Yankee4Life

I've got a cell phone too but I don't have my phone surgically sewn onto my hand for quick and easy access. And I am guessing you are the same way too. I use the phone for what I need it for at that moment and then that's it. The damn thing isn't the center of my universe. I can relate to that and I also agree that it is very disrespectful. Hell, when I was a kid my mother wouldn't let me wear my baseball hat to the table when I came in from the outside. Didn't understand it and I can recall telling her "but I'm going back out there!!!" I can imagine what she would have said if I had a cell phone. Let me tell you of two examples that I saw that ties into what you said about your step daughter. My father's side of the family is big. He is one of seven children. Last year for Christmas Eve we were at one of the relative's homes for the holiday. Just about every kid had their phones with them and not once did they put them away. What was the sense of going somewhere to spend time with your family when in a sense you were really not there in the first place? One other time was when my grandmother on my father's side was still alive. She was living in a nursing home at the time and we all went there for her birthday. They rented a room and we spent a few hours there together. The kids brought their phones there also. They all were sitting at one table and instead of talking they had their heads down and were focused on their phones. One of them was actually texting the person that was sitting on the other side of the table. When I asked them why they were doing that instead of just talking to the person the reason that I was given was incredible. "Because we were bored." I turned and walked away, silently thanking my luck for not being a kid during this day and age.

Updated to 11-7 ...The World Series ratings were the lowest rated ever. I don't know whether to be happy about this or upset. I realize it was a nice story that one of baseball's oldest teams won their first Series since 1954, but having a team like the Rangers in it must have made the FOX executives cry in their cocoa. ...It is funny to me that everyone seems to think that the Yankees are a lock to sign Cliff Lee. ...May as well give them Carl Crawford too. ...Trouble is, the same idiots that are so quick to assume that the Yankees are going to get Lee are going to be the first ones to cry and whine when it does happen. ...It was interesting to see that when I read the results of a recent NY Daily News poll that a whopping 20% of the readers voted not to re-sign Derek Jeter. I was, of course, one of the people who voted for the Yankees to cut ties with him. The Yankees do not need to give him a long contract like they gave Posada a few years back. ...I watched City Slickers again the other day and I told my wife that I wouldn't have been able to last two hours there on that ranch, let alone two weeks. ...Went to a family dinner recently and all the younger members of the family that were there got upset because they couldn't have their cell phones at the table while dinner was going on. It was almost comical watching them as they tried to eat as quick as they could just so they could send another text. ...And to think when I was their age we'd eat as fast as we could just so we could go out and play or watch TV. ...Went into Walgreens the other day and they were piping in Christmas music already. I know it's November but it is too damn early. ...R.I.P. Sparky Anderson. He was a very good manager ...Don't forget Daylight Savings time all you East Coasters.

Sun, NOV 7 NY Jets at Detroit Miami at Baltimore New England at Cleveland San Diego at Houston Chicago at Buffalo Arizona at Minnesota Tampa Bay at Atlanta New Orleans at Carolina NY Giants at Seattle Indianapolis at Philadelphia Kansas City at Oakland Dallas at Green Bay Mon, NOV 8 Pittsburgh at Cincinnati (Steelers 27, Bengals 26, Total 53) Maestro23, please send me a PM. I want to say hi but your PM box is full and I can't send one. Take care and good luck with your picks!

No. He has not been around lately.

The radio game for the month of November is from the fifth game of the 1956 World Series between the visiting Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees. It's the famous World Series perfect game by Don Larsen, which is presented to you in its entirety. The date was October 8, 1956. Enjoy the game. And I also hoped that you enjoyed this monthly installment of classic baseball. Next month will be the final game posted here in this thread by me. Thank you. Brooklyn Dodgers vs. New York Yankees Retrosheet Link Game played at Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York Don Larsen Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4.

