Misopogon

These files will set the MLB rosters to official current rosters of 5/21/2010, and also change all of the portraits that MVP Modders have uploaded to date. For example, rookie Austin Jackson's portrait will appear in all of its awesome glory when you play with the Tigers. and Curtis Granderson...[sob]...will STILL be wearing...a Yankee hat. Unless.... (good blog where I got that from: http://roarofthetigers.wordpress.com) They are NOT, and I repeat NOT for use to start a franchise with. If you wish to start a franchise with current rosters and still use this mod, I will tell you below how to do that, but it's complicated. Let me write that again in bold. They are NOT, and I repeat NOT for use to start a franchise with. Next time I'm busting out <h1> tags. Don't think I won't do it. I will try to continue to update the portrait file with the rosters as the year progresses, but the pain-in-the-butt-itude of doing so may prevent me. Step 1: BACK UP YouR FILES Step 2: Portrait.iff and portrait.cdf go in your MLB 2K10 folder, most likely C:\Program Files\2K Sports\MLB 2K10 Step 3: Roster.ROS goes in your saves folder under Application Data. For Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR USER NAME]\Application Data\2K Sports\Major League Baseball 2K10\Saves Now, if you want to start a franchise with the current rosters, DO NOT replace your Roster.ROS file, just the Portrait files. Allow MLB2K10 to download the current rosters. Next, start your franchise, and save it. Close MLB2K10 Now, you will need tywiggins' roster editor. In the roster editor, open your newly created franchise. Now find the following players and change their "Portrait" value to the following: Jeff Clement 9258 Allen Craig 9005 Ian Desmond 9058 Brian Duensing 9305 Jim Edmonds 9301 Jaime Garcia 9201 Craig Gentry 9001 Luke Gregerson 9254 Mark Grudzielanek 9009 Jason Heyward 9109 Austin Jackson 9154 Kenshin Kawakami 9209 Brad Kilby 9150 Mike Lamb 9250 Rodrigo Lopez 9344 Colby Lewis 9244 Joe Mather 9019 John Raynor 9044 Ben Sheets 9219 Scott Sizemore 9144 Greg Smith 9040 Craig Stammen 9240 Steven Strasburg 9340 Mitch Talbot 9248 Jake Westbrook 441 Jordan Zimmerman 9115 Brennan Boesch 9315 Brad Thomas 9164 Starlin Castro 9183 Aroldis Chapman 9264 Chapman is in, but since he isn't in the official rosters yet you have to create a player then change the portrait to that number. Of course, to care you would probably be a Reds fan, in which case, dude, Opening Day is over, man; how do the Bengals look this year? I tried this method twice and played two games (both spring training) without getting the crash to desktop. Let me know if you have problems and I will change the README file to not mention the thing about starting a franchise anymore.

For this file description, I would like to ask the assistance of a member of the audience... Ooh, pick me! Okay, that guy, step right up. Sweet. [waves] Hi honey! Okay, sir, please tell the audience your name. I am the Bolded Subconscious Alternate Personality of Misopogon. Now, have you and I ever met before? No. That's not how multiple personality disorder works. So, Bolded Subconscious Dual Personality Guy, I'm going to say a word, and you are going to tell me the first thing that pops into your head, and it's going to be the same thing the entire audience is thinking too. Ready? Ready. Okay, here goes: Red Sox. Red feet? No. Ummm...red arms? No. Those red marks you get on your legs from reading on the toilet? No, and thanks for the imagery. Okay, I give up. It's a Green Monster. ... what? I said: Green Monster. Like this? No, actually, it's more like a wall in their stadium. Like this: Why would they call a wall at the stadium of a team with "Red" in its name the "Green Monster?" It's a quirk. Oh, I get it: like those weird things they're putting in new stadiums for no discernible reason whatsoever, like swimming pools and carousels and luxury boxes in Detroit and the like." No, dude, this stadium's been around since, literally, the week Titanic sank. Shut-up, not everyone's seen that movie yet - don't spoil the ending. So it's tradition. I get that. Yes. But it's green. And the team wears Red. Isn't there something we can do about this? I'm glad you asked. Whoa, it's like...a Red Sox uniform...except it's.....Green! That's amazing! Yep. And guess what it replaces? Those ugly red alternate home jersey that they got back when like every team in MLB -- even those who don't have red in their kits -- decided they needed red alternate jerseys? No. Those stay. These replace the home batting practice alternates (uniform_bor_bph.iff). Like Christmas in July! So that's cool. They have a quirky green wall in their stadium that's as old as James Cameron's directorial career, but they also have Red Socks, so they use both as their primary colors. Umm...actually, their other color is blue. Blue... Blue. Blue? Blue. Like the royal blue that MLB 2k10 has them wearing in their road alternates? No, more like the navy blue Mod that I have included in the zip package that replaces the alternate road uniforms. I like it. Question, though: Shoot. Why didn't they just paint the wall red? Now who's being ridiculous?

