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  1. Jim825
    It always leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but I wanted Boston to win last night (and again tonight). With both the Yankees and Tampa winning, it doesn't allow NY to put any distance between themselves and the Rays.
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    Two notable personal milestones were achieved during the 1974 season. The first came on April 8, when Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves blasted his 715th career home run, breaking the all-time career home run mark of 714 set by Babe Ruth. Aaron would finish his career with 755 home runs, a record that would stand until Barry Bonds broke it in 2007. The second milestone came on September 10, when the St. Louis Cardinals' Lou Brock stole his 105th base off pitcher Dick Ruthven and catcher Bob Boone of the Philadelphia Phillies. This broke the single-season stolen base record of 104, set by Maury Wills in 1962. Brock would go on to steal 118 bases, a record that would stand until 1982, when Rickey Henderson swiped 130. The 1974 World Series matched the two-time defending champion Oakland Athletics against the Los Angeles Dodgers with the A’s winning the Series in five games. Rollie Fingers figured in all four Oakland victories, posting a win and three saves, and was honored as the Series MVP. Oakland became the first team to win three consecutive Series since the New York Yankees won five in a row between 1949 and 1953; the win secured the A's status as one of the truly dominant teams of the 1970s. ------------------------------------------- The Total Classics 1974 mod brings you the sights and sounds of the 1974 baseball season. Besides rosters, portraits and audios, the mod provides themed menu screens and loading screens, stadium select screens with actual stadium photos, 1974 jukebox music, 1970's batter walkup music, an accurate 1974 schedule, a 1970's era overlay, and correct 1970's era stadiums for every team. ------------------------------------------- *** INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS *** - After you download the total_classics_1974.7z file, double-click to open it. - Extract the contents of the file into a folder. - Double-click the explodeme.exe file - Find the location of a CLEAN (or patched) copy of MVP Baseball 2005 and click "Extract". - Allow the program to extract all of the new content. - Play the new Total Classics 1974 mod. ------------------------------------------- *** VERSION HISTORY *** v3.0 1. Added DennisJames' new 1974 uniforms 2. Added DennisJames' totally groovy new logos 3. Removed logos for post-1974 teams v2.0 1. Home stadium for Montreal Expos changed to Jarry Park 2. Home stadium for New York Yankees changed to Shea Stadium since they played there in 1974 3. Added new stadium select screens for Jarry Park and Shea Stadium. 4. Added DennisJames' 1970's stadiums (Busch Stadium, Dodger Stadium, Shea Stadium, Veteran's stadium, Riverfront Stadium, Three Rivers Stadium, Astrodome, Baltimore Memorial Stadium, Fulton County Stadium, Cleveland Stadium, Metropolitan Stadium, Milwaukee County Stadium, Comiskey Park, San Diego Stadium, Candlestick Park, Royals Stadium, Tiger Stadium, Wrigley Field, Olympic Dome, Kingdome, Exhibition Stadium) 5. Added correct 1974 Milwaukee Brewers uniforms 6. Added some new faces 7. Fixed Bobby Murcer's jersey number 8. Fixed Dwight Evans face 9. Corrected spelling of Lynyrd Skynyrd in jukebox listing v1.0 Initial release
  3. Jim825
    The only thing I can think of here is that one or more cyberfaces are missing from your models.big file. Have you tried this multiple times with different teams or always with the same team? Have you checked the lineups and pitching rotations for the teams you are using to make sure that they are correct? When you checked the roster in MVPEdit, did you turn on faces and then go to the Appearance tab and scroll through one player at a time looking to see if the face exists? If you have a face number other than 900 - 915 that displays "No picture found", that will be your problem.
  4. Jim825
    I guess you need to find a nice Spanish tea set for him, then..... ;)
  5. Jim825
    That is done by modifying the text in the .LOC files. Most conversion mods make those changes for you as part of the entire mod. After installing the mod and starting the game, you will see the changed names.
  6. Jim825
    I'd love to see a game at Wrigley Field and Dodger Stadium.
  7. Jim825
    You've already got my e-mail address. Please add me to the list.
