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I suppose we got to ask the Koreans how they like it. And that's one thing I don't understand. Why would EA make this game just for Korea?

I agree. It would have been interesting to see this on PC.

That's what I was trying to tell him. You got to try out datafiles until you find one you can really get into. Yours is good, no doubt about that. In fact it is so good it's hard. Damn there were times when I thought I couldn't hit before but with this datafile it just confirms it. Also another thing I do is because I have all the different season mods installed I have different datafiles in the various mods and I have a list of what datafile is in what mod just in case I want to switch up. People may want to try that option too.

This week a very good Asian modder who has made mods for both the 2k12 game and Mvp and a former roster maker who has also made some very good looking minor league uniforms and our Behind the Scenes spotlight is on a modder who provided many of the portraits for the Mvp 2012 and 2013 mods. Garfield8 If you ever wanted to use some of the colorful uniforms used in the Nippon Professional Baseball league there is a very good chance that Garfield8 has already made them for Mvp 2005 and he has continued that with the uniforms and title screens he has contributed for MLB 2k12. For Mvp 2005 Yokohama BayStars Uniforms. Hanshin Tigers Uniforms. WBC USA Uniforms. Note:2006 uniform version. Seibu Lions Uniforms. Tokyo Yomiuri Giants Uniforms. For 2k12 2013 WBC Uniforms (Final.) WBC Umpire Uniform. WBC Stadium at AT&T Park. Uniform PSD for Photoshop. Grmrpr1313 Aside from making some very stable and accurate rosters Grmrpr has produced some very good home and away jerseys for various minor league teams and very useful yearly LOC files help update the changes made in the minor leagues either by name changes or new logos. 2014 New Logo and Cap Picture Files 1.0. 2014 Grmrpr's Loc Files. Charlotte Stone Crabs Home and Away Jerseys. Huntsville Stars 2008 Home Jerseys. Salem Red Sox Home and Alternate Jerseys. Behind the scenes Kst7584 We all know how popular the Mvp 2012 and 2013 mods were and that was thanks in part to the wonderful portrait work that Kst7584 did during those two years. His downloads include all the individual team portraits including minor league releases.

Well Don there was no way you could have or should have been ignored in this thread. You deserve it as much as anyone else here and without your work from 2k9 on up that game would have really suffered. Those people that play that game owe you a lot of thanks. I just can't help but wonder if you owned Mvp 2005. Oh the possibilities!

Yeah, I saved a lot of things that I occasionally go back for. I think that Fraps records game video but you are talking about a lot of disk space to record a full game.

That was last night. The final total was 53.

I've already cataloged 28 of my DVD's and the program I have been using (Gentibus CD) works great. Should have done this years ago.

