Yankee4Life

I was thinking about this question last night and I think I got an answer for it. You did download Mvp Edit, right? You will need that. Now I have a copy of this game on my hard drive that is installed directly from the CD's and it has no mods installed on it. Around here it is sometimes referred to as a "clean" copy. So I figured why can't I start up Mvp Edit and make a .mbe file from the default rosters? So that's what I did. So what I am giving you here is the very first (and oldest) roster from this game. Default_2005_Roster.zip

Mickey Cochrane Gordon Stanley "Mickey" Cochrane was one of baseball's greatest catchers. He compiled a .320 lifetime batting average over 13 seasons from 1925 to 1937, handled outstanding pitchers Lefty Grove and Schoolboy Rowe during their record-tying 16-game winning streaks, and in 1947 was the first catcher elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America to the Hall of Fame. Cochrane wasn't just a great baseball player, though. He was a hero and role model to millions of people during the Great Depression of the 1930s when as player-manager of the Detroit Tigers he led the downtrodden Tigers to their first pennant in 25 years. The combination of Cochrane's fierce competitiveness on the field and his likable personality off the field, mixed with his successful rise from humble beginnings, helped Americans take their minds off the widespread unemployment during the Great Depression and encouraged them that they too could weather the economic times. Many parents named their children after Cochrane, including one Oklahoma family named Mantle. Playing for the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers, Cochrane led five teams to American League pennants during the seven-year span from 1929 through 1935, an era most fans remember as being dominated by Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees. Three of these five teams went on to win World Series titles. Cochrane was the catcher on Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics team that won three consecutive pennants from 1929 to 1931. It was as player-manager of the Detroit Tigers, however, that Cochrane achieved national fame and adulation, leading the Tigers to pennants in 1934 and 1935, and to Detroit's first World Series title in 1935. Following the World Series victory in 1935, he suffered a breakdown in 1936 after being elevated to general manager in addition to his player-manager duties. On May 25, 1937, soon after his recovery from the breakdown, he was hit in the head by a pitch from Yankee pitcher Bump Hadley in those helmetless days and was nearly killed, ending his major league playing career. Cochrane came back as bench manager in 1938, but was ineffective outside his playing-field leadership and was fired on August 6, 1938. He was a great leader on the field, but cast as a "caged lion" bench manager, he never managed again in the major leagues. While hitting just 119 home runs in his career, Cochrane had 64 triples, the most among Hall of Fame catchers that played in the 20th century. His ability to launch doubles and triples lands him just outside the game's top 100 in slugging percentage with his .478 average. Cochrane's lack of home run production over his career - which wasn't required because he batted in front of such sluggers as Al Simmons, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg - has somewhat unfairly diminished the luster of his contribution to the game. Cochrane was selected as American League MVP twice, in 1928 and 1934, primarily on his leadership abilities rather than his statistical accomplishments. On the field, Cochrane had a certain inspiration that infected other players to do their best. Cochrane never played on a team that finished worse than third place.

