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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.

He does sound like an angry old man, that's for sure. I'm not a fan of Rapinoe, and I can't see how she relates to this matter, but anyway. I think he makes some fair points though. The bar for having your number retired is lower for sure. I don't think that's CC's fault though. If I remember correctly, he got hurt when he tried to trim down. I wrote about that on the shoutbox at the time. I agree that CC had a few too many bad seasons. Harsh words, again, can't disagree on the general point that it feels like a watering down of the number retirement process. Can't disagree that the Yankees are taking advantage of this to make some money, selling tickets and special merchandise.

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.

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Harsh words. Can't say he's wrong, unfortunately.

Yankees retiring CC Sabathia’s number shows the sad state of our standard for greatness By Phil Mushnick, New York Post CC Sabathia will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer. If we listen closely, we can hear the grandfather, a lifelong Yankees fan, speaking to his grandson: “Oh, yeah, so many memorable moments. Did I ever tell you that I was in Yankee Stadium the day they retired CC Sabathia’s number? Yeah, what a special moment! “What was his number? Darned if I remember. It was one of those big ones, fifty-something. Or was that the number he wore during his eight years with Cleveland?” Everything about Yankee Stadium — except ticket prices, parking fees, and the cost of eats and drinks — seems to be done on the cheap and the cheesy. Last week we learned that the team will hold a pregame ceremony Sept. 26 during which Sabathia’s No. 52 will be retired along with the all-time greats. Was Sabathia an all-time great Yankee? No. He was an all-time pretty good pitcher whose ERA four times exceeded 4.70. He was further known as a slob who spoke vulgarities as a matter of discourse while growing too heavy to field his position. He even grew demonstrably angry with batters for having the audacity to reach first base against him by bunting toward first, as if his corpulence hadn’t begged opponents to take advantage of it. But, you know how it goes … “the game has changed.” One is left with the sense that the Yanks, eager to fabricate a ticket-pushing “special game,” landed on Sabathia’s name and availability. Thus he’ll be honored right up there with Ruth, Mantle, DiMaggio, Ford, Berra, Howard, Rivera, Jeter, Dickey and Gehrig. CC Sabathia tips his cap to the fans in 2019. And good enough has become the new great. Besides, what does it now take to be enshrined in sports halls of fame? Bud Selig, despite playing blind and stupid to MLB’s records-smashing Steroids Era, was a fast-lane entrant to the Baseball Hall Of Fame. The Basketball Hall of Fame is swollen with college coaches whose fame and financial fortunes were predicated upon documented and sanctioned cheating. Finally, Joe Biden bestowed the country’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Honor, on Megan Rapinoe — for many Americans the most repulsive, proudly unsportsmanlike, self-smitten, self-entitled, and anti-American athlete ever to compete on an international stage.

5/10, 50 seconds. I got some tough ones, I'm not unhappy with this score.

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

A month has passed since the last comment, I wonder how this work is going @Kccitystar, We are very excited about this.

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Padres signed OF Alex Verdugo to a minor league contract. Mets signed RHP Dan Hammer to a minor league contract. Cubs claimed INF Ben Cowles off waivers from the Blue Jays.

9 out of 10, 90 seconds. I don't care if I got nine right because these were some tough questions.

All I can do is clap Jim! Way to go.

10/10, 26 seconds. A great way to start the month!

This month is going to be tough on me because I am facing five Tuesdays in March. I know we all have to but Tuesday is the worst for me. At least all of you do pretty well and since I don't know what India did in the World cup in any year or any other question that pertains to that &^%$ sport of soccer, I am beat. 😭

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Royals signed OF Starling Marte to a major league contract.

10 out of 10, 44 seconds. With questions like the ones I had (who was known as the Bambino?) I had to get them all right but the time?? Ok, here are the final results from last month. It was a close one.

10/10, 40 seconds. OMG, so slow!

4/10, 53 seconds. Congrats Y4L!

4/10, 60 seconds. Congrats Y4L on winning another month.

There are 2K11 mods on this site but many fewer than there are for 2K12 (about 300 vs. 3000). Also, the 2K12 mods will not work on 2K11.

There are entire forum threads dealing with this issue. Some have gotten it to work but others have not. This should keep you busy for a while reading through these.

Sorry its its been solved, i have been looking at the forums for days, however have not found my exact situation, found similar but nothing referring to the problems im dealing with directly; Hey everyone, i am having the most difficult time trying to install MVP baseball 2005 on a windows 10 laptop. I have the game, it installs everything goes fine, until i try to open it. I get this message ive looked online for days trying to find all the solutions. Ive tried to run it im compatibility mode windows xp SP 3, doesnt work, tried with windows vista doesnt work. I also downloaded all the official patches and when i try to install them i get this message; "Old file not found. However, a file of the same name was found. No update done since file contents do not match" but i am using a fresh copy of the game, no updated rosters, no mods etc. for reference i have managed to install roller coaster tycoon 1 and that worked no problems. Any have any idea what im doing wrong?

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