u/BuntCheese5Life

I saw it on sale for $125 a couple weeks ago and I bought a Medium-Soft one. I heard all the stories about how they were flat in pitch. I thought that wouldn't be a problem for me because I generally play pretty sharp. I WAS WRONG.

The reed crows about plays about 35 cents flat.

I bought some sand paper and after about 30 minutes of sanding the bottom (the "cork") down a fraction of a mm, it is only 25 cents flat. But it is incredibly tedious work.

I stuck with offline for the first month of the year because I thought I was too bad to play online games. I am old and have no quick reactions anymore, but I got bored one day and gave ranked season a try.

I found out that a lot of the people there are just as bad as me! Plus until you win 3 games all the games are on Veteran difficulty hitting.

It's a great way to get xp and pxp for your team affinities. I get like 5,000 pxp for all players playing 9 innings and getting like 5 hits and 1 run.

Give it a try, and if you run into a good at the lower levels just quit and find someone your own skill levels.

I went from being terrified of it to actually enjoying it.