Yankee4Life

Updated to 7-17 ...I don't know about you, but during my travels the next time I am in Monroeville, Pennsylvania I want to find the owner of the McDain's Restaurant and shake his hand for banning children under six years of age in their place of business. All I can say is it's about damned time and I wish every restaurant in my area would do the exact same thing. Honestly, the last thing you want to hear when you are reaching for your drink and some little S.O.B. behind you screams so loud it makes you spill it. ...And yes, that did happen to me. ...I don't get it. Why are some people giving Derek Jeter a hard time for not attending the All Star Game? Look at his God damn stats. He didn't belong there in the first place. And if he wanted to rest his calf, then let him. It's not like the game needed him. ...Believe me, I'm not someone that feels the need to defend Jeter. There's enough people around to do that. But I seem to recall Manny Ramirez missing All Star games and nothing was said about that except for "Manny being Manny" but when Jeter skipped this year's game some people reacted like he was the number one fan of Casey Anthony. ...Speaking of the mother of the year, sometime today Casey Anthony is going to be released from prison after serving her time on four misdemeanor counts of misleading police. And as soon as she walks out that door she can leave the memory of that wonderful little girl behind her and move on with her life. Word is, the first thing she's going to do as a free woman once she leaves that place is to go out and try to get pregnant. ...Reason #1,899 of why fans are idiots: With the Arlington tragedy still fresh in everyone's mind just last week when that Rangers fan fell to his death attempting to catch a ball, some idiot during the Home Run Derby on Monday night almost did the same thing. Visions of E-Bay profits must have been going through his head when he went after that ball because he had three of them already in his possession. That fourth one almost had him making the news and not in a good way. ...No I did not watch the entire All Star Game. It started at almost 9 p.m. here on the east coast and I knew I would not be around to see the finish of it. Good old FOX TV, they screwed the fans in the east one more time. ...Although in this forum of ours you never would have known the All Star Game was going on since these people in here did not spend one second talking about it. The people on this site now just seem to come in here and place orders for mods and wait for them to be filled, like they are going through a drive-thru for a hamburger. How this place evolved into this I'll never know but I don't like it. ...This is something I never quite understood. Every time an athlete goes off on someone or a group of people like Steelers linebacker James Harrison did this week, they always come back and apologize for some or all of it. Why don't they ever go over what they said first and decide "hey, maybe I better take that part out but keep this one in because I really feel this way." There's too many times when an athlete pops off like a volcano and then comes back sorry for what he did. Stand by what you said or don't say anything. ...Has anyone noticed that as soon as Captain Fabulous came back to the Yankees that they immediately started to lose again? ...Jeff Karstens (8-4, 2.34 ERA with Pittsburgh) and Tyler Clippard (1-0, 1.75 ERA with Washington) and Ian Kennedy (9-3, 3.44 with Arizona.) All ex-Yankee pitchers that were never given a chance to show what they can do with New York because they weren't awarded the opportunity to do it. That's because the Yankees do a lousy job of developing pitchers. All they know how to do is when they get one is to ruin them (ex: Joba) or trade them away because they are in love with signing garbage from other teams (Burnett.) And that right there is my biggest complaint with the Yankees. It's their impatience with their young players and their willingness to trade them for useless, veteran players. And I'll be worried about this up until the trading deadline on July 31st.

Hey! One of the easiest mods to complain about in here is the rosters because everyone seems to think they can churn out a better roster than the guy who actually does it. Next to creating a complete total conversion season, making a roster set is one of the most time consuming and involved projects one can take on. And yet, in the history of Mvpmods we have been fortunate to have some very good people doing them. Daflyboys is now the latest one in a very short list of guys who have done this. People in here have always thought they could do a better job and release a better roster than one that is out there for them. To that I have always told them to go right ahead and do it because nothing is stopping them. You'll find out that it is much more detailed than you expect. So the next time you want to put down a roster makers work, think about that.