Did you know: The Buffalo Bisons of Buffalo are from Buffalo. The Buffalo Bisons of Buffalo (We're from Buffalo!) are normally the AAA affiliate of the New York Mets, but occasionally, they double as the actual New York Mets... Trust me, you want to click this Pretty neat huh? They replace the home and away for Buffalo, the Mets' minor league franchise. I made them because I was bored of the whites while stuck in AAA (I refuse to improve my stamina, the club refuses to promote me, and I've got Scott Boras handling it (actually just biding my time while trying to avoid the glitch that kills your My Player). Bonus: Extra special super secret never worn Mets alt in there (it's the old "New York" aways with Mr. Met on the sleeve -- was my first mod) Also: they're from Buffalo.

D-DAY UPDATE: As promised, blue away version now available as well! Many years ago, when EA Sports still made baseball games, I went to visit my best chum for a legendary Mets@Boston, Mets@Yankees, Pirates@Mets baseball trip over a long July 4 weekend. The key to this was me being able to work from his apartment in SoHo on Friday. That Friday, I awoke, climbed out of bed, and proceeded to have the most productive day of my career. The key: not once, from 8:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m., did I ever put on pants. When my buddy came home I related how, clad only in a t-shirt, boxer briefs and fluffy bunny feet,* I had managed to complete a yeoman's share of tasks. And together we envisioned a Seinfeld Episode: Unfettered. Our episode takes place while George is working for the Yankees. Elayne is dating a prolific author who puts out a 1,000-page novel twice a year. His secret, which he divulges to the group: he always writes "unfettered." Jerry tries it to quickly write new jokes when he realizes he will be playing two nights in a row to the same audience. At the Diner, the group discusses which areas are "pants free zones," and which areas require one, even in private, to always wear pants. Kramer of course picks up on this too and suddenly becomes very productive, revisiting and accomplishing many of his cockamamie schemes from previous episodes. This also means he is constantly coming into Jerry's apartment "unfettered," to get foods. This is a problem for Jerry, who is dating a pastor's daughter who is very very prudish and freaks out at the sight of people not wearing pants (catching Jerry is strike 1, after which he assures her his apt is not a "Pants Free Zone"). Meanwhile, George has been working like a madman, as the Yankees are pulling of a gazillion trades at the trade deadline and he must do all sorts of scouting reports. He can't keep up, and every time he manages to go home, i.e. Jerry's place, he is called back into work. The author, too, is falling behind, since he is spending so much time with Elayne (his publisher is demanding the next book). Hoping to catch up, he drops trou in Jerry's apartment and gets to work there, which is the last straw for Jerry's girlfriend when she comes in and sees it (and thus decides Jerry's apt is a pants-free zone). Finally, we go back to George at the Yankees office. It's 1 a.m. and he still has more than 7 hours left of work. He looks around the empty office, drops trou, and gets to work. He is discovered the next morning, passed out at his desk with his pants down. At the end of the episode, we see Steinbrenner (from the back of course), reviewing George's massive report, and as the camera zooms out we see clearly the source of all the trade activity: Steinbrenner has been working "unfettered."** This was our idea for an episode. If you've followed the clues above you will already know that Seinfeld was no longer airing. I bring it up now because I later realized that we were hardly the first people to realize that working "unfettered" increases productivity: Bill Veeck (rhymes with "neck"), genius. Untucked t-shirt, knees and leg hair freed to breathe -- inspirational! Unfortunately, increased productivity does not allow one to do the impossible. Alas, no 1974 White Sox unis. But I got the next best thing: 1979 unis: The files are uniform_chw_cl1.iff (white on white, replaces the Classic home), uniform_chw_cl2.iff (blue on blue, replaces Classic away), and uniform_chw_alt_1.iff (blue on white, replaces alternate). To use them, BACK UP YOUR FILES, and then place the .iff files in this zip in your folder. If more than 20 people download this, I'll make the blue aways. And remember: even working unfettered, it is not okay for the White Sox to win. Think of the kittens. ------------------ * Cold floors ** His boxers had little Yankee logos.

