Yankee4Life

Updated to 4-6 ...Last week lameduck Commissioner Bud Selig said that major league baseball's revenue could top nine billion dollars this year. And in case you just skimmed over that I said billion and not million. Huge difference. I think it's great because I want this sport to be successful despite who's running it. But wouldn't you think with all the money these people are raking in that they could at least let the fans listen to the games on the internet for free like they used to? ...My quick observations on baseball's opening week: Instant replay is going to be a nightmare and wouldn't it figure that the first team to get screwed by this would be the Chicago Cubs?...Robinson Cano's inaugural at-bat as a Mariner saw him ground out to shortstop in the first inning. Did he run all out down the line because it was his first official appearance as a Mariner? What do you think?...Jose Reyes, who seriously challenges Cano as the laziest player in the game couldn't even make it out of the first inning during the Blue Jays opener in Tampa when he came up with another accommodating injury that will keep him out of the lineup for awhile. Reyes was more than happy to sign that $100 million contract but he never actually said he was going to earn it...Ryan Braun got a standing ovation by the hometown Brewer fans who treated his return to Milwaukee as if he had nothing to do with missing the second half of the season last year. If Braun had played for Boston they'd have given him a parade...Yasiel Puig couldn't be bothered to make it to Dodger Stadium on time for Opening Day so he had to sit it out. That guy is getting to be more trouble than he's worth...And the Yankees just couldn't get through the week without an injury. Good going Teixeira you son of a *#&#;%&. ...In an article published by Fortune Magazine, Derek Jeter was named one of the top leaders in the world. In fact he placed eleventh in a list of twenty. As much as I am a fan of his even I have to question putting him on a list like this. As captain of the Yankees he holds that job six months out of the year and that's it. He's never had to make a leadership decision in December for instance unless it is deciding what to get his family for Christmas and whomever he's shacking up with at the time. But he's a top leader in the world. And yet for nine years this leader couldn't get Robinson Cano to run to first base. ...One bit of good news besides the return of baseball last week was the announcement that Chelsea Handler will be leaving her show on the E! Entertainment network when her contract is up at the end of the year. I tried to watch her show a few times when I couldn't sleep and it was just awful. The show is called Chelsea Lately and if you haven't seen it you are not missing much. She is a foul-mouthed mean obnoxious woman who thinks she is funny but isn't. What she mainly does is insult and put down other celebrities about anything she can think of. Some of you older members in here might say that wasn't that the same act that Don Rickles has been doing for over sixty years? No, because Rickles got laughs and you knew when he was insulting someone like Sammy Davis, Jr or Frank Sinatra that he didn't mean it and he always had a smile on his face when he was doing it. Not this woman. When she is ripping into someone you know damn well that she means it and she enjoys it at the same time. I found other things to watch on TV late at night when I couldn't close my eyes. Somehow I don't think E! is going to mind once her final show is completed. ...Believe it or not, Dept: A man by the name of Christopher Miller was just released from prison early last week after serving a fifteen year sentence for robbing a shoe store back in 1999. Most people would celebrate being free after all that time by treating themselves to a nice dinner or spending time with family. Something like that. Not this guy. He made a beeline to the bus station in Atlantic City, New Jersey with a ticket to a nearby town that just happened to be the same one where he committed his crime all those years ago. While he was walking around taking in the sights he came across the same shoe store that he robbed back in 1999 and he figured with all the pointers he picked up in prison that this time he could knock off the place and get away with it. Inspired, he walked into the shoe store and demanded money and then became very angry because the employees told him to get lost. Miller had to improvise quickly so he figured if these people are not going to give me the money he was going to do the next best thing and that was taking the cash register, which only contained $389, and get out of there as fast as he could. The police were called and Miller was caught just two blocks away from the robbery. The police later said that they were surprised that he got that far because cash registers aren't exactly easy to carry around. After he was taken to the police station and booked Miller was asked why he hit the same shoe store for a second time and he replied that the first time he robbed them all those years ago he told them he'd be back. When he gets out of jail again he will be an old man. May as well give it another shot. Third time's a charm you know. ...When I saw the commercial for that new Taco Bell breakfast waffle sandwich with an egg and bacon inside of it I had to wonder to myself what exactly they were thinking because sounded to me like the most disgusting thing sold by these fast food places since the bacon sundae by Burger King. ...Last week I called my pharmacy to get a prescription refilled. It was something that I expected to be a quick and easy process. Give them your name, date of birth, prescription number and when you want to pick it up and then that's it. I was told by the person on the other end of the phone that my health provider wants me to get ninety day supplies of whatever I have to be filled. I told them that it was fine and I was expecting that because that is how