Yankee4Life

Updated to 12-15 ...Merrill Newman, the 85-year-old American detained by North Korean authorities back in October returned to the United States last week happy, relatively healthy and by the skin of his teeth. His release was made possible by the work of the U.S. and Swedish diplomats who were able to get the North Korean government to "deport" him back home, which in diplomatic terms means get him the hell out of here. During his press conference when he arrived back in California Newman vowed to never step foot in North Korea again stating that he had no desire to be involved in anything like that again. When asked where he wanted to go on vacation next he replied "Afghanistan," proving again that when you get older you don't always get smarter. ...Carrie Underwood’s performance on “The Sound of Music Live!” last week went over as well as a blind person trying to land a plane and she was the target of so much criticism for her portrayal of Maria on the live special as they thoroughly panned her acting. When Underwood heard about all the comments people were making about her she ran to her Twitter account and said that she would be praying for all the mean people because they "need Jesus." What she really should have done was pray for talent. ...Practice makes Perfect Dept: The World Cup is still seven months away but considering what some Brazilian fans were doing at a game last week they are ready for it to begin right now. Just ten minutes into the game fights broke out in the stands after the opposing team jumped out to an early 1-0 lead. Either they figured their team was so bad that they'd never come close to scoring or that they needed the practice when the big boys come to town next June. There were explosions in the stands and riot police showed up to break up the many fights in the crowd. One guy was hurt so bad that he left in a coma and was taken to a nearby hospital. Fortunately he will pull through and stadium officials said that the next game he attends he will be able to throw out the first bottle. ...Seriously, if no one gets injured next summer while this is going on it will be a miracle. ...I felt bad for the guy over in England who spent $740 thinking that he was purchasing a brand new XBox One on the first day it was for sale in the European market and instead received a picture of the console system in the mail days later. As I said, I did feel bad for him until I saw the screen capture of what he placed his winning bid on. It distinctly said that a photo of the XBox One was being sold and not the machine itself. Sure it was a sneaky thing to do and luckily the buyer was able to get all his money back but the buyer could have easily been stiffed on this transaction. Let's hope he never visits America because he just may end up being the newest owner of the Brooklyn Bridge. If there is one thing that everyone should know by now about the people who are running our schools is that there is no limit to their stupidity. Take this six-year-old Colorado boy who was suspended from school for one day because he leaned over and kissed his "girlfriend" during a reading group that they were in. That was enough for the principal to consider what he did sexual harassment which warranted his one day vacation from school. If it wasn't a true story it would be laughable but I don't see anything funny about this at all because these people are serious and that is what worries me. All the kid did was give her a peck on the cheek. It's not like he tried to bring her in the broom closet. It's a good thing that the kid didn't have a shirt on advertising for the NRA or else the swat team would have been called and he'd have been expelled. The funny thing is once this story hit the national news and the school saw all the negative publicity that they received they changed the kid's disciplinary offense from "sexual harassment" to "misconduct," which was there way of saving face but not coming out and saying that they were totally wrong here. That is still harsh considering what this kid did and because of this he is going to be teased by the other kids for awhile and some of the parents from now on are going to look at him differently. ...Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings and over this past year I have thought about it many times because it bothered me that much and felt for every one of those poor families who are now facing their second Christmas without the child they lost. But nothing seems to be done after this except for jumping on a kid who wants to wear an NRA shirt or a little kid who makes a gun out of his sandwich. They make a big issue out of these things to show that hey look, we are doing something! And the real problem still exists. On Friday it happened again. This time the excuse was that the kid was mad at a teacher and wanted revenge. Just knowing the reason why must make every teacher in America feel so much better. These maniacs need to be stopped and if I knew how I'd let someone know. I'm just concerned for the people like a cousin of mine who is a teacher and all the others who went into that profession to try and make a difference instead of being a target. ...Maybe TSA employees worked as school officials in their previous jobs. How else can you explain the things that they do to airline travelers? A woman who sells customized sock monkeys online was stopped going through security at St. Louis International Airport while going through the screening process. A TSA goon picked up one of her bags and when it was being inspected they found a few sock monkeys, one of them that was made to look like a cowboy from the ten gallon down to the holster around his waist. Inside the holster was a two-inch toy gun which to the trained TSA eye could do as much damage as an assault rifle provided of course if the monkey's gun was in fact real. The gun was confiscated from the sock monkey and the woman and her husband were allowed to board their plane provided that they keep the monkey in their bag for the entire trip as not to upset and frighten the other passengers because their monkey had a firearm in his possession. It's nice to see the TSA cracking down on sock monkeys. Before you know it everyone will have one. Then we'll never be able to fly again. ...Last Tuesday Uruguay became the first country in the world to have a system regulating the legal production, sale and consumption of marijuana. Of course with a law like this being passed there are just as many people upset about it as there are ones who are excited about it but I'm thinking after some time passes some of the naysayers will come around down there once they find out someone sprinkled some of the happy stuff in their brownies and it made them taste better. ...If I knew Spanish I'd go down there in a minute once this law begins just so I could open up a chain of food marts that won't bother selling items like milk and bread. Instead it will be fully stocked with Ho-Ho's, potato chips, microwave burgers and Pepsi. I'll never have to worry about money any more. ...As I have said many times in the past just about everything that I see in the news that hints of politics gets ignored by me faster than watching Red Sox World Series highlights on the MLB Network. It has to take something really stupid for me to actually read about it and usually that means laughing at something Sarah Palin did or said. This time it was John McCain, who is just as bad. Many of the world leaders went to Johannesburg, South Africa last week to pay their respects to Nelson Mandela who passed away on December 5th at the age of 95. President Obama was one of the many people who attended the memorial service. Before Obama stepped up to the podium to address the crowd he had a few words with some of the people that were already on the stage and he shook their hands as he walked down the line. One of the people that he said hello to and exchanged handshakes with was Cuba's Raul Castro and that's what John McCain objected to as he compared what Obama did to "shaking hands with Hitler." What else was Obama supposed to do? Slap him in the head? Punch him in the gut? Or just as bad ignore him and pretend he wasn't there/ That would have went over very well. All this was was a courtesy between two world leaders at a service for a man who promoted peace. McCain conveniently neglected to mention what he would have done had he been in the same situation. It's been five years. He should have got over losing the election by now. ...Robinson Cano's introduction to the Seattle media and fans was aired live last Thursday on the MLB Network and if you did not have a chance to watch it you missed a hell of a performance by Cano. It was one of the few times when I saw Cano smile when he was in front of the media. Even when he got the game winning hit for the Yankees and Kim Jones would trot out on the field to interview him he would answer the questions put to him like someone would when they are talking to a cop who just pulled them over for driving too fast with a low voice and no emotion. But it's not every day someone throws 240 million in your lap so why not put on a happy face? And that Seattle GM, Jack Zduriencik? I can't pronounce his name but no matter. This guy acted like he was part of the greatest deal ever. But I was waiting for Cano to say something because as good as he is hitting a baseball he has shown over and over that the grey matter in his head has hardly ever been used and I did not have to wait long because he accused the Yankees of not giving him any respect or making any effort to sign him. Maybe he should wait a few years so he can watch the Mariner front office make an effort as they try to get rid of him. ...Chances are when you think of Microsoft you can immediately associate