These files will set the MLB rosters to official current rosters of 4/30/2010, and also change all of the portraits that MVP Modders have uploaded to date. For example, rookie Austin Jackson's portrait will appear in all of its awesome glory when you play with the Tigers, and Curtis Granderson...[sob]...will be wearing...[shudder] a Yankee hat (Oh the wrongness!) (image from Samara Pearlstein's blog, "Roar of the Tigers." If you like my mods, please give her some link love). By the way, it's 50 megs, so...yeah. I will try to continue to update the portrait file with the rosters as the year progresses, but the pain-in-the-butt-itude of doing so may prevent me. Step 1: BACK UP YouR FILES Step 2: Portrait.iff and portrait.cdf go in your MLB 2K10 folder, most likely C:\Program Files\2K Sports\MLB 2K10 Step 3: Roster.ROS goes in your saves folder under Application Data. For Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR USER NAME]\Application Data\2K Sports\Major League Baseball 2K10\Saves FYI, the unused spaces I used to put in rookies and returnerswere as follows: 5 = Jeff Clement 9 = Allen Craig 12 = Ian Desmond 22 = Brian Duensing 30 = Jim Edmonds 33 = Jamie Garcia 39 = Craig Gentry 48 = Luke Gregerson 50 = Mark Grudzielanek 65 = Austin Jackson 81 = Kensihin Kawakami 90 = Brad Kilby 104 = Mike Lamb 115 = Rodrigo Lopez 119 = Colby Lewis 123 = Joe Mather 134 = John Raynor 139 = Ben Sheets 147 = Scott Sizemore 162 = Greg Smith 164 = Craig Stammen 172 = Steven Strasburg 176 = Mitch Talbot 179 = Jake Westbrook 181 = Jordan Zimmerman 192 = Brennan Boesch

Because you asked... The Chicago White Sox are probably the most misnomer-ed team in MLB. Case in point, these guys are called "White Sox:" But these guys are called "Black Sox:" Also, the third guy from the left, who is clearly wearing leather coverings on his feet, was called "Shoeless." Accurate in lower-body wear this franchise is not. You know the story. You've seen the movie. The 1919 White Sox were a stellar collection of baseball talent, a mix of the motley superstars returning from WWI and some great, clean-cut guys Charles Comiskey acquired in the interim. Problem is, they all didn't get along so well, and some of the less clean-cut guys, who were making very little compared to the players who had joined since they left, jumped on 1st baseman Chick Gandil's plan to throw the World Series. Among the guys thrown out of baseball after the throwers got caught was "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, one of the best young players in the game. Kennesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's first commissioner and a guy who is very unlikely to be found in heaven, decided that those implicated, even Buck Weaver, who refused to take part in the fix, and Joe Jackson, who teammates admit was not part of it (they gave his name to gamblers to increase their claim), would never be seen in a Major League park again. Until now... I made three versions of this: Home, Away, and Home alt: uniform_chw_home.iff = Pinstriped Home uniform_chw_away.iff = pinstriped grays uniform_chw_alt_1.iff = no pinstripes home To use them, BACK UP YOUR FILES, and then place the .iff files in this zip in your folder. I also included the 1917-1918 flag patches worn during WWI (the White Sox kept wearing them well into 1919 because they didn't get new uniforms until the middle of the season). I could have made 100, when you take into account all the DIY changes to buttons and whatnot that photos of this era showed. Apparently, Comiskey was too cheap to have the uniforms cleaned or repaired. Example (note the black button replacement). Remember, please use these kits responsibly. Though you may look awesome wearing these, that does not make it okay for the Wrong Sox to ever, ever win. Think of the kittens.

First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League. Until 1924. That's when the Sens finally got one for the Big Train, Walter Johnson. Whaddaya say, Joe Martina? Ehhhhhhh. It took them a red-hot September and 12 innings into Game 7, but Washington finally prevailed. And amazingly, they did it wearing the most boring uniforms ever: Note the lack of any names or numbers on the back. Note the sparse pinstripes of the home. Note the extraordinary "W" logo which had to have taken a team of D.C. graphic artists months to come up with. Yet there's more to these unis than crushing ennui. Like really nice texture for the thick woolen flannels they used to wear. And, um, well it's got nice texture. Someone made these unis for 2k9: Also: there was a catcher on the Twins before Joe Mauer, but do you really care? These files replace the normal home and away uniforms for the Minnesota Twins. If you would like to put them in another uniform spot, rename the files: uniform_mit_home.iff = Normal Home uniform Uniform_mit_away.iff = Normal Road Unis uniform_mit_bph.iff = Home batting practice uniform_mit_bpa.iff = Road batting practice uniform_mit_cl1.iff = Home classic uniform_mit_cl1.iff = Road classic If you want to use these as alts for the Washington Nationals instead, in the file name where it says "mit" just change that to "wan". And yes, I know that punctuation goes inside quotation marks. Me and the guy who writes Alternate 1985 are having that out right now. We'll let the world know when we've decided on it. Anyhoo, this being a readme, I guess it's supposed to be helpful. So here's some helpful hints: 1. BACK UP YOUR FILES BEFORE PUTTING THESE IN. which, duh. 2. DOWNLOAD GENERIC MOD ENABLER and read up how to use it. This makes it really easy to, say, decide really quick if you want to have the 1924 Sens and 1928 Tigers play each other, but don't want to change file names.

