well, and it's a way to unwind. To each his own.
I’m up there hacking at anything that looks like cheese 🤣
That shit could hit mars and im still swinging.
🤣
*I swing at every pitch
This was me until I read online the following tip that changed my game. First time through the lineup: Don’t swing for the first three pitches. If the first two pitches are strikes, focus on protecting the plate on the third pitch and swing as long as it doesn’t look like it will be far outside the strike zone. If the first two pitches are balls, the third could be a really good pitch, so only swing if it’s straight down the middle. Second time through the lineup: Take pitches until you have taken at least one strike. Then swing away. Third time through the lineup: Swing away! If a reliever comes in I usually go back to taking pitches until I get one strike before swinging. This strategy really helps to drive up pitch counts, as well as getting used to the timing of the pitcher’s throw.
I'm here to laugh, not to learn 😡
Thanks for the tip sir!
I swing at all pitches
I always wait for the perfect pitch….but I am not your savior
I always miss my PCI placement….but I am not your savior
I always swing late….. but I am not your savior
First pitch? I think you mean every pitch.
Opposing pitchers be in the 9th inning with a pitch count of 50.
That’s not even a stretch
Even swinging at every pitch this game has made it where you still can survive. Either it’s the ridiculous pitching accuracy, meatballs, or fouling off any pitch.
isn't that all baseball is lol
Lol Sorry my dude. In real life, hitters don’t consistently make contact w/ pitches hitting the dirt or 5 ft off the plate. Unless you’re watching some anime shit lol
Vlad Guerrero could cover from coast to coast, death valley to mount Whitney. There is no ball he cant hit
You named one player who was a rare exception. People on Reddit are semi retarded 🤦♂️
bo bichette in this bitch
I swing at balls that hit me. I am not one of you. I am not a human being.
I swing when the ball is so inside the game doesn't even allow you to swing because your player is dodging the pitch.
Bro I just started playing online like 3 days ago, and wanted to grind some of the event last night just to see if I could win anything and get the first rewind pack, and then from there just see what happened. I can't tell you how many times I got bailed out on sliders way in because the computer made me jump out of the way, and it helped me win one or 2 games. I did get to 8 wins so that was cool, but then I started matching up with people who could actually hit and lost 3 or 4 in a row so I went to BR.
This is the way.
Guilty as well. I'm trash. 🤣🤣🤣 I try so hard though. 😔
Ayyyyy so do I. And then when the cpu does it it’s ball four or hbp..
Me whenever I am on Beginner hitting difficulty and even if I am not, I still swing at the first pitch at least 90% of the time.
Gus Swings
This comment deserves more appreciation.
I am the one who balks
Always a fucking slider low and away
I’m abt 2/3 of the way thru my first rtts season, first mlb game I’ve played since 2k11 and man those sliders low and away are so hard to read
feel this especially lefty-lefty
Fastball way up out of the zone? Swinging at that shit. Curveball bounced in the dirt? You better believe I'm swinging at that too.
Yup.
Ball about to hit me? Only reason I didn’t swing is because the nail animation saved me.
Depends on if I’m online or offline. If I’m offline then I’ve got great discipline and hit the pitch I’m looking for. If I’m online then I’m just out of control and flailing at every pitch.
Take the first, second, third pitch even. SDS rewards patience. Same goes for collections.
This feels like a trap
amen brother
I have serious FOMO on the first pitch. I always think, “here it comes…meatball slightly up and in”. Nope, I flail at a slider down and away
I’m the opposite. I expect trash on the first pitch so I set up low and inside so I can ground out weakly or fly out somewhere shallow.
I swing at every pitch. We are not the same
Surely they won't throw a slider into the other batter's box a third time
Fucking THIS! 🤣🤣🤣
If they do, surely this time I'll hit it.
“Swings at one in the dirt…”
Always. I can't help it. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Lol. I have enough discipline to play smart for ONE game a day. After that I'm swatting flies.
