Yankee4Life

Thu, NOV 25 New England at Detroit New Orleans at Dallas Cincinnati at NY Jets Sun, NOV 28 Jacksonville at NY Giants Pittsburgh at Buffalo Tennessee at Houston Green Bay at Atlanta Carolina at Cleveland Minnesota at Washington Kansas City at Seattle Miami at Oakland Philadelphia at Chicago St. Louis at Denver Tampa Bay at Baltimore San Diego at Indianapolis Mon, NOV 29 San Francisco at Arizona (Cardinals 27, 49ers 14, total of 44 points)

Please do not take anything out on DJEagles for his post. Let him just have his opinion here and leave it at that. The guy does not need to be raked over the coals for what he said since 99% don't bother to come in this thread only because I was the one who started it. Besides, I don't think DJEagles really cares what anyone thinks in here anymore. The guy was a loyal staff member. Towards the end of his stay on the staff he was not around as much but that was not by choice. He had to go across country to work to provide for his family and he did this a few times. Then real life situations got in the way. But he still came back here every chance he got to help out. So, don't get all over him because he had the nerve to speak his mind. DJEagles, myself and the rest of the guys thrown away last month may not be part of the inner circle anymore, but his opinion is just as worthwhile and valuable as always.

Updated to 11-21 ...Kind of late in the morning for the weekly contribution in here but it's because I slept in today and since this thread has almost turned into a one man show I didn't think it really mattered when I posted this. ...It's sad. This website has changed so much. I miss the days when Fuzzone was running around. He was a unique personality to say the least. Kraw. KC. Cartersyard. On and on and on. Good people, good contributors. Makes me wonder how different this site would have been had EA not lost that baseball license because eventually we lost people over the years. ...Couldn't sleep last night so I was flipping through the channels and I saw some show that I never heard of before. Something called Fear Factor. No thank you. In one part of the show they had the contestants eat spiders for some reason. No thank you!! I did not stay tuned to see what other fun stuff they had planned for those people. And they call this television? ...Cleveland's Shin-Soo Choo helped South Korea's baseball team clinch the gold medal Friday and that should keep him out of his obligation for required military service in Korea. Talk about playing for your life. ...Poor Derek Jeter. He thinks the Yankees should give him a blank check and be done with it. ...Thing is, everyone knows that re-signing Mariano Rivera is much more important than re-signing him. ...Isn't it funny that all Michael Vick had to do was throw a few touchdown passes and everyone forgave him? ...I don't care what Felix Hernandez' stats were. He still only won 13 games. ...Three games on this Thanksgiving day folks. Patriots at Detroit, Saints at Dallas and the Bengals at the Jets on the NFL Network at night. It figures that the best game is the one that not everyone gets. And why do the Cowboys always have to play on Thanksgiving? ...Everyone have a great Thanksgiving. I will be at the in-laws this year so having a good Thanksgiving has no chance of happening But I will grin and take it as much as I can. Happy holiday to all Mvpmods members, the ones here now and also the ones who do not come here anymore.

I saw this on another board and I thought it was really interesting. I've never heard of this type of shrimp before. It's fascinating. This shrimp is the loudest animal on the planet. Yep. You didn't read wrong. It is louder than a rock concert, and the temperature made by the noise reaches that of the sun. Watch it in action:

Thu, NOV 18 Chicago at Miami Sun, NOV 21 Buffalo at Cincinnati Arizona at Kansas City Green Bay at Minnesota Washington at Tennessee Cleveland at Jacksonville Houston at NY Jets Baltimore at Carolina Detroit at Dallas Oakland at Pittsburgh Atlanta at St. Louis Tampa Bay at San Francisco Seattle at New Orleans Indianapolis at New England NY Giants at Philadelphia Mon, NOV 22 Denver at San Diego Chargers 35, Broncos 17 Total of 52 points

Updated to 11-14 ...Well the big news in baseball this week was the announcement by ESPN that they are breaking up the Sunday Night team of Jon Miller and Joe Morgan after twenty-one years. Miller, always an announcer I could live with, will be missed. But there's no way I'll miss Joe Morgan. That guy was terrible and he kept on getting worse and worse as the years went by. ...Look for the MLB Network to scoop up Morgan and have him join their team. I can see it now. They'll prop him up in front of a monitor and anything that happens in baseball he can compare it to the 1970's Big Red Machine. ...If anyone here wants to complain about east coast bias in baseball, what happened this week says it all. The Seattle Mariners lost Dave Niehaus, their announcer since the Mariners came into the league in 1977 when he died of heart failure on Wednesday. Niehaus announced every game for every season for thirty-three years and hardly a word was said when he passed away. It's because he announced for a team based in the Northwest that gets no exposure in baseball. Have Niehaus' talents anywhere on the east coast and he would have been more famous than he was. At least he was able to be inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in 2008 in the broadcast wing in Cooperstown. R.I.P. to a great announcer. ...So, Jenn Sterger talked to the NFL bigshots this week about Brett Favre? I wonder how the NFL is going to cover up this one? ...Sure would have liked to been a fly on the wall when Favre was trying to explain to his wife why he sent pictures of his you-know-what to that gorgeous young girl. ...While I got Favre on my mind right now, do you know who reminds me of him in baseball right now? Andy Pettitte. ...I read that the Cubs are interested in Nick Johnson for first base "if the medicals look good." That's great. Now who is the other first baseman that they will have that will end up playing the other 140 games for them? ...The new Conan O'Brien show on TBS looks pretty good. ...Here's something I've always wondered. You've seen those political signs at the edge of the road when you are out and about driving around? "Vote for Joe Smith on Election Day" etc, etc. Know what I mean? Who ends up getting rid of those signs after the elections are done? It's like there they are, they're still there. And then one day, they disappear. Where do they go? ...I absolutely love the Goodwill people here in my town. For three reasons. First, they take anything you got. Secondly, you get a tax write off for it and if those two reasons are not good enough, you know that once you donate your stuff to them it is finally out of the house for good and you don't have to look at it anymore. ...Finally, a big thank you to Jim825 for the release of Total Classics 1975.