Updated to 7-10 ...A character named Joey Chestnut won his fifth consecutive hot dog eating contest on the Fourth of July by scarfing down 62 of them. This is something to be proud of? (By the way, on the Fourth of July, Chestnut also beat me by the score of 62 - 1.) ...By the way, the most amazing thing about this was that by eating all those hot dogs this guy consumed almost 20,000 calories in one day - or about the same that the average woman would have in ten days. To me that is incredible. ...Only in the screwed up justice system in this country could a not guilty verdict be given to Casey Anthony. For the rest of her life she should never be allowed near a child again. But there is still one horrible fact remaining here now that this trial is over with. Little Caylee Anthony is dead. And nobody has yet been forced to answer for it. ...Anyone ever notice that Minnesota's Tsuyoshi Nishioka has the same batting stance and approach as Ichiro Suzuki? ...Derek Jeter decided not to go to Tuesday's All Star Game. He must have finally taken a good look at his stats this year. ...What happened to that poor fan in Arlington this week was trajic and I feel for the family that lost their husband and father. And I think the Rangers handled this situation with class and respect for the family. ...After reading the article about this on ESPN.com, I came across this seemingly innocent statement: Major League Baseball promised a review of the incident "to ensure a safe environment for our fans." On the surface that sounded ok, didn't it? But all this really was was Bud Selig meeting with his lawyers to make sure Major League Baseball wouldn't get sued. Sure he felt bad that this happened, but only so far. ...Well Yankees, you got what you wanted. One of your players got to 3,000 hits. That's never happened in the entire history of the Yankees and by just looking back at their past, you can clearly tell that this is what they needed because they had nothing else to be proud of. ...Don't get me wrong, I was as happy for Derek Jeter yesterday as any loyal Yankee fan could be. But I still can not help seeing him from how he is in 2011 and not in 1998. It's not his fault he got older. ...But going 5 for 5 on his historic day? Now that's impressive. ...And it was nice to see that fan give Jeter the ball without holding it for ransom. ...Right on Queue Dept: I had my laptop on during the game yesterday and as soon as Jeter collected his 3,000th hit, I logged onto Yankees.com to see how fast they were going to start hawking souvenirs of his achievement. They didn't disappoint. Jeter 3,000 Jerseys - both home and away versions (Oh boy!!) , T-Shirts, hats, sweatshirts, a signed ball and a signed bat are just some of the things you must buy to celebrate the occasion. ...Sorry Captain, I'm not buying any of it. I hope that doesn't mean I'm a bad Yankee fan.

You are asking this question in the wrong topic. And I have no idea what you mean by "big files."

Updated to 7-3 ...So, a 95 year old wheelchair bound woman was patted down by TSA agents and forced to remove her adult diaper and the TSA people insist that they did nothing wrong here? Far from it. They were patting each other on the back telling everyone what a great job they did. You bet! Stick it to the senior citizens and hope for a promotion. ...It's times like this I am ashamed to be an American. ...Charlie Sheen used steroids to make a movie? This guy must be stupider than I thought he was. The movies are well known for every special effect you can think of and making a guy throw harder than he really is shouldn't be that hard for them. But I suppose it was a chance for Sheen to take more drugs and he couldn't pass up the opportunity. ...Now the NBA might have a lockout?? Let's see how many people get worried over this. ...It's funny how your views change over time. When Buck Rogers in the 25th Century was originally on, I thought it was one of the best shows around. And because of that I purchased the DVD set many years later. But watching it now I don't feel that way at all. The only thing that saves this show is looking at Erin Grey. ...Not that I care of course, but what's going on with the Tigers? This was the third time this week that the opposing team scored in double digits against them - and all at home. The Mets scored 14 and 16 runs and yesterday the Giants had 15. Whatever. Let it continue. Any team that plays dead for the Red Sox and tries their hardest against the Yankees deserves what they get. ...Maria Shriver filed for divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Gee, I never saw that coming. ...There's nothing like owning a dog. You give them a little love and you get so much back. That's been true with every single dog I've had and when I hear about a dog being treated liks this, it literally brings tears to my eyes. Maybe I'm not smart enough to understand, but can someone tell me how a person does this? ...Here's something to chew on for all of you who are anxious to see Derek Jeter return to the Yankees: Eduardo Nunez has one less extra base hit than Captain Fantastic in 147 less at bats. ...I still can't stop laughing at that Klondike commercial. Every time it comes on I crack up. Check it out. ...Enjoy your Fourth of July holiday!

