Yankee4Life

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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.

Hurry up and download this before the stuffed shirts at MLB pull it from youtube. It's Ernie Harwell at his classic best. Some classic calls by Ernie Harwell

All of a sudden this Yankee team looks old and tired. And now, after the sweep by Boston, I'm taking a break from watching these losers for a few days. One can only stand so much.

Not a problem. There are misunderstandings galore on the internet. It's all good.

For your information, the only reason why I talk about the Palins is that these people act like they are so much better than everyone else because they all have received instant fame because Sarah was a VP candidate. I don't care about these people either. I just happen to find the things they do funny as hell because they seem to think they are celebrities now . It also seems to me that you are subtlety mocking me out for talking about them in here. I think that family is a joke and they are self-important morons. Simple as that.

Arlas Taylor Never heard of him? Perfectly understandable. In fact, probably the only people who know of Arlas Taylor today are his relatives from Warrick County, Indiana where he was born in 1896. This young lefthanded pitcher had a very, very brief career in the major leagues - one game, and that was for the 1921 Philadelphia Athletics, a team that would go on to finish in last place with a 53-100 record. As I stated, Taylor was in one game for Connie Mack's Athletics that year. A game that he started and only lasted two innings against the World Champion Cleveland Indians. Here is his line for the two innings he pitched: As you can see for yourself, he gave up 7 hits in 2 innings, 5 runs, all earned and so on and so on. But look closely. He struck out one player and this is the reason why I made this post. The one player that this young 25 year old lefty struck out was a player named Joe Sewell, who just happens to be the hardest player in the entire history of the game to strike out. How hard? Sewell averaged one strikeout every 63 at bats and also has the distinction of going 115 games without striking out, another major league record. To me, this little known record is as unbeatable as Dimaggio's 56 game hitting streak. In his entire career Sewell only struck out 114 times in 7,132 at bats. Imagine that. Guys like Adam Dunn can do that before the All Star break. And yet this obscure pitcher, lost in the baseball record books, managed to strike Sewell out during his one and only major league game. This just goes to show that an appearance by any ballplayer over the years, no matter how minuscule it may appear, means something. There's a lot of Arlas Taylor's in the baseball record book. I was just lucky enough to find one of them. Joe Sewell of the Indians. Sewell came to the Indians as a replacement for Ray Chapman in 1920. Chapman died from a pitch by New York's Carl Mays. Sewell went on to have a .312 career batting average and made the Hall of Fame in 1977.

Updated to 5-15 ...I spent 69 dollars this week filling up our mini-van. That's the most I have ever spent on gas. It's a good thing I don't have any hobbies that occupy my time that I have to spend money on because they'd have to wait for awhile. My main hobby for years now has been playing the season mods of Mvp. In fact, now that I think about it, Mvp 05 was the last game I ever bought that was a brand new release. All other games have been from the bargain basement bin in the game stores. Because of that $69 I spent, that trend is going to have to continue. ...Nice to hear that Ashton Kutcher is going to be replacing headcase Charlie Sheen on 2 1/2 Men. I never watched that show in the past, and it had nothing to do with Sheen. I just never watched it. But I might now just because I want to help with the ratings so it pisses Sheen off. Still winning Charlie? Didn't think so. ...I watched all three installments of HBO's When it was a Game this week. What a show. I haven't seen it in a few years and watching it again made me appreciate it more. That was the time in baseball I really wish I could have seen first hand. ...This past week saw too many deaths occur during it. It was terrible. A hockey player, an NBA player and an Alabama football player all died this week and want to give my condolences to each of their families. All too young and all a shock. ...One other person that passed on this week was Daily News cartoonist Bill Gallo. This guy I did hear of. He was a cartoonist for the New York Daily News. He died due to complications from pneumonia. Gallo's cartoons in the News were funny and poignant, thoughtful and truthful. I have saved the cartoon that he drew the day after Thurman Munson died all these years. I don't know how long I looked at it the day that paper was sold. ...Now that I have paid my respects to those who have gone, it's time to check in on that Frolicking Family of Fun, the Palins. They're always doing something. Let's take a peek and see what mischief they are up to now. *16 year old Willow Palin was caught this week driving 84 MPH in a 65 MPH zone while in the family vehicle. If she pleads guilty here she will only get slapped with a $162 dollar fine, which Mommy will gladly fork over. My guess is that Willow wanted to have some attention to herself because older sister Bristol gets most of it. This was only a speeding ticket. The next time we hear about little Willow is when we find out that some goober in Alaska knocks her up. *Speaking about Bristol, this girl can't bare to have her name out of the papers. Now Bristol is moving to Los Angeles with the Massey Brothers (never heard of them) to make a brand new, but unnamed yet reality show. Like we need another one of these. God knows what this show will be about but maybe when the show's all finished her little boy Tripp will have a new baby sister to play with. And with that, the Palin update for the week is now complete. ...Some Angels pitcher named Kevin Jepsen threw a pitch over the catcher's head last week that lead to the tie breaking run in a game that the Angels eventually lost. Funny as all hell if you ask me and the only thing funnier would be if it would have happened to the Red Sox instead. You can judge for yourself by clicking on this link. Also, the only time I like looking at Mike Scioscia's fat face is when it is looking like this: ...My favorite punching bag (Jorge Posada) could be nearing the end of the line soon. The guy's not hitting - he's at .165 right now - and is looking over-matched just about every time he gets to the plate. Posada didn't play last night because he told Joe Girardi he needed time to clear his head, which was puzzling to me since I never thought he had anything up there anyways. Then, afterwords, he said he had a bad back and that's why he couldn't play. The trouble was, the bad back excuse was news to the Yankees. My guess is if he keeps this up a few weeks longer, he may be gone. One could only hope. ...Curious to hear what Captain Double Play has to say about this. Because if Posada is let go or ends up retiring on his own, Jeter will have one less person in the clubhouse that kisses his a$$. ...While compiling songs for custom playlists for my Mvp games, I kept on going back to these same artists, who are to me the greatest guitarists I have ever heard. Of course, I mean Ritchie Blackmore, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana and Eddie Van Halen, just to name four. I may not be a good modder (in fact I suck) but I'm going to have one hell of a playlist when I'm done. :)