Updated to 1-26 ...Dennis Rodman has checked into an undisclosed alcohol rehabilitation center in order to receive help for his long time struggle with alcoholism. The reason why it is undisclosed is because the place that has him told him he could only stay there if he kept quiet where he was because they wanted to continue having clients after he leaves. Rodman checked into the center upon his return from North Korea because his agent said that he was under a lot of pressure when he organized a basketball game there in honor of Kim Jong Un's birthday and that he had been doing a lot of excessive drinking because of it. That's pretty good. Travel halfway around the world to play in a basketball game to make some maniac happy, insinuate that the American being held captive there is there because of something he did and swear at an interviewer on live TV when being asked why he was there in the first place and when you come home hide out some place and blame it all on alcohol. ...Good news! Well, maybe. C.C. Sabathia signed with Roc Nation Sports, the sports agency started by Jay Z. He's the same agent that whispered sweet nothings in Robinson Cano's ears and got him a one-way ticket to Seattle. Sabathia has at least three years left on his contract so they can't do anything right now about getting him a new one. Not that he deserves it or anything. But it's my hope that Jay Z will be annoying all this time and the Yankees end up unloading Sabathia, who last year looked like he lost everything on the mound except weight. ...The Baseball Assistance Team have created a new award called the Commissioner Bud Selig Leadership Award which in all probability is an award given to Baseball executives who screw up the most during the season and the first recipient of this award was none other than Selig himself. This means that whomever wins this in the following years has impossible shoes to fill. ...Modell’s Sporting Goods gambled on the wrong AFC team to win last week as they printed up $500,000 worth of hats, t-shirts, novelties and pennants for men, women and children who wanted to celebrate the New England Patriots victory in the championship game and who at the same time would not mind overpaying for the privilege. Denver messed everything up for them by winning the game and all the memorabilia that was to be sold at three times it cost them to make it at was donated by Modell's to third world countries so if you really want one of these t-shirts you'll have to drive down to Mexico to get it. ...This is not an uncommon thing because something like this happens every year and every time I read about this it makes me think of a Toronto businessman many years ago. It was during the 1985 American League Championship Series between the Blue Jays and the Kansas City Royals. The Blue Jays were having their way with the Royals as they took a three games to one lead in the best-of-seven series. Just one more win and the Jays would be on their way to their first World Series. It was at this moment in time that a Toronto man whose name I do not know quit his $100,000 a year job just so he can go into business selling Blue Jays championship memorabilia. Ask any Royals fan and they'll tell you that this guy made the wrong career choice because the Royals came back to win the series in seven games over Toronto and they had so much fun doing that that they spotted the Cardinals the same three games to one edge before storming back to win the 1985 World Series. I never knew what happened to this person or how much money he ended up losing or if he ended up getting his job back. I just know that he lost a bundle because no one would buy his Blue Jay "we're number one" styrofoam hands. ...A nun in Italy last week gave birth to a baby boy, news of which shocked the other nuns at the convent as well as the mother herself. Incredibly she did not know she was pregnant. Instead she just thought she was experiencing stomach pains that kept on contracting every few minutes or so for twenty straight hours. It is not sure who the father of the baby is but the day after the child was born Guiseppe the gardener abruptly quit and has not been seen since. ...For the movers and shakers in the Roman Catholic church what some of their people have done in the past seven days or so is something they'd just as soon forget. The pregnant nun story will eventually die down just like all sensational stories before it has but I think it's going to be harder for the public to let go of this one. One of the monsignors from the Vatican arrested last Tuesday for allegedly using his Vatican bank accounts to launder money. Police have accused him of transferring millions of euros in fictitious donations from offshore companies at the Vatican's Institute for Religious Works. I'm not sure how he did this because the only time I do any laundering it is in front of a washing machine but he somehow took money from the Vatican when no one was looking and in turn transferred it to real estate and assets in Italian bank accounts. How do you like that? And I bet all this time you thought the money gathered from the collection plate on Sundays ended up at the nearest casino. ...That's my Boy, Dept: An eighteen-year-old high school student was allowed to return to class last week after he was suspended by school officials because he got a job making pornographic movies just so he could help his mother pay bills. His mother reported that when the other students discovered what he was doing her son became a target of bullying and threats. It should be noted that none of the threats were made from members of the female student body. The mother went on to say that partly because of these threats the school expelled her son due to his "explicit lifestyle career." After all the dust was settled the suspension only stuck for four days and that was enough time to make one more movie because they are considering adding HBO and Showtime to their