Yankee4Life

It is always nice to see people come back to the site for a visit. Yeah, I agree with you. This place has really changed. These new people don't post much and I have no idea why they don't. We never worried about that years ago. The shoutbox became restricted when new people to the site would use that as a place to get technical support instead of creating threads. I still recall spending a day and a half with one guy who did not know how to install two copies of the game on his hard drive. Now the shoutbox is for contributors, modders and staff members. It cuts down on the flooding. No way man. You couldn't hold a candle to me. I used to be a big Yankees homer myself and now I don't give a sh** anymore. That's from years of watching them choke in the playoffs. And I am not too happy with them not doing anything about Robinson Cano, who has no idea what it means to hustle. It was very hard watching class acts like Mariano Rivera and Andy Pettitte leave. They are tough to replace and I think we have some lean years ahead of us. I'm also done with Phil Hughes too. And you can add Joba Chamberlain, Curtis Granderson, Robinson Cano, Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira to that list too. Time to clean house? You bet.

Updated to 9-29 ...I'll be living the bachelor's life this week because my wife is in Dallas visiting her sister. Since she lives 1,500 miles away from her family she always wants people to come and visit her and when she offered to buy my wife her plane ticket she said yes so fast just in case she remembered that she had something else to do. If I wanted to go my plane ticket would have been taken care of too but as I was quick to explain to them someone had to remain behind and watch and care for the dogs. Thank God that person was me and after looking disappointed for a little while I had them believing that I really did want to go but I am remaining home because "someone had to do it." Sure, I'll travel all that way just to spend a week with two women who want to do nothing but shop. It's going to be a struggle here all by myself this week but I will try and hang in there. Wish me luck! ...I didn't want to get her worked up before her flight. My wife is not afraid of flying but she is afraid of snakes but not nearly as much as I am. So when I read an article about the Boeing 747 flight from Sydney, Australia to Tokyo that was grounded because someone found a snake near the doorway of the plane, I kept my mouth shut. Chances are if she would have heard about that she would have made me drive her to Texas. ...It was a week ago today that the Yankees held their ceremony to honor Mariano Rivera and while they showed him a lot of love and did many nice things for him there was something about it that just didn't seem right to me. I liked how they brought back some of his old teammates like Bernie Williams and Jorge Posada and manager Joe Torre and that he was the first player to get his number retired by the Yankees while he was still playing. The pièce de résistance was a Waterford crystal statue of his game glove which had to cost them a lot of money. Most of the things given to Rivera that day were checks made out to his foundation. All in all it was a very nice way to honor the man who was most responsible for the five championships the Yankees have won since 1996. However, thinking back on something that happened ten years ago it made me feel that the Yankees could have done more for him. It was back in 2003 that Roger Clemens announced his retirement and the Yankees, who were dumb enough to believe him, gave him a special day just as they did for Rivera last week. They went all out for Clemens as they gave him a Hummer to bring home to Texas and sent him and his wife on an all-expense paid vacation, among other things. His wife even got gifts for herself too. A few months later Clemens had a change of heart and decided to pitch for Houston in 2004 and did not retire for good until 2007. That's what I thought was missing here. If anyone deserves to be given stuff like this it is Rivera. I have no doubt that when it is time for Captain Twenty Million to hang them up the Yankees are going to go overboard with the gifts that they give him just to make themselves look good and to give Jeter a departing a$$ kissing before he goes home to Tampa. ...Good move by the Philadelphia Phillies to retain Ryne Sandberg as manager and giving him a three year contract beginning next year. It did not take them long to realize that they made a mistake thirty-one years ago when they traded him to the Cubs. They weren't going to make the same one again. ...Apple is one company that I have never cared for but when they released their gold iPhone -a device that does