it's been since I had this health plan. Then I was told that this ninety day supply would cost me twenty-five dollars. I was just about to tell them to go ahead and fill it when the lady told me to let her check to see how much a thirty day supply would run me for. I did some quick math in my head and I figured that a one month supply would cost me a little over seven dollars. I wasn't even close. A one month supply for the same pills was only going to cost me one dollar. I told them I didn't understand that at all. If a thirty day supply is one dollar wouldn't it just make sense that a ninety day one would cost me three dollars? No matter how I tried to convince this woman she was having none of it so I was forced to settle for the thirty day refill. They may not know how to add but I do. ...Every day we have a lot of people that visit this website from all over the world such as Latin America, Europe, Asia and Canada and I've always wondered what these non-citizens of the United States think of our country's school system after I hammer them for the stupid things that they do, which seems to happen on daily basis. Well, here's another one that they can talk about in the pubs in London and this one happened in Florida, which should not surprise anyone. A little five-year-old kindergartner was preparing to eat her meal during her school's lunch period but before she did she stopped, bowed her head and was about to say a prayer of thanks. Before she had a chance to say Amen she was cut off by a teacher who was in the lunch room and she informed her that she was not allowed to do that at school. The little girl told the teacher that it was "good to pray" which in turn prompted this reply that really set everyone off when she told her "no it's not." That did it. The parents pulled the kid out of school and are now home schooling her where she can pray at all her meals from now on without being censored. The school is denying that this entire incident ever took place because they said they were informed that it happened during the week of March 10 and they are just hearing about it now and besides, since you are dealing with young children there is quite a bit of an "opportunity for miscommunication," which is a very polite way of saying that the kid doesn't know what the hell she's talking about. The school also says that the parents never contacted them about this and the parents deny it, saying they sent them several emails. I give the school a little bit of credit here since they didn't suspend her or expel her or send the kid to counseling or even call the cops. But why did a little girl reciting a prayer to herself make them uncomfortable? Well, I suppose you got to look at it through the school district's eyes. This kid is probably going to be the kind of child who holds doors open for people and says please and thank you and they're just not used to dealing with instigators like that. ...I'll tell you one thing if that kid was reeling off some Muslim prayers before she dived into her sandwich the school would have cleared the room to give her privacy because they wouldn't want to feel insensitive towards her and avoid a lawsuit at the same time. ...If Mike Francesa, Craig Carton and Boomer Esiason had their way they would string up New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy because he missed the team's first three games of the season because he was with his wife in Florida as she delivered the couple's first child. That's what they are mad at him for and they really let him have it on their respective radio shows last Wednesday. It's not like Murphy is staying home until the All-Star Game. He gets three days to be with his wife, which is the same amount of days any Major League player gets for paternity leave. It is going to be fun to watch these three idiots fall all over themselves after they are forced to apologize. Especially Dr. Esiason, who said that he would have told his wife to have a Caesarean section before the season to avoid any conflict with opening day. I don't know how many women's groups are out there but by the next day one of them must have put pressure on WFAN radio where Esiason has his radio show because he was falling all over himself apologizing to Murphy, his wife, the newborn and all other women that he may have offended and if he could have thought of someone or something else to make amends with he would have done that too. ...While on the subject of know-nothing loud-mouthed radio hosts I see that Chris Russo has resurfaced on the MLB Network. He was partnered with Mike Francesa on a New York radio show called Mike and the Mad Dog and this show was broadcast live on the YES Network and all he ever did was scream and yell about everything. He hated everything except the San Francisco Giants. The only thing different now is that he's calling himself Christopher Russo. It's the same skit except that he's the number one guy now. Trust me, you'll hate him. ...All of these radio guys that try to be controversial or do a lot of screaming and yelling do not compare to a guy I used to listen to in the 70's. During those years baseball was not on TV every day like is now so I used to listen to out of town games on the radio every night. One night I was trying to pick up something and I came across a talk show and since it was nighttime, it came in very clear. Whoever this guy was he was furious at the New York Yankees for something. He was yelling at George Steinbrenner, Reggie Jackson, Billy Martin, the Yankee announcers, the Yankee ushers, you name it. If you can try to picture me at a Red Sox convention and that was Pete Franklin's radio show out of Cleveland. Oh, did he hate the Yankees. And he would yell at callers if they asked a question that he didn't like. I was hooked and I listened to him as much as I could depending on if I could get a good signal. This was a radio show worth listening to because he was entertaining and he had a hell of a following during those years.