DirecTV package. ...For any of you who remember MarkB you may want to read this to see what is going on with him today. If you recall, Mark is from Glasgow, Scotland and he works in the computer field. He even had a job at Dell once before they downsized and got rid of people. This indirectly has something to do with what he is doing now. For the past few years he has been trying to find some steady employment in Glasgow but unfortunately the job situation there is not so good. There is a program that Scotland has that sends people that want to work to Australia for employment and after some delays in getting there Mark has been in Brisbane, Australia since December 2nd. It was a twenty-eight hour flight from Glasgow to Brisbane that included layovers and changing planes. (When he told me how long that took I promised myself not to complain about long the flight is to Hawaii the next time I go.) Anyways, he's there enjoying the Australian summer and watching some Australian Baseball League games because Brisbane is part of that league. He says the Australian fans are pretty knowledgeable about the game. The best part is that he already has a job. He is doing IT work at the hotel he is staying at and in return they are giving him a free room and a few hundred dollars a week. Mark was and is a very good guy and I am hoping that once he gets settled there and into a daily routine that he will come back here and say hi because these past few years have been crazy for him. ...What's the big fuss about Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman? He's just another loud mouthed, in-your-face, me-first football player. Ray Lewis was the same way just as there were others before Lewis and there's going to be others after Sherman. The only real news this guy will end up making is when we find out what crime he gets arrested for in the off season. ...After reading about the player representatives from the Major League Baseball Players Association overwhelmingly agreeing that Alex Rodriguez should be kicked out of their union it got me thinking and playing the "what if" game. These players are so upset at Rodriguez suing their union that they want nothing to do with him. Think about it for a second. Every single player rep wanted him out including the Yankee one and that guy might have to end up playing with him next year. And if he does come back in 2015 he's going to have to shake off more then the rust of not playing for a year because his entire body is going to be a magnet for baseballs. At least Barry Bonds had supporters. Rodriguez has nothing and that makes me also wonder if in his private moments that he thinks he went too far? ...I was thrilled to find out that the Yankees had signed Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka because of the many things that they needed, pitching was right up there. But after the excitement of this signing set in that's when I started worrying. The Yankees hadn't had very good luck with Japanese pitchers (Hideki Irabu and Kei Igawa) and would this be the third lemon that they picked from the Japanese leagues? I hope not because he looks like he has a good arm but playing in Japan is different than playing here. This is an improved team from last year on paper but is it enough? ...Which brings me to Jonny Gomes of the Red Sox. There was a column about him in the New York Daily News which I'll go as far as giving you a link to it right here. This tabloid covers the Yankees very well year-round but you have to read the articles with your eyes wide open. If they could have stirred something up with this column the better for them although when you stop and think about it, Gomes was right. Maybe that's what bugged them in the first place. Gomes was not "particularly impressed" with the free agent signings that the Yankees have done this winter and went on to say that they still have “some questions.” Not exactly words to get worked up and bothered over and to be truthful here I agree with him. Gone are the days when I get all excited over some new free agent that comes to town with an impressive resume. The last time I believed that is when they signed Mark Teixeira. I don't need a reason to dislike something a Red Sox player says but make it a legitimate one. ...We've been busy, Dept: An attention-seeking family in South Carolina are seeking a new trial for a fourteen-year-old relative of theirs named George Stinney who was executed in 1944 for murdering two girls, ages nine and eleven. They are insisting he is innocent and while they can't bring him back, they want his name cleared. All I want to know is why now? Why the hell did they wait seventy years to try to get the courts to hear this again? If I seem apathetic about this it is because I am. Why now all of a sudden do they want this case tried? Why didn't they request this twenty years ago? Or forty years ago? With all the time that went by it couldn't have been bothering them that much. It's not like they had seventy years of sleepless nights over this. My guess is that this has a lot to do with the media and the desire to be on TV. Maybe they want to go on the Oprah Winfrey Network and have her hold their hands while they tell their story or go on some other talk show that's willing to give them the time of day. What a total waste of the courts time. ...The NFL should be on their knees right now thanking God that the Super Bowl was not scheduled to be played this Sunday because of that snowstorm last week that dumped fourteen inches of snow there last Tuesday and Wednesday. MetLife Stadium in New Jersey is buried right now, which is normal because it's wintertime and it's the east coast and when you factor those two things in together that is what you should expect. The NFL knew what they were getting into and they'll stubbornly play this game because they'll have no problem letting a stadium full of people freeze in a snowstorm rather than lose millions of dollars.

