Yankee4Life

Updated to 6-1 ...I'm home alone this week while my wife is in Plano, Texas with her family visiting her sister who lives there. I didn't go for one very good reason. These trips out there consist of nothing but shopping and more shopping. I've been there twice with them in the past and that's more than enough for me. ...I was there in 2000 and again in 2005. I never saw three women get in as much shopping in one day as those three did. I had to go a few times "just to get out of the house and see the sights" but when I did, I just saw the sites of a mall. Thank you, not again. ...Finally, a big assist goes to my four little people, my dogs. Someone's got to stay home all alone and have fun and take care of them, wouldn't you agree? So, it's got to be me. I'll stay home, by myself to watch over them. Now, where's that number for Pizza Hut? ...Besides, with the updated releases of TC 1956 and TC 1978, I'll be really busy, right? :wink: ...I'd like to take the time out to thank Jim825 for these two updates and to also welcome him to the staff here once again. ...I'm getting excited about having Jorge Posada rejoin the Yankees very soon. With all the reports I have been reading, he's been throwing well and been having no pain. I think Jose Molina's done a great job, but Jorge is our starter. ...I don't care what his record is, but I can't stand watching a Chien-Ming Wang pitched game. ...I might have to buy that new Bobby Murcer book "Yankee for Life." What a nice name for a book title, don't you all think? ...To this day, I can't watch a Chico and the Man episode on TV without feeling a little bit sad. ...There's obviously some people in this country that have too much time on their hand if they have enough time to complain about the scarf that TV star Rachel Ray was wearing for a Dunkin Donuts commercial. Seems as if they didn't like black and white paisley scarf she had on. Sorry to say, but the same people who have too much time on their hands seem to have a lot of clout also, because they got the ad pulled. That's the big problem with this country. People like this who have nothing to do but complain about a scarf, have the influence to have the ad they don't like pulled off the air. Here's a photo of that ad:

Updated to 5-25 ...Here we are entering our last full week of May and the New York Yankees have decided to start the 2008 season. ...Jason Giambi and Robinson Cano both got hits in the same game. The end of the world is near. ...This team isn't going to make a believer out of me until they go on a long stretch of playing ball like they are supposed to. I'm fed up with reading about how good of a team they have. I want to see it. ...I saw the new Indiana Jones movie on Friday night. I loved it. I won't be providing any plot spoilers for any of you because I don't want to ruin the movie for anyone. Since the first movie was released in 1981, I've been a big fan of Indy's. ...Not everyone liked the new Harrison Ford movie though. These guys didn't like it at all. Too bad! ...One preview I did see while at the theaters is there will be a new Mummy movie coming out on August 1st. Brendan Fraser and Jet Li will be in it. The movie website is right here. ...I'm sure all of you have seen King Kong but a few days ago I saw the version that is hardly shown on TV. The one made in 1933 is still shown a lot as well as the one from 2005 with Jack Black. But many don't know that there was also one from 1976 that featured Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges. Instead of Kong climbing the Empire State Building in this version, he climbs the Twin Towers in New York. I have no idea why this is hardly shown on TV, but it's worth seeing. ...This summer the airlines found a new way to stick it to the consumers as they are going to be charging a fee for checked baggage. $15 for your first bag and $25 for your second bag. Never underestimate the ways the airlines can think of to screw you. ...Andruw Jones is really going to start helping the Dodgers now that he has been put on the disabled list. ...Those five gallon water bottles are much heavier than they look. :wtf:

Yeah, but he's from the matrocks12 school of gimmee gimmee gimmee.

