2026 Prospects Thread

[GL_Storm]

I saw Al Cowens smoking in the Dugout in the early 80s. Died about 20 years later. I am thankful Cigs never did anything for me.

btw my X account got jacked and when I try to reset my password the code gets sent to the hackers email account so I am fucked. Lost a lot of respect for Elon.. Just insanity.

I can remember getting caught with cigarettes when I was a little kid by my father. He laid into me and it stuck. That's like the only time in my life I can think of that happening, and yeah, I'm thankful.

Honestly I feel for you about your X, that's fucked up. I deal with anxiety over getting locked out of my social accounts. I'd lose gadgets and it be a nightmare of catch 22 loops trying to re-establish things. And you can't do a thing about it. Remember when there were helplines? You could actually contact someone. They absolutely don't give a fuck anymore.

Thank you. Yes, anxiety is the worst torture I have ever endured and it isn't even close. Little things like that are what trigger it. Having no control of your life.

You must be talking about the clinical form of anxiety that takes over your body, not the common anxiety that most of us experience navigating life.

[D-train]

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[D-train]

14 years and 667 followers. Last time they were able to fix it in a few days even after I got a similar email.. We shall see what happens this time.

The POS that did it has his DMs disabled and hasn't made a post yet.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

What was their motive then - identity theft?

[Donn Beach]

That's the thing about these accounts, they are investments, they have value and they generate tons of revenue for the sites they are on. But the people actually generating the content are treated like shit. Years ago my eBay account was suspended. It wasn't a big blow but it was strange. You spend years building up a presence and just like that it's gone.

I was given a person to lodge an appeal with. It was silly, like Kafka. Other than I think it was harassment, the general issue, they wouldn't tell me the actual incident. There was no actual appeal, it was settled. Honestly, it couldn't have been like a misunderstanding. I hadn't used the thing in like six months. And then it was just to buy something. I never left a review or anything. It was something in their algorithm and that was that.

The deal is there are folks who's livelihood is dependent on sites like that. EBay stores, FB stores and particularly Amazon. It can be arbitrarily taken away from you without recourse. This is the reason you had things like unions and goverment regulations, to protect individuals up against large corporations but everyone been in a hurry to get rid of them

[GL_Storm]

I thought this article on LL was pretty good, about Colt Emerson and his toe tap: https://www.lookoutlanding.com/seattle- ... to-the-top

[harmony]

I was thinking, were there pitchers smoking on the mound? I mean why not? I mean pre-woke. There was chewing tobacco. I'd forgotten how that's changed. All the tobacco spitting. That must have made some of them nervous

I saw Al Cowens smoking in the Dugout in the early 80s. Died about 20 years later. I am thankful Cigs never did anything for me.

btw my X account got jacked and when I try to reset my password the code gets sent to the hackers email account so I am fucked. Lost a lot of respect for Elon.. Just insanity.

I remember a photo of Richie Allen smoking a cigarette at first base between innings.

I smoked cigarettes for 17 years, including two packs a day for the final 16 years before quitting in 1989. I grew up in a household where both parents smoked and as a young adult worked in newspaper newsrooms where smoking was prevalent. In the early 1980s my law school offered four rooms for exams: one for the general population, one for typists, one for smokers and one for typists who smoked. I was always in the latter.

Quitting cigarettes was the hardest thing I ever did in my accomplished life. Less than two years after giving up cigarettes I ran the first of my 15 marathons. My wife (a physician) never would have dated me if I smoked cigarettes. Smoking cessation changed my life.

BTW I lost access to my Facebook account when the account was hacked a year ago. The hacker was selling items from the account. For four monthhs Meta was unresponsive to my complaints but eventually my account was restored by a relative's friend who works inside Facebook. I added security measures, deleted unwanted posts and unfriended more than 400 friends who had been added to the account.

[D-train]

I was thinking, were there pitchers smoking on the mound? I mean why not? I mean pre-woke. There was chewing tobacco. I'd forgotten how that's changed. All the tobacco spitting. That must have made some of them nervous

I saw Al Cowens smoking in the Dugout in the early 80s. Died about 20 years later. I am thankful Cigs never did anything for me.

btw my X account got jacked and when I try to reset my password the code gets sent to the hackers email account so I am fucked. Lost a lot of respect for Elon.. Just insanity.

I remember a photo of Richie Allen smoking a cigarette at first base between innings.

I smoked cigarettes for 17 years, including two packs a day for the final 16 years before quitting in 1989. I grew up in a household where both parents smoked and as a young adult worked in newspaper newsrooms where smoking was prevalent. In the early 1980s my law school offered four rooms for exams: one for the general population, one for typists, one for smokers and one for typists who smoked. I was always in the latter.

Quitting cigarettes was the hardest thing I ever did in my accomplished life. Less than two years after giving up cigarettes I ran the first of my 15 marathons. My wife (a physician) never would have dated me if I smoked cigarettes. Smoking cessation changed my life.

BTW I lost access to my Facebook account when the account was hacked a year ago. The hacker was selling items from the account. For four monthhs Meta was unresponsive to my complaints but eventually my account was restored by a relative's friend who works inside Facebook. I added security measures, deleted unwanted posts and unfriended more than 400 friends who had been added to the account.

So strange. I am probably the most addictive person I know but Cigs never did a thing for me. I smoked a few packs in the late 80s in the Army reserve and I am like why do people do this. Literally zero impact of me. Congrats on over coming that, addiction, Doug.