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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am very sorry to read about the loss of your soccer hero sabugo and after reading your post about him I am sorry that I never heard of Eusébio myself. The guy sounded to me like an unselfish superstar that put his team first at all times, something that is rare to see today. R.I.P. Eusébio.

This week we set our sites on a Latino modder who since the beginning has been behind one of the most popular and successful total conversion mods ever in Mvp Caribe and a modder who is a natural favorite of all Cincinnati Reds fans here. HFLR Since 2007 when the very first Mvp Caribe was produced, HFLR has been the modder behind the organization and creation of this extremely popular mod that just seems to get better every single year. Baseball fans all over Latin America play this mod and the recognition it has received is thanks to the hard work by HFLR and the team of modders over at the Caribe web site. HFLR's MLB Logos Update. Emilio Ibarra Almada Stadium. Yaquis de Obregon Uniforms. WBC Caribe 2013. Edtench All of Edtench's mods have had one thing in common and that is they all have been made with the Cincinnati Reds in mind. His renditions of the turn-of-the-century Reds uniforms have all been very accurate and unique as far as choosing uniforms for your game is concerned. 1900 Cincinnati Reds Uniforms. 1908 Cincinnati Reds home uniform. 1911 Cincinnati Reds Home and Away Uniforms. Cincinnati Reds Retro Striped Uniform. Cinergy Field Mod. Behind the Scenes AlexTony AlexTony is another one of those modders whose mods were mostly released when Mvp 2004 was around but that does not mean that they are available today to be appreciated. Back when Total Classics was just getting started the modders who had their work included in that detailed mod would occasionally release parts of their work here on the website and if you click on the listing of AlexTony's mods you will see exactly what I mean. The Total Classics portraits that he made can not be downloaded any longer but they still can be seen in Total Classics Phase 10 today. His portrait work, logo and audio files have helped make Total Classics what it is today.

