Yankee4Life

That's right. And another thing to keep in mind that some antivirus programs out there are not that good. Right away Mcafee and Norton come to mind.

Just to let you two guys know I gave this topic a sticky. This is an important thread and you modders are what makes this place go. And with the off-season not that far away this thread will see a lot more action. Thank you for what you do!

It's the fourth week of this thread and it's time for some more modders to be featured and recognized. The first one is someone that is more well known these days for his work with the 2k games and the second one is a stadium modder that was one of the best we have ever seen in here. Kccitystar When you compare the uniforms that you get when you first install a baseball video game to the uniforms that Kccitystar makes for the same game there is no comparison. Kc's uniforms have always made computer baseball games look so much better and as long as there are computer baseball games and he has the desire to do so, his uniforms always will. KC has been making uniforms even longer than this website has been around. Before his work on Mvp baseball he made uniforms for Triple Play baseball. So if any of you who owned that game years ago and downloaded some uniform mods for that game, chances are you saw some of his work already. Lately KC has been concentrating on 2k baseball but before that he spent many years making Mvp baseball look better. His Total MLB Uniform set for Mvp were a series of mods that were one of the most highly downloaded mods on this website. This uniform set was so good that it was also converted to Xbox format. Most of his work for Mvp is no longer available. KC is also known for his wonderful cyberface work and artwork and luckily there are many examples of those in the download area. Uniform Template TMP Uniform Update AL West (throwback uniforms) 2k12 Total MLB Uniforms Total Stadiums 2012 Kccitystar's TruHD Photo Mod 1994 Houston Astros Pirate Pirate is another modder that is unknown to people who have joined here in the past four years or so but for people who were around when this guy was making stadiums, everyone knew who he was and how good he was too. Pirate made stadiums and he did that so well that sometimes people forgot that he made other things like uniforms, portraits and stadium select screens. But as good as each one of those things were his signature work was his stadium creations. He covered them all during his time here and he also graphically improved the classic stadiums too. Great American Ballpark ZMod Stadium Editing Tutorial Astrodome Citi Field Olympic Stadium For 2k9 Wrigley Field Progressive Field