it with many things such as operating systems, office software, consoles and tablets, just to name a few. But I can guarantee you that you would have never thought to see their name and a certain woman's undergarment mentioned together in the same sentence. Since stranger things have happened it is no surprise that the people in Redmond are working on a prototype of a "smart bra" equipped with sensors that will monitor a woman's heart activity to track her emotional moods and combat overeating. The idea is that the sensors will contact the woman's smartphone which will -believe it or not- send her a message to stay away from the refrigerator and make better eating decisions. If this thing ever gets on the market they better make sure they got it right because I can see it short-circuiting on some woman who is going through her special time of the month if you know what I mean. And to think, everyone thought Windows 8 was a bust. No pun intended. ...Far be it from me to laugh at the technological advances that Microsoft is trying to do. In fact I would like to volunteer my services on this project in the technical support area for all beta testers in the 21 to 35 age group. It's the least I can do. ...An Arizona man got himself banned for life from Walmart because he was ad-matching in the store and when an employee saw him do it he was told that it was not allowed to do in the store. I don't know anything about Walmart because I do my best to stay out of there at all times but from what I've been told is that they encourage you to ad-match just so they can beat competitor's prices right when you are at the store. If this is all it takes to get banned from Walmart my wife should have had the boot years ago. ...Does the name Elian Gonzalez ring a bell to any of you? If not, I'll fill you in. Back in 1999, a then six-year-old Gonzalez fled Cuba to try to make it to the United States. On the way there the boat sank and Gonzalez's mother and nine other people in the boat drowned and Gonzalez was found by the Coast Guard clinging to an inner tube. After his rescue the boy was placed with relatives in Miami, who wanted to keep him with them and had no desire to return him back to Cuba. That didn't go over so well with the boy's father, who was still in Cuba. Apparently no one let him know about the boat ride to freedom so he was upset. He cried foul and got the government involved and Ozzie Guillen's hero Fidel Casto led protests in order to get the boy back. Well, it worked but the relatives in Miami said that they were still keeping the boy and that is that. After failed talks with the relatives to get them to hand over the boy the U.S. government raided the home right before dawn one day and took the boy and returned him to Cuba. That's who Gonzalez was when he was six. Now he's a twenty-year-old malcontent who blames the U.S. for his mother's death on that boat all those years ago because of the "unjust embargo" that the U.S. has with Cuba. That's why she drowned. Because America will not deal with a dictatorship. Next thing we'll hear is that someone from this country told her to get on that boat just to take a little ride. I suppose if you are not a baseball player in that country you become a Castro mouthpiece. ...It's not even officially here yet and it's already been a bad winter. ...Probably the worst thing out there when the weather is bad is the people who drive the four-wheel drive vehicles because they drive around like they are in their own private off road racing fantasy. ...I am sure that there was something else Kim Jong Un could have done besides killing his uncle if he didn't want to get him a Christmas gift this year. ...I needed a laugh after all that snow that I shoveled in the last few days and it took an article about Santa Claus to give it to me. A woman named Aisha Harris wrote an article about how the image of Santa Claus is racist because he is a fat, old white man in a red suit because it made non-white kids feel insecure when they go and see Santa. This is the first I have heard of something like this. The few times I see kids in line at the mall to have a visit with Santa I don't hear any of the black or Asian kids tell each other that they are going to go see whitey. The color of the man in the suit isn't noticed by the kids because they can't get past the bright red suit and shiny black boots and the excitement of being there. This delusional woman suggested we should get rid of the traditional image of Santa and turn him into a penguin instead of a white man with a beard. Penguin Claus? Talk about two words that should never go together. If this woman wanted to get attention to her blog by writing this, it worked. Don't worry now, Santa's not going away any time soon. But she will be. The men in the white coats will be picking her up sometime next week. Thanks for the laugh. It came at the right time.

