Yankee4Life

The guy asked for this FOUR years ago. He doesn't even come to the site anymore. This is a very old thread that you resurrected.

Dennis you should have been here when this thread was going strong. Those guys spent all their time making them.

You're right. Before the Legends of the Booth mod came out I have been playing this game without the announcers on and I haven't missed them at all.

Updated to 5-19 ...We had a little trouble here in this thread last week when I was unable to post the complete May 12th entry until five days later on the 17th. That's because every once in awhile when site upgrades are done things happen during it that you are not prepared for. It's like that shocked look on Joe Girardi's face when he knows he made it through an entire game without someone else getting hurt--it happens but you're never ready for it. That's what happened here last week to Trues. While he was installing the upgrades for the website he was also given a few glitches free of charge during the installation that he had to detect and fix once everything was done. I am not sure if these software developers are unaware of the problems that arise when a site owner upgrades or that they don't care but you have to feel for him every time he tries to improve the board here because when he's doing it he has to be saying to himself what the hell's going to happen next? ...If you have not heard this already this might be a little hard to believe but then again maybe it won't be. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surving member of the Boston Marathon bombing incident has suddenly developed a cult following among teenage girls. They've set up special Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr pages in his honor and have been declaring his innocence because they say his is "beautiful" and "too pretty to be guilty." How Federal prosecutors overlooked this during their investigations is beyond my understanding and it is pretty fair to assume that the girls who are turning this kid into a hearthrob were no where near Boston that day when the bomb went off. After this any more questions regarding the decision making abilities of teenagers should never be raised again. ...This isn't new of course. In 2011 when she was found not guilty teenage boys and twenty-something men went nuts over Casey Anthony because she was "hot" and I'll never forget one picture of a guy holding a sign that said "Marry me Casey" because to him she was just an available single woman and not someone who got away with killing her child. Last I heard she was still available today but maybe that guy moved on to someone else, like Amanda Knox. ...Seventy mentally ill patients escaped from a psychiatric facility in Kenya last week after they got together and overpowered the guards. Forty of the inmates were able to get away while the others were recaptured by the hospital personnel. It was a perfect plan on the inmates part because as soon as they got out they hid in plain sight at a soccer match because they knew they'd fit right in with everyone else there. And here comes our next batch of immigrants. ...These patients must have got the idea for this by watching flash mobs from the U.S. ...I don't know why some people seem to be surprised about that scandal going on now at the Internal Revenue Service. Any taxpayer will tell you that they already knew they were a bunch of crooks. ...Wait a second. Now Kris Jenner is getting a talk show? How did the mother of all Kardashians manage this? This might be the first show to be cancelled half way through the first episode. ...Then again, maybe not. Factoring in the intelligence of the American public this could do quite well. ...Good news for fans of FOX's TV show 24. The network will be bringing back the popular series beginning next May. This is a good move by FOX since they've been unable to come up with any good new shows they just went backwards to revive an old one to draw fans back into a show that they already know and in this way wouldn't have to churn out another clunker that would have aired for for five or six episodes. ...I had to laugh a little last week after reading about the Mother's Day parade shooting in New Orleans. Not because of what happened of course but rather what the police said when it was over. They wanted the public to be on the look out for a black male, approximately 18 to 22 years-old wearing a white T-shirt and shorts. All of a sudden I pictured a police lineup with 100,000 suspects lined up. ...I am hoping that none of have a week that former Lions receiver Titus Young had last week when he was arrested a total of three times for drunk driving, burglary, assaulting a police officer, and resisting arrest. For everything that Pacman Jones and Plaxico Burress did they were never able to achieve a hat trick that Young was able to pull off. ...It's been a pleasure watching the Yankees play so well this year without all those multi-millionaires in the lineup. I don't miss Rodriguez and Teixeira at all. Third base is being held down very well and Lyle Overbay does a hell of a job at first base. I'd even go as far as saying that I don't miss Captain Twenty-Million either because there's no guarantee of him coming back this year. Hopefully the Yankees realize that in the future they can field a competitive team without having to stock it with overpriced long term contracts. ...I haven't been paying attention to the Phillies this year but things must be pretty bad if they had to go out and sign Carlos Zambrano even if it was only to a minor league contract. ...I got to give Boston Globe writer Dan Shaughnessy a lot of credit for publicly questioning if David Ortiz' strong start this year was helped by using steroids. Shaughnessy went on to say in the article that Ortiz fit all the criteria of a steroid user in that he is from the Dominican Republic and he is an older player who has had injuries consistent of steroid use and that his name was on that famous list of 100 players back in 2003 that were named for steroid use. Ortiz did the predictable