Yankee4Life

Updated to 6-15 ...Tomorrow in Bridgeport, Connecticut Pete Rose is getting the opportunity to return to the dugout and manage one game for the Bridgeport Bluefish of the independent Atlantic League. Since the Bluefish are not associated with any team in baseball they did not have to seek out the permission of Major League Baseball before they offered Rose this one-game opportunity. Rose said he took this opportunity because he loves baseball, a fact that was never in question anytime his name was mentioned. His problem was betting on the wrong horses and the wrong baseball teams. Willie Upshaw, the former Toronto Blue Jays first baseman is the manager for all the other games on the Bluefish schedule. I wonder if all he has to do for this game is to keep Rose's coffee cup filled and to tell the press what a wonderful job he did? ...A manager of a Family Dollar store in Saginaw, Michigan was fired last week after observing some customers in the act of shoplifting and when he called 911 to report the theft they asked him to go outside to see if he could get the woman’s license plate number. When he went out to the parking lot to get the information for the police the women in the car saw him and figured out what he was trying to do and before he had a chance to finish they got out of their car and confronted him. It's right here where the store manager took matters into his own hands and it ended up costing him his job. The argument between the people lasted for about two minutes and the only stolen item he was able to get back from the women was a can of Febreze which he then promptly sprayed in the car in a fit of anger. It's a good thing these people didn't steal a can of Raid. The fired store manager explained later that the police in this section of town that this Family Dollar is located in do not show up when you call 911 and the only thing that they did in this instance was call back later to see if they had everything under control. Losing your manager's job at a place like that isn't the end of the world because you can make nine dollars an hour someplace else with a lot less responsibility. But if there is one thing to take out of all this it is the knowledge that if you are even in the Saginaw area and you need to pick up a few things and you are a little short on funds, just drop by this store and load up with anything you want and the cops will never catch you because they won't even show up. ...I saw something similar to this a few years back when my wife and I took one of our dogs to the local Petco so he could pick out a new toy to bring home with him. While we were walking back to the car we saw four people that we learned later on were members of the same family coming out of the Factory Card Outlet (now called Party City) and the reason why we paid attention to them was the way they walked out of the store. Every few steps they kept on looking over their shoulders like they were trying to sneak away from someone so they could leave them behind while they drove away. We were just about to get in the car to go home when all hell broke loose. Two people from the store came out and pointed to them and yelled at them to stop. As soon as they said that they took off running to their mini-van and unfortunately for those store employees those people did not have that far to run. The family of Bonnie and Clyde made a clean getaway and I don't know if they were ever caught because the police were only a minute behind them. I later learned from one of the guys that took off after them that this family was going from store to store in this small outlet mall stealing whatever they can get their hands on. ...A father on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i got himself in some pretty hot water with a judge because of the way he chose to discipline his kid. Dad had to go to his son's school because he had to pick him up because the school was sending him home for the day for doing something wrong and when he got there he was naturally curious as to why he had to come and pick him up. While they were in the car he kept on asking him about it but his son refused to respond. Finally the father had enough of his little act and stopped the car and told him to walk the rest of the way home. You know, like they do on TV at times. When he let him out he was only about a mile away from home. For doing this he had to stand in front of a judge and explain his actions and the judge, to put it mildly, was not sympathetic. She sentenced him to one year's worth of probation, a $200 fine and he is forced to attend a child parenting class for a misdemeanor charge of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor. All this for making the kid take a walk. All this time I knew something was terribly wrong during my growing up years because every single day without fail my parents would make me walk to school. ...The only regret I have about the Manny Machado bat throwing incident is that he didn't do it against the Red Sox. ...I can't imagine how much pressure Mariano Rivera, Jr is going to be under now after the Yankees drafted him. If he can be half as good as his father the Yankees are getting a good one. ...Where I live the name Tom Golisano is very well known. In 1971 he founded Paychex, a company that offers payroll and payroll tax services which in turn made him a billionaire. He's had many interests such as owning the NHL Buffalo Sabres for a time and also running unsuccessfully for Governor of New York three times. He has contributed a lot to charity including a three million dollar grant to the high school I used to attend and part of that grant allowed the school to purchase laptops for each one of their students. Now at the age of seventy-two and three times divorced already he will be getting married again, this time to forty-year-old former tennis star Monica Seles, a woman who was born two years after he founded his company. Some people never learn. Seles is a millionaire already but there's always room for improvement when you hook up with a billionaire. One look at Seles these days again confirms that one of the first things to desert you as you age is your vision. ...A man who drove a cross-country trip with a dead woman in the passenger seat will not face charges for failing to report her death immediately since there was no foul play involved and that he thought he had forty-eight hours to report her death because that is what he read on the internet. When he arrived home he was asked by the medical examiner if he was uncomfortable driving all that way knowing there was a dead body in the car the guy replied that he was fine and that the ride was pretty quiet since the woman kept to herself for most of the trip. ...The New York papers have been running daily articles on the Life and Times of Derek Jeter because they don't want anyone to forget for one day that this is his last year as a Yankee, as if we can forget it. They never have a hard time coming up with a new angle to kiss his backside but last week when they said that Jeter showed Cano what it means to be a leader they went a little bit too far. If there is any truth to that at all then Captain Wonderful did an awful job because whatever words of wisdom he passed on to Robinson Cano it must not have been worth remembering. Cano may be a lot of things but a leader isn't one of them. ...Hey, the World Cup started! I know this because ESPN has been talking about this non-stop and they're giving it a lot of coverage to try and fool people to think they actually care who wins. And I never would have paid attention to this at all had it not been for that Brazilian girl wearing blue who sang in the opening ceremonies. ...A man in Arizona after having four or five too many drinks in one night went out in his backyard last week to get some air and while he was out there had a confrontation with the moon because he didn't like the way it was looking at him. So he ran back in his house and grabbed his handgun and started firing at it but his shots missed by a few hundred thousand miles. Give him credit, he tried. For his attempt to shoot the man in the moon he was charged with felony counts of unlawful discharge of a firearm, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and for trying to out-drink a bar full of people with tequila shots. He'd have been ok if he just did what Ozzy Osbourne did and just bark at it. ...It is never easy to hear about a ballplayer unexpectedly dying the way Bob Welch did last week. Even though I may not have thought about him for years (not counting Total Classics games) the news still came as a shock to me. I didn't realize that he was in the big leagues for seventeen years. I do know when his rookie year was because the replay of him striking out Reggie Jackson to end game two of the 1978 World Series was shown quite a few times but a lot of people do not know what happened a split second before Welch threw his final pitch to strike out Jackson. Bucky Dent was the runner on second base and with a 3 - 2 count he took off on the pitch. As he took off he caught Jackson's eye and when you are trying to hit a 95 mph missile from a hard-throwing rookie you need all the concentration you have. Jackson ended up striking out and in the replay you can see him being upset with himself. He was, but he was also upset about the distraction caused by Dent. But this was back in the days when the Yankees played like the Yankees and they won the next four games to win the series. Jackson faced Welch two more times that series and got a single and in the deciding game back in Los Angeles he got his revenge on Welch. In the seventh inning with New York leading 5 - 2 Jackson again faced Welch. This time with one runner on first base, Welch threw another fastball to Jackson and Jackson turned on it and deposited it in the right field bleachers to make the score 7 - 2 and that's how the game ended. R.I.P. Bob Welch. ...Also R.I.P. to former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Chuck Noll who died last Friday at the age of eighty-two. Noll is the only coach to win four Super Bowls and he did it with the powerful Steeler teams back in the 70's. What I remember most about Noll is that he called Raiders strong safety George Atkinson "part of the criminal element" in the NFL after Atkinson hit Lynn Swann in the head with his forearm in the first regular season game of the 1976 season. Atkinson filed a two million dollar defamation lawsuit against Noll but lost. Noll was a hard guy to beat even off the football field. ...Finally happy Father's Day to all the dads in here. I hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable day!