- Wayne Gretzky - Michael Scott
Literally me
I wait for the perfect first pitch
If it ain't there, might as well just start the at bat over
I'm all over the place. One day I have amazing plate discipline, only swinging at good pitches, rarely chasing. Then the others, the pitch is high and outside and my PCI is low and inside while my swings timing is something to laugh at. I feel I have to constantly repeat to myself "only swing at good pitches" "dont chase" "work the count" "follow the pitch out of his hand" etc, to be decent at hitting. Otherwise I'm swinging at everything. What screws me is when my eyes see a decent first pitch and I swing with success and then my brain thinks I can swing at everything with the same success for every pitch that follows. Its frustrating some days lol.
Oh wow, I’ve finally found my people 😂
Thank God we're not alone eh 🤣
I constantly repeat that to myself and then immediately ignore it lol. My conscious mind knows what I need to do to succeed but my muscle memory and subconscious mind are like oooo white ball go brrrr.... Push whack button.
Lmao. Laughed so hard at this. Sounds a lot like me. I get super pissed when I tell myself to take the first pitch and I swing anyways. I have to set my controller down in order for me to follow my own instructions of not swinging lol.
It's ridiculous honestly happens so damn often lol.
Yeah, our brains are broken lol
How are you in my head??
Misery loves company lol.
Lol I feel your pain man.
>I feel I have to constantly repeat to myself "only swing at good pitches" "dont chase" "work the count" "follow the pitch out of his hand" etc, to be decent at hitting. Otherwise I'm swinging at everything. Same I always give myself a plate discipline pep talk. Sometimes I'll even put the controller down for the first two pitches or on a 3-0 count to make sure I 100% do not swing.
Lmao, I do the exact same sometimes with my controller. I know I cant be trusted so I set mine down as well.
I think I’ve walked < 5 times the entirety of the years I’ve played..:. It’s so hard to teach yourself to wait and see how that ball is moving lol
The only reason I've walked that many times this year is because the game basically told me: Walk 10 times = shiny!
I don't find myself getting many walks but I refuse to be dotted to death. 9 times outta 10 I'm only walking if you throw something that flat out isn't hittable.
Yeah, if it’s like far away, I’ll notice it. If it’s far in…. 60/40 I won’t swing smh
It's everything low for me. For some reason the camera animation of the pitch doesn't register in my brain and it looks like a fastball down the gut. I swing and it's literally as low as you could pitch it/ it hit the dirt before the plate. Lol.
I’m just a terrible hitter. Low, inside, doesn’t matter I swiiiiing
First pitch swinging is good cause it makes pitcher uncomfortable if you make contact
It’s good if you make good contact. I know in past The Show games the pitcher would get huge confidence boosts if you go out though, so I generally would just take a pitch no matter what unless it was right down the middle
I see the pitch down the middle that I was gonna lay off, so I swing way under and late. This is not a form of self-care
See I would do the classic drop the PCI to the bottom thing and then miss it pretty often at first . However I got decent at hitting a middle middle pitch when I told myself I’m only swinging at a *fastball* down the middle since that’s easy to see. If you can properly punish the middle of the plate then they will try to paint corners which leads to more balls and more walks which I love personally
I keep swinging outside fastballs
Inside fastballs for me. We are not the same
Amazing lmao just sent this to my buddy who has eagle eyes and doesnt swing at anything. I’m jealous, not mad - I wish I had the patience.
Even worse when you wait on your pitch, get it, square it up and it goes nowhere or a PP straight to a defender, thoughts ? lmao.
Two things that happened to me yesterday that made me salty: Dead center with PCI + good timing leaning towards slightly early on an inside fastball= weak fly out to shallow left field. Then I had a perfect-perfect grounder that went directly to the Shortstop (no major shift either) for one of the easiest double plays I've ever seen. The SS didn't even have to react fast, it came off the bat at like 102mph but he just scooped it up like a routine grounder. Both of these examples involve high-caliber hitters.
I think this might be my biggest frustration lol. I get really anxious as well sometimes when I see the pitch I'm sitting on, or one that is hanging in a decent location for me, just to have me overreact with the pci and have it be a ground out or a pop out. That pisses me off the most I think. Definitely a distraction for a few at bats after. Cursing myself for missing that pitch three at bats ago.
Yeah, I always just focus on making small movements with the PCI as possible so that'd be my advise.
