Yankee4Life

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.

And this is why I couldn't stand Granderson. Well put. I didn't mind. It was the less I had to see of him. People rag on Rodriguez for being a playoff choker (which he is. I'm not defending him here) but because Rodriguez was SO bad he overshadowed people like Granderson, Teixeira, Swisher and Cano. They were just as bad. You got a good understanding of the Yankees. I can see that.

72nd anniversary of Pearl Harbor. A day that should always be remembered and observed. Damage at Hickam Field after the attack.

Ok, now that is odd. There has to be some glitch somewhere. As I said I already notified the website owner about this problem.

Ok now let's try this out. Try to download this file right here. I just tested it out and downloaded for myself again. It works. Let me know what happens.

Well, it is not just you. No one can get that patch because it is not on the MVP server anymore.

Do you mean this patch right here? And as far as the Mvp 2013 mod you will have to get that yourself. EDIT: I can't even download this patch because it is not even on the server anymore. That's odd.

Ok, ok you and GoRedSox proved to me that I may have slightly exaggerated here. But let me ask you this. Are you going to miss this guy if the Yankees make the post season next year? He was an automatic out just like Swisher.

Exactly what patch are you trying to get? And what I will do for you is notify the site owner of the problem you are having.

Photoshopped?

Seattle fans are going to end up hating him. Remember when he was with Detroit? He was good then. Soon as he got to the Yankees he sucked.

Total Classics 1958 Continued A close game in TC '58

This morning the 1958 Major League Baseball season was released and is now part of the Total Classics family here at Mvpmods and available for download right here. Total Classics 1958 was created by Jim825 and Dennis James and if you liked their work in the 1941 mod then you will love what they did here. As the 1941 season stood out in baseball fan's memories so has the 1958 season, but for different reasons. This was the very first year that no National League games would be played in Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds and many older New Yorkers, even to this day, have not forgotten -let alone forgiven- the uprooting of their ball clubs. At least the 1958 season ended with some normalcy. The New York Yankees, after being down three games to one in the World Series, came back to win the final three games to beat the Milwaukee Braves in a thrilling seven game series. This series victory was especially important for the Pinstripes because they defeated the team that beat them in the 1957 Fall Classic. This World Series by the way was the last time that Casey Stengel would ever win a World Championship. As you can see there is so much history behind the 1958 season, so many stories involving rising players and rising teams and they are all here in this mod. The installation of this mod is extremely simple as I have said many times in the past. Old hands at this can do it in their sleep and newer people need to listen closely. As it says in the directions, you need a clean copy of Mvp 05 to install the mod into. The installer that Jim has provided does all the work so all you need to do here is sit back and watch it do its job. After the initial splash screen that shows the large turnout of people welcoming the Dodgers to Los Angeles you get into the game and the music that perfectly captures how it was back then begins to play through your computer speakers. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bobby Darin and Jerry Lee Lewis just to name a few. An excellent choice of music for this mod. The game that I played that will be featured in this write-up was between the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates against the Cincinnati Redlegs at Crosley Field. This was the final year that the ballclub was referred to as the "Redlegs." From 1953 to 1958 they were known by this name because somebody somewhere thought that if the team was known as the Reds that people may think they were Communist. That's a true story and if you are thinking that is one of the dumbest things you've ever heard you're right. The Legends of the Booth mod is already included here so you won't have to worry about installing it. Dennis James made the uniforms and they are crisp and sharp and good looking. Like I usually do when I play a game with his uniforms I find myself pausing the game way too often just to see how good they look. The loading screens portray players that made their mark in 1958 and during the 1950's in general. As far as I am concerned Dennis and Jim get the credit for this because they have to decide where these photos are placed and which ones are seen the most. The 1958 mod plays very well and if you are looking for any problems with this mod I can only think of one. If you have a dynasty going in another mod and you just want to check out this mod, watch out. You just might want to start a new one right away. Give this mod a try today and just as important, thank those two guys for what they did. Welcome to Total Classics 1958!

This thread is temporarily locked until daflyboys gets back online. When you see this message give me a holler and it will be opened up. I am just doing this to stop this guy's flooding in here. EDIT: Topic unlocked now.

ENOUGH!