Because they're idiots.

Well, damn.

Reditor is not on this site.

I don't want to have these pictures taking over this game thread so as of today they will not be posted in here anymore.

White fur? What do you think he is, a polar bear?

Minnesota Twins' Kendrys Morales in his first at bat of the season during the first inning of a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto on Monday, June 9, 2014.

CHICAGO, IL - JUNE 09: Jose Abreu of the Chicago White Sox hits a single in the 7th inning against the Detroit Tigers at U.S. Cellular Field on June 9, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois.

Baltimore Orioles' Adam Jones watches his solo home run in front of Boston Red Sox catcher David Ross in the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, June 9, 2014, in Baltimore.

Cleveland Hero. Cleveland Indians Lonnie Chisenhall follows through on a swing hitting a three run homer during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas, Monday, June 9, 2014.

Miami Marlins right fielder Giancarlo Stanton comes up short of catching a double hit by the Chicago Cubs' Junior Lake during the seventh inning of a baseball game on Sunday, June 8, 2014, in Chicago.

Danny Espinosa of the Washington Nationals hits a two RBI single during the third inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park June 8, 2014 in San Diego, California.

Milwaukee Brewers' Jonathan Lucroy advances to third ahead of the tag by Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Pedro Alvarez during the seventh inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh Sunday, June 8, 2014. Lucroy tagged up at second on a line out to center field by Brewers' Carlos Gomez. The Brewers won 1-0, with Lucroy scoring from third with the game's only run on a groundout at first base by Brewers' Aramis Ramirez.