thing as soon as the article was published by playing the race card as he complained that he was singled out because he was Dominican. Anyone who's watched this guy play for the past ten years -not counting Red Sox fans- knows he has been juicing it up since 2002 and for this writer to actually confront him about this without the fear of Ortiz going into a steroid rage is impressive. ...By the way Poopi, Dominican is not a race. It's a nationality. ...Did you hear about the prostitution ring that the cops busted up in a New Jersey nursing home? From what I read the senior citizens had a pretty good operation going for them but I think what did them in was when one old timer's grandson began visiting him twice a day and the entire football team insisted on going with him. ...One more about prostitution and that's it and this one is just as unbelievable as the one in New Jersey. A couple from Illinois were down in Orlando, Florida celebrating their honeymoon when the groom left his new wife in their hotel room to hook up with a hooker that was advertising on an online website. The hooker turned out to be an undercover sting operation that the Orlando police were running and instead of hooking up with the call girl of his dreams this guy was arrested along with ninety-one other men. While all this was going on the brand new bride began to worry about her husband because he was gone longer than he said he was going to be and after not being able to wait anymore she called the police to report him missing. The cops then told her he wasn't and that they knew exactly where he was. I'd have given anything to be a fly on the wall to hear what this woman said to her husband once he finally got back to the hotel. ...Ravens linebacker Rolando McClain, formally of the Raiders, retired last Wednesday from the NFL at the age of twenty-three, less than one month after signing a one-year contract with the team. This might work out well for McClain because now he can devote all his time into assaulting police officers and getting arrested. Football it seemed just got in the way of what he does best. ...Cheers to AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile for working together on an advertising campaign against texting while driving which will begin airing on TV and radio this summer. If the money spent on this can save a few lives then it will be worth it. ...The dependency on these phones is getting worse and worse and wherever I go I see people walking around with their phone firmly in their hand staring at it almost like they are waiting for the phone to give them instructions on what to do next. At restaurants I see people with their phones snuggled close to them just in case someone comments on a Facebook post. I went to the doctor two weeks ago and their were five people in the waiting room besides me and they all had their faces buried in their phones. The doctor may as well thrown his magazines out because those people didn't even know they were there. And my wife is just as bad. I've had talks with her about texting while driving and how dangerous it is and she says she understands but who the hell knows what she does when she's in the car alone? She's so hooked on that thing that she dragged me out to Best Buy last Tuesday (well, I let her think she did that. I love browsing through Best Buy.) because they were accepting pre-orders for the Galaxy S4 which is going to be released at the end of the month. By the time we got home she convinced herself that the Galaxy S4 was the eighth wonder of the world. All I know is that when she gets this damned thing in a few weeks I got to have that texting talk with her one more time just because I have to. ...Try as I might I can not pronounce Zach Galifianakis' last name. ...Hell is when you have a movie night with your wife and you let her choose the double feature and she picks two Elvis movies. ...For any of you that are as afraid of the dentist as I am the ending of NCIS: Los Angeles last week will stay burned in your mind forever. ...A nude painting of the late Bea Arthur (the star of Maude and The Golden Girls) from the waist up sold last week at an auction for $1.9 million. The funny thing is that Arthur did not pose nude. The artist based the painting on a 1991 photograph of her with her clothes on and Christie's, the auction house, is declining to say who purchased the item. I just hope that this artist doesn't decide to do Joan Rivers next. ...A flight last week from Los Angeles to New York had to be diverted to Kansas City because a passenger, for reasons known only to her, insisted on singing the song "I Will Always Love You" over and over again. Besides aggravating those around her by doing this she also spent her time fighting with other passengers and swearing loudly presumably because they were fed up with listening to the same song again and again. And to think all this time I thought the most annoying thing on a flight was a crying baby. ...A man named Shaun Winkler recently ran an unsuccessful bid for sheriff in a small town in northern Idaho despite the fact that he is a member of the KKK, that close-knit fraternity of fun loving good ole boys who still haven't figured out that bed sheets are for sleeping on. Winkler pulled out all the stops in his bid to become sheriff and even went as far to hold an old fashioned cross burning at an intersection near town to commemorate the spot where two years ago a black family on their way out west had their car break down and Winkler and his boys got their car fixed and got them all out of town before nightfall. The cross burning was his way of showing voters that he was more than qualified to be their sheriff because of the quick way he responded to this "threat on the community." Unfortunately only 182 voters agreed with him. ...I can just imagine the trouble that I would get myself into if I had a pair of Google Glass in my possession. For $1,500 it had better work a hell of a lot better than the $1.99 I spent for that pair of X-Ray glasses I bought when I was a kid from the back of one of my comic books.

