Yankee4Life

Hector there is a problem accessing the Caribe website. Kaspersky internet security does not like the Caribe homepage because it is detecting Trojans on it and in the graphics. This has not always been like this because I did get Caribe 2012 recently and I did not get any error messages when I was there. Do you know why this has been happening?

All I can say is forget that for one second and then take another look at him. I think we will see a lot of love and respect for this guy this year all around the American League and in the cities the Yankees play in during interleague.

Apologies for posting this week's version late Saturday night instead of waiting until midnight on Sunday like I usually do. I have to leave now to attend to something so I'll be kind of busy for the remainder of the night. Updated to 3-10 ...Two weeks ago I wrote in this space about the twenty-eight year old woman who was going to the New York Jets practice facility to attend an open NFL regional combine for kicker tryouts. She could have kept her car running because she was not on the field for any length of time. She did not turn any heads and later explained to reporters that her poor performance was due to a quadriceps injury which allowed her to take part in only three kicks in the afternoon, two of which consisted of booting a football. Her first kick traveled a distance of nineteen yards and her second one was even worse as it landed thirteen yards away from where she was standing. The final one was administered by the combine officials as they showed excellent technique and follow through when they kicked her off the practice field and all the way to her car, which she did have turned off. Nineteen yards and thirteen yards? Where is she going with that? Any Eagles fan who's worth his salt can throw a beer can farther than that. ...This injury may have affected her kicking that day but what she said after showed me that she had no understanding of how the NFL is played. While admitting that the distance wasn't there in her kicks, she was hoping that the scouts would notice her technique because as she so aptly put it ''it's not always length.'' Because that's what players and fans will say too when she misses a game winning field goal. Yeah she missed that 25 yard field goal but look at the way she kicks. She's got good technique. ...Isn't it funny that the Dodgers actually expected Carl Crawford to be ready for the start of the season? This guy quit playing as soon as the Red Sox gave him that huge contract. ...Another guy like this is Mark Teixeira, who since joining the Yankees back in 2009 has watched his batting average drop lower than the Mason-Dixon line each year. And now he has a new injury -his wrist- which he hurt last week while swinging off a tee. This forced him to leave the WBC team for the United States and it also made the Yankees shut him down for eight to ten weeks. It's going to take a lot longer than that for Teixeira to get over this. Try all season. Everytime he gets in a slump or has a bad day this will be brought up again. He's already got his built-in excuse for the year so this season's a wash. Maybe the Yankees should have given him more money because twenty million a year doesn't get you anything anymore. ...With Teixeira ($23 million a year) and Granderson ($10 million) out for the next two months and Alex Rodriguez ($30 million a year) out until God-knows-when, the Yankees have a total of 63 million dollars of their payroll on the disabled list so far this year or almost twice the amount of the payroll of the Miami Marlins ($36 million). ...The worst thing so far for me this spring was yesterday when Mariano Rivera made it official and will retire at the end of this season. This hurts the most even though you knew it was coming. I don't care if I see Granderson's or Teixeira's faces for awhile but knowing Rivera has a little time left in pinstripes is going to put a damper on the entire season. ...I don't know what got me thinking about it after all these years but the other day I thought about War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and I got to wondering again if anyone had ever read the entire book since it's over 1,000 pages long. It's like Tolstoy didn't know how to end the novel and he just kept writing. About fifteen years ago I decided I was going to give it a go and read the thing. I got about twenty pages in and then quit. That's all it took to convince me that this book was as boring at it was long. Yeah I know that this is considered a classic but anything that was written in the 1800's that can still be recalled today is going to be a classic, just like 150 years from now books on Star Trek will be classics. ...A Florida man found himself tossed in the pokey recently after getting into a verbal altercation with his sixteen-year-old brother in law because the teen had cursed at his mother. The man was so incensed that he picked up a Taco Bell burrito and threw it in his face leaving him with burrito sauce, cheese and meat all over his face and clothing. What really made the teen mad about the burrito besides having it all over him was that in another minute or so he planned on eating it and when his brother in law refused to go and get him another one he called the cops. The moral of the story here is if you are going to throw food in another person's face make sure you have a spare. ...In probably the most disturbing bit of news that came out of last week was when a nurse at a California elder care facility refused to give CPR to a woman who collapsed in their dining room and then had a hard time breathing. The nurse called 911 to report the incident but turned down all requests from the dispatcher to give CPR. This woman's lack of compassion while talking to the 911 people was just as bad. While the lady on the floor lay struggling for life the nurse made it sound like it was an inconvenience, like going outside in the rain to get the mail and finding it's not there yet and getting wet for nothing. The nurse said she was following company protocol by not administering CPR and by the time the ambulance came there was nothing they could do. After all the negative publicity this has received the company is now saying that the nurse didn't fully understand their policies and she has been put on voluntary leave pending an investigation. In other words she's being thrown under a bus. And those things are pretty big. They don't miss. ...In a major case of overreaction, a college in Ohio last Monday cancelled all classes last Monday after a student reported that she saw someone that looked like a Klu Klux Klan member near the college's Afrikan Heritage House. She didn't take a picture of the person nor did she get anyone to verify what she saw. She just phoned in her complaint and the school took care of the rest. As it turned out what she actually saw was another student walking around with a blanket around her. How she turned this into a KKK sighting is anyone's guess. It is my hope that whatever job this woman gets when she is out of school none of them have anything to do with National Security. ...I must give major props to Brian Cashman for having the nerve to jump out of an airplane because I don't know about any of you here but I wouldn't even consider doing it unless of course it was in a video game. Then I'm all for it. Cashman did joke that he would be ready by Opening Day but was puzzled at all the comments asking him if he ever decided to make another jump in the future to bring Alex Rodriguez with him. ...Last week someone uploaded a delivery receipt for 85 pizzas that came to a little over $1,400. The person was upset because he was only given a ten dollar tip for his troubles. I don't blame him. With all the money that he's making you would think that Prince Fielder can do better than this. ...I don't know what Jose Canseco's day job is now but whatever it is he better hold on to it because whoever told him he was an artist sold him a bill of goods. Canseco painted a portrait of Bud Selig looking like a fire breathing dragon, which if you think about it is an insult to dragons. The painting was so bad that it looked like it was done by a three year old who forgot to take his afternoon nap. ...A 23-year-old Red Sox prospect by the name of Drake Britton was arrested last week for DUI and wreckless driving and was clocked speeding at 111 m.p.h. The Red Sox were very upset to learn of this because they were planning on taking Britton north with them when the season started. Now because of this he may not make it up there until June. ...There is a mentally retarded man in New York City that is facing jail time because he was inside his house laughing out his window at his neighbors. Something tells me that there is more to this then what is being told but police did come and arrest him for this and if convicted this guy could be facing up to thirty days away from his window. This makes no sense because since when it is a crime to laugh inside your own home? Thank God I don't live near people like the ones who called the cops on this guy because if I did they would have arrested me for laughing all last year when I was reading the Red Sox scores. ...You know, every time I bring up the TSA is because they did something stupid again. Which is why I bring them up now. Starting next month passengers will be allowed to bring on board the plane pocketknives as well as souvenir baseball bats and golf clubs. The TSA explained this policy change by saying they wanted their officers to "better focus their efforts on finding higher threat items such as explosives." In all likelihood this also means they will be increasing their focus on catching terrorists that continue to disguise themselves as eighty-year-old men and women or young children who may or may not be handicapped. And God help these people if they are caught drinking a bottle of Evian. ...Demi Moore -a woman who is worth 150 million dollars- is going after spousal support and attorney fees from Ashton Kutcher in their divorce battle that is going on now. Something is terribly wrong if this does not get laughed out of court because she has enough money not to work at all for the next few lifetimes. This is all about sticking it to Kutcher, who was a moron to hook up with her in the first place. A woman scorned is not a pretty site and one look at her these days confirms it. ...Somewhere Bruce Willis is smiling. ...It just hit me. Isn't Danica Patrick kind of like the Anna Kournikova of racing? They both made money off of their looks without ever winning a single event in their respective sports.