Updated to 1-5 ...It took until the day after New Year's to get my back in working order again thanks to that trip I took to Fun City during Christmas. After over a week of living through this pain I have newfound respect and sympathy for people out there who constantly have this problem and can not get rid of it. ...Speaking of New Year's in the general area of where I live a group of idiots started shooting off fireworks two hours before the golden hour and wherever they got them they made sure to get the loud and explosive ones. Either they ran out of fireworks or the cops finally caught up with them since they do this every year because by the time midnight rolled around it was as quiet as an empty ballpark out there. Serves them right for not knowing how to tell time. ...And forgive me for trying to rush this but even though we are only five days into the new year it is not inaccurate of me to point out that next month baseball comes back to us as the major leagues begin to report to their respective destinations in Florida and Arizona. Cleveland is the first team to have their pitchers and catchers report (February 11th) and not long after that other team will be following them. The first game in Florida is on February 25th and in Arizona a day later. The first Yankee scheduled to be injured will be on or about the 27th. ...Hey, look at this! Yasiel Puig was arrested on a reckless driving charge in Florida after officers clocked him going 110 mph in a 70 mph zone. This was the second time this year that Puig was arrested for speeding. Back in April police from Chattanooga, Tennessee picked him up after they clocked him going 97 mph in a 50 mph zone. Puig must have been frustrated that he didn't get up to 100 mph the first time so the next opportunity he had he tried it again and this time he made it. He got off easy the first time he did this when he completed community service in Los Angeles but it remains to be seen what happens to him now. This just proves once again when you give an idiot lots of money these kind of things are sure to happen. Now let's see how the Dodgers handle it. ...The last time Evelyn Lozada made the news is when Chad Johnson (or Ochocinco, whatever you want to call him) had just about enough he could take of her and her mouth and gave her a head-butt that ended their two and a half month marriage. This remains to this day Johnson's best off the field move since his playing days ended. Well, while Johnson was flashing a huge smile because he was getting rid of her Carl Crawford of the Dodgers had a similar smile on his face but for entirely different reasons. Either this guy had no idea who Lozada was or if he knew he must have believed her stories of being the poor victim in the marriage with Chad Johnson and before that to her engagement to Antoine Walker, a former NBA player. Crawford has never been mistaken as someone who has used his head for anything except wearing a hat, which explains why he first knocked up Lozada and then bought her an engagement ring worth 1.4 million dollars. The way this woman goes through men this marriage has the possibility of being shorter than Kim Kardashian's seventy-two day laugher. She's covered three sports now and if I were a soccer player I would run at the first sight of her after she is done taking as much money as she can off of Crawford. ...While I was very happy that the people that were stranded on that ship in the Antarctica were finally rescued I could not help but wonder what the **** they were doing there in the first place? Yeah I know, they were on a tour of historic sites in Antarctica and the ship got stranded in the ice. But honestly what the hell are you going to see when you are there? Every where you look you see snow and ice and if you take a walk to the starboard side of the ship you'll see ice and snow and if you are really lucky maybe one time you'll see a penguin. There's an attraction to that place that I will never understand but as I said before I wish those people well and maybe the next time the idea to go back there to see what there is to see everyone will think twice about it and stay home. ...Last Thursday and half the day on Friday we got hit with a snowstorm that gave us over a foot of snow and as anyone can attest to that lives in this part of the country when it snows this much you run out of places to put it. That's why I was kind of concerned about the people in Boston that got blasted with two feet of snow. Well, almost. I pay a guy to do my driveway but I have to shovel my walk myself and with the amount of snow we got that meant I was out there seven different times in a day and a half. The average temperature outside was four degrees and combined with the wind chill (for you guys who live in the warm weather areas the wind chill is an added bonus here. It makes the actual temperature outside seem even colder) it made it seem like it was -11 degrees. While I was out there enjoying myself I couldn't help but think of those people in Antarctica that chose to be there and the more I was out there the less I felt bad for them. The next time they want to go someplace and freeze they should stand in a walk-in freezer for about a half hour. Even that will be warmer. ...Jovan Belcher, the Kansas City Chiefs linebacker who first killed his girlfriend and then himself back in December of 2012 is back in the news thanks to his mother who is now suing the Chiefs in a wrongful-death lawsuit because she said that her son “unknowingly sacrificed his brain” during his four years with the team. Who the hell didn't see something like this coming? She must have spent most of last year meeting up with lawyers just to work out a strategy to properly go after the Chiefs. I feel bad because a mother lost her son and at a very young age too (25) but I believe this case is more about money than about grief. No one forced Belcher to go out on that field every Sunday. He was well paid for what he did. And if there is a wrongful death case here it should be from the family of the girl that he killed and not a mother whose meal ticket has expired. ...My wife and I were really lucky over the holidays because while we did a lot of Christmas gift shopping, none of it was done at Target. And that really has nothing to do with the store because I enjoy going into Target a lot more than I like I like going into Walmart because Target stores are always clean and that is something that can not be said about Walmart. We are inordinately fortunate that most of the people on our list prefer gift cards as gifts so that means a short trip to wherever gift cards are sold and 90% of our shopping is done. But what really concerned me about the theft of 40 million debit and credit card accounts from Target was that Target was only one of 500 publicly disclosed data breaches in 2013. As soon as I read that I became very reluctant to purchase anything online again. ...It took me a few hours to update Total Classics seasons 1951, '56. '64, '74 and '75 thanks to the updates that Dennis James provided for all five of those great mods. When that guy gets going he's unstoppable and it wouldn't shock me at all to find out soon that he will start updating his updates later on this year. ...Years ago the front page of this website had an area that had icons representing the respected sites of Mvpmods and it provided a quick link to them in case anyone was interested in checking that site out for themselves. Well, last month on the 3rd of December one of those sites closed its doors for the last time and if anyone who visited there for the last few years could tell you, they knew it was coming. The Perfect Game website, formerly High Heat and before that The Clubhouse is gone and even though the traffic there slowed down dramatically I was sad to see it go. I did not want it to go. If you wanted files for High Heat Baseball that was a good place to get them. The High Heat website is where I first met Trues and my friend MarkBtheYankee. There's a few other guys on this site that were members over there. One of the funniest things ever said about me was from one of the members there. It seems there was one guy who was being difficult in the forums with the other people and someone told him that if he didn't watch himself he would have to spend a few hours in a chat room with Mark and I while we talked non-stop about the Yankees. Those guys over there were notorious Yankee-haters and this was during the time when I had my rose-colored Yankee glasses on at all times. Now imagine mixing those two things together and what you got was a whole bunch of classic threads with no one giving an inch and laughing all the way. What a bunch of characters. Goodbye Perfect Game, thanks for everything. ...The U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team mistakenly sent a text message to a sixty-seven-year-old Canadian man informing him that he made the team that will be representing the United States in the upcoming Winter Olympics next month. The man informed them that they must have been trying to contact someone else since he was a senior citizen and besides, he can't skate. He must have been joking about not being able to skate because everyone over the age of three can do that up there. ...During a trip on the Royal Caribbean cruise line a passenger jumped overboard while the ship was headed towards Puerto Rico. This is frowned upon by all cruise line ships because when someone jumps overboard they usually don't bring their luggage along with them and that means the cruise line has to get rid of the luggage for them when the ship docks. Every precaution was made to rescue the man who jumped overboard as the ship turned immediately around to find him with all the other passengers helping out as much as they could as they stood by the railings yelling out "come back" to the wayward traveler. The Coast Guard was also notified and brought in as they searched for him for two days before calling it off. There must be a better way to settle your bar tab then resorting to this. ...I feel bad for the Walmart store manager down in Florida who tried to stop a man and a woman who were quickly loading a shopping cart full of beer that they forgot to pay for. As soon as he asked them for a receipt for the beer they backed up the truck and not wanting to get run over by it the manager jumped in the back of it while the truck sped away from Walmart as fast as it could. The good news is that someone came to his aid after they saw him trying to flag someone down on the highway. The two rednecks took off but really, how hard is it going to be to find them? The Walmart manager was congratulated for what he did and got to see himself on the evening news but in the back of his mind he had to be worried because Walmart is probably going to lean on him for this to the point where it is going to cost him in job. They did it to an employee of theirs in California recently who tried to help a woman who was being beat up by some guy in their parking lot. But that guy was just an employee and this guy was a manager which means he probably will get off with just a warning. ...I almost changed the channel during the Kansas City - Baltimore game last night because the Chiefs were up by a lot and I thought they were going to win their wildcard game but it was worth watching them choke in the second half. Watching teams in my division taking nose dives in the playoffs are about the only thing I can look forward to all year as a Raider fan.