Trying to post the entire entry for May 12th. Please ignore the first few posts since you've seen them before but I am going to try again to post this in it's entirety. Updated to 5-12 ...Some of the nuttiest stories that I see week after week have to deal with something that happens in schools or what goes on around them. This one here is no different. In fact it fits in perfectly. During a high school track and field competition in Texas the anchor runner of the winning relay team was penalized by officials for excessive celebrating after his team's victory which he and his entire team paid a very high price for. Once this kid knew that his school had won he pointed his index finger up at the sky to thank God for it. Not even before he lowered his finger school officials cried foul and said he "violated the excessive celebration rules" and his entire team was disqualified and because of this his school is eliminated and now unable to compete in the state championships later on this month. We've all seen over-the-top celebrations in sports before; hell, just watch an NFL game and wait for someone to score a touchdown. There you go. But this? A kid points up to heaven and that's it. He didn't break into a dance or give high-fives to the first ten people he saw. It's amazing how intolerant people are of those expressing their religious freedom and it also does not surprise me that this happened in Texas where God ranks a distant second in popularity behind all high school football coaches. ...No one would have blamed this kid at all had he given the officials another finger once he found out his team was eliminated like that. ...Has anyone ever noticed that the media just loves to use the word "alleged"? According to them Bin Laden was the alleged mastermind of the 9-11 attacks right up until the day he died and we threw him overboard in the ocean and just like Adam Lanza is still the alleged shooter at Sandy Hook. The two SOB's in Boston are the alleged bombers of the Boston Marathon and one of the brothers is allegedly dead. It goes on. By using this word does this protect them legally because if that's the case it makes them look less credible then they already are. ...It was nice to hear about former Yankee Hideki Matsui receiving the People's Honor Award in Japan last week. This is an award that the Japanese give to those who have made significant achievements in their careers and are beloved by the public and this describes Matsui perfectly. Alex Rodriguez by the way should not hold his breath in anticipation of receiving a similar award from the Dominican Republic any time soon. ...When Clay Buchholz was pitching up in Toronto the other week he was accused of doctoring the baseball because there was a substance that the Blue Jay announcers saw on his left arm. According to Major League Baseball (translation: Lord Selig) he was not cheating at all because they said he was using sunscreen on his arm and that's allowed and besides, he's not the only one who does it. If that's true then why didn't the Red Sox explain this the next day after it happened instead of waiting ten days? ...Mommy and Daddy Boo-Boo from the Honey Boo-Boo show decided to get married last week in front of their closest family friends and some cows and chickens that happened to be in the area at the time. With all the money they've been making from the show stopped the welfare checks from coming the two eldest Boo-Boo's looked at each other one night and said "what the hell, let's make it legal, besides this could be the highest rated show of our new season." The bride originally had plans to wear a white wedding dress but a few days before the knot-tying was to take place she tried it on and she accidentally got pizza sauce all over the neckline of the dress. Since it is almost impossible to remove that kind of stain from a wedding gown, both the bride and groom ended up wearing camouflage, which for them was the next best thing if not better. TLC, the network that airs the Boo-Boo show declined to go into any further detail about this event and told viewers to wait until the show aired later this year to see for themselves. That's when they will find out if Daddy Boo-Boo