Updated to 9-15 ...I got back from being out of town a little over an hour ago and before I have the nicest bit of sleep since Thursday night I wanted to come in here and post the random thoughts for the week. Then I'll pass out on a real bed and not one that would put a torture chamber to shame. ...Of course it sucked down there but I knew that going in. Usually on Sundays we take off in the morning and are home by noon but when we were still hanging around there at 2 pm I knew I had a long day ahead of me. The only person that didn't care what time we left was my wife and that's because she didn't have to do any of the driving. ...The Seattle Mariners have another hard-throwing young righthander in their system by the name of Taijuan Walker that they've been keeping a pretty watchful eye over. After his start last week he has already been shut down for the year because the Mariners want to be on the safe side with him and not push him to log any more innings for thr year since they'll be missing the playoffs anyhow. At any other time I could care less about this because it doesn't matter to me what this team does but it kind of makes me wonder though if they did this for themselves or if they did this to show other teams that he ended the season healthy just in case they come calling about his availability this winter since there is no way in hell that the Mariners are going to sell another damaged bill of goods to anyone else again just like they did to the Yankees two years ago when they snowballed the Yankees into taking Michael Pineda and we all know how well that turned out since this will be his second season in a row that he has not appeared in a major league game. ...I really think the main difference between a coffee and a latte are that Starbucks and places like that can throw an extra dollar on the price of the drink and no one will say anything about it. ...When the Pirates won their 82nd game it was reported that emergency rooms all over the Pittsburgh metropolitan area were overflowing due to the record number of people who became light-headed and passed out after watching the game on TV. ...Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh may be the most hated player in the NFL but gang members all over Detroit love him. They know a kindred spirit when they see one. ...If you are anything like me when you hear someone else complain about younger people when they say that they are disrespectful and care only about themselves you usually don't put up much of argument and if you are so inclined you might even throw in some examples of what you've seen yourself. But if you actually stop and look around you'll see that people who are much older and you think should know better are sometimes much worse than any of these kids can ever hope to be, and it took one pain in the a$$ old woman at a wholesale club I was at last Tuesday morning to have this lesson permanently drilled into my head forever. I went there early that day to get a big bag of dog food and some fruit. There was hardly anyone in the store at the time and because of that I knew I would not have to wait in line long to check out, at least that's what it looked like to me. I was the second one in line right behind an older woman that had just one item, which was a ten pack of soap. "This should be fast, I said to myself. I'll get the hell out of here and buy me an iced tea and go home." I was only right about the iced tea part and going home. It was obvious to me that the woman went to the store for one thing and that happened to be the soap, and then she would go on her way. She had to know how much the soap was because she had the one dollar bills in her hand before the cashier rang up the item. But apparently she wasn't clutching enough ones because she had to go fishing around in that huge purse of hers for more. Then she had to do the same thing when she wanted to pay the exact amount in change and she proceeded to do just that after she emptied her change purse on the conveyer belt and counted out the seventy-three cents the cashier needed. I don't have a beard or a mustache but I was in line long enough to start growing one. The woman was unmindful to the fact that she was taking an extremely long time to buy just one thing and that a line was forming behind me because of it. I consider myself very fortunate that I got off this easy after watching what unfolded in front of me. After all, what if she had more than one item? ...Last Monday pot activists in Denver were protesting that the proposed taxes on recreational marijuana in Colorado were too high so they came up with a novel idea to express their anger. They gave out free joints to every adult who attended the campaign to defeat the proposal by state lawmakers to have higher taxes for marijuana than those for alcohol. The rally was such a success that the organizers had to roll more cigarettes while people waited in line and Cleveland Indians pitcher Chris Perez said that his dog tried to have a dozen sent to his house but he stopped him just in time. ...And all over the country tobacco smokers are telling the potheads in Colorado to join the club because they've been getting stiffed by high taxes for years now. ...There's a guy in Los Angeles that took his wife ballroom dancing every single week for fifty years and each time they went he wanted her to have a brand new dress to wear. Over the years the man ended up buying her over 55,000 dresses. It goes without saying that these people were very rich and had a lot of closet space. I'm glad my wife didn't hear about this or else she'd start getting ideas and knowing her she'd want the shoes to go with the dresses. ...It took them fifteen years to do it but Sportservice, the company that provides all the vending at the Detroit Tigers games finally got rid of one of their employees known as the Singing Hot Dog Man. I heard about this guy before and I'm surprised that he lasted this long. He would sing so loud that people would get distracted from what was going on out on the field. Doesn't seem fair though because they have that nut in Cleveland that pounds that drum non-stop and he's been around for years. ...Alex Rodriguez's arbitration hearing to appeal his 211- game suspension is scheduled to begin on September 30th, exactly one day after the Yankees regular season ends and if that sounds fishy to you then join the club. Why? Because Major League Baseball should have/must have anticipated that Rodriguez would appeal the ban that he received. His first game back with the Yankees was on the 5th of August and they are waiting 57 days to start this hearing? If these people are actually serious about nailing this guy they would have began this appeal process last month instead of letting him complete the remainder of the season. My prediction is that he'll get a ban that is even less than 100 games. I really hope I'm wrong but I just have this feeling. ...I don't know what surprised me more, seeing a batter take two strikes and then walk back to the dugout thinking he struck out or that it happened during a Yankees-Orioles game. I've been watching these two teams for years and I never really know what to expect next. For example,this is going back a few years but when Whitey Ford was the Yankee pitching coach in 1975 the Orioles protested a game once because he went out to the mound three times to talk to his pitcher and the very next year at Yankee Stadium the Orioles forgot the number of outs and the Yankees were given an extra out in the inning. Didn't help though, Baltimore won the game. ...A Montana woman who was married to her husband for only eight days pushed him over a cliff after an argument the two were having. She was having second thoughts about marrying him especially after finding out his savings account wasn't as big as he claimed it was. She faces life in prison if she is found guilty. If that happens or not is up to the court system but whatever does end up becoming of her there will be some women's rights groups out there defending her and her story will be made into a Lifetime movie which will portray her as a sympathetic and loving wife that was forced to do what she did. ...An Alaska man walked into a bank last week and gave the teller his debit card and driver's license and a note telling her he was robbing the bank and just so she wouldn't get nervous he told her he did not have a gun. The teller then activated the silent alarm and handed the man a dollar bill and then he sat down waiting for the police to arrive. They're so well mannered up there. The criminals don't even make the cops chase them after they've done something. He told the police his excuse for doing this was that he had "some issues." He sure did. He didn't have a getaway vehicle and he only came away with a buck from his heist. I'd say those were issues. ...Kristen Stewart raised $500,000 for the Hurricane Sandy relief effort by sitting with a Middle Eastern Prince for fifteen minutes. You know you're rich when you can do something like this and not think twice about it. I imagine if he sweetened the pot a little bit he could have had her for the whole night. ...The Yankees placed Derek Jeter on the disabled list for the fourth and final time last Wednesday, putting the final period on his worst and most frustrating season ever. Jeter made 17 million dollars this year and he only played in 17 games which means he made one million dollars a game this year. In return for that huge paycheck he hit .190 and got twelve hits (including one home run) and seven RBI's. Thank you very much. Now bend over. ...There's been a lot of talk about Jeter retiring after this season but I'm not entirely convinced. He has a player option for next year for 9.5 million dollars and I think the only way he comes back to New York next year is if he exercises that option because if he declines it and forces the Yankees to renegotiate with him they're going to point him in the direction of the nearest bridge and tell him to jump off. I used to really fret about this stuff until I realized one day that I can't do a thing about it so why spend time brooding about it? I have better things to do then be concerned if a multimillionaire is going to be making more money. ...Then I stop and recall all that he's done since 1996 and if he wants to come back and prove people wrong then that's fine by me. After all he's done for the Yankees it is the right thing to do. ...Well, that would have been my second guess Dept: Last Wednesday when I was out and about running some errands I remembered I had to return some Tupperware containers over at my parent's house so I did just that after I got everything else done. When I got there one of my aunts was at the house so I decided to stay for coffee. Most of the stuff they were talking about I was only half paying attention too but then my aunt tells my mother she went out and bought a wandering jew. That's when my ears perked up. What the hell is she talking about, I said to myself. And then my mother says she wanted to get a wandering jew too but she wouldn't know what room to put it in. That was it. I excused myself and asked them what in the world they were talking about and they explained to me that a wandering jew is a houseplant. Oh yeah I replied as I was lying through my teeth, I remember now. I've seen them before. They look nice. I said it so convincingly that they bought it but in truth I had no idea what they meant. All I could picture was a little Jewish guy wandering down the side of the road. Admit it, some of you didn't know what this was either. Now we all learned something today in this thread. And to show you that there really is such a thing, here is a picture of one. Uploaded with ImageShack.us ...I don't understand why Bobby Valentine waited a dozen years to complain publicly about what he thought the Yankees did or did not do after the September 11 bombings. ...Whomever Ryan Braun hired to do his public relations for him after he was suspended in July managed to come up with a nice idea for him to be seen helping out building homes for veterans through Habitat for Humanity. And that's exactly what he was doing when photographers that just happened to be in the neighborhood took pictures of him and his mother while he was helping out on a project in Sylmar, California last weekend. Of course he wasn't there long enough to get his T-Shirt dirty but that's another story.

