Online Baseball Night one

by pastapadre
Posted March 5th, 2008 at 8:09 pm

The first Online Baseball Night will take place tomorrow (Thursday) with the concentrated upon time being 3pt/6et through 7pt/10et. This is a time for the community to gather and get in some good games against quality opponents for the 360 MLB 2K8 or the PS3 MLB 08: The Show. You can read up more on what the night will entail here.

After trying out The Show online tonight I’ve found there to have been significant improvements made and I’ve been seeing reports of that from others as well. The games I’ve played since the maintenance have been relatively smooth and consistent. The main issue I’ve had has been the bat not swinging in tandem with the button press, which makes it real hard to make adjustments because you can’t judge what you’re doing wrong. That happened in two out of the three games (the third game felt really good and didn’t have that problem). So there is definitely a sense of relief that at least it is running better and hopefully it continues improve even more. I haven’t gotten a chance to try out 2K8 again so I don’t know if the performance has gotten better online for that.

I wanted to mention that if you play The Show online and signed up to SportsConnect you can log in at the website and view your profile, stats, game history (including partial box scores of each game), search other users for the same info, the leagues are hosted on there, and there is more I just haven’t even gone through everything there yet. Definitely worth checking out. Click here to go to the SportsConnect site. This could be pretty cool to drop links to from the games that are completed tomorrow. Here is an example of the game I just completed which was ended early due to time constraints.

I’ll probably try to get 2 games in on each side although I may want to just go up against fellow west coasters in hope of avoiding the more severe lag issues. Continue on for a list of PSN and Xbox Live gamertags that were previously left in the comments. If you’d like me to add you to the list just go ahead and drop them in the comments here. We’ll also try to gather in a lobby room for easier challenging (I’ll update here with the room names tomorrow) so it isn’t required that you leave your gamertag to participate. Check back here for any updates prior to the start tomorrow.

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MarinerFan

Pasta, all I’m going to say is you should know better then to test Ichiros arm!
MarinerFan

Pasta, all I’m going to say is you should know better then to test Ichiros arm!
Harsh

Anyone wanna play add me GT: Harsh128
Harsh

Anyone wanna play add me GT: Harsh128
http://www.pastapadre.com/ pastapadre

[quote comment="15060"]Pasta, all I’m going to say is you should know better then to test Ichiros arm![/quote]

no kidding, as soon I rounded third I started to regret it. But I figured I’d put some pressure on and try to get a run across.

Hell of a game. I was shocked that Putz blew it like that. I was up and yelling when I hit that HR. That was a lot of fun. Heres the game link.

http://mlb08ps3html-prod.sc.online.scea.com/MLB08/game/game_results_web.php?GameID=25089
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[quote comment="15060"]Pasta, all I’m going to say is you should know better then to test Ichiros arm![/quote]

no kidding, as soon I rounded third I started to regret it. But I figured I’d put some pressure on and try to get a run across.

Hell of a game. I was shocked that Putz blew it like that. I was up and yelling when I hit that HR. That was a lot of fun. Heres the game link.

http://mlb08ps3html-prod.sc.online.scea.com/MLB08/game/game_results_web.php?GameID=25089
MarinerFan

Pasta, I live in Kansas City. Not because I choose to but because the Army stationed me here. And you just made my hate for the Royals get even worse.

Some of those plays during the game were crazy. The GW HR, you didn’t even connect, and the Raul Ibanez hit that supposedly hit the wall but your RF plainly caught it. Weird stuff.

Good game though.
MarinerFan

Pasta, I live in Kansas City. Not because I choose to but because the Army stationed me here. And you just made my hate for the Royals get even worse.

Some of those plays during the game were crazy. The GW HR, you didn’t even connect, and the Raul Ibanez hit that supposedly hit the wall but your RF plainly caught it. Weird stuff.

Good game though.
http://www.pastapadre.com/ pastapadre

[quote comment="15068"]Pasta, I live in Kansas City. Not because I choose to but because the Army stationed me here. And you just made my hate for the Royals get even worse.

Some of those plays during the game were crazy. The GW HR, you didn’t even connect, and the Raul Ibanez hit that supposedly hit the wall but your RF plainly caught it. Weird stuff.

Good game though.[/quote]

yeah thats the slight lag kinda screwing up the sync. Trust me I crushed that HR, I guessed location and pitch and was all over it. My brother was here with me and right before that pitch he asked if I was going to bunt, and I was going to, until I saw I had guessed right. So that should make things feel even worse for you lol. Its just not seen in the replay and yeah that catch I’ll trust it was actually off the wall but it didn’t feel like it. Then he just stood there and took his time to throw it lol.

So I’m done for the night, good games fellas. Anyone who sent me an invite that I didn’t get to I’ll try and gets games in with you in the near future.
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[quote comment="15068"]Pasta, I live in Kansas City. Not because I choose to but because the Army stationed me here. And you just made my hate for the Royals get even worse.

Some of those plays during the game were crazy. The GW HR, you didn’t even connect, and the Raul Ibanez hit that supposedly hit the wall but your RF plainly caught it. Weird stuff.

Good game though.[/quote]

yeah thats the slight lag kinda screwing up the sync. Trust me I crushed that HR, I guessed location and pitch and was all over it. My brother was here with me and right before that pitch he asked if I was going to bunt, and I was going to, until I saw I had guessed right. So that should make things feel even worse for you lol. Its just not seen in the replay and yeah that catch I’ll trust it was actually off the wall but it didn’t feel like it. Then he just stood there and took his time to throw it lol.

So I’m done for the night, good games fellas. Anyone who sent me an invite that I didn’t get to I’ll try and gets games in with you in the near future.