Yankee4Life

When there isn't anything else to say just give the man a +1 and move on to the next thread.

JBricks: If you do not like daflyboys' rosters you can create a roster set all by yourself which will be more to your liking. His rosters are fine the way they are.

Pretty soon we'll hold our online funeral for the Yankees. Should be a lot of fun. All invitees should bring their best Mark Teixeira jokes with them.

Go to eBay. If you are expecting to pay twenty dollars for this or less because it is a nine-year-old game then I'd suggest you buy another game. People sell it higher because of what is on this site. If you can get it for sixty dollars or less you made out.

If you happen to look in the MLB2k12 download section you will find that there are no mods made for the xbox version of the game. The mods are for the PC here. Years ago we had mods for the Mvp version for X box (original one) and the PS2 but mods are not made for those two consoles anymore.

No.

I don't get it. Why are you selling this after all the great roster work you have done with daflyboys?

Updated to 9-7 ...The week prior to Labor Day was very cool with temperatures much lower than normal for late August. But on Labor Day last Monday that all changed. It was a perfect summer day with the thermometer reaching eighty-five degrees with a light breeze thrown in as a bonus. I think it was summer's way of reminding us what we were leaving behind. ...And of all teams to have the Labor Day holiday off it had to be the New York Yankees. They haven't done anything all year. It just didn't seem fitting. ...Open your Wallet Wide, Dept: Today is Derek Jeter day at Yankee Stadium and from now until the end of the season the Yankees will wear a patch of Jeter's final-season logo on all player hats and uniforms. Special baseballs with the Jeter logos will also be used today and the uniforms used in the game and throughout the rest of the season will be sold by Steiner Sports. When you think of Steiner Sports just think expensive and then multiply it by ten. That's how overpriced this company is. They have an exclusive autograph deal with Jeter and because of that they have sold more than two hundred Jeter-signed products which includes game-used jerseys that sell for $25,000. I am considering buying two. And in a move that is certain to alienate Jeter fans who do not live in New York City, the New Era Cap company is selling a three-cap box of Jeter hats for $150. The catch is that you can only buy them at Yankee Stadium or official Yankees stores. That means if you have been a big Derek Jeter fan for a long time and happen to live in Nevada, you can't have it. Since these three hats are only priced at $150, they want to get you in the store so you can get a few more things to go along with that. But if you really want a hat and don't mind spending the money for it you can get a white leather fitted hat from New Era for only $99.99 and when you wear it out in public it's guaranteed to be stolen. I'll be watching the ceremony for as long as I can stand it while switching between the NFL games that are on today. I just think that no matter what the Yankees say about him (all good of course) and what they give him, they secretly have to be counting down the days until he goes because the sad part is he has done nothing this season - a fact that not even Steiner Sport can cover up with one of their overpriced items. ...The Seattle Mariners suspended Jesus Montero for the remainder of the 2014 season after he charged the stands to go after a team scout when he was on a rehabilitation assignment. Of all the predictions you can make for this coming off-season the easiest one would be having the Mariners getting rid of this guy. He's a Robinson Cano without the big paycheck. Lazy and unmotivated. ...Holy **** how the Oakland Athletics fell apart! ...I understand that people make mistakes and sometimes those same mistakes are overlooked. But when you are putting so much time and effort into making a game and spending a lot of money advertising its release, it really is inexcusable. How else could EA Sports explain making Cleveland Browns rookie linebacker Christian Kirksey one-foot-two inches tall in the game when he is actually six-foot-two? Quite a difference. And to make themselves look even worse they have Kirksey as a member of the Tennessee Titans instead of Cleveland. At least they got him in the right conference. Again, mistakes are made. But this bad? Kirksey's a rookie. This is the first time he's in the Madden series. How can you screw up a new player like that? It's laziness that is the cause of this happening because someone didn't double-check their work and if this was in any way intentional -with EA you never know- this was the wrong way to get attention onto this game. ...Doesn't it seem strange that with all the innings Masahiro Tanaka pitched in Japan over the years he never got hurt but his first year in the American League he can't even make the halfway mark? ...I read an article last week about Jackie Bradley Jr., Boston's future multiple Triple Crown winner, Gold-Glover, All-Star and first-ballot Hall-of-Famer. It said that his demotion to AAA Pawtucket in the International League may have had more to do with his inability to hit major league pitching since that part was clear to everyone. When it was Bradley's turn at bat the other team would take bets amongst themselves on how many pitches it would take for him to make an out. Usually it was one or two. Another reason for his one-way ticket to Rhode Island was that Red Sox coaches and players were frustrated with Bradley's stubbornness with the coaching staff because he was unwilling to work with coaches to fix his swing. Well, there's the problem right there. He got a little too ahead of himself. He started acting like a typical self-centered Red Sox player before he actually had a solid footing on the team. The entire team is like that but the others know how to hide it well enough before they actually start contributing. Once they start doing that then all bets are off. Someone just forgot to tell Bradley that's how things are done on that team. ...Last Tuesday Dunkin' Donuts opened their first store in Southern