Batting Practice Podcast

Whew, I bet you are as exhausted reading that title as I was typing it. We are back with Episode 17 covering all Sorare sports with a special lookback on 2022 with all that has changed and the highs and the lows from the world of Sorare.

If you follow us on TikTok, you would have seen our World Cup recap video featuring Andrew's semibold call to stick with Argentina winning the tournament even after losing Matchday 1 to Saudi Arabia. The first ever Sorare Global Cup is also officially over. Congrats to !Fulgurance on winning the Batting Practice league with a whopping 2,399 points. For that effort, we are awarding him a National Series Christian Pulisic aka the Lebron James of Soccer. Unfortunately you cannot use him yet in Sorare NBA.

Sorare had a great year in 2022 growing its user base and branching into new sports: baseball and basketball. This is part of the reason why you are listening to this podcast, as we wanted to share our baseball knowledge with all of you to make you better S07 players.

Andrew shares his bone-headed trading strategy of trying to buy the "cheat code" players ahead of the match deadline and churning them after lock to have ether to repeat the plan for the next game week. Buying guys 20% higher and selling them for 10% less quickly adds up and does not lead to great trading results. Listen to the full story and laugh at his pain. 

Finally, the boys get into our 2022 superlatives sharing our MVPs across all sports, our least valuable player (LVP) and our "Most likely to...". This was a fun segment with lots of laughs. If you are STILL reading, share your superlatives with us on Twitter.

Our podcast is now legally allowed to drive in the United States as we just hit episode 16!! Thank you to all of our listeners over the last few months. Each one of you mean the world to us and it is why we strive to make the highest quality content and show up each week to give our best. If you have not already, please take the time to rate and review us, this is instrumental in the algorithms finding us and getting our content out to more Sorare fans. 

Enough with the self-promotion, you are here to learn what this episode is all about and we have the details.

Andrew, Jacob, and Josh reflect on our Global Cup Journey's so far and breakdown our expectations for the final and 3rd place match. Things get heated when we breakdown Sorare's announcement yesterday to introduce Soccer Starter Bundles. It is clear Sorare is trying to convert the masses that signed up for the Global Cup, it is unknown currently whether this strategy will pay off but we applaud their efforts and their intentions.

Finally, private leagues have arrived for Sorare NBA and Soccer (MLB coming soon... ). The idea is fantastic as Sorare is best played with friends and trying to understand how they are doing can be challenging. This feature makes this significantly more simply and opens up a world of possibilities for Sorare going forward.

Let us know what you think on Twitter or your favorite social media of choice. 

Our second episode of the Sorare Global Cup is live! We redeem ourselves guessing a world cup player on "Who Are Ya?", discuss if players should be sitting or not during the group stage and World Cup in general, and provide updates on Sorare NBA and MLB. Although there is not much to be talked about other than the Sorare global cup, we are seeing new game modes in NBA coming this upcoming game week. As for MLB, we now have common swaps and should be expecting more scouting missions soon! 

It is turkey week in the United States leaving the boys to record this episode early so we can continue to deliver our podcast every Saturday. This was a huge week of sports in the United States with traditions old and new where most of the country was expected to watch the England vs US match on Friday. Andrew, Jacob, and Josh had our predictions for how the game would go so listen in to see if we were right or wrong and have a few laughs at our expense.

Matchday 1 was underway with things not looking great for Andrew as he decided to go all in on Argentina for the global cup selecting both Messi and De Paul to perform well against Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately, the Saudis shocked the world and foiled Messi's first World Cup game leaving Argentina on the brink of elimination for Matchday 2.

Enough with the soccer talk.

Sorare MLB's first Scouting Mission wrapped up this week rewarding managers for collecting previous MVP winners with this year's AL and NL MVPs in Aaron Judge and Paul Goldschmidt. The boys offered their opinions on this first challenge along with recommendations on how Sorare can improve future ones. 

Also, Sorare MLB announced managers would receive 150xp every week on all cards held in their gallery to help reward early adopters with a nice XP bonus to ensure cards stay powerful for Sorare MLB season 2. 

We end the episode discussing the latest developments for Sorare NBA, discussing the implications of the new Eastern and Western Conference competitions and the new beginner league to help new managers onboard and learn the game.

We appreciate all of the support we have received thus far and look forward to continue making quality content for our fans. We are just getting started.

In our first official episode since the beginning of the MLB offseason, we start off in stride giving our final thoughts about the World series and overall first impression of the MLB Sorare season. However, with a long stretch of no games going on, we delve into to Sorare's other sports too, NBA and Soccer! (Anyone see the ever so slight name change?)

Sorare Soccer just recently came out with the new Global Cup world cup mode, and what better way to celebrate it than to start our own league! 

sorare.com/invite/pl/AMKJWI?referrer=upnorthjacob

Use this link to sign up and get entered in a giveaway to win a limited NBA card from us! (Yes, just for joining our league)

And finally, we get a chance to talk about Sorare NBA drops and swaps and the relevant strategies involved with them. Great info for new and experienced players, our NBA section is packed full this week. And for those who watch until the end, we have a special unboxing surprise that we would totally recommend staying along for! 

Another week another podcasting platform. Shoutout to John Nellis for sharing his setup with us as we try to improve our recording quality and deliver the best content possible to our listeners. We inked a 1 year deal with Zoom for our official podcasting platform. Andrew makes a ridiculous bet about the future of Zoom's stock price as we see whether it will be above $100 by Episode 50, which is nearly 1 year away! Before we look to future milestones, it is important to celebrate the ones already achieved; the team was ecstatic that we made it to 10 episodes.

A lot has changed since Episode 1, please go listen if you are newer or just found us on your podcast feed. Sorare has launched a brand new sport through Sorare NBA and much to our earlier statements, Andrew, Jacob, and Josh have been buying cards and setting lineups after promising to wait and see for a bit (those are always famous last words). 

As the MLB Season winds down in a spectacular fashion with the World Series clash between the Houston Astros and the Philadelphia Phillies, the boys share their hot takes on what makes a game exciting to watch. After a barrage of home runs one night, both teams were scoreless through the next game until a late game breakthrough by the Astros. 

We will still be a baseball-first podcast but we want to share our thoughts on other Sorare Sports as we believe it is important for Baseball Managers to be aware of what is happening elsewhere. It seems like Sorare is rewarding managers who play multiple sports as we saw them gift us all 4 common cards this week to strengthen our Sorare NBA gallery just for participating in Sorare MLB. We expect a similar participation bonus when Sorare MLB launches again next year so we think its important to at least give the others a go. 

Episode 10 was full of many tangents, hot takes, and debates which we hope will keep you engaged and leave you entertained. As always you can find us on Twitter @BatPracticePod

Batting Practice will remain a dedicated Sorare MLB podcast, covering the latest updates to the game and the world of baseball. However, being the Sorare addicts that we are, we will be playing every sport that is launched and sprinkle in our thoughts on other games from time to time. With MLB Playoffs in full stride, we wanted to take the time to share our thoughts on the launch of Sorare NBA and what that means for the platform overall. We have discussed how growing up in the States has formed our love of baseball, basketball has also been a love of ours from playing as kids to watching our hometown Milwaukee Bucks take the championship on the back of Giannis Antetokounmpo. 

Let us know your thoughts on Twitter on whether you want us to talk more about Sorare NBA as we are committed to creating the content you want to watch. 

With that said, Sorare MLB had a dramatic week with the closing of the Gameweek prior to all games played to a normalizing of rewards after a large amount was given away during the Wild Card Round. We have all the takes you have been looking for and more as some of us stood to gain massively if the Yankees game had been included.

We are just getting started!