everything that a white iPhone does and nothing more- I had to give them a lot of credit because they knew that people would have to have it based on the color alone. And they were right. When the new iPhones went on sale nine days ago the demand for them was so great that stores literally were selling out in record time and for the people unlucky enough not to get their hands on one and who were too impatient to wait for the next shipments due to arrive next month they have engaged in online bidding wars in attempts to get one. In fact one ebay seller sold a single, unopened and unlocked 16GB gold Apple iPhone to someone for $10,000. Usually only crows and magpies and babies are fooled into going after shiny toys. It didn't take long for Apple to figure out that some adults can be too. ...Every year I say to myself that this is the year I am going to tune into the Emmy Awards just because I've never seen them and every year I never do it, usually because I find something more interesting to do. This year's excuse was a book that I could not put down and after hearing about it the next day I am glad I didn't watch it. I don't know if this is done every year but this show honors actors and actresses who have passed away during the year and with some they have individual segments to honor them. Granted with so many people that pass on during the year they can't single out everyone but Hollywood legends like Jack Klugman and Larry Hagman were pushed aside just so they can honor Cory Monteith, a thirty-one year old actor who died in July of a drug overdose. I don't know anything about this guy or even know what show (s) he was on but to give special tribute to a drug addict who overdosed is typical of Hollywood but I think I understand why. Klugman was 90 years old and Hagman was 81. They'd rather spotlight on someone younger just for the ratings. When it's Emmy time next year I won't even make an attempt to watch it. ...Some people should never be allowed outside Dept:My wife has a Samsung Galaxy S4 phone that she purchased from Best Buy back in July and lately she noticed that the back of her phone was getting very hot and we went back there last week to have someone look at it. After we arrived we were directed to the Geek Squad area to wait for someone to look at the phone. What should have been a problem that once it was looked at could have been taken care of in fifteen minutes, tops. But because of the lady that was ahead of us we were there for ninety minutes, which was the combined time it took for Best Buy to take care of her and help out my wife. That woman was there to pick up her laptop and she also purchased the latest version of Microsoft Office that she was going to have them install for her. This is when the fun began. At one point she had to provide her e-mail address. She didn't know it. And then she asked the technician if he knew it. Just by the look on his face you could tell that this had to be the stupidest question that he ever heard. Little did he know that this woman was just getting warmed up. After checking around in her phone for a few minutes the e-mail question was answered and the same problems arose when she had to put in her password. She didn't know it and I should also add neither did the guy helping her. She had to phone home and ask someone there what her password was. Again I stole a glance at the technician and I saw the concern in his eyes because a line was starting to form behind us. After hanging up with whomever she was talking to she asked if she will be able to view her Word and Excel documents after Office was installed. Finally I said to myself, an easy question that this guy can answer. When she heard that she could indeed view her documents she then asked -honest to God- what Microsoft Office was, which prompted more questions. Dealing with this woman must have been as much fun as a baseball bat to the head for this poor tech. Finally two other Geek Squad people were called out from the back to help out with the crowd and that is how we managed to escape from there because if we would have stayed any longer they'd have charged us rent. ...Why do supermarkets even bother to have express lanes for people that have fifteen items or less when they completely ignore it and the store looks the other way when it happens? ...When the Yankees were eliminated last Wednesday night from making the playoffs I didn't feel any disappointment, I wasn't angry and I certainly didn't think about it for days afterward, which is something that I would customarily do over and over in the past. It was a tough year and that's not even bringing up all the injuries that they had, so I won't. Watching Mariano Rivera one last time made this season worth it because nothing