I would have to say that starting a thread and asking the question in there would be the best thing because there are a lot of smart people here who know roster work very well and I am not one of them. Don't be. When I first got here I asked questions too and that's how you learn. The best advice I can give to you or anyone else who is just starting out getting mods like you is after you download the mod read the instructions that comes with them. After you read those instructions you back up your files that you are going to overwrite. If you get in the habit of doing that you will save yourself a lot of headaches.

I am sorry to bring this thread out to the front page again. It has been a little over three months since I was here reminding people about this and I have to do it again because there has been a major rules change as far as the penalty and length of time you will serve if it is discovered you have a duplicate account. Some people make their duplicate accounts the day they join here. They are required to read the rules but that still doesn't prevent them from creating four accounts that same day. I wish I could say I was stretching the truth a little bit right now but I'm not. This is exactly what happens at times. Some people will become members and will create their second account a few days later, or a week, or a month after they've joined. Some people take it upon themselves to create a new account because they "forgot" their password to their other one. If this does happen to you and you do forget your password or if something happens where you can't get it, don't make a new account. You'll soon see why. Incredibly, people who are modders and/or contributors also have been caught making duplicate accounts. When you are a modder or a contributor you already have the right to unlimited downloads so for someone in this status to make another account is something I do not understand at all. I won't bother to name any names here because there's no need to do that but let me say one thing about this. This is something that has happened many times. Well, now you know why there has been some rules changes with the duplicate accounts. Now let me tell you what they are: 1. The first offense for a duplicate account is six (6) months. 2. The amount of time you will be serving if you make a second account has been increased to one (1) year. The time added to this should show you once and for all that having a duplicate account here is not a good idea. Before I go let me request this from you. If you have another account and you are not sure if the staff here knows about it, PLEASE send a PM to someone on the staff so the second account can be taken care of for you. We asked the same thing in before back in September and nobody wrote to us and when these members were caught they were suspended. I don't want anyone here right now to serve six months for something that can be easily avoided as this. If you do forget your password send an e-mail to yankee4life@mvpmods.com. I will try to help you and get you back in so you don't have to take it upon yourself to make a new one and make a mistake. Thank you Y4L 1-24-14

