27 In '07 - A New York Yankees Dynasty

[D-Unit]

Thanks for the comment. The recap of Opening Day will be up in about 10-20 minutes, putting the pieces together.

[D-Unit]

[align=center]April 2nd, 2007

Bats Break Out In Home Opener Victory

NEW YORK - A bright and sunny afternoon in the Bronx was filled with cheers, as a sellout crowd watched the New York Yankees take the field for the first time of the 2007 season against the visiting Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The uniform slightly changed, a black band on the left sleeve of the Yankee uniform in memory of the late Cory Lidle, and it showed good luck today as the Bombers trounced Tampa Bay by a score of 8-3.

Jorge Posada guns Delmon Young in the first inning with a great throw.

Chien-Ming Wang (1-0) earned the win in a solid effort, allowing a whopping 11 hits (9 singles, 3B and a HR) and three runs over six innings. He didn't allow a walk, and fanned five, very uncommon out of Wang. Scott Kazmir (0-1) took the loss, as he was pounded for seven runs (six earned) on six hits over 61/3 innings. He only fanned two and allowed a mighty seven walks, having no control whatsoever throughout the game.

Scott Kazmir started off hot but ended up cold. The first two innings took 20 pitches, but the next 4 took 100 pitches, accumulating six walks and all six hits.

The Yankees jumped out in front in the third inning, when Doug Mientkiewicz blasted a double with one out into the gap, the first hit allowed by the D-Rays' Kazmir . Johnny Damon flied out to right to record out number two, but The Captain, Derek Jeter, drilled a fastball into the right field stands, an opposite field two-run dinger to get on the board. In the fourth the Yankees led off with three straight singles, the third one by Hideki Matsui brought home a run to make it 3-0, and a Cano walk loaded the bases with no one out. But Kazmir buckled down, allowing a Jorge Posada RBI sac fly to left, then got two groundouts to end the inning at a 4-0 score.

Doug Mientkiewicz records the first Yankee hit as well as his first in pinstripes, a booming double to left center.

Derek Jeter's dinger made it the second Home Opener in a row that he took one out of the ballpark. It gave New York a lead they would never give up.

The fifth inning was quiet, but the sixth inning was wild on both sides. The D-Rays started things with a B.J. Upton single, but Wang fanned Rocco Baldelli and uber prospect Delmon Young to put two down. But Carl Crawford laced an RBI triple in the gap that was misplayed by Matsui, and came home the next pitch on a Ty Wigginton homer to make the score 4-3.

Carl Crawford, the fastest man in baseball, notches an RBI triple to put the Rays on the board in the sixth.

First Baseman Ty Wigginton blasts a Chien-Ming Wang fastball deep to right center field for a homer, cutting the lead to 4-3.

The Yankees would distance themselves in the bottom frame however. After Hideki Matsui worked a one out walk, Robinson Cano lowered the boom on an 0-1 fastball and placed it in the upper deck to make it a 6-3 lead. Two more runs in the seventh came without a hit (Derek Jeter reached on a B.J. Upton fielding error, Bobby Abreu, Jason Giambi, and Robinson Cano then all walked) to make it 8-3, and that was the way the game stood.

Robinson Cano, coming off an amazing second half stretch last year, puts the game out of reach in the sixth with an uppder deck blast to right field.

The bullpen effort was outstanding on both sides. Jon Switzer came in relief of Kazmir, fanning three and walking two over 12/3 innings. After the sixth, the Yanks put in Scott Proctor, who threw a scoreless seventh with a strikeout and only eight pitches, and in the eighth Kyle Farnsworth turned up the heat, fanning two D-Rays with an array of 99 mph fastballs and sliders. The ninth was up to Luis Vizcaino, who completed the game with a hitless ninth on only four pitches.

Derek Jeter, Bobby Abreu, and Hideki Matsui take in the victory as they walk off the field.

Yankee Notables

Robinson Cano 1-2, HR, 3 RBI, 2 BB

Kyle Farnsworth IP, 2 K

D-Rays Notables

Ty Wigginton 2-4, HR, 2 RBI

B.J. Upton 2-3, R

Player Of The Game

Derek Jeter 1-5, HR, 2 RBI, 2 SB

Hater(s) Of The Game

Johnny Damon 0-5, 2 K

Scott Kazmir L, 61/3 IP, 6 H, 6 ER, 7 BB, 2 K

Tomorrow the Yankees will get the day off, but Wednesday's matchup will feature Andy Pettitte making his return to the Yankees against lefty Casey Fossum, first pitch scheduled for 7:05 ET, only on YES.[/align]

[fred13]

when did you get the new video card D-Unit? Your graphics show a big upgrade.

[D-Unit]

To tell you the truth, I've never updated the video card. I resized the images to 320 X 240 instead of the original 600 X 400 to make it look better and compact in my layout.

A while ago, I started using 3D Analyze...maybe that's what you're referring to.

[KevinCaraballo]

The lineup this good I jugue with yankees and abreu great batting of fourth bat.

[RmembrZito75]

To tell you the truth, I've never updated the video card. I resized the images to 320 X 240 instead of the original 600 X 400 to make it look better and compact in my layout.

A while ago, I started using 3D Analyze...maybe that's what you're referring to.

Where can you get 3D Analyze (can you give me link?), and is it free to download/use?

[D-Unit]

Where can you get 3D Analyze (can you give me link?), and is it free to download/use?

Yes it's free. here's the link, download 2.0 seeing as how that's the only one I can testify to being compatible.

http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/tools/3d_analyze/archive/

[D-Unit]

OK guys, I have an idea. For people who are just started reading this thread and wanna catch up and to make it easier to follow, I will post everything (games, reports, league leaders) in my first post as well as wherever it is on the thread. So if you don't want to go all the way reading up reports, you will see them on the first page along with the first post. It will be organized chronologically.