1975 continued The rally that never was: Carl Yastrzemski tries to bunt Fred Lynn over to second base with no one out in the inning but ends up getting him forced out instead. Yaz was safe at first on the play but was erased on a Jim Rice double play that ended the inning. This is what I mean about the overlay used here in this mod. Simple, precise, and not too loud. It fits right in with this mod. How the Reds won it: Pete Rose (not pictured) lead off the top of the eighth with a single and he was replaced by pinch runner Ed Armbrister. Armbrister, of course, is well known to Red Sox fans who know the history of their team. Ken Griffey (who singled Armbrister to third base) upends Boston second baseman Doug Griffin as he breaks up a double play and while this was going on, Armbrister was racing home from third with Cincinnati's second run of the day. Pedro Borbon takes the toss from first baseman Tony Perez (not pictured) to force out Boston's Carl Yastrzemski in the 8th inning. Reds manager Sparky Anderson has a quick meeting on the mound to discuss what to do with Jim Rice coming up. Now coming into pitch for the Reds in the 9th, Rawly Eastwick. This was a good move by Sparky Anderson because Eastwick saved 22 games for the Reds in 1975, winning 5 and losing 3 with a 2.60 ERA. It only took seven pitches and Eastwick earned another save by retiring the Sox in order in the ninth. Final score was Reds 2, Red Sox 1. Thank you Total Classics 1975!

The lastest total conversion mod has been released by Jim825 a few days back and it is the 1975 Total Conversion Mod which can be downloaded on this website by following this link right here. It is another welcome edition to the Total Classics experience that you can only have by downloading these fun packed mods here on this website. This also marks the first time in the history of Total Classics that successive years have been done. There are a lot of subtle changes on each and every team from the 1974 editions to what you see when you load up the 1975 mod for the first time. Take the Red Sox for example. Fred Lynn and Jim Rice were late season callups for the Sox in '74. Lynn played in 15 games in 1974 and Rice played in 24. They're not even on the 1974 Red Sox team. Jim "Catfish" Hunter was on Oakland in '74. You'll see him on the Yankees in the 1975 mod. Hank Aaron was a Brave in 1974. In '75 you'll see him in a Brewer uniform. Yeah, there's only a one year difference but there were so many changes. This 1975 mod is definitely worth the download! The overlay is identical from the 1974 mod. It's the same ABC Sports logo that works so well with this time period. It's well done and professional. And the choice of music is once again classic mid-1970's top of the charts pop music. It's what everyone was listening to on their LP's and 45's at that time. Again, great job Jim. Although no one will probably do it, I recommend that any of you who were not around during the 1975 season to have a baseball reference guide next to you when you are playing this (or any of) mod. You'll be pleasantly surprised at what you learn. Thank you Jim for all that you have done. Video: Jim Rice hits a sacrifice fly that drives Ken Griffey to the warning track. Screenshots: Welcome to Total Classics 1975! (Now, I don't want to spoil it, but before you see this image you are going to see an image of a certain Cleveland Indians outfielder with one of the biggest Afros you will ever see in your life. It's my guess that this photo was placed there in homage of a particular stadium modder who has made updated stadiums for the 1970's mods and updated present day stadiums for everyone to download. This man's tireless work has kept MVP baseball alive and has renewed interest in this great game.) Leading off for the Reds, their All Star thirdbaseman Pete Rose. Give the Reds an opening and they take it. Rick Burleson overthrows first baseman Carl Yastrzemski for a two base error that allowed Cesar Geronimo to advance to third. Geronimo scores Cincinnati's first run when pitcher Don Gullett hit a check swing grounder to first and Carl Yastrzemski threw home to try to catch the sliding Geronimo. This angle shows how off line Yaz's throw was as Geronimo scored easily. Joe Morgan made a fantastic diving play on this sinking line drive but at the same time he knocked himself out of the game and was replaced by utility infielder Darrell Chaney. At the end of five innings it's a close one. Johnny Bench can't believe he has been called out on strikes. Luis Tiant, although ending up the losing pitcher, pitched masterfully as he struck out seven Reds and was in total control the entire game.

Just a reminder for this predictions thread, beginning this week of the NFL season (week 10) there was a Thursday night game and this will continue without interruption during weeks 11 through 16. The final week of the season will be played on Sunday, January 2nd and all sixteen games that week are scheduled for that day.

Thu, NOV 11 Baltimore at Atlanta Sun, NOV 14 Detroit at Buffalo Cincinnati at Indianapolis NY Jets at Cleveland Minnesota at Chicago Houston at Jacksonville Tennessee at Miami Carolina at Tampa Bay Kansas City at Denver St. Louis at San Francisco Seattle at Arizona Dallas at NY Giants New England at Pittsburgh Mon, NOV 15 Philadelphia at Washington (Eagles 35, Redskins 27, Total of 62 points)

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.