Amazing. And what's more is that this video started with games in the mid 80's and you can tell how things really took off in the 90's. I recall when the first Triple Play baseball came out. I thought it was the best thing I've seen in a long time. And look closely when Mvp 2005 is featured in this video. Take a look at the overlay used in the game. It was made by Trues.

Using the 1915 mod, White Sox at Browns Happy Felsch breaks up a double play. Diving catch by Shano Collins to rob George Sisler of a hit. Browns third baseman Jimmy Austin is standing on third as the second run is about to score after his two run triple off of Red Faber. And here's Chicago manager Pants Rowland's reaction to Austin's triple. Rowland by the way did it all in baseball. He was a major and minor league manager, a scout, an American League umpire and an executive. Beautiful Sportsman's Park in St. Louis.

You beat me to it because I was going to ask that myself.

This is not the first time this subject has been brought up on this website and sorry to say it may not be the last either. The problem of new users creating duplicate accounts and not-so-new users who have duplicate accounts and have not been caught yet is still a daily problem around here. Due to the popularity of this website and the mods available for both Mvp Baseball and 2k Sports Baseball many new users are joining up each day so they can get the mods for their game (s). Unfortunately the first thing they notice is that they are only allowed two downloads per day unless they purchase a five or ten dollar subscription package that gives them unlimited downloads every single day. As you know this is done to help pay for the cost of the website. What generally happens is -and believe me I have seen this every single day- is that the new user tries to pull a fast one and creates two or three accounts so they can download more files each day. Not only is this against the rules but the person who gets away with this is cheating the website by having one or more accounts so they can take up unnecessary bandwidth. This brings me to the purpose of this announcement. Anyone who knows they have a duplicate account or even thinks that they have one should send a private message to myself or any other staff member with the information so we can disable the other accounts. If it is done this way the matter will be considered closed and nothing more will become of it. However if your duplicate account or accounts are not brought to our attention the next thing you will notice is that all of your accounts will be suspended without notification. For most of you who only have one account please ignore this. Thank you.

I don't have Windows 8 but some people do in here and they are able to run Mvp 2005 on it.

I just thought they'd look nice the next time I invade Safeco and make the Mariner fans cry in their coffee. At least their team will look good when I do it.

Where did these uniforms come from?? Upload please!!! <faint>

TO: Mr. Daflyboys, creator extraordinaire of MVP Baseball rosters. FROM: Yankee4Life, official representative of Mvpmods.com Inc. and subsidiaries. CC: Trues, Jim825, JoeRudi26 and Homer Subject: Mind reading responsibilities Dear sir, Recently a user came into your BaseUp! Rosters Patch for Tc13 Mod thread and said that his game kept crashing and did not know what to do. Based on all the information that was provided to you you should have determined all by yourself that his game kept crashing and that he did not know what to do. Asking for further information like what mods were installed and what the users operating system was would have made your job much easier. While we are in agreement that in a perfect world this information would prove to be beneficial you must agree by knowing the answers to these questions at the beginning takes away the miracle work and support you modders are expected to do on a daily basis. Your work here is exemplary but in the future please work on your problem solving skills. Yours truly, Y4L Uploaded with ImageShack.us

I like it! It looks great! By the way I never heard of Jedd Gyorko.