[D-Unit]

Edited by D-Unit :D

[cubsfaninfla]

Have you started that game yet? If not, (and if you haven't already done this), you might want to fix Casey Fossum's messed up face. (Change to 04 style in MVPEditor)

[D-Unit]

Thanks for the heads up, but I'm only playing one game per series or two. I will still cover the games I don't actually play, and I manage them too.

[cubsfaninfla]

Thanks for the heads up, but I'm only playing one game per series or two. I will still cover the games I don't actually play, and I manage them too.

Ah....okay.

Fossum has the weirdest delivery on the Rays though, lol.

(Yes, Hasegawa is the closest thing to his real delivery)

http://tampabay.devilrays.mlb.com/team/pla...layer_id=407154

(Go to "Fossum Fans 10")

[D-Unit]

I guess that's the best you can do inside of MVP. Fossum is truly inconsistent with K's though. But in that game, all of his strikeouts were on that slurve thing he throws...the "Fossum Floater"?

[cubsfaninfla]

I remember I was watching a Rays game on TV last year or the year before, and he had a pitch (I think it was his curve) that clocked at like 52 MPH.

Same for Oakland A's minor leaguer, ex-gay pornstar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuhito_Tadano) Kazuhito Tadano....I remember he had an incredibly slow curve or changeup.

[D-Unit]

Sorry for not updating the last game, I had the game notes and stats on a piece of paper and can't seem to find them (for some reason I can't get that .NET framework download working, meaning no BoxScore Extractor) but as soon as I find it, the game will be up. I am not quitting this.

[SexyConfucius]

To tell you the truth, I've never updated the video card. I resized the images to 320 X 240 instead of the original 600 X 400 to make it look better and compact in my layout.

A while ago, I started using 3D Analyze...maybe that's what you're referring to.

How did you resize the images?

[D-Unit]

How did you resize the images?

I upload them on imageshack.us and when I upload the picture I have the option of resizing it to various sizes or to leave it original.

[atlbraves]

I remember I was watching a Rays game on TV last year or the year before, and he had a pitch (I think it was his curve) that clocked at like 52 MPH.

Same for Oakland A's minor leaguer, ex-gay pornstar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuhito_Tadano) Kazuhito Tadano....I remember he had an incredibly slow curve or changeup.

Same for Mr. I'm-not-sure-where-he's-playing-now (or maybe he's retired)...

TODD ZEILE

[GEOLINK]

Zeile is retired... I remember seening him do update reports on SNY

[D-Unit]

[align=center]April 4th, 2007

Tampa Bay Devil Rays (0-1) @ New York Yankees (1-0) 7:05 PM ET

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[align=center]Yankees Fall In Pitcher's Duel

Fossum (1-0) 7.1 IP/5 H/ER/2 BB/6 K

Pettitte 7.2 IP/9 H/2 R/BB/2 K

Scoring Drive

Top 2 - Zobrist RBI 2B, Iwamura RBI 2B - TB 2-0

Bot 4 -Giambi solo HR - TB 2-1

Clubhouse Quotes

Joe Torre: "Can't say much. We couldn't get the bats going with this lineup, it means Fossum pitched a heck of a game. The kid has that slow curve and we just weren't patient, the only one who sat back on it was Jason [Giambi] and look where that one went."

Andy Pettite: "It was a great start and it was great to see the fans while wearing pinstripes. But we lost, so we gotta move to the next game, you can't ride on one game for a season."

Casey Fossum: "It felt great. They didn't get much off of me, I saw them bite early on the curve so I stuck with it."

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Sorry for lack of updates. I'll try to cover the next game in about 10 minutes.

[D-Unit]

[align=center]April 5th, 2007

Chicago White Sox (1-1) @ New York Yankees (1-1) 10:05 PM ET

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[align=center]Back-To-Back-To-Back-To-Back Homers, Mussina's Gem Sink Sox

Mussina 9 IP/8 H/ER/2 BB/5 K

Garland 4.1 IP/7 H/6 ER/2 BB/K

Yankee Notables

Jeter 2-3, HR (2), 2 RBI (4)

Abreu 3-4, HR (1), RBI (1)

*Derek Jeter, Bobby Abreu, Alex Rodriguez, Jason Giambi hit consecutive homers in the fifth inning.

White Sox Notables

Thome 2-4

Crede 1-4 2B, RBI (2)

Clubhouse Quotes

Mike Mussina: "Perfect. From when I was throwing in the 'pen with Guidry I felt like tonight was gonna be a good one. I was spotting my fastball, and I mixed it up with the split, change, and curve. First pitch strikes are always key, Jorgy [Posada] and I were communicating nicely out there."

Derek Jeter: "It was a good win, Moose kept the ball rolling for the team once we stepepd up on the offnese. But we gotta win tomorrow too, or this means nothing. The season is 162 games long.

Ozzie Guillen: "Pathetic. They couldn't hit the f***ing ball off Mussina. Barely touching 90 and only one run in nine innings. That's not baseball. That's just sad. He's a good pitcher, but we could have gotten plenty off him with our offense. Didn't get s*** today.[/align]

[D-Unit]

I simmed a few games today, and played one, I will be posting them once a day to keep it more consistent.

[Timp]

Ha, love the Ozzie Guillen comments. Very realistic.

[D-Unit]

You've gotta be F***ING KIDDING ME!

I just D/L'ed KG's Dynasty Save with the players already on the DL (Nice work btw KG) and saved it...guess what I overwrote...for maybe the fifth time, my dynasty has been overwritten due to my extreme stupidity and forgetfulness. I am really sorry, I am getting sick of making these dynasties and ruining it with bad luck.

[Pokeys]

Way to go man!