sobered up on time to back out of the wedding at the last minute. ...Remember Boo Boo bear, Yogi's loyal sidekick? Yeah he was just a cartoon and yet he had more common sense then this entire family put together. ...Pfizer Inc. announced that it would begin selling Viagra online soon for those customers who are uncomfortable about going to their local pharmacy to get their prescription filled. The other reason for offering the online option is because the company has been aware of counterfeit versions of Viagra for quite some time and they feel by doing this it will help fight this problem. While the knock-off pills are much cheaper than the steep twenty-five-dollar-a-pill price that Pfizer has set for the "little blue pill" as it is commonly called, these imitation pills do not include the right amount of the active ingredient in the medicine. For example, Mexico sells a copycat Viagra pill for a dollar and one of the side effects is as soon as you are done you have the urge for a taco. ...No, I did not order this online and no I do not have/want/or am getting a prescription for this. I can read some of your minds right now. ...I have no trouble understanding why people want to spend their time climbing up mountains because that's something they enjoy doing and for them it's a good way to get exercise and pass the time. What I don't understand is why they want to do it on an active volcano like the one in the Philippines last week that decided it was a perfect time to explode, killing five and injuring many others. This wasn't no Joe vs. The Volcano because this time the volcano won. They should have done something safer--like swim with sharks for instance. ...A Michigan woman is in hot water with authorities after she told police that the current girlfriend of her ex-boyfriend had set up a facebook account in order to harass and stalk her. After the police checked out her story they found out that the account that was used to do this was set up by the woman herself because she was unable to let go of her relationship with her former boyfriend. She's now being charged with falsely reporting a felony which could mean jail time and if I were that guy I'd move the hell out of town once she is locked up. And to think, all Trues has to worry about on this site is kids creating a duplicate account just to get some extra downloads per day. ...There is a high school in the state of Washington that has borrowed the idea of the NCAA's March Madness and instead of basketball every May for the past five years or so they have been holding a “hotness tournament” where the girls dress up for school so the boys can vote on who is the hottest member of the student body. The actual tournament is held off school grounds so that means there is really nothing the school can do about it. After reading about this I was upset and disappointed that no one in my high school class, including myself, thought of this. ...When you think of celebrities that are nothing but loudmouthed, obnoxious attention seekers you need to look no further than Nicki Minaj. ...Wow, I don't believe it. Jodi Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder for the brutal slaying of her ex-boyfriend five years ago. I had my doubts especially when she came to court each day giving off the appearance of a scared, timid woman who wouldn't hurt a fly. Hell, they let Casey Anthony walk. Finding this woman not guilty wouldn't have surprised me at all. But when you stab someone twenty-seven times and then shoot them and slit their throat there is no way you can say you did it out of self defense. She probably thought her gender excluded her from prosecution. This time the system actually worked. ...A choreographer named Wade Robson accused the late Michael Jackson of molesting him last week, inexplicably coming out with these accusations so long after Jackson died. If he is trying to get money out of the Jackson estate he is going to have a difficult time in doing so because back in 2005 when Jackson was going through his famous molestation trial, Robson testified under oath that nothing inappropriate ever happened between the two of them. Since everyone it seems is suing the Jackson estate for