Updated to 1-12 ...A McDonald’s restaurant in Elk Grove, California is being accused by the media for asking a group of what they are referring to as "intellectually disabled" adults to leave their place of business. As we all know by now when the media says you did something then of course you did it. What happened was this group of people, a special needs group, got into a food fight and it was disrupting the other customers who were there and if it were not for the fact that these people were mentally disabled this would have never been an issue because if it were any other group of people throwing their French Fries and McNuggets around it would have never made the news. It sure is easier to make McDonald's look like the bad guy instead of placing the blame on the people who were there supervising this particular group for their own failure in controlling the situation. And I don't know if saying "intellectually disabled" is entirely accurate in this case because half the kids in any high school across the country can be described in the same way. ...Last week was the twentieth anniversary of the attack on champion figure skater Nancy Kerrigan by the men hired by Tonya Harding's ex-husband. What a media circus that was. I saw a recent picture of Harding and just one look at her you can tell she's been putting in more time at the iHop instead of the rink in recent years. ...A Congressman named Eliot Engel from New York state is shaking his finger at Dennis Rodman for bringing some former NBA players to North Korea for that basketball game that was played last Wednesday in honor of Kim Jong Un's birthday. I've never heard of this guy before let alone knew he was a Congressman from my home state. Some of you may argue that I should know who my Congressman are that are supposed to represent me. Well, I don't. I'm lucky I know who our Governor is. I had no problem in what he was saying because I don't support anything that has to do with North Korea and I also wouldn't do anything to make Jong Un's birthday a special day but it was the timing of his speech that made no sense to me. It was not a well-kept secret about what Rodman was going to do and when he was going to do it but this politician waited until last Monday to let everyone know how he felt about it. He even dragged a mother and daughter who escaped North Korea at the press conference to help get his point across even further. If you ever needed an example of political grandstanding there you are. And that's reason #954 why I can not stand politics. ...The National Review, the conservative semimonthly magazine founded by William F. Buckley, Jr came out last week to applaud the state of Colorado for becoming the first state to make the "prudent choice" of legalizing recreational marijuana. Amazing. And all it took was a dozen or so free dime bags from some marijuana distributors in Colorado to change their minds. ...There's a new sick way some people are occupying themselves with that's called the 'Knockout Game' and it is slowly making its way across the country. The object of the game is that you try to sneak up on someone and knock them out with one punch. Police in Brooklyn, New York have arrested a man who was involved in seven knockout game attacks where each of the victims were women, including an elderly woman pushing a stroller and a mother walking with her daughter. Apparently they caught the guy before he turned professional where he then would do his knockouts in hospitals and retirement homes. This is not exactly a brand new game because in England years ago the same thing went on but it was called a "happy slap" over there. The media, as usual, is reporting this inaccurately. They're saying these are hate crimes because mostly young, black males are doing them and while that may be part of the reason why this is happening I think the real reason this is happening is for these people to get a quick, cheap thrill because most of the victims in these "games" are women who are in no position to defend themselves. One of these days someone is going to attack the wrong woman and it is going to end badly. ...Steven Seagal recently told a TV station that he is seriously considering running for governor of Arizona since he watched his friends Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger do the same thing. I don't know if this is what the voters there want but if Mexico ever decides to invade Arizona they had better stop and think twice about it. ...Last Monday night the Honey Boo Boo clan got themselves banged up a little as they were involved in a car crash which happened in their home state of Georgia. Daddy Boo Boo (or whatever his name is) was attempting to make a left hand turn when a truck driving in the opposite direction without lights on rammed into them. The truck that hit them was cited for speeding and nothing else. In Georgia you don't have to have your lights on when you are driving at night just as long as you carry along a few high powered flashlights just in case you are driving in the back roads or places like that. Aside from some bumps and bruises they came out of this incident without any major wounds and when Daddy Boo Boo learned that their Chevy Suburban SUV sustained only some minor damages he was upset because he had hoped it was unrepairable since he had intentions to haul it back to their home to put it in the front yard as a decoration piece because the other car they had there, a rusted forty-year-old Ford truck, was given to one of their relatives as a Christmas present and the yard looked bare without it. Before they allowed the SUV to be towed away from the scene the family insisted on cleaning out the vehicle that took them one hour because when the accident happened they dropped all their Cheetos and M&M's they had with them and they didn't want them to go to waste. ...I am sure that all of us has some kind of story to share as to how we dealt with the harsh weather we had last week and how we tried to keep warm. That is of course except for me. The cold had me completely whipped as I stayed inside the house hiding from it. It was so cold that it delayed the garbage pickup by one day so I had to drag everything down to the curb on Wednesday instead of Tuesday and for those ten minutes that was the longest I stayed outside. I threw out an old computer chair that was on its last legs -no pun intended- and within a half an hour someone snagged it. I don't know how they did it since it was frozen to the ground. About the only excitement I saw outside was when the UPS truck broke down right in front of my driveway and another truck had to come to transfer