I agree Dennis. It's almost like these people are standing up and pointing out to everyone what they think is offensive and they get a smug satisfaction out of pointing the finger at someone. I compare this to that annoying kid in school who would always seem to tell the teacher what the other kids were doing or saying when their back was turned or when they were out of the room. They lived for doing this kind of stuff and so do these kind of people who are now adults and who turn over every rock to see if something offends them. Now that you pointed out those things in that photo I have to believe that the people who complained about this also saw the same things in the picture. Sure it's photoshopped. You can't get makeup looking that perfect on a face. That entire ad was about selling that new donut and nothing else. But for those people life is no fun unless you are stirring something up. Let me give you an example of something that has nothing to do with this ad but in a way it does. Back in the 70's and early 80's there was a show that was on occasionally called Dean Martin's Celebrity Roasts and it was filmed in front of a live audience at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Popular stars of the day were roasted and when I say roasted they really got it. Stars who were roasted were Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Jimmy Stewart, George Burns and Jackie Gleason, just to name a few. Sinatra was made fun of because he was Italian and there were a lot of mob connection jokes. Sammy Davis Jr got a lot of black jokes thrown at him. Jimmy Stewart was treated like he was senile. George Burns got a lot of old age jokes. Jackie Gleason got a lot of fat jokes. My point is everyone laughed. And I mean the audience, the roasters and most of all the person who was being roasted. Jokes were made but when they were done making everyone laugh they always shook the hand or hugged or kissed the person they were kidding. Everyone was in on what was going on including the home audience. These were jokes and nothing that was said was really meant by them unless they broke character and told the person who was being roasted how much they loved and respected them. I watched a few of these shows a few months back and they still are funny to this day but at the same time I said to myself that there was no way something like this could be on network TV today because someone would find something offensive within the first five minutes and that would be that. The network would be busy apologizing to everyone and there wouldn't be another show. I don't blame people from other countries laughing at the U.S. They probably think we are a country just sitting around waiting for something to complain about, like that old lady who lives down the street who spies on everyone.

Dennis, The other part of your post I have to respond to separately since I don't know where to begin. Let's just say that I agree with everything you said. As far as that Polish girl goes the only way she's going to reach that number is if she keeps giving it away. I debated with myself if I should post a picture of her in this thread but I decided not to. However I did find an article in the New York Daily News that has two pictures of her, and both of them are terrible. One glance at her and you'll see why I didn't want her photo in this thread. As for Joe Maddon, he's a class act and he does a hell of a job. That's not saying I have anything against Joe Girardi because what he has done this year by keeping that <swear word here> team close to a playoff spot has been admirable. And he's done it all without the services of Captain Twenty Million at shortstop. But Maddon wouldn't make it in New York because there you have to treat losing streaks like they're the end of the world and Maddon isn't like that.

Isn't it something Homer that work from these modders are still a big part of these mods whether people know it or not?

We are on our third week now in this thread and just like last week it features a modder that people are familiar with and one that newcomers to the website will not know. Again,the purpose of this thread. Krawhitham Most people know who Krawhitham is. First from his involvement with Mvp Baseball and lately with his work in 2k12. Kraw's specialty was not making stadiums or cyberfaces or uniforms for the game. The programs he made were utilities that you used with the game and his Total installer Thingy was the most popular one to date. It is a program that has helped thousands of people install mods in their game with only a few clicks of the mouse. Kraw was a guy who provided a lot of technical support to people here and over at his website Eamods, later known as Mlbmods. He also was the project leader of the Mvp 06, 07 and 08 mods. Total Installer Thingy. Simple Portrait Maker for Mvp v1.1. Mvp 08. 2k12 Simple Portrait Maker for MLB 2k. MLB Portrait installer. 2013 Los Angeles Dodgers 2X Portraits. (One of many.) Hory Hory has two uploads to his credit in the download section. The one I have listed below and the Mvp 2007 mod, which he was given credit for uploading it to the site. For people who have been here for a long time you will recall that Hory was the modder behind Total Portraits, which was a series of mods where he individually updated the portraits of each team in the majors. At the end of the season he would package all of the teams as one mod and release it as one big download. While his individual mods can not be downloaded anymore you can still see his work and his high-quality portraits in the Mvp '06, '07 and '08 mods. Hory is also responsible for creating the Mvp Baseball 1994 mod, a mod that took him eighteen months to complete. Mvp Baseball 1994.

