Yankee4Life

KC, have you ever played Tony Larussa II? You may get a lot out of it.

I've done stuff like that many times when I tried to go too fast.

10 out of 10, 49 seconds. They handed it to people today. They try to trick you into those "how many times did so-and-so win the rookie of the year?" questions. I bet you missed the Heismann trophy one. I almost did. Great job today.

3 out of 10, 179 seconds. I'm happy I got three of them!

What higher version mods are you talking about and while I am at it what exactly is a higher version mod? You're right. It's copyrighted and has no support from EA Sports. And why bring Microsoft into this? Who says that anyone here is in contact with EA? This is just a gaming website. EA is not in contact with us but they are aware of our existence. While they do not support the game anymore they still own it and if we went around fixing or patching the executable that would violate copyright law and that would be wrong on our part. This is why we do not allow this talk or even any kind of piracy like where to download the game. We respect their ownership and the game they made. If you can't get it to play I don't know what to tell you.

8 out of 10, 232 seconds. These were challenging today.

1 out of 10, 223 seconds. Yeah, you read that right. I know nothing about car racing.

Rodon didn't bother me last year and he's not going to this year.

That's ok. You can wait until you get home. You have 24 hours to play the day's game. I believe the new game always starts at 3 a.m. our time.

Jim, stick to the PC because you will do so much better. You're doling great now but it is easier on the desktop or laptop.

9 out of 10, 76 seconds. I am having a quick start to the month.

Jim and Fiebre I got very lucky today.

10 out of 10, 40 seconds. Today is another day when everyone will rack up high scores.

8 out of 10, 171 seconds. This was a tough one. Take your time with these questions. Welcome Ball Four!

10 out of 10, 47 seconds. With softball questions like these you all are going to score high today, guaranteed!

Oh man with scores like what laroquece and Jim got today I could be in for a long month. 😬 😃

7 out of 10, 267 seconds. Ouch!

Read this article. Mike Lupica explains the difference between the Mets, who actually did something at there trade deadline and the Yankees, who for some reason did not and stood pat. I don’t praise the Mets a lot but they did a great job and they embarrassed the Yankees big time. Mike Lupica: Cohen’s Mets decide to dig themselves out of the hole, while Yanks just keep digging Steve Cohen has stopped kidding himself about the Mets, which means a very smart guy stopped acting like a sucker about baseball. It’s why Cohen’s baseball people have now traded just about everybody except Mr. Met over the past few days. At least the Mets did something. The Yankees did nothing. Maybe the only suckers left at the table are Hal Steinbrenner and Brian Cashman. All the Yankees did on Tuesday was add a pair of marginal pitchers, Keynan Middleton of the White Sox and Spencer Howard of the Rangers. They must think they can relief-pitch their way into the tournament in the American League. Or maybe the people in charge just continue to tell themselves their team is better than it really is. Across town, what Cohen is doing, to borrow an expression from the world of money, is a baseball version of selling off a losing position. His Mets made a big bet this season – that Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer could anchor a contender – and ended up with the short end of it once the cards ran out. Instead of clutching to the fool’s hope, he’s selling off what assets he has left before they all go to zero. Cohen took a good, hard look at what his team has done this season despite the biggest payroll in all of recorded history, and realized that the Mets were going nowhere, a little more than 100 games from when they won 101 last season. There were too many under-producing and overpaid veterans, in a sport that keeps getting younger, one in which the successful teams combine kids from their own farm system with smart veteran acquisitions. Cohen didn’t have a farm system when he took over. He’s trying to buy one now after finding out that even a payroll of $364 million couldn’t buy him a World Series. So with Max Scherzer already gone to one Texas team, the Mets on Tuesday traded Justin Verlander to the Houston Astros for a Double-A kid, Drew Gilbert, who is supposed to be the Astros’ best minor leaguer. And you know why the Astros weren’t afraid to deal him for the 40-year-old Verlander, with whom they won a World Series nine months ago? Because the Astros always know there are more where Gilbert came from, that’s why. In the end, Cohen paid $86 million for Verlander and Max Scherzer for the 2023 season and got a combined 35 starts out of them and now they’ve both moved to Texas. So for now, and maybe for a long time, Cohen decides not to throw more good money after bad. Cohen’s general manager, Billy Eppler, can talk all he wants about “repositioning.” Eppler is a nice guy, he is, but that is just baseball double talk. What has happened to the Mets over the past few days, with 39-year-old Scherzer gone and now Verlander gone and all the rest of them following two future Hall of Famers out the door is that they decided to start all over again. Citi Field is still expensive baseball property. But this is a teardown, whatever they want to call it. At least the Mets acknowledged at this Trade Deadline that they really have been kidding themselves for the past few months. You cannot say the same for the Yankees, who refused to sell off any of the handful of actually marketable guys that they have, which means players coming up on the end of their contract. In the end they essentially did nothing except add a bit of depth to the one strength the team has not named Judge. Maybe they didn’t sell because they didn’t have enough that anybody wanted. So maybe it is the Yankees who continue to kid themselves that they are somehow getting closer to the World Series with their own overpaid, over-the-hill gang; continue to kid themselves that they have all these future star kids in the chute. Well, where are the kids when the Yankees need them? For now all we see is a team without a leftfielder, with aging corner infielders, and with no lefthanded bat in a ballpark with a rightfield wall close enough for hitters to spit on. They somehow thought they were right there with the Astros last October even after getting swept in the American League Championship Series. They weren’t. Still aren’t. Now the Astros get Verlander back. The Rays? They traded for Aaron Civale of the Guardians, one of the hottest pitchers in the sport right now. The Blue Jays get a big arm like Jordan Hicks for their bullpen and get Paul DeJong to play shortstop after Bo Bichette goes down with a knee. The Orioles? They keep winning as they seem to keep getting younger and now add another starter, Jack Flaherty. Ask yourself a question about the 2023 Yankees: Other than Judge, who else do they have who would start for the Atlanta Braves? Yankee fans keep hearing about “Yankee DNA.” What in the world does that mean at this point? The Mets have lost more games than the Yankees have this season. But it is the Yankees who look like just as big a flop. Obviously Judge getting hurt on the first Saturday night in June changed plenty for this team. But once he went away for two months, you saw what kind of cover he was providing for all of the other guys Aaron Boone keeps running out there. “I want to win,” Judge said Monday night. “Whatever gets us closer to being a better team and winning, that’s why I’m here……” Maybe if he wanted to win sometime soon, he should have gone to San Francisco.