the packages from the truck that wouldn't start to the new one. One of the drivers came to my door and apologized again and again for blocking my driveway and hoped that I did not have to go anywhere because the truck that wouldn't start wasn't changing its mind any time soon. So I told the guy not to worry about anything and that I didn't plan on venturing outside until April. ...Staying inside or at very least staying where he was at awhile longer is what an escaped convict from Kentucky should have done. A man named Robert Vick (no relation to Michael) decided to do a runner from the Blackburn Correctional Complex in Lexington where he was serving a six-year sentence for burglary and criminal possession of a forged instrument. In other words he broke in somewhere and stole someone's credit cards with the intent of running up a tab. Anyways, he saw an opportunity and bolted from the place with the intention of distancing himself from the Bluegrass State as far as he could. Unfortunately he did this last week right in the middle of that cold spell we had and Kentucky, just like all the neighboring states around it got hit pretty bad. Vick did not have to worry about someone like Lt. Gerard hunting him down because the weather was all that it took to reel this guy back in. After running around awhile outside with wind chills readings at twenty below zero and unable to get warm Vick walked into the first place he saw open, a motel, and asked them to call the police so they can pick him up and bring him back to prison. It doesn't take a genius to see where he went wrong. Even if there wasn't that Antarctic air to deal with last week it still was winter time out there. It's still cold. Where the hell's he going? Wait until June and give it the old college try. He may not realize that there are homeless people out there who intentionally commit small crimes so they can be caught and put away so they can get out of the cold. And at the same time he did the opposite. There used to be a very good TV show some years back called Cold Case but this actually was one. ...I was flipping through the TV stations early last Friday morning and I saw this court TV show that I originally thought was like that Judge Judy show. I started watching it because all the defendants were yelling and flaying their arms around so I decided to stay right there to see what was getting them so hot and bothered. I ended up discovering that I was watching something entirely different called Paternity Court where people volunteer to go on to air their dirty laundry just to find out what guy they should sent a father's day card to. And all this time I had myself convinced that television could not get any worse. ...I was very happy to see that Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine make the Hall of Fame last week because I thought those two really deserved it while at the same time I didn't give a damn if Frank Thomas got in or not since I thought that people like Craig Biggio or Mike Piazza deserved it more. It was a shame that Maddux didn't get a unanimous vote in but realistically did anyone expect that to happen? The excuse all these years has been that since the baseball writers back in 1936 could not all agree to vote Babe Ruth in that somehow justifys that no one should get a unanimous vote. I don't know how many times I have heard this until finally I decided to do some reading about it and I'm glad I did. Ruth received 215 votes when he got in which was good for 95.1% of the votes, a percentage any player would gladly settle for but at the same time I really wanted to know who didn't vote for him and why. What I also found out was that Ty Cobb got a higher percentage of the votes (98.2%) because for some reason he got more votes than Ruth (222.) Arguments can be made as to who was the better of the two but I think both of them deserved not to be excluded by any of those voters back then. This is why it didn't surprise me that Maddux got left off a writers ballot by some goof named Ken Gurnick. His reason? He didn't want to vote for anyone that played in the PED era but that didn't stop him from voting for Jack Morris who was still kicking around the major leagues when guys like Canseco, McGwire and Sosa were playing. Only in his mind did this make sense. For seventy-eight years now there have been reasons as foolish as Gurnick's that have kept players out of the Hall of Fame and next year should be no different. ...For the very first time thanks to Jaxen, who ran what he called the "Cooperstown Consortium" I had the opportunity to cast my Hall of Fame ballot before the actual announcements came out last week. There was a group of twelve and the three players that got in were Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine (both unanimous votes) and Mike Piazza. You were able to vote for a maximum of ten players and besides voting for all three players that were elected I also gave the nod for guys such as Craig Biggio, Alan Trammel and Jack Morris. Sure there were only twelve people that voted in this but it was not hard to notice that there was more common sense displayed here than Ken Gurnick and Dan Le Batard showed in the voting that actually counted. ...Say what you want about Major League Baseball but they sure know how to make a Saturday afternoon in January interesting. Waiting for the verdict on Alex Rodriguez to be announced I had to admit that I had no idea what to expect since getting back on the field immediately was always a possibility for him or at the very least getting slapped with the same amount of games that Ryan Braun got. But a 162 game suspension? I never saw that coming. I don't feel bad for him and I don't think he got screwed here at all. He did all this to himself. The word is that he is going to try to fight the ruling in federal court but my feeling is that once he finds out how fruitless that will be he may not do that. Now I'm curious to see if he shows up for Spring Training next month because he still is allowed to do that. I hope he doesn't because that is one thing that any team doesn't need as they prepare for a season and that is a media distraction. They are already going to have enough of one every time Derek Jeter takes a step. ...I have to admit I am torn. As a baseball fan I am happy about this because he finally got his. But as a Yankee fan I don't know how happy I should be because he can still play third base very well and has a gun for an arm and every so often he remembers he can hit a little and I have no idea who is going to play third base this year because Kevin Youkilis is gone and is presently learning Japanese.

