Yankee4Life

5 out of 10, 94 seconds. I was lost on a lot of these. Thank God for the baseball ones.

That is an understatement. 🙁 This team will never be a winner on the field unless they become winners off the field first. I am talking about first gathering all the medical staff in a room and giving them their walking papers and then doing the same to Boone and Cashman.

10 out of 10, 62 seconds. Now that is more like it.

Should this surprise anyone??

1 out of 10, 117 seconds. Can i do a do-over?? Please? Damn, I only knew one of them.

7 out of 10, 159 seconds. Yeah, ok. Could be better.

Hey Jim, where you at? Nine games into the season and I have not screamed once. It may be a record but I’m not sure. 😲 I have had reasons to also. Lazy Luis is up to his old tricks. He’ll be back by July 4th. Josh Donaldson has been proving that what he did last year was no fluke and Aaron Hicks is still on the team. But I am still patient and calm.

10 out of 10, 138 seconds. No comment. 😀

4 out of 10, 69 seconds. How the hell did this happen?

10 out of 10, 37 seconds. Everyone should ace this today.

Now that's true about Weaver. I can recall John Lowenstein, an outfielder, complaining about being platooned by Weaver with Gary Roenicke. Again I have to go back to the baseball books I read as a kid. I devoured them because I couldn't get enough of them. Casey Stengel of the Yankees was big on platooning and he even was doing that before he became the Yankee manager in 1949. Hank Bauer did not like the platoon system but then begrudgingly said that Stengel extended his career by bout five years by doing it. You really do. That has always been obvious to me since our High Heat days. Most people your age think that baseball started with Derek Jeter and not a day before. Your knowledge of its history and your willingness to learn more and more about the game is impressive.

That's the truth. Pitchers dd go longer. Let's take for example one of our favorite years, the 1978 Yankees. They had thirty-nine complete games that year. With the way Boone runs the pitchers it will take them them years to have that many complete games. Ok, I better not get started on Boone because then I'll get off the subject. Damn straight they did. And it wasn't every hitter. That's true. I already mentioned Hargrove but Willie Montanez and Tito Fuentes were in the same league. I hate bat flips and pitchers who act like they won the World Series when they retire the side or save a game. They do this because they know they are on TV and maybe could be a Sportscenter highlight. No argument here. That is another thing I don't like. Instant replay does not belong in baseball. I kind of wonder how retired players think of the game today? The first I ever heard of a shift in baseball was when I was reading a book on the Indians of the 1940's and player-manager Lou Boudreau used a shift on Ted Williams. I don't recall of many instances of the shift in the 70's. George Brett said once that if the shift was used on him he'd of hit .600. I am no fan of his but I believe him. The cause of this? Analytics. Computer guys who have ruined the game. That's true KC. I trust a manager making the decisions instead of a computer. Billy Martin may have been a lot of things but he could manage. Earl Weaver knew what he was doing too as well as Whitey Herzog. They were winners without computer printouts. I have been to some minor league games when it was that hot and with no breeze at all so I understand what you mean. It doesn't matter if you are a Dodgers fan. What you are is a baseball fan just like we are so please feel free at any time to basically talk about anything!

4 out of 10, 46 seconds. Two lousy days in a row!

Jim, there is no way that I prefer games to go three hours or four hours long. This is why I have refused to watch the Yankee - Red Sox games because they drag on and on and on. Remember a few years back when they played a doubleheader at Fenway Park and both games took about eight hours combined? That's too much. When a Yankee game starts at Fenway Park at 7:00 PM you can almost guarantee they will only have 3 1/2 innings in around 9:15. Both teams are guilty of this and not one more than the other. So to just confirm I am agreeing with you that when games are played at a quicker pace they are more interesting and you do get more involved in them. I mean my God I can go watch an episode of Magnum PI and I would only miss two innings. And no I do not enjoy hitters stepping out between every pitch to adjust their gloves or their hat or their uniform or to have them look at their bat to make sure they brought the right one. All that is a time waster. Do you remember Mike Hargrove of the Cleveland Indians? He drove people nuts with his routine. Now everybody does it to get more TV time. Jim, when you when I first started watching baseball in the 1970s it was a better game than what these people are playing right now. The game was quicker and you have to consider that the catcher had unlimited visits to the mound, the pitcher could throw to first base as many times as he wanted to, teams had the option if they wanted to do a shift or not. As far as pitcher delays they did that to try to install until the bullpen guy was warmed up.The game was played more intelligently during those days and since that was the game I was introduced to I did not appreciate it as much until it was slowly taken away and replaced by the rules and regulations we see today. KC says that the pitch clock eliminates and the dead time during the game. Again you guys make a point. I mean with some batters I was able to go in the kitchen and make a sandwich and come back before the next guy was up. My question is this: if baseball from the 1970s did not need a pitch clock and yet all that other stuff was still in the game why can't they do it today? Okay only let them step out of the batter's box once and if they have to do it the second time make sure they have permission from the umpire for example if they have dirt in their eyes. I am sure that you all could tell that I am a baseball traditionalist and it is almost like I cannot recognize the same game I grew up with.

5 out of 10, 65 seconds. I mad that I missed so many.

I have to agree with you. Now before I explain what I mean since I don't want some people to go half-cocked I am not putting down 2k12. If guys in here like playing it then I see nothing wrong with that. But what I have noticed is basically what you just said. This game did not seem to grab and hold on to users like Mvp has and still does to this. If you think I am wrong, fine. I am not here to debate this. I just stated an opinion. As usual you are articulate and you explained your points very well and with a modder's viewpoint it really does explain everything. i have come away with the belief that it is hard to mod 2k12 just on the fact that I have seen over the years how hard it is to make a roster that will not crash when you reach a certain date. Over and over I have read about this problem. With Mvp that is not the case. Just look at what alfre2jose did. He made us a major and a minor league roster.

4 out of 10, 34 seconds. I only knew one of them.

You did nothing of the sort. Mvp has been around longer and has more mods and modders who have made them. The thing you fail to see is that mods for this game have continued to be made to this day but for some reason mods for 2k12 over the years have really slowed up. Why? I have no idea and if you really want to know you can message every modder who made the mods for that game and ask them why they stopped. Get to work, there are quite a few.

You’re being ridiculous. What’s the name of this website? Quick, take a guess. Mvp 2005 gets undying support here because it DESERVES undying support. Look at the mods for the game, the total conversion mods, the Total Classics series, etc, etc and you will see why it is still popular to this day. Why don’t you try to find out what everyone already knows? It is a great game that can and does hold its own to this day.

10 out of 10, 87 seconds. Very fortunate on two of them.