Zachary Cook

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@PrimeTimeKG_ Brother you had no pause time😂

What just happened dog.... I got a loss for what exactly?

@TolleEnthusiast Hey buddy so half of these guys are literally about to get paid a piss ton more than what they’re currently getting

You can make literal super teams with $140 million btw.

@CalicoJoeMLB 3 are dead and 1 of them was beyond elite in his 4 years before he died, Cole doesn’t need explaining, Profar is an every day starter if he would lay off the roids, Darby’s every day starter for a long time and I mean yea this entire list was or is everyday starters

Yeah, because “Top 10 prospects” always work out. I know you’re like 15 years old, so here’s what those lists used to look like. Wanna tell me the hit rate here for these “top 10” guys?

@ZexRow @eternalrll There is quite literally no ceiling in RL lmao

I've been rank 1 in Fortnite (leaderboard and online earnings for a few months) and top 10 in Rocket League (solos leaderboard in 2015/2016), so I've played both at a high level. Rocket League mechanics are just way easier to grind. You can sit there for a few hours a day for a week and learn the mechanics you've been practicing. The skill expression is there, but the ceiling was hit a long time ago. If you compare 2018 vs 2026 clips, Fortnite looks completely different, RL looks mostly the same. That alone should tell you which game actually has the higher ceiling. Saying RL is harder to go pro is misleading too. It's only "harder" because it's a closed league. Any game with a league is gonna be harder to get into because of gatekeeping and nepotism, not because the game itself is harder. "Harder to start" also makes no sense. You can understand Rocket League in like 30 seconds. If we're talking mechanics, nobody is learning Fortnite mechanics faster than RL mechanics lol. Ranked doesn't even matter in this comparison. Yeah RL ranked is harder, but Fortnite ranked has basically never meant anything competitively. The actual competition is the open tournament circuit, which is way more competitive just off player count alone and no gatekeeping. And the camping/lucky kills thing is just wrong. You can't do that in actual comp because of surge. They're just completely different systems: RL = closed league, gatekept FN = open circuit, massive player base, constantly evolving If we're talking actual difficulty/ceiling, Fortnite is just harder. RL is only "harder" in the sense that it's harder to get into the pro scene.

Rocket league is harder to go pro. Rocket league is harder to start. Rocket league is harder overall. No bias. I’m the highest rank in both games. Anyone can earn camping & getting a few lucky kills spraying endgame. Unreal Rank - 5% of players SSL Rank - 0.03% of players Fortnite: - Cash cups - Victory cups - Divisional cups - Console cups - FNCS Rocket league: RLCS.

@FinestCitySD Is the save situation in the room with us?

If you have the chance to put in the best closer in the world in a save situation… and you don’t… you deserve to lose

@Demonwori3 Hey do me a favor and look up “2017 Astros roster” and then look up “when did Yordan Alvarez debut” and just lmk what you find thanks

I’ll shit talk Aaron Judge, but at least he ain’t a cheater.

@LeekNabers Judge is genuinely the most fraudulent player on the planet

A Red Sox player blew the game and sold his country

@shegone03 It was quite obviously a cross up

This umpire was pissed off and he should be! If your hands aren’t quick enough to catch a high fastball don’t start with your damn glove on the ground! This can 💯 be attributed to the #1Knee🗑️ catching garbage! #shegone

@KasperStats Feet? 8 feet? Are you ok?

In case anyone's interested in the actual math lol ^

this is at least 8 feet from where it crossed the plate

@CoachDan27 It’s way closer. It may still be a ball but you can’t say it’s egregious and can’t fault the ump on that especially for Millers slider

@ZachBaseball5 Agreed. And the side view from what I’ve seen is a lot closer than what people are trying to make it out to be. It crossed at the very bottom of his knees on the side view

People complaining about the called strike 3 in the WBC game are pretty hypocritical. Don’t see one of them complaining about Will Smith’s AB the inning before that saved Doval from a complete meltdown of an inning

@CoachDan27 Yea he was missing for both sides. You can’t blame your loss on one call when you can’t score with RISP and less than 2 outs like 4 times

@ZachBaseball5 This is true as well. They couldn’t hit with RISP. They got shut down when it counted. And we also can’t pretend like that umpire wasn’t bad for the US as well. Will Smith led off top 9 and should’ve been walked but was rung up. That is a potential inning changing call too

@Miggysbat @AlexHossfeld You can’t be mad at the ump for calling that a strike, however you can be mad that ABS isn’t in the WBC. But you can’t fault the ump for missing that pitch

@AlexHossfeld His knees are crouched lower than his orignal stance, and his front knee is well in front of the plate after his stride. ABS uses 12 synchronized cameras to tell us where it crossed the plate. The pitch was low.

Man, I cannot WAIT until the regular season eliminates all of the smoothbrain “you have to protect with two strikes!” discourse from baseball. A batter should not be punished for having good plate discipline.

@ItsPlayful_ Personally I think the in game scroll wheel is great and convenient. Takes less time for certain things and saves you pause time

Personally, I’m liking it so far. A few quick takeaways: What I like: •The content has been great •It’s pretty easy to earn a lot of Diamond cards with no money spent •The hitting blur / PCI sensitivity additions are a really nice touch What I don’t like: •The in-game quick menu is terrible •Way too many bloop hits Servers are down right now, but this literally happens every year at launch. It’s only day 3. I get that it shouldn’t happen, but it does. Just relax and give it some time.

Be honest, how upset are you rn?

@aPROballplayer A 92 tatis will certainly still be usable in a month

@ZachBaseball5 You still won’t be using these in a month As new cards come out they have to be better, this is the problem, There’s very little ground to improve

This may be a hot take These WBC cards in MLB The Show 26 started out with way too high of Overalls Our Power Creep has no room to grow It’s like a 10 Overall Point window to last 365 days…

@aPROballplayer Because I don’t want to have to collect 110 cards for an 85 overall card that most likely won’t use in a month

@ZachBaseball5 If it was an 85 and was one of the better cards in the game Why wouldn’t that move you…

@aPROballplayer It’s because the WBC is supposed to be fun and using the cards is supposed to be fun. Using a 82 Juan Soto or a 79 Tatis wouldn’t really get me going

@ZachBaseball5 That’s a bad reason, I’ve already heard that argument The baseline is the baseline, these would be fine scaled down at this stage, they don’t have to be “higher” just because they’re WBC cards, it just happens to be the first program

@aPROballplayer We’re talking about WBC, not in general. When we have the WBC the overalls are gonna be inflated off the rip that’s just how it’s gonna go and I think doing that once every 3 years is fun

@ZachBaseball5 From 23, sure From last year, no

@tigersslab “Entire ballpark” and it’s the 20 rich fellas sitting behind home

entire ballpark sitting down like it's a meaningless july baseball game