Don't believe Eduardo Nuzez is going to play third base for a minute. The Yankees said the same thing years ago when they tried to convince everyone that Bubba Crosby was going to be their starting centerfielder. Not even Bubba Crosby believed it.

He wasn't but his bat was.

This is a big help. Thank you. And come around when you can too.

Alex Rodriguez gets SLAMMED! Arbitrator hits Yankees slugger with full-season ban, plus postseason Link to article. LInk to ESPN story. Link to story on MLB.COM. Fredric Horowitz’s decision endorses MLB’s accusations that A-Rod scored an array of performance-enhancing drugs from Biogenesis, a now-shuttered Miami-area anti-aging clinic operated by Anthony Bosch, and employed thug tactics in obstructing commissioner Bud Selig’s investigation into the biggest doping scandal in baseball history. By Teri Thompson, , Michael O’keeffe , Christian Red AND Nathaniel Vinton / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Saturday, January 11, 2014, 11:47 AM Updated: Saturday, January 11, 2014, 2:10 PM Charles Cherney/AP Alex Rodriguez slams the arbitration process as he vows to take the fight to federal court. He’s out. Alex Rodriguez, once Major League Baseball’s biggest star, was slammed Saturday with an historic drug suspension that encompasses all of the 2014 season, including the postseason, and will cost the Yankee third baseman $25 million in this year’s salary, plus millions in any performance incentives he would have earned. The ban comes after a year of vicious attacks on Major League Baseball and the Yankees, public denials that he acquired massive amounts of performance-enhancing drugs from a seedy Miami dope den, and millions in legal bills from a team of high-profile lawyers, crisis managers and private investigators. Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz struck the 14-time All-Star and three-time Most Valuable Player with the 162-game suspension, plus the offseason, in an endorsement of MLB’s accusations that Rodriguez scored an array of PEDs from Biogenesis, a now-shuttered Miami-area anti-aging clinic operated by Anthony Bosch, in clear violation of the game’s collectively bargained drug program. Rodriguez announced the suspension -- the longest drug suspension in the history of the program -- Saturday morning in a long statement in which he denied having used performance-enhancing drugs in the period in question and calling the ruling an “injustice,” invoking what he called a “threat to guaranteed contracts,” and vowing to take the fight to federal court. Corey Sipkin The ban from the arbitrator is the longest PED-related suspension in the history of baseball. “The number of games sadly comes as no surprise, as the deck has been stacked against me from day one,” Rodriguez said. “This is one man’s decision, that was not put before a fair and impartial jury, does not involve me having failed a single drug test, is at odds with the facts and is inconsistent with the terms of the Joint Drug Agreement and the Basic Agreement, and relies on testimony and documents that would never have been allowed in any court in the United States because they are false and wholly unreliable. This injustice is MLB’s first step toward abolishing guaranteed contracts in the 2016 bargaining round, instituting lifetime bans for single violations of drug policy, and further insulating its corrupt investigative program from any variety defense by accused players, or any variety of objective review. “I have been clear that I did not use performance enhancing substances as alleged in the notice of discipline, or violate the Basic Agreement or the Joint Drug Agreement in any manner, and in order to prove it I will take this fight to federal court. I am confident that when a Federal Judge reviews the entirety of the record, the hearsay testimony of a criminal whose own records demonstrate that he dealt drugs to minors, and the lack of credible evidence put forth by MLB, that the judge will find that the panel blatantly disregarded the law and facts, and will overturn the suspension. No player should have to go through what I have been dealing with, and I am exhausting all options to ensure not only that I get justice, but that players’ contracts and rights are protected through the next round of bargaining, and that the MLB investigation and arbitration process cannot be used against others in the future the way it is currently being used to unjustly punish me.” MLB, the Players Association and the Yankees cited their respect for the arbitration process. “The MLBPA strongly disagrees with the award issued today in the grievance of Alex Rodriguez, even despite the Arbitration Panel's decision to reduce the duration of Mr. Rodriguez's unprecedented 211-game suspension,” the union said in a statement. “We recognize that a final and binding decision has been reached, however, and we respect the collectively-bargained