Oh yeah? I wonder why?

Good for you! I bet you are a big Total Classics fan. Jim does a superb job with those.

You should have seen some guy named Veesmack. He was just as good as Homer and Jogar. In fact his work still can be found in Total Classics.

Nice to see this being used on occasion. Welcome to the site.

Updated to 6-26 ...Good for Sony that they caught some 19 year old S.O.B. after they got hacked again for the second time this year. Let's see how funny that is when you are behind bars for awhile. ...Did I read this right? Bristol Palin is coming out with her memoirs at the age of 20? What's it coming out in, pamphlet form? ...Just goes to show that the best career move she ever made was spreading her legs. ...I blame all this Palin overload on John McCain. He had to go and get that airhead from Alaska and put her on the National scene. Nobody gave a &%*@ about Alaska before then and now, three years later, that family has turned into the worst bunch of publicity hounds anyone has ever saw. And I thought Kate Gosselin was bad. ...What the hell is going on? Jorge Posada is hitting the ball? ...Derek Jeter said this week that he has "no idea" when he will be returning to the Yankee lineup. Never before have I taken a piece of bad news like this so calmly. ...By the way, Happy Birthday. Now retire. ...Thank you to stecropper and Jim825 for releasing Total Classics Best of the 50's and 60's and 60's, which is just another example of why Mvp is so much better than 2k11. ...Go figure baseball out. The Pirates have beaten the Red Sox twice in a row - something the Yankees have not done all year. ...R.I.P. Peter Falk. Your Lt. Columbo was one of the greatest characters ever created for television and you played it perfectly. :(

Updated to 6-19 ...Leading off this week I want to wish a happy Father's Day to all of your fathers out there, including mine. Every year Father's Day seems to get second billing as in the attention it receives but I believe it is just as important as Mother's Day. So all of you members that are Dads out there, have a great day, sit back and relax and watch a game! ...Sure was a pity watching Lebron James and company lose the NBA finals but it was great to see Cleveland letting this guy have it after what he did to them. ...Great, another Boston team won a championship and it won't surprise me to find out that all of a sudden there are a whole bunch of "lifelong" Bruins fans that will suddenly start popping up like a bad case of hives. ...Right after Vancouver lost game seven on Wednesday night, a group of Canucks fans lit out into the streets overturning cars, starting fires and breaking windows. They even found some time to get some quick shopping done in a few nearby stores as they broke the windows and started looting. God knows what kind of damage they would have caused if they had won. No word as of yet if any of these drunken fans were visitors from Philadelphia, where behavior like this condoned and encouraged. ...Some nut named Al-Zawahiri was named this week to Bin Laden as the new leader of al Qaeda. How the hell do you get to be the leader of that organization? What are the requirements for it? Do they hold contests or what? The first guy to blow up more buildings that anyone else in a certain amount of time is the winner. ...Interleague is starting up one more time and once again I had to check to see how easy the Red Sox have it. They got to play Milwaukee (like the Yankees) and they have to play Philadelphia (their only really tough opponent.) And then they have nine wins - I mean nine games - against the Padres, Pirates and the Astros. And the funny thing is they get this creampuff schedule handed to them year after year. ...Even though I have been out of school now for many years, this time of year remains my favorite time of year because it means that summer has come back to us. ...There are many ways I consider myself a very lucky person, but that luck does not extend to when I take my wife out to dinner because all the time we sit near a table that has a crying or screaming child. Try to enjoy yourself when there are piercing screams behind you. You just can't do it. ...The best news I heard last week was that the Yankees had -and I quote- "zero interest" in Cubs pitchers Ryan Dempster and everyone's favorite teammate Carlos Zambrano. Finally they are using their head. ...And with Phil Hughes looking better and better with his rehabilitation, adding him back on the roster at the beginning of next month will be just like acquiring a pitcher without going out to get it. And Bartolo Colon should be back right around that time too. ...The Yankees sure seem to miss Derek Jeter in the lineup, don't they? :lol:

