OOTP After Talk 18 w/ ThatSportsGamer

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This week, I was lucky enough to be invited on Ezra Denney’s show, OOTP After Talk. I had a great time chatting with him about my history at OOTP, with baseball video games, my love for questionably good baseball movies, and a lot more.

Ezra doesn’t archive these videos somewhere (we’re gonna work on that), so he’s given me the permission to post the archive over on my YouTube channel.

Check out his streams at Twitch.tv/EzraDenney.
Follow him on BlueSky at @ezradenney.bsky.social‬.

You can support my Stand Up To Cancer campaign at ThatSportsGamer.com/SU2C.

All-Time Braves DD Squad (8/1)

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With the calendar flipping to August, now seems like a good time to take a look at what my all-time Braves squad is looking like in MLB The Show 25’s Diamond Dynasty mode. As of today, I have attained all of the cards of players who have played for the Braves in the mode. At a quick glance, you might notice a few weird guys, but we’ll talk about them as they come up.

The latest addition to the squad is David Justice. He just dropped in today’s Outfield Assist Program. His addition to the team moved Gary Sheffield to the bench and, because of Justice’s excellent defensive ratings, Acuña has moved to DH. I was really surprised to see Jose Bautista has 85 Fielding, 99 Arm Strength, 90 Arm Accuracy, and 80 Reaction. Thanks to that, even out of position in LF, he should be fine.

The Braves in Diamond Dynasty, much like real-life, are desperately lacking in quality middle-infielders. This Swanson and Albies haven’t moved from their positions, or the bottom of the lineup, in months.

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Burn The Ships – An OOTP 26 Franchise

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As you may know, I’m the Head of Community for Out of the Park Developments. Every year on their Twitch channel I do a random MLB franchise stream that goes for the entire game cycle. This year I selected the Pittsburgh Pirates. The name of that franchise is Burn The Ships, because we’re here to win, and we’re not turning back, so we won’t need the ships anymore.

You can watch the stream over on Twitch.tv/OOTPDevelopments on Tuesday nights at 9pm ET.

Archives of the stream can be found at YouTube.com/OOTPDevelopments.

Welcome!

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Hello and welcome to the new ThatSportsGamer.com.

It’s been a long time coming that this page has needed a refresh, and I figured now is as good a time as any.