arbitration process which led to the decision. Handout The statement released Saturday by the Major League Baseball Players' Association. MLB said that while it believed the original 211-game suspension was appropriate, “we respect the decision rendered by the Panel and will focus on our continuing efforts on eliminating performance-enhancing substances from our game.” The Yankees said they “respect Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program, the arbitration process, as well as the decision released today by the arbitration panel.” For the 38-year-old Rodriguez, the ruling represents a death blow to his already PED-tainted career, even though the decision by Horowitz reduces the 211-game ban baseball commissioner Bud Selig imposed in August and is based on non-analytical evidence -- Rodriguez has not failed a drug test since baseball’s 2003 survey testing year. He clearly will not take that small victory as a sensible stopping point in his legal crusade, however, and will continue his battle. Rodriguez has already commenced a lawsuit against the league and others he claims have conspired to frame him as the most tainted ballplayer since Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. He may also find himself heavily involved in the federal investigation into Bosch and Biogenesis out of southern Florida, a probe that has already resulted in investigators interviewing players linked to the clinic. Horowtiz’s decision comes about seven weeks after Rodriguez stormed out of his grievance hearing on Nov. 20, professing that he had been treated unfairly. The walkout saved him at the last minute from going under oath with denials. Assuming the suspension stands -- it is highly unlikely a judge would interfere with a ruling issued under binding arbitration -- Rodriguez’s suspension is immediately effective, meaning he may be shut out from spring training as well as the actual season, depending on how Horwitz’s ruling is interpreted. Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News A-Rod greets his supporters in September in Manhattan as he fought his initial 211-game ban. The decision wraps up a tumultuous process that began Aug. 5, the day Selig banned Rodriguez for doping and interfering with MLB’s Biogenesis probe. While Rodriguez immediately elected arbitration, more than a dozen other players implicated in the scandal accepted their bans. Most of them have already served 50-game suspensions (Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun accepted a 65-game suspension) and are now free to take the field in spring training. (If Rodriguez is allowed to show up at spring training, the Yankees could simply send him across the street to the minor league camp). The arbitration process was a slow-motion disaster for Rodriguez, the best-paid player in baseball and once its biggest star. Evidence in the case suggests Rodriguez continued using steroids and human growth hormone long after he vowed he was clean -- even after his relationship with Canadian HGH guru Anthony Galea embroiled Rodriguez in the federal grand jury probe that made Galea a felon. The voluminous text messages and detailed descriptions of an extremely close relationship between Rodriguez and Bosch were apparently too persuasive to allow Horowitz to significantly reduce the suspension. “The 211 games made sense when Selig issued it,” said one source of MLB’s original suspension, “because they wanted him out of the game in 2013, too. But this is validation of their program. Of all the guys that were suspended, he was the biggest violator.” Rodriguez’s involvement with Bosch and Biogenesis also destroyed his relationship with the Yankees -- he has sued Yankee team doctor Christopher Ahmad, accusing him of misdiagnosing a hip injury that led to surgery last January -- and may have torpedoed any lingering hope Rodriguez had of getting into the Hall of Fame. Kendall Rodriguez/for New York Daily News Alex Rodriguez takes another big hit in his battle with baseball as arbitrator gives Yankee slugger 162-game ban, plus the postseason. “He would have been better off admitting he got drugs from Bosch and tried to make a case for 50 games as a first-time violator,” said a baseball source who has closely followed the case. Instead, Rodriguez publicly denied a relationship with Bosch, at one point describing him as a “consultant,” and escalated his attacks on the arbitration process. By Nov. 20, after claiming to be outraged that Selig wouldn’t be forced by Horowitz to testify, A-Rod walked out of the negotiating session, hopped in a waiting car and headed straight to the studio of radio host Mike Francesa, where Rodriguez adamantly denied doping beyond the years in which he has already confessed to using steroids (2001-03, when he was with the Texas Rangers). Those claims contradicted voluminous evidence of drug use, including a stream of electronic