else came close and that includes lazy, self-centered Robinson Cano. He wants a thirty million dollar a year payday next year? I can identify with that because that's exactly how much I want but at least I know I'm not getting it. Thirty million dollars a year for a guy who can't be bothered to run to first base like he really means it? I really think the Yankees told Joe Girardi not to say anything to Cano about this because they didn't want to make him mad at them before contract talks. I really don't think there is any other explanation...Oh, and C.C. Sabathia said that he will be the same ace he's always been. That means when the Yankees really need him to win a game he won't. I feel better already...What to do about Alex Rodriguez? Who knows, but his hearing starts tomorrow. I'm hoping for the best and expecting nothing...At least when we start talking about real, live baseball again in February Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain will be making fans on some other team mad at them...Already a bright spot for next year. ...Look for the positive, look for the positive. And there it is! Bud Selig is retiring after the 2014 season. And why not? He's done enough damage. ...The Yankee situation may be a mess but at least they don't have B.J. Upton to worry about. One season into a five-year, $75.25 million contract he is only hitting .184 for the Braves. ...Since September 4 the Pittsburgh Pirates have had a 12 - 11 record down the stretch and that is the reason why the Cardinals won the division and they didn't. Pirate fans should be happy they are in the post season again but they won't be there for long if they keep playing like they have been. ...For a long time now, ever since I have been a member of this website, I have played a little game with people's screen names. When I read the screen name I think of the first thing that pops into my mind about it based on what the name is. It doesn't work for all screen names however. Say for example PaulW, who is one of our modders. Well that's the man's name so it is kind of hard for me to picture a Paul W. But for other names, well, you'll see. Dylan Bradbury: Scary stories. Only because I immediately think of Ray Bradbury the writer. Oinkersthepig: I picture some guy with bags and bags of pork rinds around his computer. StormsWarning: Thunderstorms. Also, there's a book called Storm Warning by Jack Higgins, a favorite writer of mine. Fuzzone: Some kid who needs a shave. JoeRudi26: Well this one is a different. I don't picture the user. I picture the player himself and when I do he is making that famous catch in left field off of Denis Menke in the 1972 World Series. What a leap. AlcoholicStepfather: Yes there really is a member here by that name. I think of a guy sitting in a comfy chair drinking a lot of beer. MrDudleyDoWright: I think of the cartoon and the Canadian Mounties. UncleMo: Rhymes with Uncle Joe. As in Uncle Joe from Petticoat Junction. DustintheWin: That damn song by Kansas. Every time I hear it I think it will never end. Drovebykeptgoing: Some guy who drove by and kept going and didn't feel like picking someone up. ...If I were a Dodger fan and I was in San Francisco to watch my team I would not wear one thing that would be mistaken for Dodger Blue. And the same goes for Giants fans who travel to Los Angeles for a game. Keep the orange and black colored gear at home. It could mean your life. ...A few years back the father of my wife's friend had an extra ticket to a Buffalo Bills game and she asked my wife if she wanted to go with her. She agreed because she's never been to Rich Stadium before and also because the Bills were playing the Miami Dolphins, which is her favorite team. (She knows nothing about football and the reason why she likes the Dolphins is because she likes the colors of their uniform.) After she came home she was so upset because people were yelling at her for being a Dolphin fan and finally after being screamed at one too many times she goes up to the guy and tells him that she doesn't play for Miami, she's just wearing their jersey. I told her that the guy who was yelling at her must have had one too many beers two hours ago and if she ever gets a chance to go back she'll be wearing something that has no team insignia on it. She doesn't understand how team rivalries affect fans which is strange because she lives with me and she sees how I am when the Red Sox are on TV. After she told me about what she went through at that game she asked me if she would have had the same treatment had she went to a Raider game instead of a Buffalo game wearing her Dolphins jersey. I said you sure would and I'd be one of the people yelling at you. I reserve the right not to tell you what happened next.