Well then, whomever the cyberface makers are for that game they can make one or maybe one is already being worked on.

Hahahahahahaaha. Well, we hide it pretty good.

You may as well. It can't hurt any. But you got to remember what I said before. When you get those error messages that means the file is no longer hosted.

No problem. There's so much in the download section that it is easy to overlook stuff. If you don't mind let me give you a piece of advice I give to all new users. Spend some quality time in the download section and look around to see what there is. You are a contributor plus so you can download as much as you want. There's a lot of things in that download area that will make your game better.

One more related question, regarding an often-mentioned but elusive file. Is MVPedit floating around somewhere? Right here.

Ok, you lost two games. Time to re-group. When I'm not hitting I play that batting game in the game to get some practice in. Seems to help me a little. Then in your next game take a look at the lineup of the other team and pick one guy and drill the son of a *&^% in the head. Pound him and then kick him and then oh, wait, never mind. Got off-track there a little. Good luck in game three!

Glad to help. Those intro movies got annoying awfully fast, didn't they?

Please check the newest uploads. The mod you wanted has been uploaded to the website again.

View File No Intro Movies If you're tired of hitting the escape key to bypass all the intro movies, then this file is for you. Directions: Unrar all the files to your MVP Baseball 2005\data\frontend\movies folder, overwriting the existing files. Note: Please back up the original files first. Enjoy! Submitter Trues Submitted 01/22/2014 Category Miscellaneous

Check this thread for more information on error messages like this. However, since the modder of this file is still active on this site I can ask him if I can upload the file again since I have it.

Thanks. I never heard of this.

Forgive me for asking but what the heck is a OUYA?

Lately there have been many reports about files that users have not been able to download. What this means is that these files are no longer hosted on the server and therefore can not be downloaded any longer. Over the years this website has had many server changes and some files were not transferred over. One thing you will notice about all these "broken" files is that they are some of the oldest mods on the site. So the next time you see this notice below you will understand its meaning. Thank you. Not Found The requested URL.......................... was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

This week two more names in the long list of talented uniform modders we have on this site. The first of these modders concentrated on WBC type uniforms and the second one came up with his own unique style of uniforms. The Behind the Scenes modder looks at someone who created some of the classic cyberfaces for the prominent Total Classics mod. Kerwal Some of the uniforms that Kerwal made that are listed below were included in the first WBC mod in 2009 and some were made from the European Baseball League. Because of who the teams are, some of these uniforms may be very unfamiliar to a lot of users here especially the ones that were made based on the European League. Europa Team Baseball Uniforms. This set includes uniforms from Spain, France, Germany and Greece. Israel Team Baseball Uniforms. Saudi Arabia Pre-Olympic Uniforms. CTS Screen and Loading Screens WBC 2009. Seleccion de Nicaragua (Uniform set.) Hiheat32 Arguably what hiheat32 is most famous for is his detailed tutorial on how anyone can make their own uniforms for Mvp 2005. This PDF file has been downloaded over 800 times since its release and his concept uniforms that are listed below feature new uniforms for every major league team so the user can pick and choose which ones they want in their game. Hiheat32's Uniform Making Tutorial. PDF file for anyone interested in creating their own uniforms. Hiheat32's Concept Uniforms 1.0 LoneStar Concept Uniforms (Rangers and Astros.) Behind the Scenes Peter Bernard The Total Classics series is the longest running mod on this website and a lot of the mod's contributors have unfamiliar names to users who have only been on the site the past five years or so. You may not be familiar with Peter Bernard but if you own Total Classics then you've seen his impressive cyberfaces that he has contributed to that mod. Some of his faces include Rogers Hornsby, Sandy Koufax, Duke Snider, Phil Rizzuto and Reggie Jackson. Peter Bernard is just another person that helped make Total Classics what it is today.