And I am very glad that you did. 8 out of 10, 90 seconds. The two that I missed I just guessed blindly.

5 out of 10, 153 seconds. Not a good way to start the month! Ok, here is the final standings for the month of July. Fiebre was our winner again with 152 points, winning by eight points over second place Muller. Now check something out here because it is very interesting and it is going to make this upcoming month very competitive and fun. Jim began playing on July 3rd and by being two days behind us he had a hard time catching up but look at how many points he got. That is pretty good. And Findizzle? He missed half the month and still collected 72 points. August is going to be good. Here are the trivia winners since last September. (To see this list just click on Hall of Fame. September, 2022 Y4L October Fiebre November Fiebre December Y4L January, 2023 Y4L February Fiebre March Y4L April Y4L May Fiebre June Laroquece July Fiebre To check the current standings (beginning tomorrow because nothing is totaled up for August) click on Standings.

7 out of 10, 110 seconds. These were tough ones to end the month.

I don't watch them either because this is the most unwatchable team I've seen and I can recall the 1990 Yankees very easily. But in my case I don't smile when they lose because there is nothing to smile about. I have not been sold on this team at all and it goes back to spring training. I do noit understand why they did not keep Andrew Benintendi. They give seven-year contracts to Hicks and Ellsbury and they gave an eight-year one to Mark Teixiera but they couldn't give one more year to Benintendi?

10 out of 10, 63 seconds. Easy ones today, some were handed to you.

Cole pitched very well again and if he was on any other team he would've had at least fifteen wins by now. Of course they intentionally walked Aaron Judge. The other eight in the lineup are automatic outs. They have not hit all year and they have not hit last year or the year before that or the year before that. Other teams go into hitting slumps but the Yankees when they get in hitting slumps it lasts a long time. This current one has been going on since June of last year. You don't have to say slip sliding away anymore. We got it loud and clear. I don't blame you one bit for not having faith in this team. I certainly do not. I am not happy about this at all and I wish that they would play better but I know I can't do anything about it. This is the first summer in a very long time that I have not been angry and frustrated and lot and it feels great. I'm not saying I don't care because I do. All I want them to do is win but if they don't they don't. So, big deal if Boston won again. It's not going to affect you. Just enjoy the summer because pretty soon July will be in the books.

Sometimes things just click Jim although for me it does not happen a lot. 7 out of 10, 59 seconds. I missed three and all of them I had no chance on.