Using the 1969 mod. Philadelphia at Atlanta Hank Aaron just got under one. But Johnny Callison didn't. Here he homers off of Phil Niekro as the Phils behind Rick Wise shut out the Braves 2 - 0. A perfect bunt as shown by Cookie Rojas.

All I want to know is that when every time you start your PS3 to play this game do you get a notification that some Yankee just got injured?

That one was so life like it almost looked like a picture of the guy. This is the purpose of my modder spotlights. Jogar has eleven pages of his work in the download section and what I am trying to do by linking a few of the modder's work each week is to encourage people to check out their other contributions. You are no slouch yourself. Stay tuned.

Good Lord. It sounds like an enormous gathering of bees. I watched all 11 plus minutes of it without the sound on full blast and that is still ringing in my ears.

As we go to week number five we have two modders that are well known by everyone who plays Mvp baseball. Dylan Bradbury For the many dynasty players in here Dylan's work is very well known to them and his utilities that he created have been an invaluable tool for them in their dynasty play. His other specialty is the creation of accurate schedules for season mods. Schedule Generator. Schedules (1933-2005) Pitcher Rating Calculator. Batter Rating Calculator. Baseball Split Estimator. Jogar84 Where do you start with this modder? If you have played just about any season mod or total classic mod available here you have seen Jogar's work. His talent is cyberface making and his cyberfaces are so life-like and accurate that they are some of the most downloaded mods on the website. I have highlighted here his work on Yankee reliever Mariano Rivera. Check out the subtle differences in his 2007 version as compared to this year's version. That right there should give you an appreciation of his attention to detail. Besides creating cyberfaces Jogar has released audio enhancements for Mvp baseball. The Essential Cyberface Making Tutorial. Missing Audio for Mvp 12. Ichiro Face Mvp 12. Mariano Rivera (2007) Mariano Rivera (2013) Ryne Sandberg (2013) Manager's face.

Wow..............

That reminds me of something. I'm sure you recall SeanO who used to come around here a lot. Well it was at that time during the World Cup that year that he was watching it too and every day he was talking about it in the shoutbox. He made it sound as exciting as a come-from-behind win by your favorite team day after day. Finally curiosity got the better of me and I watched the next game that was on. I have no idea who was playing but I gave it a shot. So I'm watching it and watching it and finally half time comes and I say to myself that this is as exciting as watching grass grow. But I keep on watching because I wanted to see what Sean was raving about and when the game ended I still was not able to figure out what was so good about it. Maybe that's why you are more open to this sport Jim because your daughter was and still is involved in it. That was her interest and your interest is your daughter so you learned to like the game as much as she did. I understand why you dislike hockey. There could be a nice pace of the game going on, a few good shots on goal that the goalie knocks away, the skate back down to the other end, etc and then all of a sudden for some reason it turns into the bleachers at Fenway Park out there. I think the main reason why I don't follow hockey a lot (and basketball for that matter) is because those two sports are winter sports and as a kid I was such a big baseball fan and when the season was over I missed it so much that I didn't want to involve myself in other sports. It was baseball for me all the way. Good Lord. My father-in-law, may he rest in peace, loved NASCAR and as a good son-in-law I tried to watch it with him but even that man who loved that sport so much would eventually nod off during the telecast. As soon as I saw that I left the room.

Yeah, it was. From what I remember it was expensive to create and they had a hard time keeping costs down as compared to other systems that were around at the time. Then World Series Baseball moved over to the Dreamcast, which really was not bad.

Wow Dennis, that's scary. How accurate is that? The Yankees don't waste any time getting hurt in video games either. Damn man, now I want to play Mvp 13 but I was up late last night and I'm getting tired. It's past midnight where I am and right now my pillow is outranking my gamepad. Thank you for this!