That sounds good and scary at the same time. :D

This is fantastic. These are pitch counts that you would see in a typical game like this with a lot of hitting and runs being scored. What stood out for me was Hendriks of Minnesota (2 2/3 IP, 48 pitches) Baltimore's O'Day (1/3 IP, 17 pitches) and Jim Johnson pitching one inning for the save and throwing 21 pitches. I tried the Sim Game play pack you uploaded and it chewed me up and kicked me out. In other words I got beat bad. But I'm a stubborn sort and I'm going back to it. Too bad this modification of yours can't be implemented in the 2013 mod.

Don, even though I am someone that has never used one mod that you made (and that's because I don't own the 2k baseball games) I want to say thank you too because I looked at the screen previews of the classic uniforms you made for this game and I kept on saying to myself that I wished these uniforms were made for Mvp instead. Thanks for all you have done.

Nice to see you back here again! I might be able to help you out here (at least I think so) by showing you a book right here that is all about baseball score keeping. Check out the description of it. It could be what you need.

You need to download the Total Installer Thingy program (TiT) which can be found in the download section. Install that in the directory of the game. You will be able to install the new uniforms with that. Remember to get the two patches for Mvp 12 which are also in the download section. Take your time and good luck.

Where did I give a smart a$$ answer? Re-read what I wrote. I don't think I asked anything out of line at all and certainly nothing to apologize for. And for your information I live no where near the city of New York.

This has nothing to do with your question because Dylan answered it for you in detail. But for accuracy's sake why would anyone want to put Houston in the A.L. in the 2012 mod? This was their last year in the N.L. Why not wait for the 2013 mod?

How in the hell does that make sense? It's like painting a room in your house and the color you picked looked good in the store but for some reason didn't look good once you were finished so you knock down the whole house to begin again. But it's your time, so good luck.

I am not going to tell you guys what to do because I know you are brainstorming here but if it were me I would stay clear of MLB because if you don't think that Bud Selig will try to get some kind of financial profit out of this you all have another think coming.

If you can't get the new Houston jerseys to show up in the game then you have to be doing something wrong. There's nothing special or different that has has to be done installing these uniforms in Mvp 12. If you can install one uniform set in there you can install this one.

Nice to see you Big O and Kraw!

Thank you. I learn something every day around here.