California and people were lining up for blocks just to be the first ones in when the store opened up at 5:00 a.m. that day. One guy who had nothing better to do was waiting outside the store since Sunday just to be the first one in and he was rewarded with a year's worth of free Dunkin' Donuts coffee. Their coffee is not bad and for those of you who live in Southern California and did not wait in line to get in because you had to work or had a life, let me give you the heads-up on this place because we have them all over where I live. These people make assembly line donuts. Same size, same everything. Once you had a Dunkin' Donuts donut you are not going to have the urge late at night to go and get one. They are entirely forgettable. They'll do in a pinch if no other donuts are around but it is not hard to find a better donut someplace else. Again the coffee is fine but you can say the same for coffee you find at corner stores too. I wonder how that guy who waiting in line since last Sunday and all through the Labor Day holiday feels now after he had a few of their donuts? ...I got to thinking about the theft of those celebrity nude photos last week where people like Kate Upton and Jennifer Lawrence and many others had their privacy invaded when someone stole their personal photos and were spread across the internet. These photos were not meant to be seen by the general public. I sympathized with everyone that had their accounts compromised but at the same time I have to wonder why any of them would store photos of that kind on the internet because as the old saying goes where there's a will there's a way and someone found a way. I'm not saying that these women should not have photos of themselves like this. It's clear that these were taken by or meant for their boyfriends or spouse. But what they should have done and I hope this is what they do now is not to have any of these photos online anymore. How about putting them on a flash drive and keeping it in your home instead of trusting iCloud or a service like that? ...But leave it to Conan O'Brien to find humor in this. On his show he showed more "private" photographs of celebrities that were as he described "really embarrassing and could ruin careers." He then showed a picture of Kim Kardashian reading a book and Guy Fieri eating a healthy salad. The joke was of course that these were obviously doctored pictures because Kardashian avoids books as much as she avoids Walmart. ...Paul McCartney signed a letter last Monday to ask Scottish voters choose to remain part of the United Kingdom in a vote on independence which will be held later on this month. I had no idea a vote like this was taking place and what it would mean for Scotland if they are declared independent and since this has nothing to do with what is going on here I am not that interested in the outcome. The only reason why this caught my eye is because we had a member here some years back (MarkB) who was from Glasgow, Scotland and what I remember about him is that he did not like politics in Scotland and since this had something to do with Scotland I wondered how he felt about this? Mark lives in Australia now and works in the computer field and kills crocodiles in his spare time. Whatever you are voting for Mark, I'm with you. ...Cuban ex-president Fidel Castro escaped from his rubber room last week and accused the United States and Europe of war-mongering and also compared the military alliance representatives of NATO to the Nazi SS. Not even his brother Raul, who is currently running the country, knew the reason why his eighty-eight year old brother made these statements but he just nodded his head and smiled anyway. These days Americans could care less what is being said out of Cuba just as long as they keep sending ballplayers over for major league teams to sign. ...The San Diego Padres honored outgoing baseball commissioner Bud Selig with a dedication ceremony of the Selig Hall of Fame Plaza at Petco Park, which will be an area that will serve as a home to the Padres Hall of Fame. Why name it after this windbag? Why not Tony Gwynn or even Ted Williams, who was born in San Diego? Well, if they're doing this I hope the put a statue of him there as well so all the pigeons in San Diego can take aim on it while they're in the area. ...Former Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito was cleared by the NFL to return to full active status as a player but as of right now he is a player without a team but that can change soon because his agent says that there are "at least five teams" who are considering signing him. Dallas would be a perfect fit for him because at the rate their players get into trouble no one is ever going to know if Incognito starts harassing minority players again for a long time. ...With all the publicity the Dallas Cowboys got just for signing Michael Sam to their practice squad, there was another team last week that quietly added a player to their own practice squad under different circumstances. Devon Still, a defensive tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals, did not make the final cut to start the season with the team but Still wasn't really expecting to because his heart was not in the game. He has a little four-year-old daughter who was diagnosed with stage 4 pediatric cancer back in June. With that on his mind at all times he was unable to give football his 100% commitment and that's why Cincinnati cut him. But after they did that they quickly added Still to the practice squad and that meant he would continue to get medical insurance, a weekly paycheck and less travel throughout the season. This is such a nice story of what the Bengals did for this guy and for his little daughter but it still wasn't big enough for the media to focus on because they were too busy chasing around Michael Sam as he attempts to stick to his second NFL team. ...Finally, welcome back NFL. Maybe. I think. For those of you who have DirectTV today is going to be a free preview of the NFL Sunday Ticket so with baseball being on and all these NFL games this should be a good afternoon for sports. The Oakland game is down in New York and they'll be playing the Jets in the Meadowlands. What else is there to watch?