  8. Jim825
    The very first game I ever saw was a Saturday game in May or June of 1973 - Braves vs. Mets at Shea Stadium. I was in 6th grade and we took a school bus from Connecticut to New York. As I recall, we were in the nosebleed seats in the outfield, about as high as you could go, and the players looked SO small from where were. I've been to Fenway Park 5 or 6 times. The last time was probably 8 or 9 years ago. From 1999 - 2007, I saw at least one game in old Yankee Stadium each year. I probably saw 12 games over that span. As far as minor league games, I think I saw a New Britain Rock Cats (AA) game once and a Pawtucket Red Sox (AAA) game once. I went to college in Florida, and I did get to one Spring Training game. It was a 1983 game - Yankees vs. Dodgers at Vero Beach, FL. I remember that Billy Martin was managing the Yankees and Tommy Lasorda was managing the Dodgers.
  9. Jim825
    Here you go. Just extract the datafile.big file from the.rar file, copy it to your data \ datafile folder and you're good to go. bigger_pitchmeter_datafile.rar
  10. Jim825
    What previous roster set did you base this new one on? The reason I'm asking is because if you install these rosters on top of an unmodded version of MVP2005, the game will crash. For example, I started an exhibition game between the Red Sox and Yankees and as soon as the game was ready to start (after selecting the stadium), it crashed. I opened up the rosters in MVPEdit and started looking at the cyberfaces assigned to the players. I noticed that the cyberface assigned to Clay Bucholz on the Red Sox does not exist in the models.big file. The same is true for Mike Cameron. I stopped here because this explains why my crash occurred. Do these rosters need to be installed on top of another mod (e.g. the MVP08 mod?) or do they require a different models.big file that contains more faces (e.g. KG's mod) in order for them to work? You need to state any prerequisites required so that users know what they need to install before they install your rosters. Otherwise, you are going to get a lot of frustrated users (as you can see from some of the previous comments).
  11. Jim825
    That's some attitude you've got there. If there is an issue with your downloads, Trues will get it solved. He does the best he can at running this site, but you have to remember that this is not all he does. He has a job, a life, etc. He's not here 24/7 to personally solve your problems. If you'd rather not risk having problems, save your donation and simply stop attempting to download or go to another site.
  12. Jim825
    I don't want to start any fights here, and I don't speak for MVPMods (i.e. don't bring Trues or any of the other admins into this discussion), but there is a big difference between charging $5.00 for one mod and charging $5.00 for unlimited downloads forever on this site. Plus, if someone doesn't want to donate the $5.00, they can still download 2 mods a day for no charge at all.
  13. Jim825
    Thanks Don. It's good to know that I won't have to go back and "re-tweak" all of the mods I released (or currently have in production). :)
  14. Jim825
    Well Don, in all the years I've been using these for my single season mods, I never caught this mistake, and it hasn't had a noticeable effect on the stats when I sim a season. Perhaps when I make individual tweaks to get stats to look good, I am actually making a change to correct the issue. Looking back, I noticed two instances of the mentioned finger check: For pitchers: TA < 6 then TA + 5 For Shortstops: TA < 5 then TA + 4 If the shortstop setting should be changed as you mentioned in your last post, does that mean that the pitcher setting should also be changed so that it is TA < 6 then TA = 5?
  15. Jim825
    Y4L - If it makes you feel better, I've always liked the Wild Wild West. I remember watching it as a kid when when CBS broadcast it in prime time and then later watching it college when the re-runs were broadcast late at night.
  16. Jim825
    With 53 players on the Vikings roster, Brett Favre is only 1.88% of the total team. By hoping that Favre doesn't make the Super Bowl, it means that you are unfairly penalizing the other 98.12% of the team. When you look at the numbers that way, it doesn't seem right, does it? Yea, I know, I'm grasping at straws (as I sit here wearing my Fran Tarkenton Vikings jersey). I just really want the Vikings to win..... :sad:
  17. Jim825
    My father retired in 1994 and a year or two later, the newspaper he worked at (the New Britain Herald) was purchased by a large newspaper syndicate and switched over to morning delivery shortly after that. The newspaper was getting ready to be closed down last year but a new buyer came in about 2 weeks before the shutdown and saved the newspaper and all its employees.