The Cubs lost yesterday but they looked good doing it. Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Jake Arrieta delivers against the Miami Marlins during the first inning of a baseball game on Sunday, June 8, 2014, in Chicago.

If you searched the download area for these particular uniforms and have not found them that means that they have not been made. That means there is no way to download this jersey somewhere on the site.

Updated to 6-8 ...During his annual Turn 2 Foundation dinner in New York Derek Jeter said that he would like to be a major-league owner after he retires and has no interest at all in managing. The reason for this is that he wants to call the shots and not have to answer to someone. You know, kind of like how it's been for him the past ten years of his career. ...The Astros made a pretty dubious move last week but there is a good chance you missed it because after all it concerned them. Not even their own fans pay attention to the moves they make so why should anyone else? For reasons that only made sense to them they signed minor league first baseman Jon Singleton to a guaranteed ten million dollar contract and this is all before he has played a single game in the major leagues. Where do you start? This guy is only hitting .267 with 14 home runs and 43 RBI. Remember, this is Triple-A ball and he got this huge contract, this gift, even though he has less than 450 at-bats for Houston's top farm team. This is also the same guy back in spring training who admitted he was a marijuana addict. He was suspended at the beginning of last season for fifty games for his marijuana use and there was also a time last year where Singleton went AWOL and no one in the Astros organization knew where he was. Just like what he was smoking he went up in smoke. Singleton has stated that even though he is a marijuana addict he has stopped using it and -wait for it- that is why he started to drink heavily. And he got a ten million dollar contract. He isn't worth it, but then again, the Astros aren't known for their wise decisions. ...The first thing I thought of was that this guy is in the wrong organization. Now if he was with the Rockies or Mariners he could do both things that he likes to do legally and that's playing baseball and getting stoned. ...Did anyone see that replay of Marlon Byrd swinging and missing against the Mets and breaking his bat in the process? The announcers were saying that Byrd's bat may have been broken without his knowledge but it still take someone pretty strong to do something like that. Bo Jackson busted up a broken bat over his helmet once when he was with the Royals but he also broke a bat over his knee after he struck out as a member of the White Sox, something I still think is more impressive than what Byrd did. ...Yeah, but she can say it, Dept: V. Stiviano has already had her fifteen minutes of fame and now whether she wants to or not she is getting another fifteen minutes. The racoon-faced former girlfriend of Donald Sterling has now been caught on tape saying derogatory things about African-Americans when she was auditioning for a reality show a few years back about gold diggers that was never picked up. Among the things she said during the try-out for the show was that she didn't understand black people because you give them a little bit of money and they don't know what to do with it. This sounds to me as questionable as anything Sterling said. It's too bad for her that this show never got off the ground because this would have been the easiest job on television that anyone ever had. She's already been driving around in expensive cars and living in a million-dollar apartment that she got Sterling to somehow pay for. And if I had to take a guess to how she got him to pay for it I would only need one. But where is the outrage, the finger pointing, the long, thoughtful articles about what she said? Someone must have forgotten to fill in CNN about this because they haven't covered this. But Sterling was on for days. In my opinion both are wrong but if you condemn one person the other should be looked at the same way. ...People in Germany love their beer so much that they want it wherever they go. Last week I found out that the McDonalds restaurants in that country serve beer. Can you imagine if they did that here? It would take two hours to go through the drive-thru. ...The Los Angeles Clippers sold for two billion dollars just like the Dodgers did a few years back. It is an insane amount of money to pay for anything and it got me wondering how many billions it would take to buy the Yankees? ...It's been over a week since David Ortiz was hit by a pitch thrown by Tampa's David Price and he still won't let it go. I hope that the next time he digs in and crowds the plate against Price that he gets hit in the mouth instead of the back. Maybe that will quiet him down for awhile. ...When I hear about stories like this it bothers me that I am not even shocked anymore. It's almost like I'm numb to what's going on. I'm talking about those twelve-year-old girls who lured one of their friends, also age twelve, into a wooded area near Milwaukee and stabbed her nineteen times and left her to die because they wanted to dedication and loyalty to a fictional internet character made famous on websites dealing with stories about death and horror named "Slenderman." Sounds like a guy you'd love to see part of your bowling league. The good news out of all this is that the girl is now in fair condition despite being stabbed all those times and the two girls that did it are going to be tried as adults and will be charged with first-degree attempted homicide. I'd love to see how the defense attorney is going to defend these two psychos and you can be pretty sure the internet is going to be blamed for this because somehow the internet managed to corrupt these two young and innocent minds by forcing them to read horror stories and to steal their mother's kitchen knife to try and kill a girl that they considered a friend. Good luck with that. Those two must have already had a few screws loose long before they learned how to send an e-mail all by themselves. I hope these