Yankee4Life

I'll give the Yankees by the end of July to be in last place.

Who gives a sh** what Mantle did? It was a different era. He was the big man on the team so no one said anything when he drank and ran around on his wife. He didn't do steroids. Alcohol shortened his career. And why bring up Mantle in this?

Hey man, don't worry about working on Michael Pineda. He's still on his sabbatical.

I'm not questioning Trout. The guy's never been in trouble so there is no reason to accuse him of something. I would put every amount of money I have in the bank and say that Ortiz has not taken a test in years.

Cabrera is tested just as much as David Ortiz is tested and means none at all. You know what that is? Because it's harder for minor leaguers to get their order of steroids. A major leaguer has someone do it for him so when someone like David Ortiz says that "he never got involved with steroids" it's true. He had someone else get involved for him.

Like I asked in the shoutbox if we want to continue talking about this subject we should do it here because it's so much easier to quote someone and respond better. That's the only reason why I suggested this thread. Now where did we leave off? Oh yeah. Miguel Cabrera is a steroid user and has not been caught simply because he hasn't been tested. But you never know. And we brought up his drinking and his habit of hitting his wife. He also plays loud music at his home that bother the neighbors, kicks small dogs and constantly drives through red lights. Does that about cover it? But Cabrera is an alter boy when you compare him to David Ortiz. Holy *&#^ the things he does and is involved in. I read an article about him years ago that no one here will believe and if I tell you what it was about you will accuse me of making it up because everyone knows I don't like him. Ok, continue. Cabrera? Bad. Indians players? Good.

You know what? So was I.

The modder will release it when he is ready.

Tony Gwynn On June 10, 1981, Gwynn was drafted by both the San Diego Padres (third round) and the NBA's San Diego Clippers (10th round). After signing with the Padres, he reported to Walla Walla of the Rookie Northwest League, where he earned MVP honors after leading the league with a .331 batting average. He spent the final three weeks of the season at Double-A Amarillo, where he hit .462 over 23 games. He made his major league debut on July 19 that season, going 2-for-4 with a double, run scored, sacrifice fly and an RBI in a 7-6 loss to the Phillies. In his 20 seasons with the Padres, Gwynn compiled a career average of .338, a mark that ranks 17th all-time among major league players. He hit .300 or better against every team in the National League with a high-water mark of .379 against the Colorado Rockies. He hit over .300 for 19 consecutive seasons, surpassing Honus Wagner's National League record set from 1897-1913. The only time he failed to bat .300 at any stop in his professional career was in 1982, when after batting .328 in 93 Triple-A contests; he hit .289 in 54 games for the Padres in his major league debut season. Gwynn ended his playing days ranked 17th in career hits (3,141). He was also ninth all-time in singles with 2,378, 17th in doubles with 543, and was among the top 75 in runs scored with 1,383. From 1993 to 1997, Gwynn hit .350 or better, becoming only the fourth player in history to top the .350 mark in five consecutive seasons, a feat previously accomplished by only Ty Cobb (11 straight .350 seasons), Rogers Hornsby (six) and Al Simmons (five). His career-high average came during the 1994 campaign when he hit .394, the highest average in the National League since 1930. Over the course of his 20 seasons, he struck out only 434 times in 10,232 plate appearances, an average of once every 23.6 plate appearances. With 790 career bases on balls, he drew 1.8 walks for every strikeout. He walked more times than he struck out in every one of his major league seasons except his rookie campaign when he drew 14 walks and struck out 16 times in 54 contests. Gwynn won a record-tying eight league batting titles (1984, 1987-89, 1994-97), joining Honus Wagner as one of only two players in National League history to accomplish that feat. The only major leaguer to win more is Ty Cobb, who earned 12 titles in the American League. Gwynn and Cobb share the distinction of being the only players to string together two separated streaks of three or more consecutive batting titles, with Tony earning three in a row from 1987-89, then collecting four straight from 1994-97. He is the only player in major league history to win four batting titles in two separate decades. Over his 20-year career, Gwynn hit .351 with runners in scoring position, including a .390 mark over his final six seasons. With 200 or more hits in 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989 and 1997, he is one of only 19 players to have reached that milestone in five seasons. A member of the 3,000-hit club, he achieved that feat on Aug. 6, 1999, in a game at Montreal with a first-inning single to right center off Dan Smith. Only two players achieved 3,000 hits in fewer games than Gwynn and just five needed fewer at bats. Gwynn's first major league hit had come off Philadelphia's Sid Monge on July 19, 1982. His 1,000th hit was against Nolan Ryan in Houston (April 22, 1988), and he got his 2,000th off Colorado's Bruce Ruffin (Aug, 6, 1993). Gwynn played in 15 National League All-Star games and was voted to start that contest 11 times. His 11 starts are the most ever by an N.L. outfielder and equals Reggie Jackson's major-league record among outfielders. He was named to the all-star squad 12 of his final 13 seasons (all but 2000) and 16 of his last 18 campaigns. Known as "Mr. Padre" both during and after his long and distinguished major league career, the San Diego club retired his number 19 jersey in ceremonies held at PETCO Park in September 2004. Last spring, the street on which the stadium is located was named Tony Gwynn Drive in his honor. On August 24, 2002, Gwynn was inducted into the Padres Hall of Fame. His jersey No. 19 was retired by the Padres during Petco Park's inaugural season in 2004. On January 9, 2007, Gwynn was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, being selected on 532 out of 545 ballots (97.61%), seventh highest percentage in Hall of Fame voting history.He was inducted alongside Cal Ripken, Jr.on July 29, 2007. Ripken and Gwynn are two of the 46 players in the Hall of Fame who played their entire major league career for only one team. Both were elected almost unanimously in their first year of eligibility.