something which sadly includes his own family Robson figures that accusing a man who's been dead for almost four years now about something like this would garner sympathy, especially when Jackson isn't around to answer for himself. All he's really doing is getting in line with the rest of them with his hand out hoping to get a check with a lot of zeros on it. ...I may as well jump on this bandwagon too. Can't hurt to try, right? I'm suing Michael Jackson because when I was growing up my sister would play his songs over and over and it drove me nuts. Naturally I'll gladly settle out of court. ...You got to love Kate Upton. During an interview she did right after she made the cover of Vogue magazine for the first time she said that she loved her body and that she was "so proud" of her chest. That makes two of us. ...Stephen Strasburg's sporting a 1 - 5 record so far this year. And I thought all he had to do was throw his glove out on the mound and win. ..It was no surprise to me that Angel Hernandez was the umpire in Cleveland last Wednesday when the home run hit by Oakland's Adam Rosales was ruled a double despite replays clearly showing it to be a home run. It was so obvious even the Indians thought it was gone and the game was tied. This guy is probably the most well known umpire in baseball today and all for the wrong reasons because chances are when there is a blown call Hernandez is somewhere in the vicinity. ...Oh wait--one more. Laz Diaz. He's another one that thinks the fans go to the games just to see him. ...And the goof up by Hernandez in Cleveland last Wednesday is what I believe got Fieldin Culbreth suspended for two games for what he did in Houston the very next night and only because Hernandez' screw up was so blatantly missed. When the Astros changed relief pitchers in the same inning without having the first reliever pitch to anyone, Angel manager Mike Scioscia popped out of his dugout as fast as if someone gave him a hotfoot to protest this obvious mistake on Houston's part. Incredibly the umpires allowed this pitching change to take place and the Angels played the game under protest but then withdrew the protest after the game because they managed to win the game 6 - 5. Joe Torre, who always seems to look like he only got three hours of sleep the night before, put his mug in front of the camera and said all the right things like the game demands accountability from everyone and that includes not just the players but the umpires too, etc, etc until he made you as tired as he looked just by listening to him. Had the umpires not blown that call the night before Culbreth would not have been suspended and the other three umpires fined. This was Budball at its finest hour. ...Google, which owns Youtube unveiled subscription services for some of their channels in order to cash in on the one billion users per month that visit the website because they feel that the advertising that is already in place there is not enough. This is what Youtube has been after all along ever since they dumped the "broadcast yourself" slogan. Right now only a small number of channels have a subscription fee but that is sure to increase as the weeks and months go on. Provided you are still given the choice to go to that particular channel to view for free and suffer through the ads this should be fine. Again, as long as we still have this choice. ...The body of the deceased Boston Marathon bomber was buried secretly last Thursday in Virginia by the man's uncle and a faith coalition group. The uncle went on to say that his nephew was buried in an undisclosed location but then added that he was buried in a cemetery in Doswell, Virginia which is near Richmond. Now does this make any sense to anyone? If someone really wanted to take the time to find out where this guy is buried they already have a good head start because now they know where to begin. How many cemeteries are there in Doswell? How many recent burials? Just wait and see. Someone will find where Tamerlan Tsarnaev is laid to rest and when they do there's going to be a long line of people just waiting to **** on his grave. ...Finally, happy Mother's Day to all your mothers out there wherever they are!