two spend a long time behind bars or at least until they are old enough so they aren't looking for babysitting jobs. ...After learning about the treatment that his nine-year-old autistic son had been receiving on the bus he takes to school each day from one particular kid, a Bay Area man escorted the boy on that same bus last week and asked him to point out the kid that has been bullying him. Bullies can not resist picking on an autistic kid the same way a woman can not resist a purse sale. Once identified the angry father walked up to his son's tormentor who, in a matter of seconds found out how the receiving end felt when being pushed around by someone bigger than them. The man grabbed the eleven-year-old boy by the hair and pulled him out of his seat and shoved him against the window and let him know in no uncertain terms what would happen to him if he were to hear that he bothered his son again. For his actions he was arrested and charged with child abuse and bodily injury to a child and is in jail pending a $50,000 bond. While he's in jail they ought to feed him steak and potatoes and give him the best lobster caught in San Francisco because it's about time these kids who push other kids around just to make themselves feel better get knocked down a few pegs. It sounds nice to tell your kids to "turn around and walk away" or "just ignore it" but how many times does that actually work out for the kid who is being picked on? I'm not suggesting that the fathers across America join together to beat the snot out of every school bully but in this case it could be that the abuse that this autistic boy was being subjected to was enough for his father to accept. ...I really didn't know if I was going to be able to write my random thoughts this week because early last Monday morning I started to feel really cold and I began to shiver and couldn't stop. I went back into bed and got under every blanket I could find in the house but that didn't help me one bit. I had a temperature of 104.7 and when it gets that high that is what happens. If there is one thing I am an expert on it would be fevers. I always got these high ones so I know what it's like when they start and how you feel when your temperature starts to go down, It's like someone turned the heat on in your house to 90 degrees because you sweat it out in a hurry. After a trip to the doctor that same day I had to have blood work on Wednesday and then I had to go for an ultrasound on Thursday. The more I deal with people in the medical field the more I don't understand them. When they called my name to go and get the ultrasound they looked at my wrist band where all the patient information was printed out on. Name, date of birth, social security number, etc. But the woman who walked me back there must have been one of those people who does not believe what she reads because she made me tell her everything that was on the wrist band while we walked to the examination room. The entire walk from the waiting room to the exam room took literally less than thirty seconds. Once we got in the room and before we got down to business she shuffled around a few papers and then looked up at me and asked me to state my name and month, day and year I was born once again just to be sure that someone who looked just like me did not jump in the room and throw me out so they can have an ultrasound instead of me. Serves me right for getting sick. ...It won't happen to me, Dept: Sometimes you have to wonder what it takes to get through to people. The U.S. has warned their citizens about the risks of visiting North Korea and even if you go there as part of a tour group it does not mean you won't be arrested for jaywalking and be sentenced to twenty years hard labor. I decided to listen to the warnings out of Washington and I immediately canceled my plans of flying there to watch a charity basketball game the next time Dennis Rodman visits. But some people just do not get the hint because a man by the name of Jeffrey Edward Fowle made himself the latest headache of the State Department because he is now the third U.S. citizen to be held there. Fowle was arrested for committing unspecified acts inconsistent with the purpose of a tourist visit. They're unspecified because North Korea hasn't come up with a good reason yet and whatever they dream up and accuse him of he has it coming because he shouldn't have been there in the first place. Go ask Kenneth Bae how the food and maid service has been since he's been a guest over there. Going there is just as risky as sticking your hand in the wide open mouth of a lion and being surprised when he bites it off. You know it's probably not a good idea but you do it anyway. ...I was saddened to hear about the news of Don Zimmer's death. He's literally been around baseball ever since I was introduced to it and that's probably the same for everyone here. The first time I really paid attention to him was when he was named the Red Sox manager and naturally because of that I hated him. Every time the camera showed him in the dugout he had tobacco in his mouth. I never forgot that. On the ABC telecasts Howard Cosell always used to call him Zip. I can still see the sad look on his face after the '78 playoff game. Eventually Boston fired him and he moved on. He was always a survivor. He was a big part of the Yankee dynasty in the late 90's and I really think they suffered when he left the team in 2003. R.I.P.

What?? Not allowed to download TiT? Anyone can download that mod and use it freely.

Good going! Have fun!

If you installed the 1927 mod with no problem then you should be able to get one because Jim made the installer for both of them. The same thing you did in installing the '27 mod is also true here. Please go to for a very detailed description on how to install multiple mods. I should know, I wrote it. You ALWAYS need a clean copy of the game to install any of the season mods. Again, check that thread on how to install multiple mods.

Well that takes care of that. Hmm Is this is the first total conversion mod you have attempted to install? I'm asking this because I was wondering if you had trouble with any of the other ones.