This has been covered before in here but I'll tell you how to do this. 1. The database files in the datadatabase folder, please back them up. Zip them up just to have them backed up. I always tell everyone to back up their work. 2. After you have this database backed up, delete the files in the datadatabase folder. 3. Now install the new, updated rosters in the datadatabase folder.

Well, I still had some money on my Amazon gift card left over from Christmas and I purchased Tiger Woods 2008 for PC today. If I end up not liking the game I know who to blame.

Updated to 6-22 ...One thing that has always impressed me about the Japanese players who have come over to the United States to play is how respectful they are towards everyone and the more I learn about that culture I realize that this is something that is deep-seated and it's something that every country can learn from with ours being at the top of the list. Since it is almost impossible to watch ESPN now without having some kind of coverage about the World Cup they showed a short clip on the Japanese fans cleaning up after themselves by picking up and bagging the trash that was in their area of the grandstand after they saw their team lose to the Ivory Coast. The Japanese people have a quiet grace about them. Can you imagine the Fenway Park fans picking up all the empty beer cups after a game? Neither can I. ...But these Japanese fans stick out like a coffee bean in a bowl of rice when you compare them to the other soccer fans that are down in Brazil now. I don't know if those people couldn't wait for the World Cup to begin so they can watch their national team or just to have an excuse to riot in the streets, set vehicles on fire and assault fans from other teams just because there's nothing better to do. They're having so much fun that they may stay behind in Brazil after the last game is played instead of going home. ...What's up with Justin Verlander? Before all he had to do was throw his glove on the mound and he'd beat you. Makes me think he may be hiding an injury. ...Athletics starting pitcher Drew Pomeranz broke his right hand when he punched a chair last Monday night in Oakland after giving up eight runs to the Texas Rangers. Who says Kevin Brown can't have all the fun? ...Is it too much to ask that the next time Yasiel Puig does his hot dog bat flip that he ends up breaking his nose? ...jetBlue Airlines showed last week that the safety of all their customers outweighed the needs of one when a flight attendant refused to let a mother take her little girl to the bathroom when the plane they were on was delayed on the tarmac at JFK in New York. The three-year-old girl was not lying because when she was told she could not go to the restroom she went right on her seat. When her mother stood up to try and clean her and the seat off she was told to immediately sit down and when she didn't the stewardess reported it to the captain and the aircraft was turned around due to the plane having a "non-compliant passenger" on board. When something like this happens the airport security comes on board to take away the passenger (s) so they can start having their fun with them. As luck would have it an off-duty pilot was sitting two seats in front of where this occurred and saw for himself how ridiculous the situation was being handled and convinced the crew to let her stay. Part of the deal was that the child be given nothing to drink since she already shown she could not hold her Kool-Aid. The airline said and did all the predictable things that companies do when they know they screwed up when they contacted the mother to apologize and admitted that "no one should have to go through that" followed by "we sympathize with what happened to you and your daughter." And in the end it was money that closed the case and made everyone happy. The family received a fifty dollar credit for their flight and jetBlue donated $5,000 to any charity of the family's choosing. Everyone won except a little girl who was not allowed to use a restroom and was humiliated because of it. ...What I want to know is what the airline told the next person who had to sit in the urine-soaked seat? ...Has anyone ever noticed that when you have to be someplace that you have never been before and are not really sure where it is that you always hit some kind of construction along the way? ...It must not have been a good week last week to be a three-year-old little girl either in the air or on the ground. At a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Mississippi