Updated to 5-18 ...It was another day yesterday and another Yankee loss. And I still can't get used to them. ...I wish I knew why the injury bug gets this team at the beginning of the year each and every time. ...Before we know it, two months of the season will be done and they'll have dug themselves such a big hole, the season will be finished for them. ...This is worth repeating. I've said many times that this is not a good hitting team. And damn them for proving it. ...That vicodin pill I take when I get out of work for knee pain is the strongest pill I've ever taken. In less than an hour, I'm out for the night. ...I wonder if Joe Morgan ever reads that website about him and I also wonder what he thinks about it? Because those guys that run that over there do one hell of a job tearing apart everything he says as well as the other sportswriters they feature too. ...Makes me wonder if someone will start a "Fire Michael Kay" website. I'll contribute to that. ...I was crying this week when I filled up my car because the price of gas was $3.97 a gallon. God knows what it is now, and you can be assured that when July gets here it will be even more. I'm lucky I don't have any kids because I can barely afford to fill up, get groceries and pay the other bills with what I made. I think that anyone who has a child at this time and is getting by should get a huge round of applause. ...On TV the other day I heard the actress say this: "I'd like a flat, white, coffee." Does anyone know what in the hell she was talking about? How can coffee be flat? And if you want some really nice coffee, try the Dark Roast coffee with any of the flavored creamers that are sold. You'll love it. ...Finally, on the subject of coffee, I've officially ended my boycott of Dunkin Donuts. I had stopped going there months ago when I found out from Sean O that Dunkin Donuts was a Boston-based company. Yeah I know, a crazy reason. But when I was given free coupons for iced tea and coffee from there, all was forgiven. :coffee: :oops: ...I hope Lebron James has the game of his life today.

I wish to God I can help you on this Joel because I think this is a worthwhile project. But I work overtime every day and I have very little time for really important things like this. Don't forget now, if you have Tony3 and Oldtime baseball you can use the audio from Lon Simmons too. He was pretty good in that game as I recall.

Updated to 5-11 ...You can always tell when you are back in the swing at things at work because then you start thinking about when your next vacation is. ...By the way, cortisone shots in your knee hurt. ...If you take Vicotin, it will knock you out. I promise. ...I'm glad the Yankees got a lot of money to play with, because they are taking a 46 million dollar bath with Kei Igawa. I can't even have the game on the TV when he's playing. Michael Kay in the booth and Igawa on the mound??? Are you kidding? ...Whoever said that this year is a transition year for the Yankees was 100% right. And that if anyone says that Ian Kennedy and Phil Hughes are busts are just assuming things. ...The server move for this website is done and the access time is much improved for us all. And if you don't mind me giving a blatant plug for this site, any contribution to this site will be much appreciated by Trues. ...I wonder if gamebase was climbing the walls that day when no one could access the site during the move? He wasn't able to download anything for quite some time. ...That new Oldtime baseball Classic overlay makes Total Classics look even better. What a wonderful job by OTBjoel. ...Three cheers for Greg Maddux, who won his 350th game yesterday. He's one of baseball's good guys and one of the best pitchers I've even seen. ...Happy Mother's Day today for all the mothers out there.

Updated to 5-4 ...When I was home and not working, I could watch the Yankees any time I wanted and they did lousy. Friday and Saturday I couldn't watch them and they win. Just my luck. ...While Phil Hughes hurting his rib cage is unfortunate, I still can't understand how he could not grasp that he had trouble seeing things from a distance all this time and that it was a problem. ...Makes me wonder though if Ian Kennedy has something wrong too. ...If the Yankees can stay close up until the All-Star break, then they have a chance. They can't rush A-Rod or Posada and Phil Hughes. If they can remain close, then it's possible they can overcome this. No other team gets as many injuries as this Yankee roster year after year. ...Let's see, Mindy McCready and John Daly's ex. That makes two. All Roger Clemens needs is to have seven more women come forward and he can field a starting nine. ...Honestly, I never heard of Mindy McCready until this story came out. I didn't know she was a country singer because I don't pay attention to country music at all because I hate it. But to look at her pictures now makes me wonder what the hell happened to her as compared to looking at pictures of her just ten years ago. She looks like she had most of her meals at the McDonald's drive through dollar menu. ...Correction. This right here is all I know about Country Music Stars. WOW. ...I'd love to know what Clemens' wife thinks of all this. She's not exactly hard on the eyes herself, which makes you wonder why Clemens did all this-and to be fair right now- if he did all this behind her back. ...Nice to know Microsoft gave up its bid to buy Yahoo recently. They would have ruined another part of the internet if they'd done that. ...Don't forget, next week is Mother's Day.

I never knew he got in a fight with a fan. I'm sure they probably fined him for that. Sometimes I don't know what the the Yankees are thinking when they go out and get people like this.