Updated to 6-12 ...I never thought I'd say this, but I have officially hit rock bottom as a long time fan of the New York Yankees. I don't want to read about them, talk about them or watch them on TV after their latest half-assed, no effort performance against the Red Sox. The Yankee teams that I knew and loved from the past would have shown more fight against Boston this year - but not this group. What else could go wrong? ...Apparently I spoke too soon because just now I had the TV on and I heard a report say that Bartolo Colon got hurt in yesterday's game due to a hamstring injury and now he'll be missing a chunk of time because of that. This just gave this group of Yankees another reason to quit. ...Nothing surprises me anymore in what the Boston Red Sox get away with in baseball. They are baseball's most favored team and they get a pass for whatever they do. And now they are teaming up with the Giants to do whatever they can to get their players voted on to the All Star team, no matter if they deserve it or not. ...And believe me, I mean it when I say this, but if the Yankees pulled a stunt like this with a National League team, people would be screaming about it from coast to coast. I blame all you non-Yankee fans for this because you all cry and whine about whatever they do and at the same time don't say a word about anything Boston does. ...The only good thing for me this week was watching David Ortiz get hit by a pitch and it was amazing to learn that it was the first time the Yankees hit him. If you ask me he has about another 200 or more plunkings to go. ...One more thing about that guy. Have you seen that little MLB segment with David Ortiz walking around New York with his Red Sox jersey on wanting to hug every New Yorker he sees? Now use your imagination and picture what I would do if I happened to be there when that ******* comes up to me for a hug. ...Nice going Bryce Harper, throwing a kiss at the opposing pitcher after you hit a home run off him. That kind of hot dog play is what the Boston Red Sox are known for and I wouldn't be shocked at all to see you playing for them one day. It'll be a perfect marriage. Overpaid, selfish, me-first athlete playing for the team that thinks they should be treated better than anyone else in baseball. ...In one of Plaxico Burress' first interviews he gave when he was released from jail he said that "that there was nothing pleasant about prison." Really? Who would have figured? ...Apparently American history is a little bit different up in Alaska. Sarah Palin thinks that Paul Revere's ride was "to warn the British" where in fact everyone in the lower 48 states and Hawaii know Revere's ride was to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the enemy was coming to arrest them. ...Come to think of it, I wonder if she thinks the Japanese were attacked at Pearl Harbor? :lol:

Ok, maybe this isn't the nicest thing a person can do to someone, but I laughed anyways. This took some serious cajones to do. Now see what damage a trash can full of water can do.

This is fantastic! You got Cervelli's stupid look on his face down pat. Great job.

Your last question in this thread was this: And now you ask where to download the 08 conversion mod? What happened? You forget what you were doing? The answer to both of your questions is Mlbmods. That is where you get the 08 mod and TiT.

You do not need a password for the TiT program.

Updated to 6-5 ...For the remainder of the NHL season I am a Vancouver Canucks fan. ...I feel bad for the Giants that their #1 catcher has been lost for the season for them and I also wish Buster Posey a full recovery so he can resume his Major League career, but at the same time I think the Giants have made themselves look really bad with the way they have complained about this play since the night it happened almost two weeks ago. Home plate collisions, like brushbacks and trying to break up a double play, are a part of the game for as long as this game has been played. ...Makes me wonder though, would the Giants be raising this kind of fuss if their second string catcher happened to be playing that night instead of Posey? And can you imagine if this would have happened to the Red Sox? Those people cry enough as it is. ...I had to stop and laugh and say what the hell this game has come to when I read that Oakland GM Billy Beane told Athletics catcher Kurt Suzuki not to block the plate when there's a chance of a big collision. What's he want him to do, run up the first base line? ...Then I immediately thought of catchers like Munson and Fisk. Both no-nonsense catchers from when I was a kid. There's no way they would have got out of the way from any play at the plate. ...The best thing going for the Chicago Cubs right now is that Alfonso Soriano is on the disabled list. ...He's already well known as a first class modder but now he's a good luck charm. Dennis James went to the Yankee game last night in Anaheim and saw the Yankees beat the Angels. If that's that case the Yanks should buy him tickets for every game they play there because whatever they are doing now just isn't working. ...Just once I want to watch the Yankees play a game in Anaheim when they annihilate that team. ...I've tried it a few times but I just can't do it. I just can not get into the taste of yogurt no matter how much they try to disguise it. ...Is anyone pitching better right now than Justin Verlander?