a woman was asked to remove her grandchild from inside the restaurant because an employee told her that the child's scars were scaring other customers. The right side of this little girl's face is paralyzed after being attacked by three pit bulls and since the attack has a hard time swallowing. Even though the people at KFC had no way of knowing what happened to the little girl they still wanted her gone because of how she looked and whether it was someone who worked there or another customer who complained about it, it made no difference to the girl, who understood immediately why she was asked to leave. Just like the airline incident with that other little girl, KFC immediately got in touch with the family to try and repair their image but this cost KFC a lot more than it did jetBlue because the airline hid behind procedures and increased safety issues to explain why they acted so callous. To make this whole mess go away, KFC ended up donating $30,000 to the family to help pay for the little girl's medical bills. That's a big chunk of change to consider when all the little girl really wanted was some mashed potatoes. ...I love going to 7-11 to get my coffee fix because I think what they have there is just as good as what Dunkin' Donuts has and cheaper the cost. Plus, 7-11's closer to my house and that's another thing in its favor. One night last week I was sitting around watching a movie and before I knew it I put it on pause and was on my way to get another twenty-four-ounce cup. The store was practically deserted when I got there but it was around 11 p.m. so that really wasn't out of the ordinary. Just one other guy and myself were there. I got my coffee and a couple of bananas and went up to pay for them. The other guy was already there and had his items on the counter and was waiting for the cashier to ring them up. There are times in our lives when we wish we had did or said a certain thing when we look back on something that happened to us and I've got a memory bank full of them. But for the guy ahead of me this was not one of those times. He was waiting patiently to pay for his stuff and get out of there but the cashier was busy doing something else, namely text-messaging someone on her phone. And it wasn't a quick message. She was typing so much you'd have sworn that something as long as the Bill of Rights was being sent to someone. Finally, and mercifully, she was done and she set her phone down and began to do her job. While she was ringing up the items the guy turned around at me and smiled but did not say a word. It was the way he smiled that told me that something was up. When the girl finished putting everything in bags she said to him "that'll be $17.50 please." The guy puts his hand in his pocket and I figure he's getting his wallet out. Instead, he grabs his phone and then he starts to text message and if looks could kill he'd of been on the floor and never would have got up again. I didn't see the guy outside after I paid for my coffee but I wish I did because I wanted to tell him that was one of the funniest things I've seen in my life. Maybe I'll go for more late night coffees from now on. ...At a party in London two teens were trying to have sex together on a balcony when they suddenly fell six stories to their deaths from the cropped ledge. Afterwards the people that were interviewed by police could not understand why they were out there in the first place since the room they were in had a king-sized bed. I suppose we will never know whose idea it was to go out there but I hope for their sake it was worth it, at least up to the time they fell. ...Last Thursday was the conclusion of a two-day auction of everything that was included in the Pontiac Silverdome, the former home of the Detroit Lions. If there was a kitchen sink in that stadium it would have sold too but they did end up selling a bunch of bathroom sinks, which is probably the next best thing. More than twenty-five complete bathrooms were sold and each of them included the sinks, soap dispensers and urinals. The leftover toilet paper was thrown in for free. Most of the bathrooms will be installed over at Comerica Park this week while the Tigers are on the road and the remaining will be installed during the All-Star break. The Tigers management realized that their fans have to wait in long lines for their food and drinks at the ballpark, so by purchasing all these extra urinals they will assure their fans of never having to wait in line behind someone when nature comes calling. ...To