Yankee4Life

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.

I've read this entire thread over again from the beginning and aside from all the animated gifs I have no idea at all what you all are talking about!

All aboard the Kansas City Royals bandwagon! Never mind that it's June and that every team gets hot over a 162 game season! Miguel Cabrera did nothing for the three games against the Royals and he hit just as well as Mark Teixeira does for the Yankees (1 for 8, 3 walks and 2 strikeouts.)

Thank you! I am going to try this on my Windows 7 laptop.

I gave him a link to this thread so he could see for himself the problems you were having. Don't worry, Trues can fix this.

Um, you didn't offend me and I never said you did. I am going to bring this up to the site owner tonight. He knows when and how much you contributed. What I have done for you right away is move you into contributor status. I am also going to let the site owner know I did this too. I am sure this will get straightened out soon.

Yes, we are all ghosts here. And what subscription do you have? You are not in a contributor or a contributor plus status. You are a member and that means you get only two downloads a day. And to answer your question, yes there are people here like myself that are looking after the website. If you have not heard from the website owner that means he is busy. Away from this website he is like everyone else. He works. And sometimes that can be time-consuming.

Wonderful screenshots! Great job!

(Moved to the proper forum.)

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!