Do you watch MLB games while playing OOTP? - Page 3

rjl518 · 04-01-2018, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by MizzouRah

Me too! Maybe we can salvage a win today.

You know i love and respect you and Orcin, right?
But LETS GO METS!
Bring out the brooms!

MizzouRah · 04-01-2018, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Orcin

According to the P-D Cards Talk forum, we are going to be 0-162 and the sky is falling.

They obviously missed the memo explaining small sample size.

HAHA... just like Blues fans. I'm at the AS break now and we are only 3 behind Chicago and Martinez and Weaver are out for the season.

MizzouRah · 04-01-2018, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by rjl518

You know i love and respect you and Orcin, right?
But LETS GO METS!
Bring out the brooms!

no hard feelings.. Mets have a scary pitching staff and bats to boot.

rjl518 · 04-01-2018, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by MizzouRah

no hard feelings.. Mets have a scary pitching staff and bats to boot.

true that...but the one thing about STL,
no matter who is on your team and no matter how many injuries you have, the Redbirds are a threat every single year!

Déjà Bru · 04-01-2018, 07:07 PM

I meant to post this yesterday when I was playing OOTPB and watching/listening to MLB.tv in the background. (What I do is to listen until I hear something interesting going on, then I will ALT+TAB out of OOTPB and over to MLB.tv for the replay.)

I am not making this up. Here are two actual difficulties:

The crack of the bat on MLB.tv puts me off at times. I have the sound off in OOTPB from preference and necessity, but I will hear the crack of the bat at "odd" times like when the pitcher is just releasing the ball or after it has been hit in my game. And there have been a few times that MLB.tv's and OOTPB's "crack of the bat" coincided exactly, which is really weird!
There are times when I hear an exciting play going on in MLB.tv AND there is a play ensuing in OOTPB. What the heck? Which one do I stay with or go to? I cannot ALT+TAB back and forth fast enough!

Ah, me. Everybody should have such problems and nothing worse to worry about.

Painmantle · 04-01-2018, 08:02 PM

NO, I stopped watching MLB Games (Or even being a Fan) in 1994 when they canceled the World Series

NoOne · 04-01-2018, 08:33 PM

holy grudge, lol

they were just asking for pay commensurate with profits. something all labor should demand and th world would be a better place. billionaires and so-called "job creators" are the scourge of our existence and never let anythign trickle down without a staunch fight -- historically speaking.

hate to break it to you, but the players aren't the greedy ones. they stil get less than they deserve. accounting is made to hide profits and reduce taxable income artifically. i've taken a graduate level accounting class or 2 while getting an MBA. this is undeniable truth about accounting. there are so many legal ways to hide your income it's %$#2ing disgusting.

keep the masses poor and dumb and you get the political climate that you see today in america. a clear step backward the last 2-3 generations in most aspects of life outside of social issues. at least some people aren't as villified as they used to be for not "fitting in" to some nonsensical cultural norm of that society.

Painmantle · 04-02-2018, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by NoOne

holy grudge, lol

they were just asking for pay commensurate with profits. something all labor should demand and th world would be a better place. billionaires and so-called "job creators" are the scourge of our existence and never let anythign trickle down without a staunch fight -- historically speaking.

hate to break it to you, but the players aren't the greedy ones. they stil get less than they deserve. accounting is made to hide profits and reduce taxable income artifically. i've taken a graduate level accounting class or 2 while getting an MBA. this is undeniable truth about accounting. there are so many legal ways to hide your income it's %$#2ing disgusting.

keep the masses poor and dumb and you get the political climate that you see today in america. a clear step backward the last 2-3 generations in most aspects of life outside of social issues. at least some people aren't as villified as they used to be for not "fitting in" to some nonsensical cultural norm of that society.

I didn't realize that answering a simple question would get me a Lecture on both Economics and Politics. In the interest of the OP, I'll just leave this thread with there is a whole lot more than the 1994 season that has kept me away from Baseball, but this is a whole different topic. Have a great day!

Kangostar · 04-02-2018, 04:27 PM

Well I wouldn't necessarily say I'm "watching" a game but it is definitely on in the background I just keep it on the MLB channel while I sim/manage my fictional league like right now watching KC and DET play while I try to get my team over the .500 hump

RedCup217 · 04-03-2018, 09:14 AM

Yes I do! I usually turn on the Indians game but I'll watch just about any game if it's their day off. Then I really get into my game, I'll hear the TV announcer get really excited about something, look up and realize I missed the play. Thank goodness for rewinding live TV!