I agree with you all the way here Sabathia Era. But we can't be talking about this in this thread. This is reserved for daflyboys' posts about the latest MLB moves. If we start talking about other things in here it will take away from what he's doing. No problems, you just made a comment. As for you, you have your own thread here where you post images of your newest cyberfaces. Why are you coming in here to do it now? Please don't do this again. This thread is just for transactions and this is handled by someone else. Thank you.

Thank you. Obviously he is more than welcome to do it. I hope you had a nice holiday.

I don't know about anyone else but this makes less and less sense each time I read it.

I have no idea what you are talking about and to be totally honest here I don't understand what your post meant at all. I read it a couple of times and still can not figure it out.

Exactly what is that supposed to mean?

I thought so. I'm going to pretend I was never here.

Fixed EXE?? What do you mean?

This week, another modder that made extremely popular uniforms during the time he was here and a modder who was responsible for making some of the most accurate and visually impressive stadiums that were uploaded to this website. BigBully If you enjoyed the other uniforms that were highlighted from other modders in the past weeks and months here then you will enjoy the contributions from BigBully. His main concentration was present day (at that time) Major League uniforms and minor league uniform, many of which can now be considered throwbacks due to team affiliation change or new uniform concepts over the years. Modern Brooklyn Dodgers uniforms. 2007 Syracuse Chiefs Uniforms. 2006 Springfield Cardinals. 2006 Norfolk Tides. 2006 Brewers Sunday Home Uniforms. Vintage Astros Pack. The Big O The Big O was a precise, attention-to-detail stadium modder and the constant updating of his stadium mods were reminiscent of PaulW, who has already been featured here. His Oriole Park at Camden Yards and Fenway Park have been downloaded over ten thousand times making it one of most popular mods on the website. Oriole Park at Camden Yards v5.5. The Big O's Fenway Park. The Big O's Fenway Park Lite. Lighter texture version that solved crashing problems on some machines. The Big O's Fort Lauderdale Stadium.