communication between Rodriguez and Bosch, who authenticated the messages while testifying at MLB’s behest during the arbitration and is believed to have provided detailed descriptions of injections gone awry, schemes to avoid the drug testers and records of payments for drugs. In an apparent gesture toward transparency, Rodriguez’s PR rep vowed in November that Rodriguez’s legal team would release MLB’s evidence for public consumption, but never followed through with that promise. Andrew Theodorakis/New York Daily News Alex Rodriguez was originally given a 211-game ban for his role in baseball’s Biogenesis scandal before appealing the decision. It’s unclear what the arbitrator’s ruling means for Joe Tacopina, the bombastic lawyer A-Rod hired to lead an army of lawyers and public relations wizards to fight the ban. Tacopina, who told a television interviewer that Rodriguez didn’t deserve a single inning of suspension, worked hard throughout the fall to reframe the Biogenesis scandal as a story about MLB’s anti-doping enforcement tactics even as Rodriguez’s team put on a limited defense of their client in the arbitration room. Meanwhile, MLB was presenting the results of the most intense investigation in the history of its drug program. The Biogenesis scandal had erupted in the summer of 2012, soon after MLB banned former Yankee Melky Cabrera, who tested positive for testosterone and then orchestrated a bizarre cover-up scheme that involved a fake website. Cabrera, a Biogenesis customer, was assisted by an employee of Seth and Sam Levinson’s sports agency. MLB’s Department of Investigations deployed numerous agents and resources during its months-long probe, and ultimately 14 professional baseball players were suspended in the case. Among them was Braun, the Brewers star who successfully appealed a 50-game ban after testing positive for synthetic testosterone in 2011 but later confessed when his name surfaced in media reports as a Biogenesis client and accepted a 65-game ban. Bosch was only faintly familiar in baseball circles when the Daily News first reported A-Rod’s association with Bosch and MLB’s interest in him on Jan. 26, 2013, three days before a Miami New Times report linked Rodriguez and numerous other baseball players to doping through Bosch and his Biogenesis anti-aging clinic. When former slugger Manny Ramirez was suspended 50 games in 2009 for a doping violation, Bosch’s father, Pedro, was reportedly the source for a banned female fertility drug that Ramirez had obtained and used. A DEA probe into Pedro Bosch and his son ensued. When the New Times report was published, Rodriguez’s name was the biggest in the litter, and came on the heels of the slugger’s second hip surgery in four years. Enmeshed in the most extensive doping scandal since BALCO, Rodriguez was banished from his team while he rehabbed the hip and dealt with the fallout from Biogenesis. His PR flack at the time issued a statement saying the documents published in the New Times were “not legitimate.” In the ensuing months, as the MLB Biogenesis probe heated up, a cast of oddball characters surfaced in the saga -- everyone from former Biogenesis employee Porter Fischer, who gave the stolen Biogenesis documents to the New Times, to Bosch, who went from MLB target in a lawsuit to MLB informant, to Tacopina, the attention-grabbing attorney who joined Rodriguez’s legal team late in the summer of 2013. The Biogenesis investigation represented an unprecedented step by Selig, who has been accused of turning a blind eye to steroid use during the 1990s and early 2000s, to clean up a game that has been hit hard by performance-enhancing drugs. Several high-profile players failed drug tests in 2012, including Melky Cabrera, Guillermo Mota, Bartolo Colon, Marlon Byrd, Yasmani Grandal and Carlos Ruiz. Those incidents led MLB and the Players Association to revamp the drug-testing program to include the more sophisticated carbon isotope ratio exam that can detect the presence of exogenous testosterone in a player's urine sample. MLB used every means at its disposal to bring the players it believed were using PEDs to justice, filing what was considered to be a longshot lawsuit against Bosch and others involved in Biogenesis, and purchasing damaging Biogenesis documents from Bosch’s associates. Without subpoena power, MLB faced an uphill battle in convincing witnesses to cooperate -- but once the lawsuit was filed, and the defendants’ lawyers’ fees began to pile up, the wall of silence crumbled. Bosch became a cooperating witness after MLB agreed to drop him from the lawsuit, pick up his legal bills and indemnify him as long as he provided them with credible evidence and information. Now it looks likely that the 38-year-old third baseman will be near 40 by the time he is allowed back on the field, assuming his health allows him to return. The Yankees still owe him about $84 million -- minus the 2014 salary -- on a contract that doesn’t expire for four and a half more seasons but Rodriguez has endured two hip surgeries in the last five years, including one last January, and is markedly diminished as a player. If he heads to court, as he says he will, Rodriguez faces millions more in legal fees and the prospect of having to testify. As one source told the Daily News last week: “It’s great to feign outrage and file something. But once the ball starts rolling, you could lead yourself into criminal exposure. Is he going to testify that he never got performance-enhancing drugs?” * * * OFFICIAL STATEMENTS RELEASED ON A-ROD RULING: ARBITRATOR NOTIFIES MLB, MLBPA OF ALEX RODRIGUEZ DISCIPLINE Rodriguez Suspended for Entire 2014 Regular Season and Postseason Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz has notified both Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association of his ruling that New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez will be suspended for a period that includes 162 regular season games in the 2014 regular season as well as the entire 2014 Postseason. * * * Statement of MLBPA regarding the Alex Rodriguez arbitration award New York, NY, Saturday, January 11, 2013 … The Major League Baseball Players Association today released the following statement regarding the Alex Rodriguez arbitration award. The MLBPA strongly disagrees with the award issued today in the grievance of Alex Rodriguez, even despite the Arbitration Panel's decision to reduce the duration of Mr. Rodriguez's unprecedented 211-game suspension. We recognize that a final and binding decision has been reached, however, and we respect the collectively-bargained arbitration process which led to the decision. In accordance with the confidentiality provisions of the JDA, the Association will make no further comment regarding the decision. * * * Alex Rodriguez Statement on Decision of 162 game ban “The number of games sadly comes as no surprise, as the deck has been stacked against me from day one. This is one man’s decision, that was not put before a fair and impartial jury, does not involve me having failed a single drug test, is at odds with the facts and is inconsistent with the terms of the Joint Drug Agreement and the Basic Agreement, and relies on testimony and documents that would never have been allowed in any court in the United States because they are false and wholly unreliable. This injustice is MLB’s first step toward abolishing guaranteed contracts in the 2016 bargaining round, instituting lifetime bans for single violations of drug policy, and further insulating its corrupt investigative program from any variety defense by accused players, or any variety of objective review. I have been clear that I did not use performance enhancing substances as alleged in the notice of discipline, or violate the Basic Agreement or the Joint Drug Agreement in any manner, and in order to prove it I will take this fight to federal court. I am confident that when a Federal Judge reviews the entirety of the record, the hearsay testimony of a criminal whose own records demonstrate that he dealt drugs to minors, and the lack of credible evidence put forth by MLB, that the judge will find that the panel blatantly disregarded the law and facts, and will overturn the suspension. No player should have to go through what I have been dealing with, and I am exhausting all options to ensure not only that I get justice, but that players’ contracts and rights are protected through the next round of bargaining, and that the MLB investigation and arbitration process cannot be used against others in the future the way it is currently being used to unjustly punish me. I will continue to work hard to get back on the field and help the Yankees achieve the ultimate goal of winning another championship. I want to sincerely thank my family, all of my friends, and of course the fans and many of my fellow MLB players for the incredible support I received throughout this entire ordeal." * * * MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL STATEMENT Major League Baseball issued the following statement today regarding the decision rendered by Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz in the matter pertaining to Alex Rodriguez: “For more than five decades, the arbitration process under the Basic Agreement has been a fair and effective mechanism for resolving disputes and protecting player rights. While we believe the original 211-game suspension was appropriate, we respect the decision rendered by the Panel and will focus on our continuing efforts on eliminating performance-enhancing substances from our game.” * * * STATEMENT FROM THE NEW YORK YANKEES: “The New York Yankees respect Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program, the arbitration process, as well as the decision released today by the arbitration panel.”