his credit Alex Rodriguez has had a pretty low profile so far this season and if this is by design or by coincidence, no one really knows. After dropping the two cases he had against Major League Baseball back in February, the only remaining suit he kept pursuing was the one against the Yankees team doctor and the New York-Presbyterian Hospital about not informing him that he had a hip injury when he went for a MRI during the playoffs against Detroit two years ago. All the right things were said by Rodriguez's lawyer after this announcement was made when he told the press that his client wanted "no legal distractions" so he could prepare for the 2015 season. He neglected to say that any legal distractions that his client may have had were brought on by himself. Unless there are no other lawsuits that Rodriguez still has ongoing that he forgot about he can gladly go back to doing whatever he was doing before and stay out of the media's eye because we'll have enough of him come next February. ...Last Friday night Hope Solo, the goalkeeper for the United States women's soccer team was arrested in her suburban Seattle home and is being held without bail on two counts of domestic-violence assault after she repeatedly hit her sister and seventeen-year-old nephew during a family gathering. Solo was so bombed out of her mind that she swore later that all she saw were soccer balls where everyone's heads should have been and then began kicking them away from her. Her sister and nephew were the two unfortunate ones that she got to first as she tried to kick both of their heads away from her goal but instead of making the save she just gave both of them a headache they won't forget. ...I had no idea that four years ago doctors found cancer in one of Tony Gwynn's salivary glands and how sick he was during the first few months of this year. All I knew was that he was enjoying his job as the head baseball coach at San Diego State University. So when I logged onto this site last Monday morning and I read where a few people were talking about his death in the shoutbox it really was a shock for me because I did not realize things were that bad with him. He was one of my favorite players and it was very easy to respect him because of the kind of person he was and that he played his entire career in San Diego. San Diego is such a beautiful city but being a small-market team but they have habitually had a hard time keeping their good players and that is still true today. But not Gwynn. He stayed and he was loved for it. If there was one guy you could point at to say was a victim of east coast bias it would be him. How else would anyone explain someone with a lifetime .338 batting average and who was a fifteen-time All Star and won eight batting titles not getting a lot of national coverage? Imagine if Gwynn had been a Yankee. He'd of had the type of attention that Derek Jeter has had his whole career. I am just glad he was around long enough to have the honor of being inducted into the Hall of Fame. R.I.P.

No. I told you there were no tutorials on this site to help you do this. I would suggest googling on how to mod an Xbox and then how to transfer files onto it. I think the utility needed for that was called Action Replay but I am not 100% sure.I do recall that Microsoft did not like it when you modded one of those things because that meant they would not fix the machine if something happened to it. Anyway, good luck.

There's no tutorials on how to do this on this site.

You got that right. The stuff they have for the PC version is impressive. All I know about putting these mods on the Xbox is that you need a modded Xbox and a way to transfer the files over. That's it.

So did I. I expected him to trip over his own shoes and be out for half the season.

Well, all you had to do was go into the Mvp 2005 area in the download section and you will have seen an area for the Xbox files. I'm sorry to tell you that there are not a lot of files for this (only 110, and the last one was submitted four years ago.) There used to be a steady stream of mods made for the Xbox many years ago but not a lot not because people just don't play it on that console system anymore. You'll see that the majority of the mods are for the PC version of the game.

About time that worthless sack of **** did something this year.

If the Yankees lose tonight's game to Baltimore you can blame that SOB Teixeira.

Thank you!

What the you-know-what? You're selling it for a decent price too!

That's a nice Nolan Ryan you made.