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Joel, Im in shock, I had to stop playing my game and thank you again. I Just started a new Tigers dynasty, and clicked on opening day, listening to the Play by Play welcomes, I heard in teh background instead of background stadium public address, it was ernie doing public address reciting his "Voice of the Turttle" that is the kind of little touch you put into things that touch us as fans. Thank you again for this mod Joel.

lol, thanks for asking, Boesch was the first to come to mind. Is there a Max Scherzer out there, what a goofy looking guy, he has 2 different colored eyes, ones light maybe blue, the other is definitely brown. Casper Wells is getting alot of playing time lately also. I like Villareal myself, but hes a rookie reliever, who knows if he will stick. Are there faces for Valverde and Benoit? these are just a Tigers fans wishes, I wont cry if you dont do any of them, but thanks for considering it. Did anyone ever make an Alan trammell for TC games? thanks for Doing Boesch anyway even if you dont do others. :friends:

i LIKE IT I LOVE IT... need some more Tigers if your so inclined..

Dont stop Jogar, dont stop:clapping:

One more random thought this sunday evening, I think i drank to much free beer at teh inloaws :bad:

Silly Easter bunny brought me about 2 dozen childrens books to read, in the guise as gifts to my children, who promptly set them all on my lap and formed a circle. I duno why the easter bunny didnt just put them in a basket for me. He coulda dropped a 6 pack in there too.................

The cordless phone, phone without a cord. an odd contraption created to give one freedom from the wall when having conversations with others not in the same home as you. Even stranger is teh invention of the cellular phone, created with the same intent as the cordless telephone, but enabling one to have the same conversations when oneis not even in a home. Neither in my opinion a necessity of life. I admit to not owning a Cell Phone. Anyone else? Most days, I think Im the only one. If i had one,id lose it in about 10 minutes anyway.

its mind boggling let me tell you. 3 times this weekend she looks up to me and says "daddy, Im glad you love baseball too" like its me taking interest in her hobby LOL I am planning a trip to the Hall of Fame, think i got most the details worked out, just me and her, will be just beyond anything.

Heres anouther random thought on a Sunday. So im looking up player pictures tonight for portraits for our next TC mod. And Im looking up Napoleon Lajoie. Well my 8 year old daughter walks in, and sees teh screen, theres a Picture and words that say Nap Lajoie. My 8 year old says "hey Napoleon Lajoie (correctly, impressive enough) she says " He was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1937. yeah I look it up sure as hell, shes right. now I talk baseball with her. lots of stuff. But i dont think i ever said Napoleon Lajoie to her in my life. WTF how does she know THAT? lol:unsure: I was gonna get cute and ask her what %of the vote he got, but i was afraid she'd know that to...... Im NEVER playing trivial Pursuit with this kid.

Your right Lipp, Clemens and McGiwire and Palmero all make me sad to think they should be counted among the best, and probably never will now. But i wonder why Bonds is on trial and not Palmero, didnt palmero say to teh Grand Jury "I NEVER USED STERIODS PERIOD"? I hope they go after Clemens as well, but Im glad McGwire has less drama about him, even though he looked pathetic saying im not here to talk about the past. At least he never told anyone he didnt do steriods (that i know of) maybe future generations will go lighter on him....

yeah Y4L i feel a general lack of baseball talk on this site to be sure, I dont begrudge the 2K folks their right to chat anyway they feel about that game. It make me giggle that the game was being Modded the day it was released though. guys couldnt even play a full game without needing to make it better. top quality coming out of that box. this site has been dominated by MVp since I have been here, even 2K10 didnt generate much traffic. But at least the site is still open. And there are more TC mods in the works. I think we chatted up Mannys retirement somewhat in this very thread though. And I think the reason noones talking about Barry, is that its so old. I mean he retired so small time ago, and many of the newer guys here probably never even saw Barry play......to bad to because the guy was a Phenom. Before roids/after roids, whatever, there was not many like him in the history of baseball. And this will be his legacy. Steroid use, Conviction. teams used to walk this guy with the bases loaded they feared him so much, and the newer generation of fans will only know that he used steroids, and lied to the Grand Jury. Shame on Barry Bonds for ruining a career that should have been celebrated.

Damn Rangers

Interesting article that is a great article, I d never read before Emath, thanks for sharing.

I have read teh same stories about Old Hoss Radbourn as well Emath, although they weren't clear as to whether he was trying to improve his stamina on the mound or in the bed.....