You voted and you shall receive. Opening Day of 1927 was a crucible for baseball uniform development. That day, two premier teams premiered uniform elements in a place no-one might have dared to put a uni element: on their players' backs. One of these elements would go on to be a staple for virtually every uniform in sports. The other would pass into history, largely forgotten. Only a pennant race could decide. The New York Yankees thought they were hot stuff. They were all like "oooh, we got Babe Rooooooth," and stuff. But Detroit, managed by Ty Cobb, oly had the best hitter in baseball, Harry Heilmann. And in case you thought the Bronx had cornered the market on tubby sluggers, Detroit also featured Fats Fothergill. Not to mention a young Mechanical Man Charlie Gehringer, and Heinie Manush, who would have broken the slugging record 8 times in his career had he not finished 2nd all 8 times to the man who built the stadium with the short porch. Oh, and a, in case "Absolam Holbrook Wingo" isn't your best baseball player name ever, the '27 Tigers also had a pitcher named "Lil Stoner." The '27 Tigers finished 82-71 on the season, just 27 1/2 games behind the Yankees. Ultimately, it came down to the style of baseball more than the style of their shirtbacks: the '27 Yankees' strategy was murdering baseballs with just average pitching; the '27 Tigers' strategy was murdering MORE baseballs, and purely awful pitching. Of course, Murderer's Row was wearing plain white pinstripes and player numbers on their backs, while the Detroit Tigers were toying with the idea of a big honkin' Tiger on their backs. Tell 'em Sizemore: Major League Baseball was going to have one convention or the other: either numbers on players, or big honkin' Tiger heads. Unfortunately for all of us, posterity went with boring digits. But now you, at least, can go back to a time when big honkin' Tigers graced the backs of ballplayers big and bittle. How boring does the Bambino look now? These uniforms are a mix of the 1927 home and 1928 away uniforms for the Detroit Tigers. The look is mostly from 1927, one of the very few years in Tiger history when they didn't have an Olde English D on a white uniform. In 1928, the Tigers went back to the whites but put the Tiger logo on their backs. I put 'em on both, which, like unless you're a blind umpire, you can see that already. See? The file replaces your Batting Practice home jersey. If you change the name of it to uniform_det_home.iff, it will replace the home whites and the players' names will be visible (but still not the numbers, there being a big honkin' Tiger on the back). Remember, back up your original files.

So in 1938, with a week left to go on the season, Hank Greenberg, the "Hebrew Hammer," was sitting at 58 home runs. The record at the time: 60, by Babe. So Hank's mother promised him, if he hit 61 home runs, she would make him 61 gefilte fish. Hank didn't hit another home run all season. He and I have the exact same feelings on gefilte fish. The differences between us: 1. He could hit 2. He got to wear these cool kits for most of his career. Did you click on the opening image? Yes, it's textured. UPDATE: Version 2 now gets the wool/synthetic knit look down: Textured Uniforms ho! This is the Detroit Tigers' 1940s away jerseys. The "Health" patch on the sleeve was supposedly worn by every MLB team during the war, but photos show the Tigers wearing a different but similar patch. See Eddie Mayo. Whatever. We won the war that summer, and won the World Series that summer, and Hal Newhouser and Hammerin Hank and Go Tigers. Also, we had a guy on the 1945 Tigers named Dizzy Trout, which: awesome. For a list of many more funny Tiger names, see my post on Bless You Boys.

These are three alternates for the AA Erie Seawolves, inspired by the Wolves' oft-worn home alts: You'll note that I made them for home and away. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to turn off the player names on the back of the jersey (still haven't found a workable solution yet), so I had to get rid of the American Flag that Erie wears in place of a nameplate. Also, I altered the look of the chest logo, since the one the wolves actually use is kind of boring and doesn't match the look of the rest of the team's stuff. The third jersey I just made up. It's a tanktop version of their regular home gear. I used the hat logo as the chest logo.

This was posted several days ago in the Mod Announcements, but now I'm moving them here. The file comes with all you see here: Kick-**** '84 Tigers uniforms A ReadMe.txt file with extra blog pimping Image of Tram & Lou in the '84 World Series Example images of the unis in action Flowchart Motivational poster of David Wright with a mustache The file replaces the normal Tigers' aways. You also can re-name the file uniform_det_cl2.iff to replace the 1906 roadies. Eat 'em up!