Updated to 12-1 ...December sure got here quick, didn't it? ...I hope that everyone here had a good holiday and that you weekend is just as good. I did my part on Thursday to rid the world of stuffing and mashed potatoes and like the Raiders in the second half of their game I ran out of gas early. ...Every year my wife feeds me the same line of her not wanting to go out shopping on Black Friday because she has no desire to fight those crowds like she did last year and the year before that. Sure enough Friday morning rolled around and before I knew it she was putting her coat on and walking out the door because "there were just a couple things" that she had to get. Reminding her of what she said the day before about not going she told me she said that before she had a good chance to look at the ads. If I didn't know any better I would say that sales advertisements in the paper have subliminal messages that only women can see that make them leave their homes to go shopping. Five hours later she came home looking like she just finished a ten-mile hike, which very well could have been close to the truth considering how many times she walked the mall. After waking up from her nap she swore that she wasn't going to do this next year. Sure I remarked to myself. Just don't read the ads. ...Last week Kim Kardashian went on eBay to sell some of clothes and accessories to raise funds for the victims of the typhoon in the Philippines. On the surface this seemed like a very nice thing to do because what happened there hit those people quick and they lost just about everything in a short amount of time. But these are Kardashians and they have been known to never do anything if they do not put themselves first and this little "charity" bit of hers was nothing but more of the same. Somehow someone discovered that 90% of the profits that she was making from the sales of her items were going directly to her bank account and only 10% were going to be sent to the Philippine Islands. Considering the source this shouldn't have surprised anyone. It's true humanitarian efforts like this that really tell you a lot about someone. ...Hey, Brian McCann is now a Yankee. What a signing! What a move! We're on our way back now! Is this the way we should look at the latest Yankee millionaire that they plucked from another team? The way I see it this is just another example of the Yanks not having faith/patience in the players that they already have. Austin Romine was never given a decent chance to fill the job and now he's either going to be the backup or is going to be traded somewhere that will give him a chance. I have absolutely nothing against Brian McCann and from the little I saw of him when I tuned into the Braves games he was very good but at the same time f*** him because I'm not going to get excited looking at the numbers he put up for some other team. I made that mistake when they brought Burnett and Teixeira on board. Let's see what he does in the Bronx before we start patting ourselves on the back. ...Microsoft is a perfect example of what it means when you hear the saying that there are lies, damn lies and statistics. They announced last Tuesday that the sales for the XBox One also sold one million units, just as the Playstation 4 did on their launch date on the fifteenth of November. And it's true. They're not lying. However they failed to mention that the one million Xbox One units sold came from a 13-territory release that included North America, Brazil, and much of Europe. Sony's one million PS4 consoles were sold in North America alone. It took them a few more countries but by God they showed Sony that they can keep up with them. ...If I really wanted to I could fill this entire space every week with things that people find to complain about that will make you think that I lie in bed at night thinking them up. Take this Rhodes scholar in Missouri for example. Her license expired and the state sent her a new pair of plates. As you know, the numbers on license plates are randomly picked by computer unless you're one to pay the extra cash for vanity plates. Well, this woman gets her plates and immediately wants to send them back because she received WHO R8X as her new plates. I couldn't figure out what got her so upset. Who...R8...rate is how I saw it. Not this woman. She was more insightful then I was. The state of Missouri wasn't going to get one past her. What she read on her WHO R8X license plate was “whore eight times” and that was that. She filed a complaint with the state and asked for a replacement but she was told that she would have to pay a fee of seventeen dollars for a brand new set of number. All she had to do was stick a crowbar in her purse and pull out a twenty and her problem would have been solved. Instead she ran to a local TV station and gave them her sob story and they ran with it and it made national news, which is how I heard of it. It just goes to show that there are people who will be offended by anything, even if it doesn't actually exist and it's going to get worse because the media makes these people fifteen minute celebrities. God knows what the next one is going to be. ...I usually like to play a couple games of MVP a week where I randomly pick a season mod and for the entire week just use that mod. The reason why I bring this up now is because last week thanks to a website that has old games hosted there for download (for a price of course) I was playing baseball games that I was playing as far back as twenty years ago. The website is called Old Games which I am sure a lot of you are familiar with. While poking around in there I found so many games that I wanted to get. So I signed up for a one month membership that cost me $8.95 just so I could get them all. You can download them for free but the server that handles the freebee downloads must be somewhere in Siberia because it is the slowest I've ever come across. Naturally this is done on purpose just to get you to sign up and I'm proof of that. Now this site isn't for all of you. People that are used to the stunning graphics on the Playstation systems will laugh at how these games look. Visually appealing these games were not. It's like looking at a woman who wears thick glasses and has her hair in a bun. At first glance you may not think she's all that but let her take those frames off her face and let her hair down and you'll see her in a completely different way. That's what Hardball 3, 4 and 5, Tony Larussa 2 and 3, Oldtime Baseball and ESPN Baseball Tonight all had in common. They will not score points graphically but given the chance they'll surprise you on how good they are. Those are the games I downloaded last week. It occurred to me that for those of you guys who were not playing computer baseball two decades ago you may find it hard to believe that there were so many different baseball games out there to get. At one time I had all seven of these games installed on my computer and let me tell you I wore every one of them out and I always was looking for another one to play. And there were others. That's how things were before this exclusive license nonsense started. I know I won't be playing these games a lot because Mvp has that much of a hold on me. I felt guilty because I didn't play that game last week and if you think I'm crazy for saying that join the fraternity. But it is nice to know I can now. Best nine dollars I spent in a long time. ...The first thing I thought of after I finished my trip down memory lane was how good would companies like Accolade, Acclaim, Stormfront Studios and 3DO make baseball games today? These people put 2K sports to shame. ...Prince Fielder was introduced to the Rangers media people in Arlington last Monday with a new haircut and wearing a broad smile on his face and if you think you've seen that act before, you're right. Because this is exactly what he did two years ago when he met the Tiger press corps for the first time. The guy can turn on the charm when he wants to as he answered every question put to him without his usual surly attitude. He'll be saving that for when the season starts when his average dips closer to the .250 mark. Ranger fans who are expecting a lot out of him must not have watched him for the past two years with Detroit, especially in the post season where his numbers were so bad that he made Alex Rodriguez look good. ...Sit down and be quiet Dept: An eleven-year-old girl who is apparently quite the baseball nut has taken her enthusiasm for the Chicago Cubs to a new level and some people that sit near her and her father at Wrigley Field have let her know how much her cheering has begun to grate on them. These complaints began as soon as the season ended last month and why someone waited to post this online during the Thanksgiving week wasn't explained. Maybe they just forgot. This kid is at all the Cubs games because her father is a season ticket holder and when the crowd around her is quiet she takes that opportunity to try and lead the people around her into a chant of "Let's go, Cubbies!" And when the late innings roll around and the Cubs are behind she does the same thing to get the fans going so they can try and help rally the Cubs. By doing this every game some people around her have become fed up with her constant yelling and the complain has even reached the Cubs front office and they even asked her to tone it down a notch, so you can imagine what a healthy set of lungs this kid has. There's an easy remedy for this of course and I'm kind of surprised that no one has thought of it before. When Opening Day rolls around next April someone in her section should present her with a book on the history of the Chicago Cubs. After reading that she'll know that there's no reason to cheer. ...Actor Alec Baldwin is a hot-head. There's no way around that. Like everyone else he says things that he shouldn't when he's angry and I think because of that the paparazzi that follow him around take advantage of this and goad him into losing his temper so they can get it on film and record his words at the same time. Not too long ago he insulted one of these photographers that were hovering over his wife and child and called him a name that you could only say in an R rated movie without having it bleeped out. This slur bought him a two week suspension from his radio show on MSNBC and now after thinking it over a bit more they decided to cancel his show outright, which really shouldn't have astonished anyone. There's freedom of speech but to a point. He didn't say this while he was working or being interviewed or dealing with fans. He said this to an intrusive photographer that was harassing his family and I don't think he should have been suspended or fired for that. I don't know how it feels to be hounded and chased by photographers constantly so I don't know what I'd do. The only thing Baldwin did wrong here was apologize. ...Ted Lilly retired last week and I was sad to hear about it. He was another one of the long line of young Yankee pitchers that they never gave a proper chance to and if they had he could have been a solid starter for them for many years. Instead he was just that for other teams. The Yankees had him at the beginning of the last decade and he was involved in a three-team trade in July of 2002 that brought the Yankees Jeff Weaver, and any Yankee fan will tell you how well that turned out. I'll never forget one of Lilly's final games with the Yankees. It was a complete game three hit shutout of the Padres in San Diego. Lilly's big problem during his short time with the Yankees was that he wasn't a superstar and because of that didn't get a lot of playing time. Maybe it was better that he got out of there.

