I figured I'd throw this out there.

I'm cautious with my online presence. I don't do social media and I limit my website registrations.

I started receiving thousands of spam e-mails this morning....and I mean thousands. I got over 3500 in the space of 10 minutes. I was suspicious of this activity and looked at the e-mail they were sent to. I have nothing important on that e-mail, it's just a general use e-mail, but I remembered that my PayPal account was on that e-mail. It was an older account and I rarely used it so it escaped my notice. I had not turned on 2 step notification.

Turns out, someone managed to hack the password to the account and sent themselves a large sum of money. The e-mail spam was to cover up the e-mail from PayPal that tells you that you just made a transaction. I mean, who will check out 3000+ emails. Disputed it, and not worried about it being returned to me.

PSA - make sure you have 2 step authentification if available, and if you ever get an email storm, check out your accounts, including PayPal, Amazon (and other online retailers), and any such accounts that are associated with the email being spammed and that have any direct or indirect interaction with your money.

Just throwing this out there so no one gets caught by these scamming / hacking bastiches.

Dear SDS,

You shall be receiving in the coming days a self addressed stamped envelope which I would greatly appreciate that, upon reception, you would insert a hard copy of the Kyle Higeshioka Topps Now card please.

Once I have received said card, I shall proceed to burn it to ashes, grind those ashes into a fine powder, burn it again to ensure complete and irrevocable destruction, and place the remains in a sealed container.

I have already chartered a place on the next resupply launch for the ISS for the remains to be placed in a cube-sat which shall then be ejected into space with the included PAM where, hopefully, if my calculations are correct, it will be caught in the Sun’s gravitational pull where it will be consumed in the fusion reaction.

Thank you.

45 mins and still not done with that mission. Every other one done in 1 try. That card is pure trash.....for me at least!

I pretty much hate everything about MtO. Long, drawn out, no variety and very repetitive. They payoffs are just nightmare inducing to me now.

Double points made this mode palatable at least.....now, it's just mind numbingly boring with little to show for it.

Maybe institute the mercy rule.......you winning by in the 6th inning, game over. Right now, I, along with a lot of others I take it, get a 2 run lead and just bunt/bunt/bunt to end the inning quickly to have to go through it again.....and again......and again......and again.....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again.....and a...sorry, was on autopilot there for a sec.

For 50 or so TA points, the mode should take maybe 3 to 4 hours tops.....on par with Showdowns.

I just finished the Yelich 3 HR for extreme. It was the last thing I needed. It took me about 12 hours to complete.

2 things come from this....

1. When I finally finished it, I felt no joy, no elation, no “Yeeessssss!” moment, just relief. No happiness for having done something difficult.

2. Because each at-bat is important, and that, in the 3 HR mission, a single is the same as a double is the same as a triple is the same as a walk is the same as a HPB is the same as an out, I find that I have reverted to a worse version of myself, a version that swings at everything, that swings at balls on a 3-0 count to stretch the at-bat. You should come out of these as a better player, not a worse one.

It's always been like this for SDS.

Interaction on their own forums is something they just don't do.

@tfrog76 said in Jackie Robinson missions. Take notes SDS.:

I don't know how, but I finished all the offline missions by some major miracle. The two doubles and a stolen base was the hardest one for me, oddly.

But I want to point out a few things, if anyone at SDS is paying attention.

1. It would be nice for players who haven't beat these challenges if you let Robinson actually get a full leadoff, or extend his leadoff in these moments before the pitcher starts his windup. Especially when you are accelerating the counts to 1-1 2-2, etc. Not cool. Nothing like needing a stolen base to beat a challenge and the pitcher starts his windup before you can get a lead properly.

2. Stop making completing a program contingent upon playing completing some things online. Sure, you can get the Robinson diamond card if you beat all the offline and conquest challenges, but to get the rewards beyond that, you are forced to play online. And as a 40-something year-old player, I don't want the toxic nonsense that comes along with it. Give us the option to complete these offline if we choose. Tons of other customers are saying the same thing on here today.

3. I noticed that there were some offline missions left uncompleted in Jackie Robinson's Stage 1 of this program. But because I completed 35 Program points/stars/whatever in them, I cannot go back and get those points even if I complete those goals.

Huh? What kind of nonsense is that? Really?

Anyway, my two cents, and plenty of others on here today are posting the same thing.

Your pleas will fall upon deaf ears when it comes to SDS and you will be raked over the coals by the toxic "online only" players for DARING to suggest that offline players have a way to do things.

