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.

Why not. I lose in Ranked Seasons, I lose in Events, I lose in BR.

What's one more loss....

@jz2016cubs said in Hunger Games, TSN version!:

Last one for 2 hours or so!
NIGHT 5:
@MarinerMatt01 is repeatedly awoken by nightmares
@Ikasnu tends to his wounds with leaves and water.
@arvcpa kills @cavalier_0013 with his sword. RIP
@Freddy_Sez, @SchnauzerFace, and @Scarletgospel sing songs together, hoping for the best.
Who died?
@cavalier_0013

Really @arvcpa ?

We make a truce, you then STEAL from me and then you kill me?

Dude, I am making a 99 Speed/99 Bunting ALL CHEESE squad and I am hunting you down in RS and in EVENTS........I'll teach YOU to kill ME......

@The_Canuckler said in To the guy who squeezed in a run with Harmon Killebrew:

Bunting is for guys that can't hit...

Yeah, tell that to Ichiro.......

Can't use him in the current event, but in the East Event, may I suggest my personal favorite, Darren O'Day?

He used to have a gold version with a Changeup, but his current one is nice.

I cannot understand how the Laughs can underperform and underachieve with the team they have.

I mean Marner, Matthews, Nylander and Tavares......that right there is offence in spades.

They just don't have a top rated goalie. Not that this Habs fans minds (or should talk either........ ho hum)

@samguenther1987 said in Hunger Games, TSN version!:

@cavalier_0013 said in Hunger Games, TSN version!:

My doggo named Cujo!

Great name, as a fan of horror Stephen King is a staple in my collections (both books and movies) it's also the nickname of one of the great NHL goalies (Curtis Joseph)

He at one point played for the much hated Toronto Maple Laughs so he is disqualified in my book

Yup. Cujo, the devil dog from hell.

Comes from the Stephen King novel of the same name.

A Saint-Bernard who is bitten by a bat and turns murderous.

Pretty much what my doggo does to my slippers......

@jz2016cubs said in Hunger Games, TSN version!:

@cavalier_0013 said in Hunger Games, TSN version!:

My doggo named Cujo!

How do you say that?

How do you pronounce the name you mean?

My doggo named Cujo!

Great....

I INITIALLY survived only to be killed the the ONE GUY who died in day 3......

@jz2016cubs I am SOOOO gonna kill you next game.....

I threw a screwball in HS and in my early 20s. I never found it to be too hard on my arm.

@SpudXpert27 said in Hunger Games, TSN version!:

I DIE EVERYTIME!

Git gud