CC720, don't start confusing me with the facts now, ok? Ok, one more time why I dislike Soriano. And it has nothing to do with having that 40/40 season not in a Yankee uniform. In 2003, he almost had his 40/40 season in a Yankee uniform but came up short. He pressed too much and started swinging at bad pitches. Towards the end of that year, everyone was getting him out on sliders, low and away. Over and over and over. The Red Sox KILLED the guy in the playoffs with that pitch. In the World Series, the Marlins KILLED him with that pitch. The entire ballpark knew that pitch was coming except for Soriano. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. As for Farnsworth, I didn't know much about that guy until he came to the Yankees CC720. And now I know more than I want to know and I want him off the team ASAP. The only time I heard of Farnsworth before he came to New York was a video of a fight he was in while on the Cubs. I never followed his career before he joined the Yankees. I didn't know he was a hot head. I do know he is a cement head.

Updated to 4-27 ...I should call this one Random thoughts on a Sunday evening. But I have been so busy today I couldn't do this. I'm glad some people did. That's ok, this is your thread anyways. All I do is change the date each week. ...Spent the weekend with the wife. Last night to a wedding reception for someone she works with. I didn't know a soul. I hate situations like that when I don't know anyone. ...I am kicking myself for not bringing my phone with me. It's got a camera in it. I could have taken this photo yesterday of this hot blonde in a short dress for you. Not that I was looking. I was thinking of you guys all the way. ...To top it off, most of the day we watched TIVO stuff that she records. Law and Order, NCIS, Criminal Minds, you name it. Sometimes you got to do what you have to do when you have to do it. ...Starting Thursday my time on this wonderful website is going to be cut dramatically. I won't be spending that much time on here because I'll be returning to work that day after my knee surgery so during the day hours I'll be busy working instead of having fun in here. ...A big middle finger salute to the State of New York, who, in their ultimate wisdom, have decided to raise the thruway toll prices 5% in July (just in time for the summer travel season) and another 5% in January. ...To say I am worried about the Yankees health-wise would be an understatement. ...And I don't care what anyone says, I think this Yankee team is a terrible hitting ballclub. ...What a difference a year makes. As of Friday, Joe Torre's Dodgers had a 9 - 13 record. That was the same record that the Yankees had last year after 22 games. The big difference is this year I don't care how Torre's team does. :shrug: ...Good luck Darren McFadden, the first round draft choice of my Oakland Raiders.

Updated to 4-20 ...My first thought that has been on my mind recently is that I am going to be returning to work soon and I am still not sure I am 100%. I had my knee surgery back in January and I've been home ever since. I am hoping once I get going things will work out. ...Don't worry Miguel Tejada that you aged two years overnight. I'm still older than you. ...And I'll guarantee you that another guy that's been lying about his age is Alfonso Soriano. There's no way this guy was born in 1976. He had to shave at least three years off his age. Put it this way, if Soriano was born in 1976, I was born in 1990. :nay: ...It's never funny when an injury comes up for any player and we all can agree on that. But Soriano recently changed that belief right after this moron did his hop, skip and jump routine after he caught an easy fly ball last week. The guy's hitting .175 for the Cubs and can't catch a fly ball without being a showboat. That's 136 million dollars well spent. ...I'm no Kyle Farnsworth fan, but he is a victim of the Red Sox whining influence on Major League Baseball. The Red Sox must have been crying long and loud about that pitch almost hitting Ramirez, so the end result was that undeserved three game suspension he got. The next time Kyle, hit the piece of *&$#. ...Speaking of the Red Sox, rumor has it that they are filing a complaint to the Pope because he is performing a mass today at Yankee Stadium and he isn't doing one at Fenway Park. ...The only God New England has is the Beer God. ...Another frustrating April for the Yankees. They aren't doing anything right. Can't pitch, can't hit, can't put anything together. But that's normal. They'll dig themselves a huge hole and that's when they'll start playing better. Go figure. ...Mark's random thoughts were great this week. I knew you were not feeling well but I didn't know to what extent. It is much worse than this cold that I still haven't shaken yet. Get well man and get plenty of rest. ...Quick, someone go read Mark's random thoughts post and come back here and tell me what a lolcat is and who the hell is TQ? ...I've been reading about the RFK assassination that happened back in 1968. Some researchers are now saying there was a second gunman that was there. I don't understand why it took forty years for this to come out? ...R.I.P. Stanley Kamel, who played Dr. Kroger on the TV show Monk. :(

Mark, the Al Pacino movie is called 88 minutes to live and it comes out on the 18th I believe.