No there isn't. The best thing to do is turn off the announcers if Krukow is driving you nuts. I haven't listened to him in years and I have not missed anything.

I'm at a loss here. I am trying to post the rest of my weekly thread from May 12th and it won't accept it. It is like after a certain number of lines it won't accept your post. I don't know what I can do.

Very odd I can post in here but not cut and paste something.

Updated to 5-12 ...Some of the nuttiest stories that I see week after week have to deal with something that happens in schools or what goes on around them. This one here is no different. In fact it fits in perfectly. During a high school track and field competition in Texas the anchor runner of the winning relay team was penalized by officials for excessive celebrating after his team's victory which he and his entire team paid a very high price for. Once this kid knew that his school had won he pointed his index finger up at the sky to thank God for it. Not even before he lowered his finger school officials cried foul and said he "violated the excessive celebration rules" and his entire team was disqualified and because of this his school is eliminated and now unable to compete in the state championships later on this month. We've all seen over-the-top celebrations in sports before; hell, just watch an NFL game and wait for someone to score a touchdown. There you go. But this? A kid points up to heaven and that's it. He didn't break into a dance or give high-fives to the first ten people he saw. It's amazing how intolerant people are of those expressing their religious freedom and it also does not surprise me that this happened in Texas where God ranks a distant second in popularity behind all high school football coaches. ...No one would have blamed this kid at all had he given the officials another finger once he found out his team was eliminated like that. ...Has anyone ever noticed that the media just loves to use the word "alleged"? According to them Bin Laden was the alleged mastermind of the 9-11 attacks right up until the day he died and we threw him overboard in the ocean and just like Adam Lanza is still the alleged shooter at Sandy Hook. The two SOB's in Boston are the alleged bombers of the Boston Marathon and one of the brothers is allegedly dead. It goes on. By using this word does this protect them legally because if that's the case it makes them look less credible then they already are. ...It was nice to hear about former Yankee Hideki Matsui receiving the People's Honor Award in Japan last week. This is an award that the Japanese give to those who have made significant achievements in their careers and are beloved by the public and this describes Matsui perfectly. Alex Rodriguez by the way should not hold his breath in anticipation of receiving a similar award from the Dominican Republic any time soon. ...When Clay Buchholz was pitching up in Toronto the other week he was accused of doctoring the baseball because there was a substance that the Blue Jay announcers saw on his left arm. According to Major League Baseball (translation: Lord Selig) he was not cheating at all because they said he was using sunscreen on his arm and that's allowed and besides, he's not the only one who does it. If that's true then why didn't the Red Sox explain this the next day after it happened instead of waiting ten days?

To test this out Trues try to post this article from CNN It's one of the longest news articles I could find on that site just to use for this test.

I still can't post the random thoughts post for the week. I'm trying to post about a 2,200 word post in there and that is something that's never been a problem before. When news articles in the past have been posted in here they've been longer than this. Well, we'll see.

Test to see if I am able to cut and paste under the IPB theme.

Yeah, I got no problem with it either but honestly anything looks good on this site.

Random Thoughts this week temporarily postponed until I am able to post the complete entry in here. Sorry.

Wait a second. Why is it letting me post in here? EDIT: Ok, I tried to do it again and it says it is saving the post and nothing is happening. It's been about seven minutes now. I had to open up a new window just to make this post. The random thoughts post is much longer than this post here but I don't get why it is not accepting it.

Mike....another problem with the site. It is now letting you make a post but when you click on the POST button it does not post your new message to the board. I tried to update my random thoughts thread just now and it won't take. I was able to change the date on the thread but nothing else.

Search the stadium download section for the latest Dodger Stadium. I believe Dennis James has an updated version that he released. Edit: There is a problem right now on the site when you try to access the download area. Wait until it is fixed and search. Although now that I think about it you may want to search for a Dodger stadium that was uploaded before rolie did his because rolie made a special version of that park.

Trying the 08 mod instead of the mvp 12 will not make a difference.

Give the guy his time. Working on a roster is a long and tedious job.