I have to say you right about Manny cheating well after rules were in place. As to whether or not a guy like Bonds or McGwire get into the Hall, i dont care either. The Hall of Fame is not truely what it should be as it has a good number of players who dont belong, and through the ages, a number of players who arent in that should be. But I think that when it comes to telling my kids about baseball players in stories and such, im not going ignore the great accomplishments of these guys. Everyone knew these guys were juicing, the owners, they loved it, for every homerun Barry hit, you think the Giants owners werent just tickled green? They were. and they werent going to tell these guys not to juice, the owners made far more money off of steroids than the players did, I guarantee that. The stadiums were packed to see guys like Sosa and McGwire and Bonds go deep. Every night. I did hate to see these all time greats players being passed in the record books left and right though. But then you have guys like Mike Schmidt who I heard in an interview once say, hell if they had steroids when i played I would have done them too. So i dont want to cast off these players and try and pretend they never played, or even worse make them out to be these evil villains.....(well maybe Bonds) the numbers should stand, MLB let them be achieved without trying to stop it until the government made them put rules in place. They should stand and the guys who achieved them should be able to stand up also, but they should be willing to take whatever they get from teh fans. I just hope that the fans realize that roids or not, these guys were great players. they were no poindexters who shot up and became homerun champions........well maybe Brady Anderson, but still..........

Just amazing stuff Y4L, I cant believe that Bristol was paid that much, wouldn't even half that amount been far more than necessary and the other half probably could have gone along way to preventing MORE than one teen pregnancy. I maybe opening a can of worms but i want to ask, because i dont know if i have a true opinion on the matter yet, but how is Manny taking steroids cheating, if pretty much everyone in MLB was taking them. If most every player was taking them, and they werent against league rules at teh time, then isnt that HOW the game was played rather than cheating how the game was played? now i think that the whole steroid era is a black mark on the history of the game, but to relegate the great players who played during teh time to the dog pile is to much for me. Bonds, McGwire, Giambi, Clemens, Manny, Sosa, Palmero and alot of others were Great players. If pretty much the rest of the league juiced too, then these guys were teh best of an era, and i think in my mind they still stand up with history. its just to bad that their numbers are skewed, and we cant really fit them in with the true giants of the past becasue of that. I think they would have fit in nicely. What bothers me the most about the steroid era is 2 things. 1 guys like Alan Trammell didnt get a fair shake at the hall in my mind because of the numbers the guys on roids making the normal numbers of some great players who played in the late 70s and 80s look smaller than they were. I mean trammell had a great career, and his numbers were good. but at the time he should have been getting votes for the hall, guys like arod, and other Shortstops were putting up 1st basemen kind of numbers. .300 40 120 each year they shot up. they made Tram look like a pedestrian when he should have been getting a invitation to make a speech. The other thing about the roids era is this. Not everyone who played the game in that time was on Juice. there is no prof no alligation no hint that ive heard that that a guy like Jeff Bagwell ever had an injection of anything in his life, and he didnt get very much a a sniff for the hall this year. Thats a shame and its because the voters are just waiting for something to come up on him. But what if they wait 15years, and gasp, nothing ever surfaces? hey lets wait till the guy dies before they realize he never did roids and should have been recognized as an all time great that he was........ Charlie Sheen could die or get elected president, i dont care, he means nothing to me and makes no difference in my life. He came and went from and to Detroit I wouldnt have known it if i hadnt read it here. earthquakes tsunamis hurricanes and revolution after revolution around the world. If these things arent enough to make you think 2x about the Mayan Calendar proficies, how about this: Cleveland Indians in first, Royals are in 3rd 1 GB you got Baltimore in 1st and Toronto in 3rd 1GB i see Cincinatti in first, with FREAKIN PITTSBURGH in 2nd 1GB and teh TEXAS RANGERS were in the World Series last year. just sayin, looks like the end of the world to me guys. well, thats enough for me for today. take care all

Excellent review Y4L, thank you. I hope you had a good time with this one, we had a great time making it. And to note, the Stadiums arent "new" but rather they are less used stadiums that Dennis changed around as much as he could and added new banners and such to give you a nice feel of a new park you have not actually played in. I love what he did for this. your write up has made me want to come on back and start working on our next adventure. Maybe this weekend. thanks Y4L

Sunny or RAining Y4L why leave teh house when you can watch your damn yankees bash the tigers heads in?

There arent enough words Joel, If you want to really know what I think of this mod, click on over to the download page for it.