I can and I can't at the same time. I don't mean to sound cryptic here but one set of sliders or a datafile may be good for one person and the other person may not like it as much. You should try out different ones to see what is best for you. This one by Jim825 is a good one and so is this one by Daflyboys. These are only two. There are many to choose from.

I'm not even sure if I worded this right. What I was actually wondering is if there was a program out there that would categorize or keep a list of what you have burned on your CD or DVR? This is what I mean. I was looking around today because Stormswarning needed a patch for Mvp that is no longer on the site. I had to look around on a few DVD's before I found it and I just wondered if there was an easy way to keep track of what you have. This is what one DVR looked like: I want to be able to know what is on the DVR without me having to put it in to see. If something like this doesn't exist, that's fine. I was just curious. Thank you!

That's not sad. It just shows you got your priorities straight.

You call that doodling? I think it looks great to me.

Let me see if I understand what you mean and I apologize in advance if I am misunderstanding you, but I will go by what you wrote. I do not understand why a portraits.big file will prevent you from downloading the Mvp 13 mod or any other mod. Did you try this foolproof way? 1. Install Mvp 2005 in a directory of your choice. What you need is a direct out-of-the-box install. In other words install the game like you did for the very first time before you installed any mods. 2. Now download Mvp 13 by following this link. 3. Install the Mvp 13 in the SAME directory you installed Mvp 05. It will automatically overwrite the necessary files and you will be able to play Mvp 13 when it is done. This means you did something wrong. After you get done installing Mvp 13 go and get daflyboy's latest roster. I don't use TiT to install rosters. I install them manually and overwrite the roster files in the DATADATABASE directory. Easier that way.

I bet that would work too Homer. I'm kicking myself for not figuring this out on my own because I actually have CC Cleaner on a disk somewhere and I could have used that. But I used the one Dennis recommended and everything worked out well.

This finally got cleared up thanks to Dennis James who was juggling making new uniforms for four different mods at once or maybe he was making four different uniforms. I forget which. He gave me a program called ATF Cleaner and it got rid of the explorer history as well as the Internet Explorer history. That's fine because I never use Internet Explorer anyways. Thank you Dennis!

Both are downloaded from the Microsoft site. Microsoft Visual C++2005 Redistributable Package right here and the Microsoft Net Framework site is right here. it has been years since I grabbed these files and I don't know anything about them except that I needed them to run this program.

From the file description: Make sure to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package and .net framework pack first. Also I noticed how you took your screenshots. It looks like you took a picture of your monitor. There's a better way to do it if you download a program called Fraps.

That's understandable. When I was a kid growing up the only soccer player I heard of was Pele and I didn't give a damn about him either. I read a little bit about Eusébio today and I think U.S. fans were robbed because they didn't get to know him. Alex Rodriguez? Just trying to make you laugh here.