Updated to 9-8 ...It's that time again that all you die-hard NFL fans have been waiting for ever since the Super Bowl ended last February. This will be the first season in four years that I did not have the NFL Sunday Ticket and I know I am going to be missing it even before the first have is over in the Raiders-Colts game. ...I was asked again if I wanted to be in a NFL fantasy league. They never learn. I told them I'd get back to them in December. ...Washington manager Davey Johnson was supposed to have a talk with Bryce Harper, his twenty year-old left fielder about his Robinson Cano imitation when he jogged down the first base line in a close game against the Mets last week in a game that the Nationals lost by one run. I don't know how much Harper actually listened to what his manager had to say since Johnson's retiring at the end of the year. It's my guess that he did his best bobblehead impression and nodded his head while he was talking. Harper's a good player and I can't take that away from him but most of the time it seems as if he's read too much of his press clippings and they've all gone to his head. The fact is Harper would not have got near the Rookie of the Year in 2012 if he played in the American League. ...Last week Justin Bieber was attacked at a Toronto nightclub by another patron there who must have heard one too many of his songs and just snapped. Security immediately rushed in to get the man off of Bieber and he was then kicked out of the club and the police were not called. Before departing for the night the owner of the nightclub caught up with Bieber's attacker and shook his hand and gave him two box seat tickets to a Blue Jays game. Bieber's hated up in his native Canada almost as much as he's hated here. ...There are people out there who are not happy unless they are complaining about something out there that they perceive is racist or sexist or something along that line. The Human Rights Watch group that is based in New York are a good example of these kind of people. They got wind that the Dunkin' Donuts franchise in Thailand released an ad that promoted their new "Charcoal Donut" that showed a smiling woman with blackface makeup and bright pink lipstick holding up a bitten black doughnut. That's when the you-know-what hit the fan. They complained that the Thailand Dunkin' Donuts franchises- who operate independently from the American franchises-should withdraw this ad, publicly apologize to those it's offended and ensure this never happens again. The trouble with that is nobody in Thailand was offended and the only ones that were happened to be right here in this country. Now whether you believe this is racist or not is entirely your opinion. We know damn well Dunkin' Donuts wouldn't have this same ad in the U.S. because these people would have a stroke. What I don't like is that we have the nerve to tell another country to remove an ad because it offends people here. How would we respond if another country didn't like some advertisement that we had here and told us to get rid of it? Maybe we should try minding our own business and stop telling people in other countries what to do. ...This almost reminds me of something that happened in the 80's. There was a Wendy's commercial that mocked the dull, drab life of people in Russia. They had some woman modeling day wear, evening wear and swim wear but the joke was she wore the same clothes each time she walked out. It was hilarious and when the Russians saw it they were upset and they felt that they were being made fun of. They wanted the commercial taken off the air but Wendy's politely said no way and that was that. Eventually Wendy's came up with other ideas and the commercial was replaced and life went on. When the finger is pointing at us we stubbornly refuse. And here is the youtube video. See for yourself. ...Speaking of Dunkin' Donuts, that is what was on my mind last Tuesday morning as I left my house. I went there to get a cup of coffee and not for the Charcoal Donut (just in case they had any) and what a mistake that was. I go there a lot to get coffee because I think they have one of the best coffees I have ever had but I don't care for the donuts which is fine because I don't eat donuts anyway. Halfway there I see it was the first day of school and wherever I looked there was a bunch of yellow buses with their flashers on and I was kicking myself for not remembering that it was the return to classes. And what made matters worse was I drove past an elementary school where anxious mothers were standing around watching their kid go to school for the first time. It was a mess. So what was usually a ten minute round trip for me turned into twenty-five and when I got home I didn't leave the house for the rest of the day. There's a point to this little tale so bare with me. I was home all last weekend alone because my wife was out of town and when that happens that is cause for a celebration. Ask any married man and they'll know what I mean. Well, I wanted to fix our Keurig coffee machine so I can start using it again and since I was all by myself I would be able to work on it in peace because when she's home she doesn't let me work on anything because she says I end up making it worse. That's not exactly true but it's pretty close. But I didn't get near the thing because while she was gone I had a fever of 102 and I couldn't do anything. Luckily by Saturday afternoon the fever broke and instead of attempting to fix the coffee machine I was trying to beat the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics with Lefty Grove on the mound with the 1964 Kansas City Athletics. Four times I tried and four times I failed. By the time I quit the coffee machine went untouched. Somehow being caught in that traffic jam was karma getting back at me. I learned my lesson. ...Nokia is the latest company to be swooped up by Microsoft. Who can blame them? If someone wanted to buy my company for 7.2 billion dollars I would say yes too. ...If there isn't more pressure for kids these days to make it through school, now they have something else to think about. Schools in nineteen states are measuring their students in annual weigh-in's and then reports are sent home telling parents whether