I don't understand. If they are not uploaded that means that there isn't any new ones.

Sorry, but you can't get any help here. No one with a pirated (downloaded) copy can get technical support here because you did not buy the game. It's a rule. · No warez or cracks or links to such content. Help, requests or posts that discuss circumvention of copyright measures are forbidden. This includes linking to illegally obtained software, movies & music files - posting about it, and suggesting obtaining it.

Hello, I was hoping someone could help me out with this. It is probably an easy fix for some of you but it has got me stumped. If you take a look at the enclosed screen grab you will see some addresses in my Windows explorer file manager. Now I hardly ever use this file manager but recently there was a change in it that I didn't want. Take a look at the circled website in there. It is a website that has baseball photographs of an old ballpark called Silver Stadium and I went there to get photos for my online gallery. Now I can't get rid of that web address in explorer. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? Thank you in advance. Gary the unhappy computer user.

No, no. Don't worry about it. It's not a rule. It's just something people usually do.

Your English is fine. I have no trouble understanding what you are trying to say.

Usually, and when I say that I really mean always, when someone on here has a message for another member they send them a private message.That's what you should do here. A word to the wise though I do not believe that lifo80050917's primary language is English so he may not understand you fully. But it doesn't hurt to try. The guy's been coming out with a lot of stuff for the 2k baseball game.

I wonder if Fuzz would give us that information? Can't hurt to ask.

Unbelievable! Hey, any way to get Studio to work now? That thing was the best to add uniforms.

Jim it seems to me that this bat selector utility is similar to Fuzz's Mvp Studio program in that it was made when XP was the top operating system and it has trouble working with the newer ones.

I haven't messed around with this in years but after looking at it don't you have to run bat selector.bat to get this to work?

Well, I see what you mean and I understand what you want to do. But it's early yet. Maybe someone will make the 2014 schedule before Opening Day.

That's all you saw wrong with it? Look again.

But has anyone made one for the 2K game yet or Mvp? If so it would have already been uploaded.

Your English teachers must love you.

You do realize the 2014 schedule is not out yet?

I was thinking about this over the summer and I didn't do it. But now I did because I got it for $6.49 on Amazon.

No. These requests are not categorized. You put the request in and if someone can do it they will. You also didn't look for the player photo. You got to help the modder out as much as you can because that will help you get what you are looking for. You are welcome.

You don't. I will. EDIT: All done.

Have you searched for it? If there isn't one then put in a request for it. It's always nice to provide a photo of the player, preferably a face shot so the modder can use it as a reference.

This week we recognize a modder that arguably has made the best set of rosters seen here on this website and a Latino modder who had a talent for making popular overlays. Daflyboys There have been previous rosters in the past that were very popular such as Swingin' Soriano's Epic Rosters and the Ultimate Rosters that were put out by Totte but as good as both of them were they do not compare to the Base Up! roster series that daflyboys has been doing for the past few years now. It was these rosters that were featured in the Mvp 12 and 13 mods and they are also periodically updated throughout the year to feature the latest changes, both in roster moves and attributes. Accuracy is what these rosters are all about and that is what every different version of the Base Up rosters have been all about. As much as daflyboys is known for his rosters he has made other mods for users who want challenging game play. Mvp Level sliders and his Sim Game Play Pack (both featured below) will promise to make your game more difficult and enjoyable at the same time. Season Theme Front End & In-Game Text. Vector Circle (Catch Circle) Baseball. Mvp Level Sliders 2.0. Daflyboys' Sim Game Play Pack 1.3. BaseUp! Rosters 2013 - End of Season 2.0. This is the latest roster in the BaseUp! Roster series. DLCV Members over at Mvp Caribe are more familiar with DLCV since he is a member of the Caribe modding team and a moderator there and as a member here he shared some of his overlays that he created. Some had a Latin style to it that looked very well in any mod you'd want to put it in. If you liked the Caribe mods and the overlays included in there you may want to give some of these a try since they are the work of the same modder. ESPN Classic Overlay. ESPN 2007 Overlay. Old MLB Overlay. Used in the World Series and Championship Division between 2000 and 2005. DirecTV Overlay. Hiram Bithorn Stadium.

Why did you make two threads for the exact same topic? I deleted the other thread since it was not needed. Secondly there are many faces for players who are no longer playing today in the download section. This includes recently retired players and older players like the faces used in the Total Classics games. Go to the Mvp 2005 download area, go to faces and look around in there. There is a lot.