  18. Jim825
    You're showing your age there. Like me, you can remember when they actually had newspapers that came out in the late afternoon. My father worked at one in Connecticut and I remember him bringing home the newspaper every night after work. Do they still have afternoon newspapers any more?
  19. Jim825
    Like you, my first experience with the Yankees winning the World Series was in 1977. I vividly remember many of the events from the summer of 1977 that are covered in this book, especially the news coverage from the hunt to find the Son of Sam killer (and of course the Yankees quest for the World Series title).
  20. Jim825
    Y4L - Did you ever read The Bronx is Burning? You may have seen the ESPN miniseries a few years ago based on the book. It's a very good read that ties together the 1977 NYC mayoral race, the 1977 NYC blackout, the Son of Sam serial killing spree and the turmoil within the Yankees organization. As a Yankees fan, I'm sure you would enjoy it.
  21. Jim825
    I should be all set. I've got all of your parks from my other TC mods as well as 1913 Ebbets Field. I've also got colorized versions of most of the default EA classic stadiums (these were released back in 2005). I will be taking a little artistic license, however, and include some of parks that you and Paul (or just Paul) created. For example, Paul's Crosley Field, Forbes Field and Polo Grounds are extremely close to the EA classics versions of the same parks. I keep going back and forth on which version of Griffith Stadium to use (the EA classic or Paul's). In addition, I'd rather use his 1950's Comiskey Park and Wrigley Field than U.S. Cellular and the 2005 version of Wrigley. For Yankee Stadium, I plan to use the v5.0 Classic Yankee Stadium that the two of you created and for Navin Field, I'll use a modified version of Tiger Stadium. Again, it won't be completely historically accurate and some purists may complain, but somehow, I'll still be able to sleep at night....
  22. Jim825
    That works for me. Send me what you have and we'll go from there. Also, I swapped PM's with Sal and he said that I can make whatever changes I want to the mod.
  23. Jim825
    I'll tell you what - I will take care of adding the remaining pieces to make the mod complete. I was just starting a new project, but I can shelve it for a short period of time to work on this. Consider it my Christmas / Chanukkah / Kwanza / Festivus gift to the MVPMods community. I was toying with doing this anyway (and surprising everybody), but before anyone else gets too far working on it, I'll just announce my intentions now. I know where all the pieces go (uniforms, faces, audio, in-game text, songs, etc.) and have done enough of these mods that I can do most of these tasks with my eyes closed and one arm tied behind my back, especially when I'm simply dropping in pieces from other TC mods. Y4L - I can take care of the jukebox music as well. Amazon has all kinds of MP3's that you can purchase, so I'll simply google some of the top songs from 1927 and purchase some songs. For the walkup music, I can use the music I created for the 1920's teams in the TC Walk Through History mod. All I ask is for a little patience on my getting this done. It shouldn't take me too long to do this, but my definition of "shouldn't take too long" may be different than the definition that others have. Also, for those who have used my mods, you know that I'm not going to rush a mod out before I think it's ready. I'll state now that uniforms and stadiums won't be perfect (I'm neither a stadium nor a uniform modder), but again, they will be closer than what is there today. I'll talk to Sal about this, but I'm sure that he won't have any problems with me adding the additional content for the mod.
  24. Jim825
    There are teams in TC10 with uniforms that could be used: 1909 Pirates 1924 Senators 1927 Yankees 1929 Cubs 1929 A's 1933 Giants 1934 Cardinals 1935 Tigers 1942 Browns 1948 Indians 1949 Dodgers 1950 Phillies EA Sports included a 1929 Braves uniform with MVP2005. Fizzjob created a series of mods that includes every White Sox uniform ever worn and redsox created a similar set of mods for the Red Sox, so accurate 1927 uniforms could be found for these teams. It would take a little work to extract the uniforms and uniform select screens from TC10 or other mods and then import them into the appropriate files for TC1927, but it's just grunt work (i.e. it's not too hard). Would all of these uniforms be exactly historically accurate for TC1927? No, but they would be closer to 1927 than to 2005.
  25. Jim825
    You're going to love HD, especially when it comes to sports. I remember when we first got HD service. I spent the first few days trying to watch a little of every kind of sport I could find on TV to see how good it looked. I also kept switching back and forth between the HD broadcast and non-HD broadcast of the same event to see how much better the picture was.
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