Present company excluded of course BigRog about the description of the Sox fans. Also I'd have to say Sean O and Borgi are excluded too. I don't want to give the wrong impression here. You know what fans I'm talking about here BigRog? The ones who want to go to a game, and really it doesn't matter if it is in Fenway or New York or Anaheim. But the ones who go there just to drink and fight and ruin it for everyone else. I don't care who they root for, they aren't there to see the game. I'm sure you've been to Fenway Park many more times then I have, but the times I was there I always saw fights there for no reason. I'm saying to myself, damn I just want to watch this game and now everyone has to stand up just to watch two people fight each other. She wasn't home and if there was swearing in that video I watched I had no clue because I couldn't understand a word except for that guy saying "YO" over and over.

Updated to 4-13 ...Jonathan Paplebon's walk from the bullpen in the eighth inning of yesterday's game took so long for him to do that I was able to order a pizza and have it delivered before he got to the mound. ...Some of these games between the Yankees and Red Sox are long enough anyways without a rain delay that you can fly cross country and the game won't be over. ...When Robinson Cano is not hitting well, he looks as lazy and uninterested as Alfonso Soriano. ...The April weather around here sucks. I got a cold that I can't shake. It doesn't help that one day it's 60 degrees and the next day it drops to 30. ...Red Sox fans are amazing. Just when I think they can not be any more disruptive, disorderly, rowdy, unruly, troublesome, barbaric, bellicose, combative, contentious, destructive, disturbing, quarrelsome, rapacious, threatening, boisterous, disobedient, drunk, fractious, undisciplined, intemperate, lawless, noisy, uncontrollable, abhorrent, appalling, hateful, hideous, horrendous, horrible, loathsome, monstrous, obnoxious, odious and offensive fans around, they prove me wrong and top themselves. ...Try saying that three times fast. ...I have to confess that I don't understand what some of these guys in here are talking about when they say Rick Roll. Someone once provided a youtube link and all I saw was a music video. ...I'm always reluctant to click on these links because I remember once a few years back I was asking MarkbtheYankee about some rap song that I knew nothing about and he gave me a link to see the music video of it. I clicked on it, but I forgot I had my speaker volume up kind of high and when that song started playing by Mr. HiphopJazzyJazz what's his name, I nearly fell out of my chair. I don't ask Mark about music anymore. :phone: ...You know you are married when you are forced to watch a movie on the Lifetime channel. ...I've been anxious to see a movie lately but I just don't see any good ones out. Edit ...Correction: There's a new Al Pacino one coming out soon.

Wonderful idea!!

Updated to 4-6 ...No matter how you look at it, this first week of having baseball back was a welcome sight. It didn't hurt having that Extra Innings free preview either. All is right again. ...I think it's amusing the Tigers are 0 - 5. ...Same for Soriano, who is 0 for 9 in 2008. Yeah I know, it's early but it's still funny. ...Last year the Yankees got out of the gate hitting the ball like crazy and not pitching. This year, the opposite. Now they can't hit but the pitching is good. I think it is better like this because it is easier for that team to straighten out hitting problems than pitching ones. ...I really like the way the bullpen is this year. Of course I am leaving out Farnsworthless and his partner in shame Latroy Hawkins. Those two are going to be neck-and-neck this year for most unpopular Yankee. ...Which brings me to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Or Rays. Or whatever they call themselves this week. Those hosers only play well against the Yankees and when they play against Boston, just watch how fast they go belly up. Happens every year. ...Trivia time. When was the last time a major league team changed their nickname prior to the Expos becoming the Nationals? ...Slowly but surely this knee of mine is improving from unbearable pain to just regular daily pain. At this point in time, I'll take it. ...Is there some obscure Canadian law that we don't know about that makes the Toronto Blue Jays change their uniforms every single year? ...The best looking new ones this year are the retro ones for Philadelphia and Cleveland. ...Trivia answer: In 1971, when the Senators left Washington to move to Arlington and they became the Rangers.

How about a wallpaper of this classic photo? Notice how nothing seems to be going on but if you look really close, you'll see that nothing is going on. That is unless you enjoy watching people stand around. This superb photo collected five stars in a POTD last year. A wallpaper is requested by me with this picture in it. Please surround it with other references to laziness and put in a Lazy Boy recliner chair and a picture of a bum drinking out of a brown paper bag. That would fit in well with this photo. Thank you!