Updated to 9-22 ...Last Monday the South Korean military shot and killed a man who was trying to swim across a river to North Korea. This was something that puzzled the soldiers at the Imjin River where the incident happened because on the rare instances that they see someone swimming in that river they are starting from the other direction. After the body was recovered and searched for the identity of the man they discovered his phone which was found in his coat near the water. Evidently one of the last things he did was consult Google Maps for directions which was why he was swimming towards the north. Obviously that app is still working out a few bugs. ...With all the beards the Red Sox players have they look like the sloppiest team in the major leagues. Unfortunately it did not prevent them from winning games and clinching the American League East. ...The Chicago City Council last week banned concealed weapons in all bars and restaurants that sell liquor. On the surface this sounds like a good idea since no one wants to go out to dinner knowing that the guy two tables over from you has a gun but many are doubting that the city can enforce the new rules and sadly they are probably right. It's not like this new law is going to be respected and followed to the letter by all the armed gang bangers. ...If you are anything like me you read articles about foods that are good and healthy for you to have and foods to stay away from. For instance anything from fast food places like McDonalds or Burger King should be avoided and since I have taken it upon myself to read more about healthy living I have never questioned nutritionists or doctors who recommend that you don't have a Big Mac or Whopper for lunch. But then when I read about the sixty-four year old man who for thirty years consumed ten Big Macs each week without fail, it really made me stop and question if these so-called nutrition experts know what they are talking about. That's 12,000 Big Macs that this guy knocked off in thirty years. I saw a picture of this guy who has done this for the past three decades and he's tall and thin and in shape or the exact opposite of what you'd expect. Now I'm not saying that starting this week I'm going to rid the world of ten Big Macs because if I did I'd regret it immediately the next time I stepped on a scale. The only thing that I can think of is this man's metabolism must work very well because the sodium in one of these sandwiches (1,070mg) is way more than anyone needs on a daily basis. And he did this ten times a week. ...Since Lindsay Lohan left her court-mandated ninety days in treatment recently she has managed to stay out of the headlines in her attempt to have a fresh start for both her career and personal life. Now that she's done that her mother is taking over the headlines for the family as she was recently arrested on drunk driving charges on Long Island, New York when she was caught driving 77 mph in a 55 mph zone and was found to be intoxicated during the routine stop. She was arrested and charged with DWI and Aggravated DWI with a blood alcohol content of .20 percent, which is more than twice the legal limit. And she also got a speeding ticket which was the reason she got in all this trouble in the first place. To top it off, when she got to the police station she claimed she was injured during her arrest. So the police called an ambulance and she was checked out and no injuries were found. As soon as she was informed of that she admitted she wasn't injured after all. What a piece of work. Now we know where Lindsay Lohan got it from. These people are trailer trash at its finest. ...The year-long engagement between Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus has come to a screeching halt with Cyrus and her tongue going one way and Hemsworth going in the opposite direction with a huge smile on his face. This is what happens when one person has class and the other does not. When informed of her son's broken engagement Liam Hemsworth's mother was so happy that she passed out in her living room and had to be revived with smelling salts. ...As if New England Patriots cornerback Alfonzo Dennard wasn't in enough trouble already for assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest, he is now facing up to six years in prison for violating his probation from that incident when he was pulled over for drinking and driving. He is also looking at a possible league suspension for violating the NFL’s substance-abuse policy on top of this. If convicted, this will be the second player the Patriots will lose to the prison system this year. Maybe if he's lucky he can be sent to the same prison Aaron Hernandez is in and they can end up joining the football team. They'll still be in the slammer but what a hell of a team they'll have. ...Mswati III, the 45-year-old King of Swaziland (wherever the hell that is) chose an 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant as his 14th wife last week. That's not saying that is his fourteenth wife one after the other. This is his fourteenth wife at the same time while the other thirteen are out running around someplace. Some people are just gluttons for punishment. ...Did anyone here watch Under the Dome? I tuned in for all thirteen episodes just to wait for that Big Jim guy to get what's coming to him and in the series finale and they literally leave us hanging with Barbie until next summer when the fun starts again. ...A South Carolina woman was arrested and booked on a criminal domestic violence charge after she went after her roommate because the man would not stop playing music from The Eagles and after being forced to listen to Hotel California one too many times she grabbed some kitchen knives and cut the man on his arm, elbow and hand but fortunately for him he was not seriously injured. He's kind of lucky in a way that he was playing Eagles songs because if he had been listening to country music all that time he'd have been a goner. ...I am wondering how many nightmares that man in Zimbabwe, Africa is going to have now after spending the night in a lodge while an eight-foot crocodile was lying under his bed? The crocodile was discovered by a screaming housekeeping staff employee who went in the room to clean and change the sheets while the man was having his breakfast. It was believed that the crocodile came from a river nearby to the lodge but they are not sure how the animal managed to get into