Updated to 12-8 ...Starting out this week's edition with some good news. At least it's good news for me and for anyone else that could not stand the sight of Phil Hughes anymore. Hughes signed a three-year contract with the Minnesota Twins last week, who must think they saw something in him worth signing although by the middle of May at the latest they'll realize that they were wrong. One positive the Twins can look at is that Hughes comes to them well rested from his last year with New York because in most of his games he never made it out of the fourth inning. ...All that being said, watch him win twenty games next year. ...I don't care if I get one gift when Christmas arrives in a couple of weeks and I don't care if I get shut out on my birthday next July. As far as I am concerned last Friday was all I needed and then some. My first gift was stuck in my stocking by the fireplace. Curtis Granderson signed a four-year contract with the New York Mets. Why the Mets felt that they had to sign him is of no interest to me. Maybe they figured they had to sign someone so they grabbed him to keep the fans interested. He might be the only player in recent baseball history who has hit more than forty home runs two years in a row that were hit when the Yankees were far ahead or far behind. When he had two strikes on him you could bet the house he was going to strike out and when he was going really bad he only needed to have one strike on him and then he would take his walk back to the dugout. I'll miss this guy like I'll miss a punch in the jaw. Then there was that big gift that was under the tree which was wrapped with lots of bows and ribbons and was waiting patiently for me to open. Robinson Cano is now a Seattle Mariner. I don't know how it happened but it did. Jay-Z and Cano must have got the movers and shakers of the Seattle front office good and drunk and then got them agree to a ten-year 240 million dollar contract. I'd like to see their faces once they sober up and realize what they did. He'll get a big hand from Yankee fans on his first trip back to the Stadium next year but it won't be cheers to welcome him back. They'll be cheering because he's gone. What wonderful gifts I received! ... I had to laugh when I read the article that said that Cano never said that he wanted a new deal worth 310 million dollars. He may have not said it out loud but he sure as hell thought it was a good idea and he waited until now to let everyone know it. Cano doesn't realize it but teammate Alex Rodriguez is the reason why he's not getting 310 million or 260 million or 230 million from New York. That's another thing he did last week. He dropped his asking price of 310 million that he said he never requested to a more reasonable 260 million because he's such a nice guy. That's over a quarter of a billion dollars for a man who can't even run out a ground ball. The Yankees did not give Cano what he wants because they've seen how bad the Rodriguez contract has turned out and they'll be damned if they get themselves involved in another one. Seattle gave him what he wants. And now he is a very rich man with an overpriced contract. You think he didn't hustle before? With that ten-year contract that he has now you haven't seen anything yet ...Before June is over Mariner fans are going to hate him. ...On his radio show last week Rush Limbaugh called the latest document by the Pope (called The Joy of the Gospel in English) "pure Marxism" because it calls for church reform and castigates elements of modern capitalism. I can't decide on what I think is worse, that Limbaugh actually said this or that the people who listen to his show will believe it. ...My wife's the kind of person that likes to throw out feelers to gauge interest in specific Christmas gifts and if she scores a direct hit she tries to change the subject as quickly as she can. It only took me a couple of Christmases to pick up on this. Which is why I will not be getting a Kindle HD come December 25th. I don't like tablets and I can barely tolerate laptops even though I own two of those. I am more comfortable on my desktop than on anything else. Now if I can only steer the conversation to new computer chairs... ...The U.S. is in negotiations with North Korea for the immediate release of an eighty-five-year-old California man named Merrill Newman who has been detained there since he was taken off a plane last month as he was leaving Pyongyang following a tourist visit. He is being held for what North Korea says is "hostile acts" against them dating back to his participation in the Korean War in the early 1950's, stating that he was was involved in the killing of local soldiers and innocent civilians. At least that's the official story coming out of Kim Jong-Un's office. The way I see it the blame for this entire mess should be put right on that old man's shoulders because it was his choice to go to North Korea and no one else's. What the hell did he think was going to happen? A ticker-tape parade upon his arrival? It's like going to Russia and taking a piss on the Kremlin. You do that and you won't be going home right away. ...Usually when I read or hear about stories that have something to do with race I am immediately skeptical of it because these days there are some people out there that can turn a simple hello and how are you into a racial attack but I don't think this is the case here for a twenty-eight-year-old Florida man named Earl Sampson. The man's stat sheet with the Miami Gardens Police Department says he has been questioned 258 times, searched more than 100 times, jailed 56 times and arrested for trespassing 62 times. The majority of the citations that he has received