Updated to 3-30 ...If you missed that Dodger-Red Sox game last night at the Los Angeles Coliseum, you missed a bit of history. Before this game I only saw films of how this place was and how bad it was for pitchers but to see it on TV like I saw last night it was unbelievable. Can you imagine if they still had to play in that place today and if Manny Ramirez played there? How many home runs would he have hit with that short left field wall? Over 100? 125? ...The first inning Andruw Jones hit a line shot off of Wakefield and it bounces off the left field wall. The Red Sox shortstop fielded the ball because it was closer to him than it was to Manny in left. I was thinking to myself I would have loved to see those right handed hitters take batting practice before the game, they'd have broken a few seats. ...Finally I thought of the people of Brooklyn and how they must have been feeling. For those of them still there that remember when their ballclub left all those years ago, this must have been a painful and sad reminder of what Walter O'Malley did to that borough fifty years ago. I'm sure those people weren't watching last night. ...Tonight we get to see the new Nationals ballpark for the first time on ESPN Sunday Night baseball. I can only watch it for a few innings. Doesn't matter to me if it's the first Sunday night game of the year, I can't go nine innings of listening to Miller and Morgan. ...Anyone catch the title of Bobby Murcer's new book that is coming out soon? It's called Yankee For Life: My 40-Year Journey in Pinstripes. He never got in contact with me to use that name. ...Kei Igawa is really going to help the Yankees chances this year by not being there. ...What a week for the Yankees. Matsui runs off and gets married and it makes front page news. And A-Rod gets accused by Jose Canseco of trying to steal his wife. If Canseco writes another book, he'll accuse A-Rod next of trying to steal his car. ...Yankees home opener is tomorrow at 1:05 pm. Man, that's going to suck for those who are going. It's going to be freezing. I've always said they should open up the season in both leagues with games played in the western or southern cities or cities with domes. ...Chien-Ming Wang gets the opening day nod for the Yankees. He should be ok tomorrow since it isn't a playoff game. ...Here's hoping for a great 2008 season! Finally we have our game back.

Maybe, I don't have Windows Vista so I really wouldn't know. I'm sorry.

Updated to 3-23 ...So, what I miss? I was out of town again at my wife's hometown and when that happens I miss what happens in the world and in here. I have a very hard time getting online down there and when I was on yesterday (for five minutes) it was on a laptop that seemed even slower than me trying to climb stairs. ...The Sunday paper down there is 101 pages. One page of news and one hundred pages of advertisement. And all for the bargain of $1.50 ...Roy Rogers Restaurants on the Thruway rest stops are highway robbers. $2.79 for a cheeseburger which looks like the same cheeseburger you'd get at McDonald's on the dollar menu. ...Gas was $3.47 at home and $3.33 down there. Big difference. ...Had the obligatory ham for Easter. I don't care for ham. That's why I have four dogs that help me out with the ham when no one's looking. ...Went over to the sister-in-law's house on Saturday. Big screen TV. Would have loved to watch College basketball or baseball. Both had to take a backseat to Lifetime Television. ...DirectTV had a free preview of their games this weekend. At least I had something to do to pass my time when I was there. ...Read two books amidst all the excitement there. Mr Monk and the Two Assistants and Storm Warning by Jack Higgins. I'm a fast reader. ...Anything happen with the Yankees? Didn't see any sense asking anyone down there because they seem to think Mickey Mantle is still on the team. ...It takes me three days back home to get things right and organized how I want them after I am gone for a weekend. I hate that 180 mile trip. ...Happy belated Easter!

The way I do it is this: When I finish the game, I go to the main menu of MVP 05 and then I hit ALT+TAB to go to the desktop. I then run the box score extractor and it starts and I get the message that says it is "searching for the memory address." After that, I follow the prompts and finally it asks me what do I want to name this file? I give it a name and that file is place in a directory where the Box score extractor is. So try this out the next game you play. Play a game and name this file something that you will have no trouble finding, call it TESTBOXSCOREGAME or something. You'll see it there in the BSE thread.

Seems to me that the seven that he has in now are pretty good. There's a good variety in it.

Works for me.

These last few posts by DJ I can't tell if he's responding to posts here or playing Bingo. :shrug:

Why timay? There's no need to bring anything like that up. This is his thread.