Giants44 · 04-05-2018, 10:03 PM

when I was a kid it was rolling dice playing strat o matic and listening to AM radio broadcast of Giants games.

so 51 year old me is pretty ecstatic to be able to play OOTP and watch one of these things on the wall mounted 55" 4k in my office:

Giants game live or DVR if I haven't seen it

MLB TV switching around to follow my fantasy players or just good \ interesting games

30 for 30 or similar type docs

you tube of past games \ highlights

drhay53 · 04-05-2018, 10:13 PM

MLB.tv is crazy expensive. I've bought packages like that for other leagues. I mean I get it, it's 162 full-length broadcasts, but come on. $90/season for a single team?

That said, I do tend to turn on MLB network on the TV all day and just let it go. When I feel like watching, I watch for 10-15 minutes, then go back to whatever I was doing. That's one of my favorite things about baseball, there's always so much of it and I like it for background noise.

04-01-2018, 07:07 PM	#45
Déjà Bru Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Long Island Posts: 11,742	I meant to post this yesterday when I was playing OOTPB and watching/listening to MLB.tv in the background. (What I do is to listen until I hear something interesting going on, then I will ALT+TAB out of OOTPB and over to MLB.tv for the replay.) I am not making this up. Here are two actual difficulties: The crack of the bat on MLB.tv puts me off at times. I have the sound off in OOTPB from preference and necessity, but I will hear the crack of the bat at "odd" times like when the pitcher is just releasing the ball or after it has been hit in my game. And there have been a few times that MLB.tv's and OOTPB's "crack of the bat" coincided exactly, which is really weird! There are times when I hear an exciting play going on in MLB.tv AND there is a play ensuing in OOTPB. What the heck? Which one do I stay with or go to? I cannot ALT+TAB back and forth fast enough! Ah, me. Everybody should have such problems and nothing worse to worry about. __________________ - Bru

04-01-2018, 08:02 PM	#46
Painmantle Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Greenfield ,IN Posts: 3,053	NO, I stopped watching MLB Games (Or even being a Fan) in 1994 when they canceled the World Series __________________ “As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.” -Babe Ruth “Ruth made a grave mistake when he gave up pitching. Working once a week, he might have lasted a long time and become a great star.”-Tris Speaker My Dynasties The Beantown Bambino

04-05-2018, 10:03 PM	#51
Giants44 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 2,408	when I was a kid it was rolling dice playing strat o matic and listening to AM radio broadcast of Giants games. so 51 year old me is pretty ecstatic to be able to play OOTP and watch one of these things on the wall mounted 55" 4k in my office: Giants game live or DVR if I haven't seen it MLB TV switching around to follow my fantasy players or just good \ interesting games 30 for 30 or similar type docs you tube of past games \ highlights __________________ "In a text sim - Immersion is everything" -Me "Judge a man not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character" -Martin Luther King "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." -Einstein "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." -Muhammad Ali "Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything." -Toby Harrah

04-01-2018, 08:33 PM	#47
NoOne Banned Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 7,273 Infractions: 0/1 (3)	holy grudge, lol they were just asking for pay commensurate with profits. something all labor should demand and th world would be a better place. billionaires and so-called "job creators" are the scourge of our existence and never let anythign trickle down without a staunch fight -- historically speaking. hate to break it to you, but the players aren't the greedy ones. they stil get less than they deserve. accounting is made to hide profits and reduce taxable income artifically. i've taken a graduate level accounting class or 2 while getting an MBA. this is undeniable truth about accounting. there are so many legal ways to hide your income it's %$#2ing disgusting. keep the masses poor and dumb and you get the political climate that you see today in america. a clear step backward the last 2-3 generations in most aspects of life outside of social issues. at least some people aren't as villified as they used to be for not "fitting in" to some nonsensical cultural norm of that society.

04-02-2018, 04:27 PM	#49
Kangostar Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2018 Location: California Posts: 27	Well I wouldn't necessarily say I'm "watching" a game but it is definitely on in the background I just keep it on the MLB channel while I sim/manage my fictional league like right now watching KC and DET play while I try to get my team over the .500 hump

04-03-2018, 09:14 AM	#50
RedCup217 Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2017 Posts: 9	Yes I do! I usually turn on the Indians game but I'll watch just about any game if it's their day off. Then I really get into my game, I'll hear the TV announcer get really excited about something, look up and realize I missed the play. Thank goodness for rewinding live TV!

04-05-2018, 10:13 PM	#52
drhay53 Major Leagues Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 355	MLB.tv is crazy expensive. I've bought packages like that for other leagues. I mean I get it, it's 162 full-length broadcasts, but come on. $90/season for a single team? That said, I do tend to turn on MLB network on the TV all day and just let it go. When I feel like watching, I watch for 10-15 minutes, then go back to whatever I was doing. That's one of my favorite things about baseball, there's always so much of it and I like it for background noise.