Wow, here's a blast from the past. Welcome back. Did you try running it in administrator mode? There are also threads in here that discuss running this game on Windows 8. It can be done.

Nice first game for Masahiro Tanaka!

Preacher Roe Elwin Charles "Preacher" Roe pitched for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1949, 1952, and 1953 World Series, each match up against the New York Yankees. Though Roe never won a series ring, the left handed pitcher was a standout player in the National League throughout the 40s and early 50s during baseball’s heyday, playing alongside legendary Dodgers Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese. Roe’s career began in 1938 with the St. Louis Cardinals, where he pitched only one losing game before being shipped off to the team’s minor league for five seasons. It wasn’t until 1944 that he was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates. The next season, he racked up 148 strikeouts, the highest number in the National League. But Roe’s real claim to fame was during his time with the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1951, he led the team to the World Series with a pitching record of 22 wins and only 3 losses. This record led The Sporting News to name Roe “Pitcher of the Year.” After the 1953 season, the Dodgers sold Roe to the Baltimore Orioles. But unable to keep up with the physical demands of the game late in his career, he retired from baseball in 1954.

I'm glad for you. With both games you must go nuts downloading all the mods for them.

What are you doing man? I thought you and Mvp baseball were tight? Come on, I'll walk with you back to the other side of the forum.

Hahahahaha

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At least one guy is worse than Soriano.

I went to soc.ts.nfoservers.com and Firefox could not connect to it. How can you bug anyone if you are talking about baseball? You know something? I have never talked voice with anyone from here either. I had a good friend that used to be on this website from Scotland and I would have loved to talk to him. Then again I don't own a microphone for the computer. Like the PS3, I am on the sidelines again.

It's 11:50 pm and I'm tired and am going to log off. I'm going to pretend I never read this. They played an awful game and deserved to lose.

There will be plenty more where that came from. Oh well, going to get ready to watch the free MLB game tonight.

They are getting shut out by the worst team in the majors last year. SPEND SOME MORE MONEY YOU SOB'S!!

Last year these guys played against Texas on opening day and beat them 8 - 2. Then they went on a losing streak.

All done.

This son of a &*()&((* is going to be like this all year.

What the HELL??????? Edit: What the HELL continued.

That's exactly how tall I am. And we are already losing.

By the way who the *&^( are these guys in the Astros starting lineup?

Great idea for a thread KC. I hope everyone comes in here to pass the time. First at-bat for Jeter in Houston he gets plunked.

Give me time to get around to it.

The Syracuse area is even worse then were I live.There are two big snow belt areas and that's in the Buffalo and Syracuse areas. I'm in the middle. That does not mean we get it easy. Let's say Syracuse gets 14 inches. We'll get lucky and we will only get 10. Big deal! Cazenovia is a very nice area. I think it is east of Syracuse and I believe there is a college there. You should see that area in the summer but then again everything looks much nicer in the summer.

You do a good job and thank you for your rosters!

Nothing you said to him was ever taken into question as being rude to him. I feel the same way about the things I said too. I'm not from New York either. I'm talking about New York City. I live in upstate New York near Lake Ontario which is around a seven hour drive from there.