[TwanLX2000]

Honestly, unless people are playing diamond tournaments or buying perfect packs (and most of us can’t afford those), I’m not sure why the “too many 100 cards” criticism greatly diminishes the game. When I get a card that I don’t need or can’t use, it’s a question of whether I’d rather collect 4K or 20K for that quick sell, so they’re welcome to throw me a Live Acuna as often as they want.

I know that we want all of the cards to offer some sort of usefulness, but it’s not reasonable to expect thousands of players not to play the better card given their personal opportunity, whether a 63, an 85, or a supercharged 100. The creep has to be a difficult thing to plan in advance and keep people engaged, because at some point those who’ve opened hundreds of packs over the better part of a year are going to reap the benefits of playing the cards that earn the best results. I’m not sure what the PT team can do to discourage any of us from doing that. Creating diversity for the sake of diversity (with similar ratings on every card) would only lead to a gridlock of competition with no room for improvement. It would essentially become a card trading platform, since there’s be no other incentive for whales to make purchases.

Aside from Roger Clemens for obvious reasons, there’s not a single player on my roster that isn’t a HOFer. In response to the argument that some of the players competed against better, I don’t think any player in history has ever played a full 162 games against 25 HOFers. It’s statistically impossible for Ted Williams to hit .400 and the HOF pitchers to continue to put up their career ERAs, peak or no peak. I think we can legitimately argue whether hitting “avoid K” or pitching control should be the end all / be all of a card’s usefulness, but the outcomes at the higher levels of the game would be the same, regardless of the numerical scale or what label is placed on the meta players.

I get irrationally frustrated or emotional about this game almost weekly, so I get where everyone is coming from, particularly on the weeks that I take 120 loss beatings because I’m the only team not playing the same five pitchers. I try to prepare myself for the inevitable by having a logical understanding of where I’m at in comparison to the competition, because getting upset that Frank Thomas is an inferior hitter to Roger Connor on the game isn’t helping my team get better.

(Did you know that the Big Hurt walked 138 times during his first full season in the bigs? That’s insane!)