The "new" rosters are no different from the rosters you have been downloading over the years. Somehow you made a mistake. What I suggest you do is one more time download daflyboys' newest roster and that can be found Then before you unzip this roster do as daflyboys says. He instructs people to delete the existing 19 .dat files that are in the data/database subfolder and then extract the current roster to that same location. If you do this then you will be playing again in no time.

You're kidding, right? Man, you got to take a look at the download section and you will see a lot of uniforms you can put in the game and new rosters for 2K12 are always being made. Those guys do a great job keeping that game current. Spend some time in the download section to get familiar with what is available.

To ddawley and mcj88: I have informed the site owner of the problem you are having and he should be able to clear this up for you.

How can anyone disagree with that? I hate to say it but I can't wait for the off season.

Don't mind the Yankees, their packing it in.

He was good when he was with Texas, Atlanta and the Angels and after his first year with the Yankees he shut it down.

Well you know, yeah.

I really had no idea. I feel bad for Portugal.

It seems to me that your laptop could use a bit more RAM.

And Davey Lopes wasn't a quitter.

Teixeira is Portugese? I never knew what nationality he was. Never thought about it really. All this time I thought he was an idiot.

Ah, the 1970's. The decade where fashion took ten years off.

Dennis I would like to welcome you back to uniform modding again. I know you have been away from it for awhile. In case any of you have not heard Dennis has been on a world-wide tour these past few months teaching would-be modders in Asia how to create wonderful looking uniforms themselves. Dennis went to Japan, China, Thailand and South Korea. He also traveled to Europe and Canada for the same reason and wherever he went he was able to teach people how to mod Mvp Baseball 2005. The only area he did not visit was the Latin America countries because they were not interested in having him come down there. They told him that they would rather just continue stealing his work and passing it off as their own. Welcome back Dennis!

