Hey Donan, Please feel free to go ahead and take the M's for the season. I really enjoyed playing the tournament with you guys but I'm afraid I have too many things going on right now to commit myself to a season. Good games in the tournament and have fun in the season!

Trashi, you'll be missed. It was great to play with you.

Donan, OK. I will restart with 6 teams given the rather low response.

hey guys, i'm afraid i'm bailing on the league too. i enjoyed playing against you guys in the tourney and the pickup games, but found it to be kind of a hassle having to schedule my free time (for the tourney and league games). i'm afraid i'm just gonna stick with my single-player offline franchise.

like i was telling swampy last night, i let my live (gold) membership ran out since i just don't play enough online to justify having it. i think i will eventually re-up it, so hopefully i will get to play some pickup games with you all in the future.

I hate to say that I'm also going to bail on the league. I just didn't enjoy the online gameplay much at all. I think I will stick to text based sims for my online baseball fix, although it's been awhile for that as well.

If you see me online, feel free to hit me up for pick-up games, but I don't want to commit to more than that right now. Our APFB league is taking up all the time I really want to give to online league play for now. That game really shines online, while MLB 2K8 is much better offline.

Good luck to you all!

Oh well, I blame 2k's flawed game release more than anything else.

Next year may be the year I take the plunge for a PS 3 to play the show.

Last night I won my first ranked game, 5-2 over the Yankees at Fenway. The guys had some kind of "Top Dog" rank thingie, so I got a 50 gp achievement for beating him and now that price is on my head, so if you play me in a ranked game and beat me, it passes to you.

I fear that those of you that got disenchanted with the softball -like scores playing strike only may have missed out on how good the game plays if you are willing to accept high cheese with a 1-2 count, just like real life. I have had some very realistic scoring games playing pubbies in ranked games. Sure there are more strike outs, but I dare say that makes it a better more realistic game. I have yet to play a pubbie that never throws a hittable ball. I end up taking some 1st pitch strikes early on, but that does send a message.

If any of you guys wants to play me in an anything goes pitching game, I think I'll be able to convert you.

Like the grounded Jayhawker (hope that knee feels better), I've been playing exclusively an offline single-player 162-game season with the Pirates. I modified the sliders and was able to get reasonably realistic scores and offense. Although my Pirates were 22-15, 1st in National League Central, with LaRoche and Bay leading the Majors in BA and HR, and my pitching staff has a sub-2.00 ERA, so I guess it's not all *that* realistic

But here's the bad news, I had to make a mid-game progress save, and now it seems my saved file is corrupted. It will not let me load the franchise file and I get stuck on a loading screen every time. I emailed 2K Sports and they offered no help except for 'start your season over.'

I am disappointed that I may have to scrap my season that's nearly 1/4 finished, and a bit hesitant to start a new one since I am afraid it may happen again. The general consensus on the net seems to be to avoid the in-game save as much as possible.

I'm tempted to trade in my 2k8 for an used copy of the MLB'08:the Show for the PS2. Is that too melodramatic?

I got a PSP for my wife the other day, so now I am considering picking up The Show. The problem is, the biggest draw I found for The Show is this year's Road to the Show, which is absent from the PSP version. But some handheld hardball sounds cool (now there's some OOC materail for ya!). I just need to wait long enough so that my wife still views the PSP as "her thing" before I start buying games that are strictly for me.

Now that my wife is enjoying the PSP, all I need is for LotR to show up on BluRay, and I will start my full court press to pick up a PS3.

Until then, MLB 2K8 is my baseball game of choice. It's too bad 2K let all of the glitches overrun what is a pretty cool game. I'm very excited for next year's version. Of course, instead of just polishing this game up, we'll be introduced to another "feature" like baseball cards, which will take resources away from fixing the bugs. But I can still dream, can't I?

I'd love a desighner to say "We're not adding any new features this year - this development cycle will focus on stamping out b ugs and glitches, as well as producing realistic on-field action". And I want a pony.

The June campaign starts and I am now 1-0.

The guy I was playing bailed in the 3rd after I hit a double to put me up 4-2. Odd, he was pitching me tough, I had struck out 3 or 4 times, walked once even, before Manny hit a 3-2 pitch with the bases loaded to the wall. As the second run scored he disconnected.

I tell you, pitching realistically with junk balls if the guy is swinging at anything makes the game very realistic. Maybe Strikeouts are high, but if you start taking pitches, and can work the count and make him throw a strike to avoid a walk, the game becomes SO much better.

With JayHawker's settings for the batting view, I can get a feel for pitches. I still strike out alot, but I'd rather have that and a 4-3 loss than a 20-18 win!

Yeah. But you have to be willing to guess sometimes, I equate it to sitting on a fastball so you may take some strikes. All in all I find I can still get hits and even walks from guys that will try to strike me out using any means necessary. I'm sure some guys expecting strike only games hate me and think I'm a dick, but as far as I can tell I'm not getting bad reviews. I always thank my opponent, even the quitters, and no one has replied saying I play unfair. But yes, I highly recommend it for online play.

2-0 in June thus far, last night the guy quit early. Way early, 3rd inning whgen I was up 4-2

Won a squeaker two nights ago - 3-1 over the Phillies. I went 7 with Wakefield and then shut the door with the pen.

I finished June 10-4 in ranked games.

Aw, I'll bring you along...... Once I started being more strategic about taking pitches (including strikes) the game together for me.

I highly recomend the ranked games. By this time of year you have some talented guys playing that don't mind a realistically played game.

Although my rep has taken some hits by some poor sports (IMO), I still have more good games than bad ones. Just realize that if you are pounding a guy he may bail before the 9th. I give them a free out < 5 inninngs these days, otherwise I make them forfiet or they just drop. But still, I am having a great time.