the room unless he brought his own key. This just proves that little kids knew what they were talking about all along. There really are monsters under the bed. ...And they wonder why people have been cancelling their reservations at that place. They must figure that the next time a crocodile is spotted there that one just might be in the mood to eat. ...There's a restaurant in Brooklyn that is offering something called a "silent dinner" to its patrons which is a $40 four-course meal and the only rule in place while you are having your meal is that you are not allowed to talk. People that do end up talking during dinner are reminded of the rule the first time and if they talk again they have to finish their dinners on a bench outside. The reasoning behind this is that the owner believes that in general restaurants have become louder than ever and by hosting these silent dinners it will teach people to focus on the taste and nutritional value of the food. At least that's the theory behind this and, if it happens to catch on there, these silent dinners will become a regular event. Well, to each his own but after hearing about this a few days ago I came away knowing one thing for certain. If my wife was there for dinner she's be out on one of those benches within five minutes. ...Never again will I complain about my neighbors after reading about that Long Island animal control officer who was arrested last Thursday for housing and selling 850 snakes that he was keeping in his garage. Among the snakes that he had in his possession were two six-foot-long Burmese pythons - the same kind of snake that strangled to death those two young Canadian boys as they were sleeping. These snakes are illegal in the Empire State which should prove to the remainder of the country that some laws in New York actually make sense. Long Island officials stumbled onto this setup after the deputy town attorney visited the man's home to see if he was committing workers’ compensation fraud. So when tomorrow morning comes and the next-door neighbors start slamming their doors at 6:00 a.m. to leave for work I'm not going to say a thing. At least they don't have any snakes. ...The more that I read about what happens at soccer games the more I am convinced that the game itself is slowly driving their fans nuts. As a lifelong fan of professional team sports I have tried a few times to understand and appreciate the game but every time that I have tried to embrace it I have come back discouraged because each time the results for me were the same. I found soccer boring. I'd rather listen to David Ortiz recite Shakespeare than be subjected to another soccer match. And that's what I think happens to their fans. Years of watching two teams run up and down a very long playing field listening to the thump-thump-thump of the ball as the players kick it around without hardly a score has done something to their heads. If one team manages to score a goal they may as well call the game right there because nothing's going to happen the rest of the way and everyone knows it and when rowdy fans know this they get angry. They throw trash on the field, they fight with themselves, they throw bottles at the referees and they start fires, just to name a few things. Which brings me to the subject at hand. During a game in a Brazilian league a team masseur stepped onto the field during a tie game and made two key saves near the end of a match to preserve the tie, allowing his team to advance to the competition's quarterfinals. After this happened all hell broke loose (see the youtube clip!) and the other team chased the masseur from the field and he was immediately put under police protection. Just another run of the mill soccer game. After the game the Brazilian sports tribunal removed the team from their league because of what this guy did. And by the way, I never knew that these teams had masseurs. Maybe the Yankees should employ one of these people just so Jeter can play in more than seventeen games next year. The funny part was that they actually needed a tribunal to decide what team should advance in their playoffs. Soccer? You can have it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjPXJGtHgdw ...After today's 1:05 p.m. game with the Giants the Yankees have two short three game series' with Tampa Bay and Houston to end the season with and no matter how this ends up working out for them, whether they manage to sneak into a wild card spot or if they end up sitting out on October baseball it is going to be a sad ending for Yankee fans everywhere. It's been a well-known fact that this is Mariano Rivera's last season but all season long you could almost put that out of your mind for awhile because there were a lot of games to be played or at least that is how I looked at it. But now with seven games left starting with today's I am forced to look at the reality of the situation and what I see of it I don't like at all. Players retire all the time, it happens every year. Andy Pettitte's retiring too but when I heard that news I just shrugged my shoulders and immediately put it out of my mind. It's not like I dislike the him any less but after watching him this year I had a feeling he would leave and this time for good. Rivera's leaving the right way. Making us want more.

Didn't that game have its beginnings on the old Sega Saturn system? I never got World Series Baseball until they made an x-box version of it. Then they changed the name to ESPN baseball.

I loved Hardball, especially Hardball 3. That was out at the same time Tony Larussa Baseball 2 was out and I could not get enough of those two games.

All I need to know is did you end up breaking anything because I would have.

This file is no longer hosted on the website and that is why the file was reported as "broken." You won't be able to get this but there are other loading screens you can look at in the download section. You also responded to a thread that has been dormant for 2 1/2 years.

Well daflyboys is pretty good with this stuff but I got to tell you that you have no idea how helpful you were just to provide information to say how and when you noticed the problem and you even did some searches, which is always appreciated. Here's hoping the next time you decide to post in here it will have nothing to do with problems with your game! Good luck and enjoy the Mvp 13 mod. Those guys did a great job.

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.