This is a nice little movie short from 1928. The driver in this film is Harold Lloyd, who was a terrific comedian during this time period. I won't go into his history for you since 99% of you never heard of him anyways. If you care to watch this video you will see New York City as it was back in 1928 and if you watch closely, you'll see a famous baseball player that was tearing up the American League during this time.

So do I!!

Updated to 5-29 ...Summertime always means the release of Hollywood blockbuster movies. But there's another one that's going to be let loose on the public this summer and it's going to be a two hour love fest devoted to Sarah Palin called "The Undefeated." No word yet if the movie quits playing after an hour and fifteen minutes into it. ...Kim Kardashian got engaged this week. Well, I lost another one. ...Tiki Barber compared living in his Jewish agent's attic for awhile a reverse Anne Frank thing. Needless to say that comment caused quite a stir but not from me, since I've never listened to anything Tiki Barber has had to say in the past anyways. ...Is there anything as helpless as your average 2k Sports PC baseball gamer? Seems to me that reading anything that will help them do the basic things to play 2k11 is like giving Kryptonite to Superman. It's simply lethal. But I do give them credit on one thing. They know how to start up the game. Some of them, at least. ...Now that I have Superman on my mind, Smallville ended their ten year run on the WB Network not long ago. Tom Welling played a great Clark Kent and Michael Rosenbaum stole the show as Lex Luthor. I'm going to miss it mainly because I won't see Erica Durance every week. ...Please God, do not let the Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup because it will only give those people another reason to brag. ,,,Memo to that Canadian couple that is hiding the sex of their newborn child - even from the kid's grandparents! The first time that kid has to go to the bathroom in school when he or she gets older the mystery is going to solved. What room do you choose? The little boys room or the little girls room? Or do you go behind a tree? Just goes to show that all the nuts do not reside in the U.S.A. ...Looking at the pictures of the devastation of the tornado in Joplin, Missouri is humbling to say the least. ...The Cleveland Indians sure look like they are for real this year. ...Regrettably, so do the New York Yankees. ...It was nice to see rain fall in Detroit yesterday because it made FOX show a game that featured both teams that were not in the American League East. ...Did you hear about that small fire at Dodger Stadium last night? Glad that no one got hurt. The Dodgers are currently holding a guy from Philadelphia who was on vacation in Los Angeles. Seems as if this guy went to the ballgame last night, got bored and figured if you can get away with it in Philly you can do it in L.A. ...Have a good Memorial Day weekend everyone and enjoy that extra day off!

Why wives hate football (soccer) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWrfBku75Bg

Hugo Bezdek Again you ask, who??? Hugo Bezdek was the only man ever to manage a baseball team in the Major Leagues and coach in the National Football League. Interestingly enough, he never played Major League ball or played in the NFL. Bezdek managed the Pittsburgh Pirates in mid 1917 for the last 91 games of the season. He inherited a last place team and that's where they ended up when the season finished. But in the next two years as Pirates manager, he lead the team to two fourth place finishes. After leaving Pittsburgh after the 1919 season, he returned to football as head coach at Penn State and took Penn to the Rose Bowl in 1924. In 1937, the Cleveland Rams, who would later become the Los Angeles Rams and then St. Louis Rams, hired Bezdek as their coach for their very first year in the NFL. The Rams went 1-10 under Bezdek in 1937 and when the team started out 1-3 in 1938, Bezdek resigned. Bezdek was president of the National Association of Football Coaches in 1948 and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. His lifetime college record was 127–58–16. Bezdek was born in Prague, Austria-Hungary in 1884 and died in 1952.