Updated to 5-8 ...The big news this week was the death of terrorist Osama bin Laden, the man who ruined airport travel forever and took away thousands of people from their families almost ten years ago. I was thinking after this was all done. What if they would have captured him alive? Then they'd bring him back to the U.S. to stand trial. What lawyer would defend him? Although in this country they'd find one. ...I got to tell you right now, I was not one of those who was jumping up and down after I heard this news. I don't celebrate anyone's death. I have no sympathy for him or his followers, but I still won't have a party over it. ...And by the way, I don't trust Pakistan one bit. They knew where this guy was. Anyone know what hush money is? ...Ok, subject change. Let's see if we can get a laugh and check in on the Palins. What are they up to this week? Oh, hey look! Bristol Palin is rumored to have had plastic surgery on her face. I don't get it though. Her problem isn't in her face because she's a very attractive girl. Her problem is that Sarah Palin is her mother. ...Did you hear about the kid in Pittsburgh that took the wallet of a Pirates usher when he was having a fatal heart attack? Ok, this happened in Pittsburgh, but I'll put good money down that this kid was born in Philadelphia. ...Don Mattingly called Derek Jeter "the greatest ever" this week when the Dodgers were in New York. All well and good Donnie Baseball, but would you take him on your team right now with the way he's been hitting the ball? Didn't think so. ...I had to scratch my head with this one. Some cornhusker from Indiana went on a cruise and is suing the ship for going "too fast." I guess she thought being out at sea was like watching The Love Boat where the waves never bothered anyone. ...For any of you Mvpmods veterans in here: tell me you didn't think of Uncle Mo when you saw this article. (UncleMo, for anyone that did not know him, was the first guy to mod the audio in the game when Mvp 2005 came out. He was good.) ...My wife did not understand why on Friday when she arrived home from work that some Brownies were waiting for her. I tried to explain to her that Dennis James made two different versions of the Browns uniforms and one thing led to another and I went out to buy some Brownies to celebrate. I told her that I got the kind that she likes, with no nuts. She said that's good, because you're nuts enough. ...Please restrain yourself from all comments to the last random thought. ...Thank you New York Mets for stopping Andre Ethier's hitting streak. ...Last but not least, Happy Mother's Day to all your mothers wherever they are. They deserve it.

Updated to 5-1 ...Let me get this clear before I say this. I'm no fan of Ozzie Guillen. I think he's a loud mouth and a show off, but I still don't think he should have received a two game ban for tweeting on his Twitter account after being banned from a game against the Yankees last week. All he did was post something on that account that criticized the umpire, probably something he would have also said during the post game interview. It wasn't like he was doing this when he was still actively managing the game. Selig swings and misses again. ...I regret to say I did not watch the Royal Wedding this past Friday since it was broadcast here at 4:00 am. At that time you see, I had an appointment with my pillow. ...I don't know what she looks like today but back in the day Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles was one of the hottest girls around. ...I love watching the Beverly Hillbillies on TV, mainly because of Raymond Bailey, who played greedy banker Milburn Drysdale. The things that guy did to keep the Clampetts money in his bank! (FYI: In real life, Bailey at one time was a real banker.) ...Reason number 1,785 of why I never want to go to Florida: Some lady last week came home and went into her bathroom because she heard a hissing sound and to her shock and surprise she was face to face with a seven foot alligator. This unwanted visitor crawled into the house through the doggie door and ended up in their bathroom. She's lucky she didn't go in the bathroom in the middle of the night. What a wake up call that would have been. ...Sarah Palin's going to be pretty busy this fall because Levi Johnston is coming out with a book about her and her family. You remember Johnston, don't you? He's the guy who knocked up her oldest daughter and now somehow she has to find a way to buy all the copies of the book once it's released. ...Real classy move by the NFL. They lifted the lockout to have the college draft but as soon as the draft was completed, they put it back on. ...Well, when they do things in Texas they do it big. And outrageous. And gaudy. A high school in the lame-brain state has spent 60 million dollars on their football field. This stadium will seat 18,000. Again, it's high school. God forbid they spend that kind of money something different, like education. ...You know what would be a nice habit for people in here to do after they download a mod? Go back and give a rating for the mod. I'm sure this is wishful thinking on my part because most of these 2k downloaders in here just want the mods and to get a "thank you" out of them is next to impossible. ...It didn't escape my eye that the thread I made about the lack of baseball talk in here died as quickly as it was brought up. There were only nine responses to it, five of them from me. While the guys who did respond added a lot to the topic, I did expect more people to chime in. I guess people really don't care. ...Derek Jeter is now hitting .250 and is getting very painful to watch. To me, this was a very sad and telling article.