Updated to 1-19 ...The Super Bowl is two weeks from today and while organizers are busying themselves with last-minute tasks before the big day on February 2nd they are at the same time crossing their fingers for a mild day. They are also working behind the scenes with law enforcement officials to make sure all the scoring that day is on the field. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected in New Jersey and state officials are concerned about the rise in prostitution that statistically increases during a Super Bowl or other large sporting event. Even without the Super Bowl being played there this is a constant problem in New Jersey and all these people are trying to do is not have every motel from the proximity of the stadium to Manhattan booked with call girls disguised as football fans. Now if any of you are planning on going there in two weeks to <wink> watch the game, that is your business. I wouldn't worry to much about them coming down hard on anyone because just as long as the Congressmen and the other higher-ups get their first choice before anyone else it should be fine. ...Strike another victory for whining people everywhere that have too much time on their hands. Because of their hard work and dedication in devoting their time to cry about something that doesn't affect them in any way, they have pressured the Cleveland Indians to replace their primary Chief Wahoo logo with the block letter "C" they introduced in recent seasons. The smiling Indian logo isn't being eliminated completely - it's just being downgraded so fans will see less of it overall. It's not a total victory for them because the Tribe's home uniform will continue to feature the logo on caps and jersey sleeves. All that means is that they still have more belly-aching to do. Even before this happened the Pittsburgh Pirates announced that the Jolly Roger one-eyed Pirate will no longer be used as their primary logo because of objections raised recently by Somali pirates. These days you got to be careful not to offend anybody. ...I find the Red Sox offensive and not just the name. What's my next step? ...One thing I forgot to say last week about the Rodriguez suspension that still has me mad one week later is the fact that David Ortiz did the same thing as Rodriguez but he got away with it simply because Alex Rodriguez is vilified by mostly everyone as a player and a person and Ortiz is not because he knows how to play the part of the oblivious and always grinning ballplayer extremely well. I'm not defending Rodriguez here. I'm just saying he should of had company. ...I think those James Earl Jones and Malcolm McDowell Sprint commercials are hilarious but then again I'm biased since I like anything James Earl Jones does. ...Many times I have gone to the movies with my wife and we have had to deal with people who were talking or laughing very loud, uncontrollable children and inconsiderate people who do not think twice about using their phone to talk or text or to do God knows what. It got so bad that we have not seen a movie in a long time. So with that in mind I am more than sympathetic to the guy last Monday who shot someone because the other man would not stop texting in the theater. I'm not saying I would go as far as shooting another person over something like this because I wouldn't. Understanding someone's frustration about the rudeness that some people display when they are using their phones in a public place is one thing, condoning shooting that same person for what he was doing is another. An argument escalated in the theater about the guy using his phone and it continued because the guy kept on texting and one word lead to another and the end result was someone was shot dead because of this. The first thing I thought of when I heard about this was why the hell did someone bring a gun with him in the movie theater? The only thing I bring into the movies is the candy I buy someplace else that I sneak in because I am not going to spend four dollars on a box of M&M's that the dollar store sells for a buck. Aside from the fact that someone was shot over something like this none of them got to see how the movie ended. ...I don't know how believable this story is but I read about it and saw part of it on TV, so here goes. A Seattle woman ended up going to emergency because after having sex with her boyfriend she orgasmed and three hours later she still couldn't find the off switch. The hospital thought that she originally came there in labor but when they asked her what her level of pain was she replied "zero." Medication finally helped calm her down and she went home tired but happy and since that day has made her boyfriend sleep in the other room. ...The next time that they finally decide to take the chance and do it again all he has to do is stick a wedding ring on her finger and she'll never have one of these again. ...Are you kidding, Dept: I'm sure that the new Pope in Rome is doing a wonderful job. I mean the only guy to complain about him that I know of was Rush Limbaugh and he doesn't count. But I think maybe there must be something wrong with his hearing. Last week during a service in which he baptized thirty-two children some of them started crying and when one started they all did because even at that young of an age no one likes to be left out. The Pope was unfazed and said that children's voices, even when crying, make "the most beautiful choir of all." Now I know that this is a man of God and I am just myself but this just shows the enormous difference between us, not that we'd be mistaken for each other anyways. He hears a bunch of babies crying and calls it a choir. I hear the same thing and I run out of the room. ...A Chinese energy firm is planning to spend 1 billion yuan or 165 million U.S. dollars on a full-scale replica of the Titanic as the main attraction for a theme park that will be permanently docked on a river in the town of Sichuan. The firm already has the complete design drawings of the famous ship and work is expected to be completed in two years. The designers are planning on recreating the experience of what it felt like when the luxury liner collided with the iceberg so visitors can have a feel of what it was like for the actual passengers back in 1912 when that moment occurred. If this attraction proves to be successful the next thing this Chinese company plans to make is a replica of the Hindenburg so they can try to capture all the good times and laughs associated with that piece of history too. ...While most teams have been busy this off season trying to improve their rosters and prepare for the upcoming season the Chicago Cubs, as usual, have taken a different approach. They've been hard at work creating a mascot named Clark who will attempt to entertain fans between innings in order to distract them from what's going on out on the field with the Cubs. Believe it or not this is the second mascot the Cubs had because for a number of years beginning way back in 1916 they used to wheel out a live bear out on the field. Of course they could not get away with something like that today because they couldn't be sure if someone in the stands was packing and would suddenly decide to take aim at it. And then there's the opinion that this mascot is actually the third one used by the Cubs since Alfonso Soriano was constantly mistaken for one because all he ever did was stand in one place and wave. ...The food police are apparently not satisfied with coming up with new foods and drinks for people to avoid because now they are branching out into the animal kingdom. A zoo in southwest England is saying that bananas are bad for monkeys because of the high calorie and sugar content in them and because of that they have cut them off cold turkey and instead are providing them with leafy veggies and sprouts. Sounds like the monkeys really made out on that one. First they have to live in a zoo and now they have to deal with this. If there is ever a real life Planet of the Apes you'll know how it started. ...Finally there is something that I can say that Justin Bieber and I have both done and that's pelting a neighbor's house with eggs. In my case I was thirteen years old and I did it on dare during Halloween. It was only one egg and it hit the intended target, the screen door on the side of the house. Being the brave soul that I am as soon as that egg left my hand I took off running to our "hiding spot" which now that I look back on it made no sense at all because it was on top of a garage. And, like Bieber, I got caught. Someone with us cracked under pressure during interrogation and the next day I was handed some soap and water and had to clean the door and do one hour of community service which meant I had to rake the leaves in the front and back yards. After that hard labor I never threw another egg again. ...Ty Warner, the billionaire businessman who created those Beanie Babies that were so popular back in the 1990's was sentenced last Tuesday to two years of probation for not paying taxes on millions of dollars stashed in Swiss bank accounts. For those who are not fortunate to have billions of dollars to their name they'd be looking at some time in the clink but Warner won't be serving one day behind bars because the judge presiding the case was impressed with his charity work. That's why Wesley Snipes went to jail for the same thing. Snipes had money but not like this. Anyway, all I thought of was that it was people like my wife who used to buy and collect and categorize these damned things that helped him become a billionaire. Warner was very ashamed and sorry as he addressed the court. Of course he was. He was sorry he got caught. ...For traditional baseball fans like myself who dislike the designated hitter, interleague play and expanded playoffs (just to name three) the game that I grew up watching slipped away even further last week and I am very upset about it because I believe these changes have not helped the game at all. And now instant replay, which already had its foot in the door, is now being expanded beginning this season. Managers are going to get one challenge per game and if their challenge is upheld they get another one. This is going to look like a football game minus the helmets and pads. I said before this is going to make the Yankee - Red Sox games longer but I didn't realize how much expanded replay they were talking about because Tony Larussa, one of the chief SOB's of this new replay system said that "almost 90 percent of all potential calls are now reviewable." Great! These games are going to be so damn long now that I'll be able to watch them announce the starting lineups and then get ready for bed. I just don't get it. Why change something, why mess around with something that was so good in the first place? And do you know what really worries me? Whatever they are planning next. ...And if anyone is looking ahead and wondering if the Red Sox will lose any of their challenges they have in Fenway Park this year the answer to that is going to be no and hell no. ...Four teams that I could care less about will be playing in the AFC and NFC title games and I'm so excited about who is going to win that I just may watch five minutes of it and that will be all I will be able to stand. In the NFC I pick the 49ers and in the AFC I pick the Broncos. I'll tell you how I came to both of my conclusions. I didn't spend time reading about the strengths and weaknesses of each team and who is injured or not. I took a more scientific approach. I flipped a coin.

Are you serious? Do you know how big that file is?

....Pulling up a chair.