Updated to 5-22 ...For the second week in a row in here I have to give condolences to an athlete who died too soon. Esophageal cancer claimed the life of Baseball's Harmon Killebrew this week at the age of 74. This was a man who was another in the long line of ballplayers during the era that he played in that just went out and played the game and played it well. And his fans in Minnesota loved him. R.I.P. sir. ...Get a load of Ian Kennedy out in Arizona. 5-1 record with a 3.24 ERA. You think the Yankees could use something like that now? That's the biggest problem that team has. They don't give their young pitchers time to develop. They'd much rather trade them. ...Like everyone else, I was paying attention to the "drama" caused by the Jorge Posada stink last week. I didn't really expect nothing much to happen out of it and in the end, nothing did. Then I asked myself, if the Yankees got rid of Posada, who'd they get to make all the outs now? Then I immediately thought of Captain never-should-have-been, who did his usual lousy job during this whole mess by saying Posada did nothing wrong. The way you are hitting Derek, your time is coming soon. ...Again, the Yankees have themselves to blame because they were the ones who gave Posada that fourth year on his contract. 13 million dollars for a guy who can't even hit .200. What a shame. ...Nice to hear that Phil Hughes has been experiencing "no pain" during his sideline throwing sessions and is looking forward to getting back on the mound. This news has been both encouraging to Hughes and the rest of the American League hitters, who are anxiously awaiting to fatten their batting averages when Hughes returns to the mound. ...Last week, Playboy announced that they are putting their entire collection into an online searchable database. That's all 57 years of being able to go and search for um, articles that you would like to read again. Now all I got to do is convince the wife that's what I want to use it for. ...Well, we made it. Judgement Day on May 21st came and went and we are still here. I believe when the Good Lord decides that when the end of the world finally does come, he's not going to give a group of religious nuts like that the scoop. ...Rumor had it that when Jorge Posada heard that yesterday was supposed to be the end of the world, he refused to play again because he figured no one would be around to discipline him. ...Sarah Palin announced this week that she had “fire in her belly” to mount a bid for the White House in 2012. She neglected to say that she also had a bird in her brain. ...America's Most Wanted was canceled this week after 23 years on the air. This should make all of America's fugitives happy. ...Personally I believe that whatever is going to happen with Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife with their divorce is their business and I have no desire to know. But one thing that really stands out in this is that he had that kid for ten years without anyone -including his wife- know about it. If it were me I wouldn't be able to hide it for ten minutes. ...I'm also a member of a forum that talks about the TV show Hawaii Five-O. I'm a huge fan of that show, both the original show and this new one. There was one post in there this week from someone who complained that the new show had a woman cast as the Governor instead of having a male play the Governor like they had it in the original one. Why they had to post that, I don't know. It just goes to show that all the dumbass posts do not come from the 2k11 crowd. :lol:

I haven't posted here in awhile but ever since I got my e-book reader I have been reading a lot of books. Mostly baseball, some football and other things. But usually baseball. This book here, Stan Musial: An American Life was one of the best books I've ever read. Everyone who is a baseball fan knows Stan Musial, or at least they better. If not, look him up on the Internet or download one of the Total Classics mods that have him in it (TC Phase 10, TC '46 '51, '56 and '61) and see for yourself how good he is. Here's Stan Musial by the numbers. A .331 lifetime batting average, 3,630 hits, 475 home runs and 1,951 RBI. He was consistent. He got 1,815 hits at home and 1,815 hits on the road. Musial was also a quiet and humble superstar. Reading that book I could not get over how that point was made over and over again by so many people during his life. He was as kind and respectful to people when he was a kid, to the time he was a low minor leaguer to being a major star in the National League and even after he hung up his cleats in 1963. People loved Stan Musial and they loved being around him. Musial was underrated compared to the other superstars during his day. He didn't have the brashness of Boston's Ted Williams and he didn't have the aloofness of the Yankees Joe Dimaggio. He was a player that was loved by everyone, especially those in St. Louis. One would expect to read derogatory stuff from someone during the course of anyone's career but to a man, people saw him the same. When you did read minor criticisms, like from Curt Flood for instance, you took it with a grain of salt because that guy was a complainer. The only major conflict writer George Vecsey really describes is a business dispute between Musial and Joe Garagiola, which ruined their relationship. Vecsey wrote that when he usually writes sports books he has an opinion of the athlete before he starts the book and it usually changes after he finishes the book. But with Musial, his opinion of him never changed. Stan the Man was that good. A great ballplayer, friend and man.

Yes I do. God bless that guy.