I wrote a thread about this a while back. I'd be willing to grind out the online stats offline at a 2:1 or 3:1 conversion rate to.

But ultimately, SDS doesn't give a rats tuchas about casual / offline players.

MLB The Show 20 - Gold Glove and Sinker Edition

@Jeviduty said in Where are the last batch of Future Stars?:

@SaveFarris said in Where are the last batch of Future Stars?:

Just because someone got a prospect card doesn't automatically mean they're gonna get a FS card.

Be happy they got cards AT ALL. Prior to 2020, they wouldn't have.

You hate FS cards or something?

Dunno bout him, but I do.

These 94+ Overall cards that are on par with, and in many cases, surpassing legends of the game, is ridiculous.

They may show glimpses of greatness, but to make these cards endgame is too much, for me anyways.

I would cap them at 89 tops.

In MtO, not having control over your own call-ups is annoying as hell.

I'd like to be able to make roster moves as I want. Maybe allow us to make 1 call up a month maybe?

@T-Rox_09 said in I think its time to take a break.:

Shut up and play the event with all gold infielders and you will have that completed in one inning. How many complaint threads about the dailies are you going to create? Move on.

Lemme get this straight.....this guy has a LEGIT complaint about people who dashboard, and you tell him to STFU and move on?

It doesn't matter that he could do it via events.....his complaint is legitimate and doesn't deserve to be brushed aside just because YOU feel he needs to move on.

The one who needs to move on here is not the one you think.....

1 - Pedro Martinez
2 - Greg Maddux (Expos fan here, this is painful to admit)
3 - Fernando Valenzuela
4 - Nolan Ryan
5 - Steve Rodgers (dark horse, I know)

Jansen is hot trash.

Even playing the CPU, he's blown more saves for me since I got him that all my others relievers since April.

I swear, he's BP.

Had it happen to me a few times. Most egregious one was barely touching the vision circle on a low and inside pitch to a guy with 40 power.

I usually laugh, curse out Ramon for a few minutes to feel better, and move on.

9th inning players will not drop under 250k in my opinion.

Too many stubs out there and supply will be lower compared to other innings.

The 2 worst things in baseball.....

The shift and the DH rule.

I've failed to pass Vida Blue 6 times now.

I just can't adjust to that damned delivery.

@SaveFarris said in October is here - time to open up prestige to offline (partially)?:

@cavalier_0013 said in October is here - time to open up prestige to offline (partially)?:

There is no longer a ton of offline content to grind

They released an infinitely repeatable Conquest map just last week.

Comeon Showstorian.....

You can do better than that!

I know.

Dead horse.

Stick.

Beat.

I was wondering though, given that we are now in October, and that we have a series of cards to be released in the coming weeks, why it would not be possible to open up SOME prestigeable cards from ONLINE to ONLINE/OFFLINE.

There are cards that should not be opened up to that, I agree, such as Mantle, Trout, etc, but the tier 3 TA cards should be opened up (hell, should have ALWAYS been open) to offline prestiging, as well as cards from earlier programs (within reason, such as maybe the first 5 innings, or 6).

There is no longer a ton of offline content to grind, and this could bring back some people to play offline games to earn cards. None of those cards that I would like to see prestigable offline are gamebreaking, and we've been given Topps Now cards that eclipse them totally and the upcoming TA cards will make 98% of them irrelevant.

So why ask? Like I said, content for offline players (I play some online, but mostly offline). None of those cards, prestiged, make my lineup, or that of 90%+ of people. The only card I used for a while was 98 Brock for the 99 Speed/99 Steal as a PR. So where does it hurt anyone. All it adds is value to the game, and maybe keeps more casual players playing a bit longer.

Full disclosure: I have a God Squad. I need no cards for my RS team. I have MVP Trout. I have Mantle. I have Gehrig. I've only prestiged one card, and that is Rivera. Near on Trout and Mantle, but that's it.

@eatyum said in Eric Gagne King of Blown Leads:

In 2018 and 2019, Eric Gagne was hands down my best reliever, this year he has a 5.73 ERA.

For context, Billy Wagner has a 2.48 ERA and Rollie Fingers has a 3.19 ERA

Yeah, but in all fairness, all pitchers have a higher ERA in '20 compared to '18 or '19.

I've found that pitchers who have "floaty" offspeed, like Gagné, get hit nmore when they throw those pitches while guys like Wagner, whose curveball doesn't have that "rainbow" trajectory, can get away with those pitches more.

@SaveFarris said in How:

How exactly do you propose SDS fix everyone's garbage connection?

Fix it? Almost impossible.

However, they could mitigate its effects.