Updated to 10-31 ...Ok, MLB got lucky this year because when the World Series ends this week and the calendar turns into November, they are lucky that the Series was not played in the east, where it is getting very cold and un-baseball like at nighttime now. In Texas and San Francisco you still can play at night, but just think for a second how it would have been if Philadelphia or New York would have got in? ...Checking ESPN just now I see that the Giants currently have a 2 - 1 edge in game in this World Series. I've only watched about ten minutes of the first three games so far and I don't even miss it. ...No, I'm not pouting over here because the Yankees aren't in it. I knew this team didn't deserve to be in the Series for many reasons. It's just that I don't care about the Rangers or the Giants and I never will. ...One good thing about new Rangers owner Nolan Ryan is that he doesn't like the Designated Hitter. At least we can agree on that. ...I can't wait until November 2nd because that's Election Day and that means all the TV and radio political advertising stops. Not to mention the political mail and the automated political phone calls to your house. ...Maybe if I went out and bought a PS3 I can be part of the in crowd again in here. ...No thanks, I'll save my money. I might need it to cover the medical costs when I go to the doctor to have him take the knife out of my back. ...Sure, that's just an expression. That doesn't mean anything. It's not like anyone is going to read this post anyways. It's like explaining yourself in a room of empty chairs. ...We had a total of four new posts on this site yesterday. That was for all day. I don't get it. And I sure as hell don't like it. I'll try to make a few posts today just so this doesn't happen two days in a row. Don't thank me. I'm not doing for you.This site needs more regulars in here on a daily basis and that will generate more interest and more posts and therefore more discussion. Not one person can do it. Then it will look forced. We all need to. ...Thanks to Brian Cashman for renewing Joe Girardi's contract. Now I am curious to see what you will be doing with Jeter. Please do not give this guy a long term contract. ...R.I.P. to James MacArthur, the guy who played Danno on the first Hawaii Five-O.

Sun, OCT 31 Denver at San Francisco Jacksonville at Dallas Miami at Cincinnati Buffalo at Kansas City Washington at Detroit Carolina at St. Louis Green Bay at NY Jets Tennessee at San Diego Minnesota at New England Tampa Bay at Arizona Seattle at Oakland Pittsburgh at New Orleans MON, NOV 1 Houston at Indianapolis (Indianapolis 31, Houston 28. Total, 59 points)

Updated to 10-24 ...I recovered quite nicely after last night's game six loss in Texas that gave the Rangers their first ever pennant at the expense of the Yankees. I really didn't have to "recover" at all since I told anyone who bothered to listen last month that the Yankees were going to do nothing in October. Not with the way they have been playing. And now it finally caught up to them. ...After the final out was made I shouted out "goodbye Javier Vazquez and Nick Johnson." And I hope there will be a lot more. ...Any day now Jeter will be putting on his humble act and will be doing all he can to con the Yankees out of a new five year 20 million dollar contract. What really pisses me off is that he will get it. ...I am so tired reading about that "Core Four" ****. It is my hope that half of the Core Four are given their walking papers this off season but the Yanks won't let Posada or Jeter leave. ...I have been reading in here that this is supposed to be one of the most exciting World Series' in awhile. That's strange. What was so bad about last year's Series? Oh that's right. The Yankees were in it and they won it. ...Cheers to the Giants as they won their first pennant since 1989. It would have been great to see a Yankee - Giant World Series but you can't have everything. And I will be pulling for San Francisco because anyone who beats Philadelphia is ok by me. ...Ok Raiders, now you have all my attention. Try to win a few games now before you fall apart once again in December. ...It is easy keeping up with posts in here lately since we are only averaging less than ten a day. ...Total Classics fans should check out Edtench's two new uniforms he made for the game. They look beautiful and they really stand out in the game. It is nice to see that people like him and Dennis James still make stuff for Mvp that still make this place worthwhile to come to. ...Doesn't the NBA start up soon? I don't really know because I never watch it but this year I am going to when Lebron James makes his first trip back to Cleveland. The booing he will get will be heard all the way down to Mexico.