If I were a betting man I would start and end with this mod right here.

Ok this is what I did for you. I went into the original roster for Mvp and grabbed his attributes for you. Keep in mind that these are ratings based on his 2004 season with Oakland when he went 17 - 8. I hope this helps a little. Mark Mulder Stamina 95 (with these ratings 100 is the highest) Pickoff 85 PITCHES Splitter 91 4-Seam Fastball 84 Slider 83 Changeup 80 2-Seam Fastball 76 BATTING ATTRIBUTES Power vs. LHP 25 Contact vs. LHP 21 Power vs. RHP 24 Contact vs. RHP 30 Bunting 65 Plate Discipline 20 Fielding and Running Attributes Durability 85 Speed 47 Stealing aggressiveness 10 Baserunning ability 20 Fielding 60 Range 55 Throwing Strength 70 Throwing Accuracy 70

Your bad?? No way man. This was my bad all the way and twice on Sundays! While my advice on how to get Mulder's realistic stats was correct I was way off the mark by telling you what game to get this information from. I would like to give you my apologies and I am sorry once again for not knowing what game you were talking about even though you posted your question in the correct forum! I'd like to make a joke and say I need glasses but I already have them. Now, let's get back to your Mulder question. Mulder only appeared in three games in 2008 for the Cardinals so there is not much of a chance he would have made it in the 2k9 game. And there was no chance of him on any roster in 2k10, 11 or 12. Now I get why you are having a hard time getting his stats.

You have to search and when I say that I strongly advise it. It took me two minutes to find Mark Mulder. All I did was look up his playing stats and the years he was active. Then I saw that during the 2004 off season he was traded by Oakland to St. Louis. That meant that he was on the Cardinal roster in the default out-of-the-box roster that came with the game. You can get all his stats right there or on roster sets released during that same time period on this website. That's it.

I actually have to quote myself here and after this is done I hope you can get back to doing what you were doing before. That's all you had to do. Click on that and send an e-mail. Don't try to solve this problem by creating another account because that will cause a problem that will take 180 days to remedy.

Like I will say for the final time no one "gave you" anything on purpose and no one suspended your account. If this ever happens again it is advisable that you do not create another account and instead contact someone here.

Yes you can. Download this mod right here and use the Ditty Importer. What you do is you get an mp3 of a song you want to use and it will convert it to the format the game uses. After it is converted you will be able to place it in your game. The Loclook program is if you want to edit the song titles in the game to show the proper name of the new song.

I don't understand this at all. There is nothing wrong with your account. I just checked it and double checked it. I saw the screenshot that you posted about your inability to gain access in here but instead of contacting someone here on the staff you created a second account and you know how well that is received around here. You ignored where it said "contact the community administrator" and that is clearly displayed on the screenshot that you provided. That is how you do things and not by creating another account. Forum rules are in place not just for new users but for everyone. I don't know if you read the rules of this website or not but that's not the issue anymore. Again, there was nothing wrong with your original account. Your second account was suspended. Your first account (Jed) was not.