Did I say McDonald's?? I meant Burger King. Yeah, yeah, that's what I meant! :D

Updated to 5-5 ...Today is Cinco de Mayo day, a day in which I was amazed to find out originated in the Mexican-American communities of the Southwest and Western United States and not in Mexico as I originally thought after all these years. This celebration features highlights of the Mexican culture with plenty of music, dancing, food and a huge emphasis on alcoholic beverages. Since this popular holiday happened to fall on a Sunday this year some people decided to have a Cuatro de Mayo yesterday because someone happened to remember that there were a few truckloads of untouched and unconsumed beer last year and they didn't want that to happen two years in a row. ...Tim Tebow was released by the New York Jets last week which was no surprise to anyone and least of all to Tebow himself. He never got his uniform dirty all year except for the time when a teammate ran past him and splashed mud on his cleats. Aside from that he had the best seats in the house as the Jets went 6 - 10 on the year. Tebow shouldn't feel that bad about getting his release from this team. It's like getting fired from McDonald's. You know you're out of a job but it wasn't that much of a job to begin with. ...The rosters of two entire high school baseball teams in New Jersey were ejected in a recent game that lead to one arrest and the possibility of both teams having to forfeit their next two games by default. It all started with a botched squeeze play and the runner on third base being caught in no man's land coming down the line trying to score. Seeing that the squeeze didn't work out as planned the runner attempted to score by knocking the ball out of the catcher's hand. The catcher, it seemed, felt differently about the situation and after he picked himself up off the ground he let the base runner know how bad of an idea he thought this was by punching him in the head as many times as he was able to before being separated. That's when all hell broke loose and before long they discovered they couldn't continue the game anymore because there were no eligible players left to play. While the fight was going on a father of one of the players must have had ants in his pants watching all this because he jumped up out of his seat in the grandstand and got into fight with a kid from the opposing team. He was charged with assault, which is the price you pay when you punch a kid in front of many witnesses. And all this happened in New Jersey. Should this surprise anyone? ...A woman named Judy Clarke has been named to the defense team of the surviving brother who was responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings. She's supposed to be very good at her job because she was able to win life sentences instead of the death penalty for clients like the Unabomber and Jared Loughner, the person responsible for the shootings in Arizona that injured Gabrielle Giffords. Now that I think about it maybe this woman is too good at her job. And while I'm at it since when does this nineteen year old terrorist get his own defense team? This kid has four lawyers right now and you never know later on they could add more. I'd just like to know where the hell it's written that if you can't afford a lawyer four will be appointed for you? ...And I don't have to tell you who's going to be picking up the tab for all these billable hours these lawyers are going to build up. ...Three men visiting Saudi Arabia last week got their visit cut short when they were out one day walking around and were stopped by police and were informed that they were "too handsome" and would have to leave the country because they feared women might fall for them. That's the big difference between men and women in Saudi Arabia. If they think a man's too handsome they deport him. If a woman's too beautiful they just kill them. ...On the plus side, those guys now have the best pickup line ever. ...Exactly one week ago a twenty-four year old man attacked a choir in a New Mexico Catholic Church with a knife as soon as mass was over for the day. Four choir members were stabbed but fortunately none of the injuries were serious. Regular members of the church had no idea who he was but he's now facing numerous felony charges for his actions. Rumor has it though that the man was getting more and more frustrated with the choir as the mass went along after they kept on refusing to play his song requests. ...I understand that there are times when your temper gets the best of you but you should always be aware of where you are before you decide to start or finish something and when you are 23,000 feet up Mount Everest that is no place to do either. I'm talking of course about a fight last week between three European climbers and some local guides that were hired to help them get to the top of the mountain. Now I am not a professional climber in any stretch of the imagination unless you consider going from my cellar up to the second floor of my house climbing, but a general rule of thumb would not to be upsetting the guides that are with you because they still have to get you up there and more importantly back down to the ground. ...Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts talked publicly last Wednesday about the possibility of the Cubs leaving Wrigley Field in case there is opposition for the new 6,000-square-foot video screen that he is planning on installing in left field. This is Ricketts' way of telling the owners of the rooftop bleachers across the street from Wrigley that if his plans for this screen, which is part of his $500 million park renovation is blocked, he will have no recourse but to move the team. Good for him. The rooftop businesses believe they have a say in the proposed upgrades because they have a contract with the Cubs in which they share 17 percent of their revenue with them but if they threaten legal action and by chance win they'll end up having great seats to a ballpark that will from now on be host to high school games. ...Tampa's David Price got into a little spat last week with home plate umpire Tom Hallion during a Rays game last week when he said the umpire swore at him as he was walking off the mound. Hallion naturally denied it and called Price a liar and Price responded on twitter that Hallion was "a coward." After careful consideration that must have taken all of ten minutes, Major League Baseball decided to fine Hallion, Price and two of his teammates one thousand dollars apiece. By fining everyone they figured they got the right guy, whoever he is. ...I miss the days when the umpires were there to call the game and not be part of it. Umpires like Doug Harvey, Steve Palermo, and Lou DiMuro for example were never like this. They just called the game and got more respect than some of these umpires these days will ever deserve. ...For the rest of his career every time Stephen Strasburg sneezes they are going to have an ambulance waiting and ready to take him to the hospital. ...Thank you New York Knicks for beating the Celtics in six games after taking a 3 - 0 lead in that series. Had they lost that we'd never hear the end of it. ...Curtis Granderson seems to be having a devil of a time up at the plate this year even though he has not had that many at-bats. He recently was hit with a pitch in his upper right arm in an extended spring training game the other day but it wasn't enough to have him taken out of the game. Granderson is still recovering from breaking his right forearm during his first plate appearance of the spring back in late February and is anxious to get back to the Yankees because no one on the team has been able to strike out as consistently as him. ...Well, at least he's got the most votes for moron-of-the-year Dept: A thirty-year-old New Hampshire man lost $2,600--his life savings--when he tried to win an Xbox Kinect at a carnival. Originally he went through $300 in a matter of minutes trying to win the item and when he came up empty he went home to get $2,300 more and before long that was gone too and worst of all he still did not have his Xbox Kinect. Since I am not an owner of the latest console systems I was not sure what exactly an Xbox Kinect was and most of all how much it cost. Every where I looked, Target, Walmart and Best Buy they all have it for around $100 so I was not sure why this guy didn't just go there and get it because if he would have done it like that he'd have never gone through the $300 let alone $2,600. Naturally when the following day rolled around and after thinking about what he did he called the police to accuse the carnival of swindling him. Anyone who's ever been to a carnival or a fair knows damn well going in the odds are stacked against you and when you spend this much money to win a one hundred dollar item you have more problems than a drained bank account. ...A Washington, D.C. Councilmember with one eye on votes and the other on media attention is planning on introducing a resolution to make the NFL Redskins change their name. If you are saying to yourself that this is not the first time you've heard of this you'd be right. This subject always seems to come up every so often after someone remembers the Redskins are still called the Redskins and then they protest loud enough to get a politician involved, which brings us to where we are now. With all the problems they have in Washington right now telling a football team to change their name should be the very least of what to spend time on. If I were Redskins owner Daniel Snyder the next time he is bothered with this name change talk he should say yes, I'll be happy to change the team's name. How does the Los Angeles Redskins sound to you? ...One of the biggest problems this country has is it is filled with people just waiting to be offended and they go out of their way to make sure they are. ...Because of the recent 1941 mod that just came out I dusted off my copy of Robert W. Creamer's book on baseball in 1941. I really don't need a reason to read a baseball book--once I even read a book on the Red Sox' Impossible Dream season of 1967 if you can believe that. Reading this book brought some of the lesser known characters of the 1941 season to life for me. He explained how a bench player by the name of Alf Anderson for the Pittsburgh Pirates threw a huge roadblock in the way of the Dodgers chase for the pennant that year. (Anderson, a .215 hitter on the year hit a triple to beat the Dodgers in a late September game. This made Dodger manager Leo Durocher furious since this was Anderson's second triple of the year.) Anderson's a guy that you'd never look at twice in the mod but that was his moment in the spotlight for his brief career. It was a great book to go along with a great mod. ...The Smithsonian Museum had a press conference last week when they announced the findings of dismemberment and cannibalization of a fourteen-year-old British girl in Jamestown, Virginia back in 1609. They went on to say that this was done by the other settlers there who were beyond the point of starvation. You really got to feel for this poor girl, dead these four hundred plus years now and you would have to wonder how her life would have been had there been a Pizza Hut around that made deliveries. ...Naturally I needed no further convincing to believe that Clay Buchholz is doctoring the ball. He's guilty. :D

I totally missed that part. Thank you! :D

I don't even play 2k12 but I'm curious. What is this mod?