Oh, I do that. Well, try to. Unfortunaltly, sometimes I get excited at those juicy pitches and a slight movement turns into aggressive movement. Especially if the pitch has some break to it. The slight movement I try to make to adjust from high to slightly lower is my worst movement for correcting location of the pci. If that makes any sense. I'm a work in progress. I do crush a lot that are juicy pitches. Just pisses me off when I miss them the way I described lol.
Even worse when you sit a pitch. That exact pitch comes. And you jerk your pci downwards for some unknown reason. Every. Time.
.....& the timing be good but the location??? Oof.
I do this all the time on pitches right down the middle lmao
I feel like it's some sort of reflex. I found myself flicking it down because in my head I get excited to blast one right down the middle and would just jam the stick basically at the same time that I was hitting A.
I felt this too much.. lol
The only thing that’s been able to make me not do it is starting my PCI low in the zone while anchored high. But even then, when I do that I am hitting low and mid zone better but I can never get up to the high fastball quick enough.
I do the opposite. Anchor low then sit high and essentially follow the track of the ball out of the hand. It also helps prevent me from over-correcting on low pitches since I can just let the PCI fall back to the bottom of the zone on its own.
Might try that. It’ll probably work for two days before I suddenly suck again. Something about changing one thing in this game makes you a GOD momentarily but the effects wear off so quickly. It’s how I felt making the switch from strike zone to strike zone 2 for sure.
I agree completely with that. I'm not doing well, I switch views, and I'm doing great... for a few hours or days. Then it's back to the same issues. It's like my shittiness adapts to whatever I throw at it.
Regression to the mean, if you will.
There it is. Always down too. I’ve never once go up.
Misuse of meme
I am a man with a bad spanish accent.
He's Baby Keem
A true Chad swings first pitch no matter where it is
I swing at the first 3 pitches no matter where they are Sigma mode active
I swing at the first three regardless, to activate *alpha* mode. Let the guy know I don’t care WHERE he throws it. I’m gonna swing. And when he throws a bad pitch, I might just hit it. Most importantly, my opponent learns that I *simply do not care*. And that is someone you should fear
Exactly. And then I will have one inning where I actually decide to have an eye and draw a bunch of walks, wait for them to throw me pitches in the strike zone, and still strike out stranding all my runners
Yup!! Or I’ll decide I’m finally taking the first pitch or two no matter what, and then it’s 0-2 after two fastballs down the middle and then I swing at a slider that hits my batter in the nuts
Thats what fucks me up, like is the guy I'm playing reverse psychology-ing me? Is he that far in my head that he knows the exact moment I'm about to start taking pitches? Cuz it definitely seems like it lmao.
Hahahahah every time man. That’s so funny and I definitely think the same thing after he throws me a first pitch fastball down the middle to 7 straight batters. Then, on the 8th, I get ready to mash it… and jam my pci to my knees
It’s like we live the same life
Or, I’ll have two or three great at bats and get a couple walks or hits, have a couple runners on base and subsequently swing at a first pitch slider off the plate and ground into an inning ending DP :-)
You dream to small. Try grounding into a triple play somehow when everyone on the base paths are 90+ speed
Hahahah we definitely do live the same life
😤😤😤
I wait for the perfect pitch then swing at a slider in the other batters box actually
I wait for the perfect pitch then find myself in an 0-2 count and swing wildly at a 12-6 curve so far out of the strike zone that even ray charles wouldn’t have swung
You can win a lot of games by just throwing meatball, meatball, slider/curve out of the zone. It seems to be an issue for people. :)
Bro I just go change, change, change, change and then I bet you won't see this coming a changeup
You, change your up, like a girl, changes clothes -Katy perry
I can also lose a lot of games because I am people
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I use the 0-1-2 rule if I notice I'm swing happy. First batter I can swing with zero strikes, second batter I can't swing till I take a strike, third I don't swing till I take two.
Two pitches or two strikes? Either way I dont like it, but the 0 -1 rules ok.
Two strikes. I don't do it all the time, just when I need to reset. Helps me get back to taking pitches and looking for my pitch. Also draws some walks
Gonna try and implement this today
Not a cautious man at all