Sun, OCT 24 Cincinnati at Atlanta Pittsburgh at Miami Buffalo at Baltimore Jacksonville at Kansas City Cleveland at New Orleans Washington at Chicago San Francisco at Carolina St. Louis at Tampa Bay Philadelphia at Tennessee Arizona at Seattle New England at San Diego Oakland at Denver Minnesota at Green Bay MON, OCT 25 NY Giants at Dallas (Giants 27, Cowboys 14, total 41)

Updated to 10-17 ...Welcome back Mlbmods. Best of luck for the future. And for all you guys who need stuff over there, go and get them now so the rest of us don't have to mail you stuff. ...My wife was extremely impressed with me yesterday after the Yankees lost game two of the ALCS because I was not angry at all. In fact I was so cool you could not have told that a game was played, let alone them losing it. Usually after a game like this I am fit to be tied but I figured why the hell should I get angry when I am the only one who gives a ****? ...The reason why I wasn't upset when the game was done was because I had already prepared myself. When I knew that Phil Hughes was pitching I didn't expect much and that is just what he gave us in game two. The guy is a gutless choker who lets the team down when they need him the most. Just like all Yankee pitchers who come up through their farm system. All hype and no productivity. ...If the Yankees end up losing this thing they can not point the finger at Alex Rodriguez for not hitting. Guys like Mark Teixeira and Nick Swisher are doing their parts too by doing absolutely nothing. Robinson Cano can't do it all for this team. ...Now that Cliff Lee is going for Texas in game three the Yankees have a pre-made excuse as to why they will lose game three. All Lee has to do is throw his glove out on the field and he will beat these overrated SOBs. ...Who the God damn hell is Colby Lewis? That's my point. Only the New York Yankees can make this guy look like Don Drysdale and Juan Marichal all wrapped up into one. ...All anyone had to do was watch the bottom of the first inning of yesterday's game and you would have seen for yourself why I hate Jorge Posada so much. ...And yeah, all this frustration is coming from a true Yankee fan. You think I like typing this stuff, especially when it's the truth and especially when no one is going read it in here or care? ...One of my pet peeves about new people who join the site is not the questions that they have when they first come in because we all have them no matter how long we have been here but their demands on having us do their work for them that drives me simply crazy. NO I am not going to search for you. NO I am not going to mail you anything. NO I am not going to go to Mlbmods and find tywiggins' short season projector. It's over there. You find it. In short, I will help you out but I won't do your work. ...And even though he may not be here tomorrow to celebrate it with us, I'd like to wish MarkB a very happy birthday.

It does take a little time. But when you find them you bookmark them and that way you don't forget them.

Go to Baseball Sim Central. They have old rosters for Mvp 2003 and other old files. Just search!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sun, OCT 17 Miami at Green Bay San Diego at St. Louis Baltimore at New England Cleveland at Pittsburgh Kansas City at Houston Detroit at NY Giants Atlanta at Philadelphia Seattle at Chicago New Orleans at Tampa Bay NY Jets at Denver Oakland at San Francisco Dallas at Minnesota Indianapolis at Washington MON, OCT 18 Tennessee at Jacksonville (Tennessee 31, Jacksonsville 20, total of 51 points)

Updated to 10-10 ...Spent the day at the hospital yesterday because my wife had shoulder surgery. This was the first time in our fourteen years of marriage that I was not the one being operated on when we had to go to the hospital. It felt funny in a way. I told her I would try to make it up to her. ...Little did I know I could have brought my laptop with me because the hospital has free WI FI. Then again it could have been a bad idea if I decided to play a quick game of MVP and I lost the game. ...I feel the same way about this website today then I did one week ago. This is the best place to be. ...I can't stand people who are at a ballgame and are only there to try to get on TV. You've seen them, when the camera is focusing on the hitter at the plate, the people behind him start standing up and waving at the camera. Yeah, that's what I would do if I sat in those expensive seats at Yankee Stadium. ...On the other hand, have any of you seen that good looking lady usher on the first base side of Yankee Stadium? You can see her when a left handed batter is up. She is tall and has long black hair. (Hey, I can look.) ...As a rule I dislike those GEICO commercials but I do have one exception. They made a good one when they had that Spanish soccer announcer do the play-by-play for a chess match and at the end of it he shouted out "GOAAAAALLLLL!!!" Cracks me up every time. ...Congratulations to Roy Halladay. Thate guy can do it all it seems. The Reds may have been overpowered in game one but they had themselves to blame in game two. ...Why did the Yankees beat Minnesota in the ALDS? Because of good pitching. Good pitching. That is how you win. It is amazing how good this team can be when they keep A.J. Burnett and Javier Vazquez away from the mound. They have a chance to go far if they keep those two losers off the mound and off the roster. ...People may say to me that last week they recalled me getting down on the Yankees and even predicting them not to win against Minnesota. I admit it. And I am so glad I was wrong. But the way they played the last two months of the season was just terrible and to top it off being forced to watch Burnett lose and lose big every fifth day was too much. ...I don't know what happened to Mlbmods and I don't want to assume anything because you never should, but all I know about that site right now is that their domain name expired. If the site isn't renewed I want to thank Kraw for all he did. He created a nice site that was easy to navigate around and was very user friendly. Thank you again.