Updated to 3-3 ...It's been exactly one week now since I watched Curtis Granderson get hit by a pitch during his first at-bat of the spring, breaking his right arm in the process. This injury we have been told will sideline him until the beginning of May. I never blinked. I never worried for one second how this is going to affect the Yankees and how are they going to survive, etc, etc. Something's happened to me because I don't care anymore. I've been this way since the ALCS ended last October when I watched this team quit as soon as the series moved to Detroit. Granderson was a huge part of it but he was virtually ignored because everyone was too busy blaming Alex Rodriguez. He was just one of many that went up there with a home run on their mind and nothing else and that's exactly what we got out of him and the rest of the lineup - nothing. So forgive me for not being too worried about this guy. I've got better things to do. ...But don't think I don't care about the Yankees and what goes on. One day last week Jim825 showed me a link to an article that suggested Alfonso Soriano be traded to the Yankees since he knew that just seeing that link would get me worried. It worked. I went to that link with a sense of apprehensiveness that I have not had since the last time my wife told me she wanted us to go out of town to see her mother. Luckily there was no reason to be worried since it was just a writer telling the Yanks what they should do and all I can hope for is that the Yankees were too busy to even read this. ...Fidel Castro made a rare appearence at the opening session of Cuba's National Assembly. It was the first time he was at one of these conferences since 2010 after he retired from office due to an undisclosed illness. Castro said nothing during the entire proceedings and looked so old and frail that he could have been mistaken for an extra in The Lord of the Rings. ...Three students were captured on film wearing Klu Klux Klan hoods during a high school semifinal hockey game in North Dakota. The students decided to wear these because in the section where they sat everyone dresses in white for a "whiteout'' tradition. The three boys, all freshman, wore the outfits for about a minute until they were made to remove them. The school of course is taking appropriate action. And I am sure that if any of the seven black people living in the state of North Dakota actually saw this their punishment would be even more severe. ...Of all the people you can think of, Kim Kardashian is arguably the last person you would think of to dish out marriage advice. But as it is for many things that can't be explained, she is doing just that. She says give your relationship a good six months before you commit. Sound advice from someone who couldn't even put in half the time herself. ...Another celebrity marriage that left me scratching my head was when forty-six year old Janet Jackson married her thirty-seven year old boyfriend by the name of Wissam Al Mana who is a retail businessman who is worth over one billion dollars. Even though she's got millions of her own you don't turn your back on a billion dollars. Ask any woman, they'll tell you. But what I don't get is this guy's thirty-seven. He's young and a billionaire. And the best he can do is Janet Jackson? ...Even though marijuana is legal in in Washington and Colorado now, the lawmakers in each state are still doing their best to keep it out of people's hands. It seems that each state has what they refer to as "gardening coaches" and what these people do is help others grow the best tomatoes or cucumbers they can and they give them tips and pointers on how to achieve this. Each state has instructed these Green Thumb experts not to give the same worldly advice to people who want to grow marijuana. They figure if people don't know how to grow the plant correctly they won't have their own marijuana. Good idea if you don't stop and think about too much but if you do you'll invariably say to yourself what is going to stop these people from going to Google to find out all they need to know? ...Dennis Rodman and three members of the Harlem Globetrotters are in North Korea to shoot footage for a new TV show for HBO. They are there to promote some "basketball diplomacy" by running a basketball camp for children and playing pick-up games against locals and also alongside North Korea's top athletes. While peaceful diplomacy is always a good step to try and improve relations between two countries that do not see eye to eye, I have to question why Rodman is there trying to do this. All he has to do is elbow some Korean in the face during a game and bust his nose and Kim Jong Un will blame it on Obama. ...And Manny Ramirez is going to Taiwan to play in their professional league? Wait until he pisses them off by doing something stupid. Even though he's from the Dominican he made his name here. All we need now is to send someone from the Rodman and Ramirez mold to Russia and we'll be all set. ...A Southern California man was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of a New Jersey businessman who laughed at him when pastrami fell out of his sandwich at a doughnut shop. It may have been a good thing for everyone there that he didn't order tuna because that would have spilled all over his shirt and the whole place would have laughed and he'd be facing more charges. In this case it was just a few pieces of pastrami that decided to venture off on their own and because of this he is facing up to eleven years in jail for this unexplainable act of violence. Maybe once he gets all settled in jail