occurred at the convenient store where he works. The store owner doesn't let him take out the garbage anymore because he doesn't know if the cops are going to grab him. The guy's been in jail so many times that he keeps a change of clothes there along with toiletries and a few of his favorite books. The attorney for the man, who by now only has one client because he's been so busy here says if you added up all the times he was picked up, arrested or detained it would be the equivalent of being arrested once a week for the past four years. By now Sampson must know who everyone is on that police force and is on a first name basis with all of them too. There are allegations now that the Miami Gardens police have been targeting black males and if that's the case they must be using this guy for training purposes just so they get it right. ...I unintentionally scared the hell out of a mall sales lady last Wednesday when I was going to get my wife's jewelry checked, which is another story in itself. The mall opens up at 10:00 am and I leave my house just so I can get there when the stores are opening up. As soon as the electronic gates were raised at Littmans jewelers I walked in their store because I was there to get her ring looked at and cleaned. I took a seat at one of the display tables and the same lady who opened those gates turned around and saw me and got startled. I didn't know if she was startled or just seeing me did the trick. She did explain to me that the reason why she let out a little scream was because she didn't expect anyone to be there that quick. I take these jewelry trips twice a year for my wife because I do not want her inside a jewelry store for any reason because the last time we went together to get her rings and necklace inspected she wanted to walk around a little bit and when I asked why she said she was "just looking." Now I don't know about you but when I hear a woman say she is just looking that means she is trying to figure out in her head how to get what she is just looking at while at the same time not giving the budget book a good swift kick in the teeth. And I'm here to say right now my wife can kick with the best of them which is why I travel to two different malls by myself every time December and May roll around. Because when I go to a jewelry store I never just look. I just leave. ...I have been meaning to write about this for the past couple of weeks now but the combination of not knowing how to word it right and deciding that it wouldn't be worth it anyway made me not take the time to write it at least not until now. Why someone like Dennis James only has 50 reputation points after all he has done for the Mvp and 2K communities in here is a discredit to him. Besides all the mods he has made for both games the guy is one of the first to help people with game issues in here. The same goes for someone like Jim825, who has even less reputation points than Dennis if you can believe that. He's another guy in here who has furnished us with unbelievable mods and also is no slouch himself with technical support. And Trues, who just by the way happens to own this place, has next to nothing. But in a way in his case it's understandable since he makes about three posts a month in here so that right there makes it hard to cast a vote for him. Sometimes I wonder if some of these people in here know who he is. Whatever the real reason is I don't think these votes are used correctly because people are either not voting or voting for specific people or voting out of spite, something that I can personally attest to. ...It was anarchy last week at Houston's Reliant Stadium when two security guards were fired for posing for pictures with Tom Brady after Sunday's Texans-Patriots game. It's a good thing that's all they did. Imagine after the picture was taken if they thanked him and shook his hand? They would have been strung up by their thumbs. ...Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo announced last Tuesday that he is going to be opening up a museum dedicated to what is nearest and dearest to his heart which, in his case, is himself. The museum will be located on the Portuguese island of Madeira which is the perfect location for it because that also happens to be where Ronaldo was born. What a humble human being this guy must be to decide to have a museum so that everyone who is not Cristiano Ronaldo will finally be able to see for themselves how wonderful it is to be him. And maybe spend a few bucks while you are there too. Derek Jeter must be kicking himself right now for not thinking of this idea first. ...I'm sure that Sabugo, who is one of our members here that lives in Portugal, is counting down the days for this to open up so he can go there. ...It's amazing how just by reading something it can trigger a memory that you have not thought of in many years. There was a story from Japan last Thursday where the police there arrested a woman for calling them more than 15,000 times over a six-month period. It immediately brought me back to a woman who used to live in my neighborhood when we were growing up. If you walked past her house and stopped to tie your shoe she'd be on the phone to the cops. Laugh in the general vicinity of her property and the same thing would happen. We were kids who played sports out in the street. Baseball, football and hockey according to the weather. You could tell when the police were going to show up when she would go somewhere in her car while the game was going on. Within ten minutes that's exactly what happened. She may not have called the police 15,000 times like this woman in Japan but take it from me she gave that woman a run for her money.