Updated to 8-31 ...Today's the waiver deadline in baseball and that means it is the last opportunity for the Yankees to pick up a washed-up outfielder for this year. ...A week ago today I went to a retirement party for someone who I used to work with and I was able to see some people that I haven't seen since the last one I attended three years ago. When I was working I had myself convinced that once I walk out those doors for the last time I'd never look back and in one regard it's true. I've never been back to my work place since the day I cleaned out my desk and locker and that was five years ago. I never had a party in my honor when I left because no one (including myself) knew I would be retiring. I retired via a disability and that meant that literally I was there one day and gone the next and I couldn't do anything about it. I'm just happy they think well of me to invite me to these things. ...But before I close on this I have to let you know about a story that a wife of one of my ex-coworkers told. She was in the hospital recently and before she came out of the anesthesia she said she had a near-death experience. While I was listening to her tell us what she saw I could tell that this woman was no kook who was trying to manufacture a story like this for reasons known only to her. She was a religious person and what she saw from her glimpse of heaven made her wake up with a smile on her face and no one that she has told this to has doubted her yet. This includes me. I have heard many stories similar to what she told that day and they were all from sane and rational people and not someone who spends twelve hours a day watching The 700 Club. ...A blue lobster was caught up in the state of Maine last week by a fourteen-year-old girl and her father while they were hauling lobster traps. The odds of catching a lobster of this color is one in two million so if this kid knows what she is doing she should run to the closest corner store and purchase a lottery ticket. The lobster was donated to the Maine State Aquarium and they will make sure that anyone who is in the mood for a lobster dinner leaves this particular one alone. ...Personally I don't care what color they are. Blue, yellow, orange, green. Give me a chance and I'll eat all of them. Pass the butter. ...I was considering sending an ice bucket challenge to David Ortiz but I figured once he found out what I had in mind he would never respond. I wanted to personally stand above him and drop a dozen blocks of ice on top of him. Anything for charity, right? ...Maybe I am missing something but I don't understand the problem that some people are having when they found out that Burger King bought Tim Horton's. I get why McDonald's was upset because they probably wanted to buy Tim Horton's themselves. Part of the deal also includes a plan to change the new firm’s nominal headquarters from Miami, Florida to Oakville, Ontario, where Tim Hortons is based. If they do that Burger King/Tim Hortons would be subjected to Canada’s far lower corporate tax rates and when you consider that Burger King paid $89 million in taxes on $1.1 billion in revenue this deal makes perfect sense. But because they are leaving the U.S. to go to Canada there are some people who are protesting this move and are swearing that "they will never have a Whopper again." Right. These are also the same people who don't have to worry about paying an eighty-nine million dollar tax bill. Every time I hear about some boycott going on I give it a week before it folds up and dies. That's what will happen here. ...Check my I.D. Dept: I must have a twin somewhere and if I do I feel bad for the guy. One day last week I was at the grocery store picking up a few things and while I was waiting in line to check out the person behind me tapped me on the shoulder and told me that he was sorry to hear about my brother. I was going to reply that "he had it coming" or "it serves him right" but I could tell that this guy was sincere and I let him know that he had the wrong guy and that I didn't even have a brother. He apologized for the confusion and I am sure that when we went our separate ways we were thinking just about the same thing. He probably couldn't wait to get home to tell someone he knew what happened and I immediately thought of the first time that someone mistook me for someone else. But that was over thirty years ago. Back in the late seventies and early eighties a group of friends and I used to hang around a burger joint because they had a Pac-Man machine there and we would try to get our names on the top ten screen they had there. I rarely made it on there and the few times that I did I was quickly replaced by someone else. It wasn't for lack of trying especially with all the quarters I put in it. One night we were there and this time we actually ordered something which almost put the owner of the place in a state of shock. While I was waiting for my order I had a spare quarter and I decided to play the game and while I was playing it I was distracted by a lady who was watching me very attentively. I didn't know who she was but just as I ended my game she came up to me and told me why she was looking at me. She said that I reminded her of her son who died in a car crash back in 1970 and she just wanted to let me know that. I didn't get a chance to talk to her that much except to say that I