Fortnite Addiction Becoming a Problem for Major League Baseball - Sensationalist Headlines

Given what my dad's job has been my whole life, I am lucky enough to have been exposed to these guys since I was a little kid. We were with the Astros in 2004-2006, Rays 2007-2017, and now with the Cubs. We had Price on our team with the Rays for some time, and he is probably one of the coolest guys I know. Hopefully I can shed some light on the posts I saw in this thread with what I know. You play 162 games a year + spring training, all from February to (hopefully) October. Half of those are on the road. When you get to an away city for a series you don't do anything in your hotel except sleep. Assuming you have a night game (7pm start), you are getting to the field no later than 2pm and you're there until after midnight. During that 2pm - 7pm time, you have quite a bit of down time where some guys work out, hit in the cages, and there is BP usually around 3-5pm. The rest of that time they are usually on a huge TV in the middle of the locker room, or on one of the TVs in the kitchen/cafe. TL;DR it's a lot easier to plug in an Xbox than to get Wifi (usually shitty) and play on a laptop where there's no desks. Braves suck, go Cubs. Actually, a lot of these guys build ridiculous PCs from places like Falcon Northwest/Origin/Alienware (back in the day). There's a lot of money to spend on toys. There's also a shockingly high amount of WoW players in the MLB too. You'd be surprised at how fast they get figured out. Usually if you play, they tend to keep their friends lists to a minimum so there is less to link back to them. Alt accounts for days. False. If there are more questions or whatever, I'd be happy to answer them. I've spent almost every summer in a clubhouse since I was about 7. It's a pretty cool place, and I got to play Guitar Hero/Halo on the jumbotron in the Trop.

True, actually; with over a century of post career earning metrics and union/benefit disputes to go with it. You'll note nowhere was there disparaging.

A lot of these guys are degree holding athletes. They aren't just brainless muscle machines. The real shame is the guys we import from Latin America that don't make it all the way up to the majors because there isn't any fallback for them. But for a good majority of guys that don't sign out of high school (which is rare to do), they will often ask in their contracts that the team they sign with pay for the remainder of their schooling. This is what my dad did back in the day as a pitcher going into the White Sox. There are also the few (but surprising more than you would imagine) that are Ivy League guys, and they are just as intelligent as you would expect from that kind of institution.

And the manner of and through which many of these athletes obtain those degrees has been a sticking point amongst researchers and pundits alike. You'll note I used the word most, not all, and it very much applies; since most collegiate budgetary plans become public, it's not terribly hard to follow where the money is going and why. Maybe take a step back from your level of investiture and consider the original statement.

the wifi problem still exists with a xbox or a laptop though?

In almost all of the fields I have been to they usually have those industrial-looking cabling to the TVs and that 4 port Ethernet jack next to them (where only 1 of the 4 ports works). Clubhouse managers usually have spare cables for the guys in the away team locker rooms because they know they don't always travel/remember with theirs. Home locker rooms have all of this stuff setup usually without players having to bring it in.

But that mechanic is fun. Did you never play the original ace of spades?

I think I know who your dad is. In respect of anonymity I'll just say his initials are J.H. right? The 05' pitching lineup was fire but I think the guys we got now are going to be better.

The current rotation they have is something to be proud of, but that old school roster with Bagwell, Biggio, Ausmus, Beltran, Berkman, Taveras, Clemens, Pettitte, Oswalt, Backe, Lidge. You can't beat that, unless you are the 2005 White Sox. Also, because you might be one of 3 people on this forum who understand, can we have a moment of silence for Brad Lidge? What Albert Pujols did to his slider was a crime against humanity...

I heard that ball was last seen flying past the Voyager 1 space probe. even though the roof was closed

No- I can see how building would be fun but I don't like the ability to shit out towers in .5 seconds.

Unfortunately for better or worse, it's the main staple of the game that makes it stand out from the others. I'm not a fan either.

Hey it works for it- I preferred the base defence aspect of it but hey.

It's a really interesting mechanic that is really well balanced(at least for pc users), am I ever gonna actually play the game outside of when the base game becomes free? Probably not.

NSFW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fntuc9cmy4 Fun fact, this is actually the moment where you can see his downturn. Everything from here out was rough. He would review his video in the video room and insist there was something wrong with his delivery. My dad would try to explain it was all mental, but it didn't ever click. He always said they should just replace coaches with psychologists... Definitely the most prolific one-and-done pitch in baseball.

I remember watching that pitch live and it still has an effect on me. Lidge was never the same after that. It was basically this: https://youtu.be/1tFDsL_mwBY My mind goes back to it every time I hear the name Pujols like a sports PTSD. Im hoping that we can pull Giles mind back into the game. He was doing well at the start of the season but had a one game relapse where he literally punched himself.

90% of the game is mental, and the other half is physical.

“Ninety percent of this game is half mental.”

I really do fortnite not because it's an interesting game but because the amount of puns that you can make with it's name.