their child's body mass index is healthy or dangerous. The schools say the reason for this is to help combat childhood obesity but many parents and kids do not like this and understandably so. This is all a kid needs that gets one of these letters telling him or her that they are fat. It just gives other kids another weapon to use to bully them. If students have to go through these annual weigh-in's then they should make the teachers do the same thing. It's amazing. Schools do everything but educate now. ...There's a twenty-one year old woman from Poland who has announced that she wants to have sex with more than 100,000 men from every major city in the world. She says she only wants to do this on weekends which makes sense because during the week she'll be flying from city to city around the world. I'd love to know how many frequent flyer miles she builds up when she's done with this. She's already done it 284 times and so far there are no book or movie deals for her but there's still time for that to happen since she hasn't landed in the States yet. It was estimated that it would take her twenty years to reach her goal of 100,000. It's always nice to see someone so young have such lofty goals. ...Dennis Rodman went back to North Korea last week. Maybe this time they won't let him leave. ...Joe Girardi finally removed Phil Hughes from the Yankees starting rotation explaining that it has been an "up-and-down year" for him. I must have had my head turned for a moment when things were looking up for him. ...The Pittsburgh Pirates are finally going to have a winning year this year as they won their 81st game last week. But then they hit a wall and haven't won since. It's like they got dizzy from being so high up and now have lost their last three games. Good luck to them the rest of the way. Why not? I just got done watching the Yankees lose three straight to you-know-who and while I try to brush it off a knot is being twisted in my insides. ...I admire people that can go out and do things that I couldn't dream of doing. Take for instance Diana Nyad who swam from Cuba to Florida in 53 hours and she swam the entire way without a shark cage. It's not that I know how to swim it's just that I do it in a pool where I always know where the sides are. Big difference. The only thing I'm concerned about now is a bunch of Cubans trying to copycat her figuring if she could do it so could they. Also those guys down in Mississippi who caught that 727 pound alligator. I couldn't get near one even if it were dead and these guys wrestled with it for hours. I have a long standing policy of not getting near anything that can eat me and that includes sharks, alligators and crocodiles. So far it's worked out well. ...When I read that Jose Bautista would be missing the rest of the season I thought that something happened to his wrist again since it made me think of Mark Teixeira who is making 23 million dollars this year doing nothing. This time Bautista has something called a femur bone bruise and I wish him well and I hope he gets well for next year. I have to remember what this injury is because some Yankee will probably get it next year. ...The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the city of Anaheim renegotiated a new lease deal that will allow the team to stay in Anaheim through the 2019 season. As part of this new deal the Angels are free to drop the "of Anaheim" from their name and will go back to being the Los Angeles Angels. Unfortunately no matter what name they want to go by they are still stuck with Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton. ...I really like Joe Maddon, manager of the Tampa Bay Rays. This guy recently held a party near his Long Beach, California home and he announced that anyone who came into a sports bar that he was at wearing Rays gear they would get a free beer. He called it a "Win or Weep" party because his team was going through a five game losing streak and they've been playing poorly at the worst time of the year. Nice way to loosen up the team. It goes without saying that this would never work in New York. Someone would get plastered and then they'd punch Alex Rodriguez. ...The Playstation 4 will be released on November 15th. The XBox One will be released on November 22nd. Black Friday shopping is going to be crazy enough as it is. Can you imagine how much worse it's going to be with these two items on the market? And the reason why I brought this up is that this is only a little more than two months away. Baseball will be a memory. Football, hockey and basketball will have taken over. Time flies. ...Two twenty-five year old men from Philadelphia were in Chicago recently to see their beloved Phillies play against the Cubs and, well, one thing lead to another as one of them looked at the other and an idea formed in their head that they were going to break into Wrigley Field and steal the ivy right from under them. The idea proved to be 10% foolish, 10% stupid and 80% Budweiser. At 3:45 am on September 2nd they snuck into the Friendly Confines and were soon caught by team security while they were on the field and were taken away by Chicago's finest, proving again that Wrigley's confines are not so friendly all of the time. They did not come away with any ivy but will have to return to Chicago at the end of the month for a court date, which is hardly the next best thing. ...McDonald's is revamping their Dollar Menu right now in selected areas of the country that includes items priced at five dollars. Confused? After all, this is the dollar menu that we're talking about. They're getting around it by calling it the "Dollar Menu & More" and there's a good chance this will be an all-over deal nationwide by the end of the year. This people can do what they want as far as I'm concerned since I just go there occasionally for the coffee while avoiding the hamburgers. But still I have to wonder what kind of idiot thought up the idea of putting a five dollar item on the dollar menu? What's worse is that most people are going to accept this without question. ...Random Thoughts will be delayed next Sunday because I will be going out of town to see the in-laws. It's a lousy job and I have to do it. ...Come on Raiders...please?