he'll get a cellmate that will teach him a different way on how to hide a salami without having it fall out. ...Cameron Diaz posed topless for a Russian magazine recently and it was a huge success because as soon as women from all over Russia took one look at her they all felt a lot better about themselves. ...If you ever wondered why people from other countries think we are stupid here in the United States, then stop wondering. The Learning Channel, the network that produces the Here Comes Honey Boo Boo show is going to syndicate the series to Australia, the Netherlands, Italy and Latin America because it has become such a hit in Poland. Of course it has. Finally those people have someone to laugh at. If traveling abroad isn't hard enough already for some Americans having this show exposed to so many countries now is going to make people from the States look more like the idiots we are already perceived to be because there is not a high opinion of us as it is to begin with. Now every family they see from now on they are going to wonder if they're a family of inbreds just like they see on TV. ...A fifteen year old Maldivian girl was sentenced recently for engaging in premarital sex and because of this will now receive 100 lashes and be under house arrest for eight months. When Amnesty International heard about this they immediately filed a protest for the girl's behalf but that went nowhere. The Maldives government explained to anyone who listened that their hands were tied in this matter because the girl confessed to the offense, which is punishable under the Islamic country's Sharia laws. In other words, she's not getting out of this one. In case anyone was wondering what happened to the young man in this case that the girl had relations with he has been the recipient of many high-fives, backslaps and way-to-goes by the community and was also given a complimentary dinner to any restaurant of his choice for his entire family. ...Only in Pennsylvania Dept, Part 83: It may seem to readers of this weekly thread that commenting on the exploits that take place in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a preoccupation of mine. I can assure you that it is not. But at the same time the stories that come out of there are hard to ignore and comment on. Take this one for example and you'll see what I mean. A receptionist from a doctor's office called a high school student about an upcoming appointment he had there. Unfortunately for her (and soon for every school in the county) she was not able to talk to him directly because his phone went to voice mail. The woman became concerned and called the police after she thought she heard a threat about "shooting" and "school" on the kid's outgoing message. That's when all hell broke loose. The cops informed the school officials about the threat and they in turn instituted a lockdown on every school in the county. Soon after the student in question was found in his high school's guidance counselor's office. He was taken into custody because of the "threat" on his phone but after the police listened to the message he was released. Just like that. It turns out that the woman's sharp ears did hear the words shooting and school but they were from a song lyric from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. So what we have here was a song from a TV show in the early 90's shutting down every school in this county because some woman heard Will Smith sing "and all shootin some b-ball outside of the school." This woman ought to be fired for not using her head. There's no word as to how many man hours were used to deal with this situation or how many terrified parents there had to be when they heard the school their kid was at was closed down due to a shooting threat. Everyday we as a society reach new heights of stupid and the people in Pennsylvania always lead the way. ...Just think, if this kid had the Beatles song Happiness is a warm gun{/i] for his voice mail message this woman would have called the FBI and the National Guard before calling the police. Ok, here's the song that shut down the schools in Ambridge, Pa, a small town near Pittsburgh. ...Wendy's, the home of the Frosty and the Baconator have come up with an odd idea to update their burger franchise. They are adding fireplaces to their restaurants surrounded by lounge style imitation leather chairs. The explanation for doing this is they want to make their restaurants more inviting so you can sit down, stay for awhile and have your meal while sitting in front of the fire. Good luck to them is all I have to say. I just don't see me taking my wife down to Wendy's to sit by the fire any time soon. ...Can you imagine if Wendy's put one of these fireplaces in one of their inner city locations? That would work well. First time someone gets their order messed up or fights with another customer, someone's going in the fireplace whether they want to or not. ...I'm going to close this week on a very happy note because over the years on this website we have had many good people leave here and not come back and most of the time we don't know why. For the most part of last year Dylan Bradbury was among the missing. He was a person who made valuable mods for this game that included the yearly schedule. He also was someone who was here every day and was one of the helpful members the site had. Dylan returned on Friday and after reading what he had to go through you can see why being here was the last thing he should have done. His health was first. Now that he's back I hope that nothing bothers him again. Welcome back Dylan!

