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When you grow up with Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra, Ford, when you inherit Monument Park mythology, anything short of inner-circle immortality feels like a downgrade. The part people are skipping is that the standard didn’t really drop with CC. All of this basically shifted after the dynasty. The Yankees already retired numbers for Bernie, Andy, and Paul O'Neill. None of them are Ruth-tier, obviously. None of them are even inner-circle Hall of Famers. They’re just era-defining Yankees and I find that that’s the modern standard the team has been looking at. So if the bar ever felt lower, it’s because the Yankees haven’t had a multi-ring core since 2000. Like that’s not a Sabathia problem, that’s a franchise results problem.

Phil Mushnick's take is contrarian click-bait. CC's been my guy through those post-championship years so I got something to say: CC’s No. 52 isn’t being retired because of nostalgia alone. From the moment he arrived in pinstripes in 2009 through 2012, he was the Yankees’ ace. Literally the workhorse who shouldered more innings and October pressure than anyone in the rotation. In an era where the Yanks were transitioning out of dynasty mode, he gave the team stability: Cy Young contention, October starts, and tough outs when they mattered. He was far from Ruth or Gehrig, of course, nobody is arguing that, but to pretend he didn’t define an era for this team is revisionist garbage. This guy leans on strawman arguments like “grandfather didn’t remember the number” and personal attacks about weight and temperament instead of actual baseball context. That’s like saying a fastball is “too heavy”, like it’s an opinion with no connection to the facts on the field. Sabathia’s Hall of Fame induction, his 3,000+ strikeouts, and his impact on Yankees pennant runs are baseball qualifications, not fluff. Then he starts dragging in BS about "what the game has become,” or random politics, or comparing Sabathia to non-baseball figures? That’s garbage grievance projection. If Phil had any writing talent and made his column truly about merit, it would compare Sabathia’s WAR, innings, postseason impact, and franchise significance to other retired Yankees. Instead, this joker pulls cheap shots about weight and attitude, which have zero bearing on whether his number belongs in Monument Park. IMO if we’re going to criticize Sabathia’s number retirement while ignoring how the franchise has already honored other post-dynasty greats like Andy Pettitte, Bernie Williams, or Paul O’Neill, then we’re just throwing shade. The bar has shifted in the modern era, yes, not because of Sabathia’s play but because the Yankees haven’t had a multi-title core since the early 2000s. Fans are frustrated, and that frustration is real, but Phil's trying to ride that frustration without offering real insight. At the end of the day, Sabathia’s number isn’t being retired because he was Babe Ruth, it’s being retired because he was the keystone starter for the Yankees’ first competitive run after the dynasty and most fans understand that as a legit reason. Not this guy though.

I'm in the process of leaving my job among other things so this project has been put on pause for now

I think that is a glitch that was never fixed in a patch

Amazing! I think focusing on small wins first to build momentum to what would eventually become the defining project from this breakthrough (name banks) is the next logical step. Updating something like the audio IDs for teams/stadiums is sensible, then moving on to player names next. It would be an immense gain for Total Classics projects given the level of historic players from those mods. I also think building out a new name bank (list of names) on top of what exists would be the best possible usage of AI Kuiper and Krukow. The "Munetaka Murakami" audio sounds solid but might need to be trimmed up so it flows with the rest of the commentary like as if it were originally there. One challenge that might be a problem is the cadence/fluidity of the new audio but I think people will figure out as they tinker with it.

This is special

That question about the first president to own a baseball team is BS, Harding *did* own a baseball team, but it was a minor league one and I fell for the trap. We'll run it back tomorrow!

I am looking to set up excel copy/pasting along with an advanced SQL mode to perform commands that way too, it's something I'm planning on adding either now or in the future to help make things easier and save time.

I'll work on MVP 2003 and 2004 rosters down the line if there's demand for it. I'm trying to keep the scope tight by focusing solely on MVP 2005 for now.

Ah I think this is for 2K12!

Could be missing faces

All, Just curious if you guys think the existing layout of the player view works? What could be changed from the current view in Classic MVPEdit?

I'm just curious on how this is possible given that the DRM required for the game to work has been removed since Windows 7 on the OS level. Actually, nevermind, I won't even ask. There's a tutorial on our site here for working with dgVoodoo2. Check the forums.

You said you were able to run the game on Windows 11 with no issues, I should be the one asking you how you got it to work without these workarounds for the DRM and GPU!

It's supposed to emulate a handful of cards, I think the Radeon 8500, GeForce 4 Ti 4800, Geforce FX 5700 Ultra and 9800 GT are in the list