Sun, OCT 10 Jacksonville at Buffalo Denver at Baltimore Kansas City at Indianapolis Green Bay at Washington St. Louis at Detroit Chicago at Carolina Tampa Bay at Cincinnati Atlanta at Cleveland NY Giants at Houston New Orleans at Arizona Tennessee at Dallas San Diego at Oakland Philadelphia at San Francisco MON, OCT 11 Minnesota at NY Jets (Jets 27, Vikings 24, total points 51)

Updated to 10-3 ...Ok, let me get this out of the way. About a month ago I picked the Cincinnati Reds to be the team to fall apart in September and not make the playoffs. I was, of course, wrong. But can you blame me? I mean it's the Cincinnati Reds for God's sake. They don't make the playoffs. They're like all of us in here. They watch the playoffs. ...And did you hear what some whistleblowers did to the Reds when they won the division? Seems as if the Reds players lit up a few victory cigars when the division was clinched and a few people called the state hotline to complain that the players were violating Ohio's smoking ban. This just goes to show that no matter where you are or what you do you will always come across people like this. ...I have no problem with Stan Musial. In fact I believe he is the greatest player in St. Louis Cardinal history. But the blatant push the Cardinals are doing to try to get him a Presidential Freedom medal is nonsense. This attempt to campaign and beg the President to give Musial a medal is wrong. If Musial gets a medal or is honored in any way it should be because the Cardinals didn't initiate it and force the other party to give in for public relations reasons. Jeers to the person or persons who thought of this because they are doing Musial no favors. ...ESPN is a network I usually have no use for but I got to admit their Sportscenter commercials are funny. ...Ok, is this the part where I am supposed to be all excited that the Yankees are in the post season again and I should be having visions of a 28th championship dancing in my head?? If so, I'll get right on it because I'll be honest with you. This team lacks the pitching. If they are seriously considering giving Burnett a start in the playoffs they are in serious trouble. ...Whoever plays the Yankees in the first round must be quietly cheering their luck. They'll be facing a team that can't get people out (with the exception of Sabathia) and a Yankee lineup that can get on base but can't knock anyone in. Oh yeah, I'm confident. ...Oh yeah, and just because the playoffs are starting that automatically means that Captain Double Play is going to start hitting again just like he used to? I believe that too. Come on, tell me some more. ...I don't know where to look this up but I guarantee that the Yankee pitchers lead the league or are very close to leading it in three ball counts and walks. Every time you turn around someone can't locate the plate. It's like they are scared to throw strikes sometimes. ...Jose Bautista has 54 home runs for Toronto this year but who wants to bet that next year he doesn't even hit 20? ...One of the most difficult jobs in the world must be being Lindsay Lohan's lawyer.

Just watch this one. You'll love it. Now watch this one. If I were a New York State trooper I'd be doing the same thing to anyone with Massachusetts plates.

Sun, OCT 3 NY Jets at Buffalo Cincinnati at Cleveland Baltimore at Pittsburgh Denver at Tennessee Detroit at Green Bay San Francisco at Atlanta Carolina at New Orleans Seattle at St. Louis Indianapolis at Jacksonville Houston at Oakland <-----I hate going against Oakland but they suck. Washington at Philadelphia Arizona at San Diego Chicago at NY Giants MON, OCT 4 New England at Miami (New England 28, Miami 20, total 48 points)