Can someone tell me what kickstarter is?

Like I told KC previously there is a strong chance some people will be forgotten only because we haven't seen them in awhile. But at the same time they contributed so much to the game when they were here. How about... paulw, whose classic stadiums creations are a huge part in TC 10 and many of the older total conversion mods? Hory, the person responsible for all the portraits when the game first came out and the man responsible for the 1994 mod? UncleMo, who provided audio talents in the game. theSpungo, who made top notch uniforms. and at the same time let's not forget guys like fizzjob, Sandman, Moser316 (remember his hi-res road trip for his uniforms?) as well as UMachines, Thome25, RAM and bigbully plus other who made us uniforms? Just these guys for example. All helped the website become what it is.

Well I knew about Alexander. The poor guy was stricken with some nerve gas during the first World War and never was the same after that. The other guys I did not know about. No problem at all. We're glad you are back but more importantly happy you are feeling much better. I hope you never have any problems again. Don't worry about it!

What a disturbing read this was because I know how young this kid is and I also knew that something very serious had to keep him away from this website for such a long period of time. First of all I am glad you are back here Dylan but returning here is not the most important thing you've done these past few months. You've gone through hell and on more than one occasion I may add. More important than returning here you found a second neurologist that has seemed to help you a lot more than your first one did. To me that is more prominent than coming back here to release a schedule. Epilepsy is a serious thing although you don't have to be told this. I just hope that now that the problem has been addressed and dealt with you will be able to keep it under control and manageable. Did you know that Tony Lazzeri was epileptic? I've known this for years but never appreciated how tough it must have been for him until I read about what you went through. But it does go without saying welcome back to Mvpmods! Here are a few things you missed: 1. Mvp 2012. The mod itself plus two patches for it. 2. Total Classics 1962. 3. Mvp Caribe 2012. 4. Dennis James releasing just about every uniform ever made and being elected to sainthood.

Wow. Having him in this would be great. I miss that son of gun.

I got a joke for this daflyboys but I'm going to just shut up.