Well, it is not stupidity but unfortunately you want to do something in an area that really has dried up over the years. As daflyboys said you need some sort of conversion tool and where to get them I have no idea. There are some files on this site for the PS2 but there are only ten of them and seven are roster updates. There hasn't been a new file for the PS2 since February of last year.

Two good choices and I agree Jim they are sticklers for detail, which is something that I really admire. I only showcased a very small part of his work here Jim! I saw for myself that he had ten pages of mods in the download section and hopefully after this it will get people curious as to see what other stuff this guy has in there. I do recall that SeanO and Paul did work together on other stadiums and Sean will be featured too in the weeks to come.

I am sure the guy just made an honest mistake just like we always do at one time or another.

Another week, another two modders. One guy is someone well known to everyone here and the other guy who was one of the best stadium modders this website has ever seen. Dennis James No matter where you look around in the download section, whether it is in the Mvp 2005 area or the MLB 2K area you are going to see mods made by Dennis James. Uniforms, stadiums, total season mods, you name it and Dennis has been a part of it. If you were among the thousands of people who downloaded Mvp 12 and Mvp 13 you have already seen his work. Dennis, among with many others who worked on these two mods helped bring back Mvp Baseball for the first time since the 2008 mod was released. His work on combined projects and his individual work has made his work very popular on this website. 1967 Kansas City Athletics. 2013 Atlanta Braves Spring/BP uniforms. Total Classics 1969 Uniform Pack 2013 Canada Day Toronto Blue Jays uniforms Root Sports Seattle Pitch/Score Overlay Total Classics mods created by Dennis James Total Classics 1915 Negro League Baseball Mod Total Classics Mods created by Dennis James and redeck Total Classics 1927 Integrated Total Classics 1927 MLB/Negro Leagues All four mods are on the main page of the site for easy access downloading. 2k12 2k12 Coors Field (recolored/textured) (One of many) 2k13 Stadium Pack 2.0. 2k13 Pittsburgh Pirates throwbacks. Fictional (Outdoor) Tampa Bay Rays Stadium. PaulW You're forgiven if you do not know who Paulw is. He's been a member here a very long time and doesn't post a lot but what he does is create some of the most beautiful classic stadiums you have ever seen. You can find his work in many of the classic mods and in Total Classics Phase 10. I highly recommend you check out the Ebbets Field that he made. It is stadium modding at its finest. Ebbets Field Classic. Crosley Field Classic. Wrigley Field Classic. Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium. Comiskey Park Classic.