The radio game for the month of October is a special one. It's from October 3rd, 1951 and it's the famous Bobby Thomson game that beat the Brooklyn Dodgers that year. Everyone is very familiar with this game and now for those of you who want it, you are going to have the entire game. This broadcast that you will be listening to is from the Liberty Broadcasting System and the announcer is Gordon McLendon. This is the broadcast that the entire country heard. I am sure that many times you have heard the Russ Hodges radio call of Thomson's home run, but Hodges' call was only broadcast on the New York Giants radio network. The only reason why this call exists today is because a Dodger fan was recording the ninth inning of this game because he was so sure his Bums were going to win and he wanted to taunt the Giant fans that he knew the next day with the last few minutes of the Dodger victory. When the Giants came back to win this game, the poor guy was so stunned that he never turned off his recorder and Hodges' call was saved for future generations. Listen to the opening remarks by Gordon McLendon here in this game. They are very prophetic. Enjoy this game. It's one of the best. Brooklyn Dodgers vs. New York Giants Retrosheet link. Game played at the Polo Grounds, New York, New York. Announced by Gordon McLendon Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Updated to 9-26 ...Random Thoughts is back after a one week hiatus because I was out of town last week down in the hellhole that my in-laws live at. No Internet access at their house. I was lucky they had cable TV. Things are so God damn ass backward there it isn't even funny. ...I didn't do a damn thing last Saturday except baby sit four dogs (three of them mine) and one pain in the ass second grader. My wife and her mother were only gone about five hours but spending time alone with that kid made it seem like five years. ...If you get the impression that I don't like little kids then let me confirm it for you. You're right. With kids that I have to deal with in real life and the winners I have to deal with in here I am glad I don't have one myself. ...I was going to come in here when I got home Sunday night and make my post but I came down with a stomach bug on Sunday morning where it did not allow me to keep anything down, whether I ate or drank, for two and one half days. I was hoping that someone would come in here and make some kind of contribution in here last week but that was too much to ask. Since Mark was sick the same time I was no one wanted to step up and help out because that meant they'd have to actually do something. ...Best wishes to Don Mattingly on becoming the new Manager of the Dodgers next year. Now with Joe Torre retiring he can release an update to his bullshit book that he wrote. ...I have been reading posts from other Yankee fans saying that the last time the Yankees went into the post season looking and playing this bad was during the 2000 season and things didn't turn out so bad that year. True, but the bullpen from that team can run circles around the slugs we have this year and in 2000 Derek Jeter was 26 years old compared to now, when he is playing like he is 41. ...Nice going CC Sabathia for winning twenty games for the first time in his career. And after he did that, he hasn't done anything since. ...It was an impressive ceremony for George Steinbrenner on Monday night at the Stadium. The Yankees know how to honor the great contributors to their team and have a great sense of team history. Not one team is close to them in this aspect. ...Apparently I can not even talk baseball to a Red Sox fan in the shoutbox about the Yankees even when I am the one putting down the Yankees instead of the Red Sox. No matter how I say something I am wrong. ...Javier Vazquez, one of the busts that the Yanks got during the off season hit three straight batters this week against the Rays. His comment about what he did? "I don't think it's that big of a deal." Gosh Javy, that's nice. You know, I feel a lot better now. ...Watched the new Hawaii Five-O last week and all I got to say is that I love it and I'm tuning it this week too. ...I've said this so many times but it never hurts to say it again. Thank you Dennis James. Just look at what he does. I can't rave about him enough. :hi:

Thank you for this. Now I just wish I could listen to the entire game of this. This was only 13 minutes and 3 seconds long and then that was that. At least I heard Jackson and Piniella homer against Chicago.

Sun, SEP 26 Tennessee at NY Giants Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay Cincinnati at Carolina Cleveland at Baltimore Dallas at Houston San Francisco at Kansas City Detroit at Minnesota Buffalo at New England Atlanta at New Orleans Washington at St. Louis Philadelphia at Jacksonville Oakland at Arizona San Diego at Seattle Indianapolis at Denver NY Jets at Miami MON, SEP 27 Green Bay at Chicago (Green Bay 20, Chicago 17, total of 37 points)

Sure, go ahead and sing if you want...but why stand on a table to do it? I've heard of people falling down stairs and escalators, but not up one. Here's proof.