Wally Pipp Wally Pipp is the guy that lost his job to Lou Gehrig, who just happens to the greatest first baseman in baseball history. But Pipp was hardly a slouch on the field. And he was rarely off the field, missing just a handful of games over the previous four seasons before Gehrig took his job in 1925. In fact, Pipp anchored Yankee pennant winners in 1921, 1922 and the championship 1923 team, which were the Yanks first. He was coming off a career year in 1924 when he hit .295 with nine home runs, 114 RBI and an American League-leading 19 triples. As the story goes, that day Pipp told Yankee Manager Miller Huggins that he had a headache, and Huggins replaced him with Gehrig in the Yankee lineup. Lou Gehrig, who had pinch hit for Yankee shortstop Pee Wee Wanninger the previous day to start his famous consecutive games streak, didn’t sit down for nearly 15 years, 2,130 games later. Pipp’s recollection of that day is somewhat hazy. Decades later, in a 1953 interview, he recounted that he did have a headache—because he had been beaned in batting practice. That’s not exactly how it went down. In fact, Pipp was a pinch-hitter the very next day, June 3, after his supposed beaning. Although Pipp never started another game at first base for the Yankees, Gehrig didn’t exactly tear the league apart in 1925, and Huggins had pinch hit for a few times because the Yankees’ manager was disappointed in Gehrig’s performance against left-handers. Pipp’s beaning took place exactly a month later—on July 2. According to various accounts he suffered a fractured skull or a concussion—certainly more than a headache. He played sparingly the rest of the season and was shipped to Cincinnati at the end of it. Pipp had a solid career and was one of the best first basemen of his era. He led the American League in home runs with 12 in 1916 and nine in 1917. He hit .281 for this career, with 90 HRs, 997 RBI and 1,941 hits.