Updated to 9-1 ...An Arizona Cardinals season ticket holder took his son to a pre-season game and at one point he decided he wanted to take a picture while he was there. Before he could take his picture he had to have his fifteen-year-old son hold his beer. He then gets his picture and takes his beer back. That's it. A short time later he was approached by undercover stadium police who informed him that they saw him serve alcohol to a minor and then they escorted them out of the stadium and handed the man a a citation for trespassing. How is this trespassing when they have season tickets and since when are there undercover stadium police and how come these same undercover cops are never around when a drunk is in your section wanting to start a fight with anyone around him? And cops wonder why they have so little respect from the public these days. ...That'll teach her Dept: During a flight from New York to Shanghai a first class passenger became so disruptive after drinking five glasses of wine that the flight was forced to divert to Anchorage where she was charged with interference of flight crew and members. Just because you fly first class doesn't mean you have any. This is what happens when you walk up and down the aisles yelling out profanities and climbing on seats. Now she gets to spend some quality time in Alaska. This really isn't a bad idea. Although there's no way this will ever happen every person who makes a pest out of themselves should be sent to the Last Frontier and be required to spend the entire winter there. Watch and see how fast stuff like this stops. ...Next month the Italian courts are going to re-try the case that involved Amanda Knox concerning the death of her British roommate. The high court in Italy overturned Knox's acquittal because of numerous examples of shortcomings, contradictions and incoherencies, which means they let her go two years ago and they want her back for another shot. There is as much of a chance for Knox to return to The Boot as there is for me to someday go up to David Ortiz and say hello buddy. ...If I were Knox I'd be so paranoid I wouldn't even walk into a Pizza Hut. ...Last weekend my wife's niece came up to visit and that by itself I could write a book about but no one would believe it. She came up here on Saturday morning and she and my wife ended up going to the State Fair in Syracuse leaving me behind which made all three of us happy, especially me. They know I can only go so far until my knees say no more and quit so they figured the best thing for me to do was stay behind. I made the obligatory squawk about it and then accepted my fate as I tried to hold back a smile. When they arrived home ten hours later they were beat, sore and tired. And that was just from all the people walking into them. I wish I could tell you how much money they spent but I was too afraid to ask but after looking at some of the stuff they brought back with them I had a good idea. They told me I wouldn't have lasted an hour there with that huge crowd and I told them they gave me too much credit for thinking I would last an hour. Later on my wife apologized for not having me tag along but she had the feeling I didn't mind too much anyways. Can't fool a woman. ...I wonder how proud Billy Ray Cyrus is of his daughter Miley after her little show at the MTV Video Music Awards? ...I like Australians, I really do. But sometimes the things they do I don't understand at all. Take last week for example. A birthday party was held near a crocodile-infested river in the Australian Outback and two guys who must have had too many Foster's Lager decided to go swimming in the Mary River, a river known worldwide to have the greatest saturation of adult saltwater crocodiles in the world. Why have a birthday party or any kind of party there? You can guess what happened next. As they were swimming back to shore a crocodile attacked one of the men and dragged him under the water. There was nothing anyone could do. The other guy made it to shore and may not get near another body of water again. Witnesses went on to say that moments after the attack the crocodile resurfaced, swimming upstream with the man's body still in his mouth. Talk about an image you'll never get out of your mind. Even if you jump in that water after having too much to drink there has to be something in the back of your mind that tells you that it isn't a good idea to splash around in water that a lot of crocodiles call home. It's like the KKK holding their next convention in Detroit. You know that's not going to end well. ....Speaking of Detroit there is a neighborhood there where the residents are being spooked by some oversized cat that they have seen walking around and when they called the Detroit police and Animal Control they got no response, which makes perfect sense since they're bankrupt. The cat in question is about four feet tall and doesn't seem to be afraid of anything and that includes dogs. I don't get it. These people live with crime every day and they are afraid of a cat? There's got to be someone in that neighborhood who's got a gun and is dying to use it. ...There's something about the health of pitchers these days that I can not understand. There's been so many advancements in physical training over the years but the fact is more pitchers today are getting seriously hurt as compared to the pitchers from decades ago. Matt Harvey's the latest one. He's been one of the bright stars for the Mets and has been having a great year. Now, just like that, the ligament that holds together his right elbow is partially torn and he's done for the season. There's more than a good chance he's going to need Tommy John surgery and if that's so we won't be seeing him next year. These injuries happen so often that people don't even take notice of them anymore. Some blame it on throwing too many pitches before they came up to the majors and some say they didn't throw enough pitches. Both sides make good arguments. One thing I can say for sure is that ever since baseball people have begun treating pitch counts as if they were the eleventh commandment these arm injuries will continue to occur. ...The New York Mets are having such a tough season they can't even get their promotions right. On the same day they were hosting the Phillies the team scheduled Marlon Byrd T-Shirt night at the ballpark in honor of Byrd since he's been having such a good season for them. Unfortunately that was the same day that they got involved in a trade with the Pirates and before Byrd had a chance to grab a shirt for himself he was on his way to Pittsburgh. At least they won't forget him in New York. This latest Mets souvenir will always be a reminder. ...I'm not laughing too much. This is the same team that swept the Yankees four straight in May and didn't break a sweat doing it. ...Haven't heard much from Scott Boras lately and almost as soon as that thought entered my mind his name pops up in the news. Boras is in favor of giving twelve year contracts to young players so the ballclub can have them locked up. Who's he kidding? He's not thinking of any ballclub here just like he's never had. This is less work for him to do if he can manage to get some team to fall for this. He's not going to be able to get a pitcher one of these contracts. Not with the way they get hurt. He's got more of a chance with position players but even then you got to crazy to consider it. It takes a special kind of player that you should lock up when they are young (Evan Longoria with Tampa Bay, Dustin Pedroia of Boston and Derek Jeter when he was given that ten year contract when he was in his twenties.) All three of these players are leaders and play hard every single day. You can't say that about every one of them. ...The city of Zurich, Switzerland, like most cities all around the world, has had a problem with open street prostitution but what they have done to try to curb it is, well, very Swiss-like. These people have converted nine buildings there into "sex drive-ins" where you drive in and park your car. Once you are there you place your order and instead of ordering a cheeseburger, fries and a coke, you order a girl. When she gets there you both agree on a price and then you can use your imagination as to what happens next. As soon as you are all done and she tells you that you are the best she's ever had you can get in your car and drive away. Zurich city officials explained that by having this it will take this kind of activity off the street and improving the security for the girls who are involved in this. Each of these drive-ins are guarded by security officers who are there to protect the girls in case anyone decides they want a free sample or who doesn't want to leave. The drive-ins are open daily from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m which explains the reason why so many office meetings in Zurich have all been scheduled to take place at night. ...The closest we have to driving up someplace and looking at an order and getting something from it is at a Sonic. ...Madden 25 was released last week for the PS3 and Xbox 360 so for all of you who feel you need to spend sixty dollars on a roster update your wait is over. Enjoy your game. Hey, at least I know who the President is Dept: I got a call last week from some political volunteer who asked me for support for someone in the upcoming election for mayor in our city. Usually I do not listen to these people and I cut them off as soon as they catch their breath but this call happened to catch me while I was in the middle of reading a thread on this site, so I let him go on and I was only giving him half my attention. After he got through telling me how good this candidate was I asked him if he was a Democrat or Republican, mainly because I didn't know what to ask and secondly I didn't know. The volunteer told me he was a Democrat and that he also happened to be the current mayor of our city. Shows how much I know since I didn't even know there was a mayor's race this year. ...The Pirates aren't messing around this year. They're only a few wins away from their first winning season since 1992 and barring a complete collapse in this final month of the season that streak is going to end this year.And with the acquisition of Justin Morneau, who swings a good bat from the left side and plays a very good first base, Pittsburgh just became that much tougher to beat when October baseball comes around. ...It just hit me after writing this that it's the last month of the season. Why does it go by so fast? ...This weekend had all the makings of a perfect weekend. My wife was out of town and I had the entire house to myself. I didn't have any serious plans except to watch a ballgame in peace without having someone in the room talking about everything but the game. That's all I really had planned but on Friday night I got sick and had a fever of 102.2 degrees and while I was able to watch the game on Saturday I really didn't because I kept nodding off. Of all the weekends to get sick. Just my luck. ...Here's hoping that your Labor Day weekend is the opposite of mine! Have a good one.

Maybe there could be some Malware on your system? But I'm sure you probably already thought of that.