was very sorry because my order was ready and that was something that I have always regretted. I wish that I would have spent more time talking to her because I noticed her watching me even after I sat down. I never saw her again. ...Last month an uncle of mine died in a nursing home at the age of 96. He was there for the last year and a half or so of his life and from what my cousin told me the people there took wonderful care of him. On Tuesday there was a memorial mass for him and the other eight people that passed away last month and earlier this month and it was one of the most unique masses I have ever attended. There were four hymns that we sung during the mass but each time we sang them one of the residents there kept on singing the wrong song even though pamphlets were passed out to everyone before the ceremony began with the song and lyrics on it. Looking at the pastor I could tell he was even getting confused and he probably knew these songs by heart. There is a part of the mass where the priest/minister/preacher asks the congregation to be thankful for their blessings but maybe because it was such a small crowd the pastor decided to do this part a little different and I'm sure when it was over he regretted it. He asked the group of twenty-five people what they were thankful for and the same guy who didn't know what song was being sung started thanking everyone that he knew in his life - or at least that's the way it seemed. The mass started at 10:30 am but the way this guy was going I thought we were going to get out of there at 4:00. He got on such a roll that other people were joining in too. Finally the pastor told him that he'd talk to him after the service and that made the guy so happy that he kept quiet for the rest of the service. It was quite an experience for me and you could tell by looking at the faces of the people that live there that this was more than just a memorial mass. God bless them. ...A pediatric nurse from San Diego got himself into a very bad situation last week and if what the media is reporting about this is true no one is ever going to see him again unless you happen to be a prisoner. Whether this is true or not this registered nurse is looking at federal charges for repeatedly molesting a two-month-old baby that was placed in his care at the beginning of this month. The FBI said they captured video evidence from his home to prove he was molesting the infant and they did not go into any detail to inform the media what they saw. I don't know if that's good or not because in these situations you always imagine the worst. If there is one thing to hold on to about this is that this happened to the baby at such a young age. At two months old you don't remember anything and I really hope there is no lasting scars for this kid to have while he grows up. As for that nurse as soon as he settled into his comfortable cell he will be getting a different set of scars. That's another thing I don't even want to imagine. ...My favorite football league, the Legends Football League, is going through their playoffs right now and things are starting to get really hot. This is a woman's seven-on-seven league and they play their games in the spring and summer. This league used to be called the Lingerie Football league but don't let the name change fool you because they still wear the good stuff. There are ten teams in this league and I don't know any of these players by name. I just know them from how they wear their uniform and how it fits on them. There's this one who plays for Los Angeles, well never mind. You get the idea. If you want to check out both the games and the players they have an official Youtube channel you can go to. Fair warning though, the NFL will never look the same again. ...It should come as no surprise to anyone who has driven there but according to an insurance industry report Boston is home to the worst drivers of any U.S. big city. I realize that this has nothing to do with the Red Sox in any way but if I hear about anything that puts down that city then I am going to write about it. ^-^ ...Things we learned this week, Dept: When watching Jesus Montero play baseball never give him an ice cream sandwich because he's partial to hot fudge sundaes...The Angels are trying to win the A.L. West and the instant replay people in New York are doing everything they can to make it happen...And there were some people that actually gave the President a hard time because he wore a tan suit the other day. What the hell, I thought it looked good. I'd wear it. ...Yesterday the Rams announced that Michael Sam has been waived and did not make the team's final fifty-three-man roster. They released this statement yesterday afternoon so there really hasn't been any negative reactions yet - or at least as far as I have seen. Coach Jeff Fisher stressed that this was "a football decision only" but I am just waiting for someone to write an article accusing the Rams of stringing Sam along all this time. Can he play? Probably, but not up to NFL standards. Even though none of them will ever admit it I can't help but wonder how many Rams players were happy Sam didn't make the final cut? ...Finally, have a wonderful Labor Day holiday weekend. Didn't it seem like yesterday when it was Memorial Day? <sigh>

How many people want to bet that Tanaka does not pitch again for the rest of the season?