Yankee4Life

Beautiful! Glad you got it to work.

There a blast from the past. Good job Homer!

Another one for me was Wade Boggs. It was September 2nd, 1981 and it was the last day of the International League season. Not a lot of people were in the ballpark that early at Silver Stadium even though it was a really nice day. As I mentioned in the first post, the visiting clubhouse was down the first base line and underneath the stands. I'm standing near the dugout on the first base side just waiting for someone to come out. The only people out on the field were groundskeepers*. I was just about to leave to get myself a cold one - yep, a Coke with plenty of ice. But then I saw a ballplayer walking slowly in my direction. It was Boggs, the 1981 International League batting champion. Well, young Y4L put his Red Sox hating ways on pause and asked Wade Boggs for an autograph. I got it and we ended up talking for about ten minutes before he had to get ready for the game. It was a pleasure. And then fifteen years later he rode on a horse to celebrate the Yankees 1996 championship. Every time the YES network shows that clip it reminds me of the time back in Silver Stadium when I got his autograph. Other people that I got were Ken Boyer and Frank Robinson, both former players who managed the Triple A Red Wings. * One time I even got the head groundscrew man to sign my book because when I was a little kid I thought he was the one who owned all the baseballs and I kept on asking him for one.

I'd have loved to been able to get Doby's. And the same goes for Lombardi that dcstadium got. Another one for me was George Steinbrenner. It was on July 5th, 1976 and it was my first visit to Yankee Stadium. We were standing at the player's entrance watching them walk in and I saw Chris Chambliss but I wasn't fast enough. Then Steinbrenner arrived and I asked him to sign and he gladly did. I was pretty happy for the rest of the day even though the Yankees lost that day.

I won't tell you anything about that book except that you will enjoy it a lot. Have fun!

I have to say that is a very good likeness of Mantle.

A few years back there were some Korean guys who took the mods for the 2k game and tried to pass it off as their own.

Looks good! Makes me almost wish I had 2k12. Almost.

That's partially true. A group of rogue Ukrainian modders stole all his uniforms and stadiums that he made and have been trying to pass it off as their work. This is why he's been so preoccupied. I hope he does not mind me letting everyone know this.

Ok! Now's here's the part where we get out of the way so you can download like crazy!

Unbelievable!

Who the hell is Reggie Williams?

Why wouldn't he be?

I run mine on a XP laptop that I own. I hope you can get it to work.

That card really does look nice.

I guess this doesn't just have to be about getting a baseball player's signature. Anyone really. So the question is what is the best autograph you were able to snag and the details? I'll start off. 1. Hank Aaron. It was near the end of the 1986 International League season and Aaron came to visit the pennant winning Richmond Braves who just happened to be playing at Silver Stadium in Rochester. The visitor clubhouse at that ballpark was down the right field line and under the stands. I was there early just trying to get some autographs and another guy was with me. We saw Aaron go into the clubhouse and we looked at each other and said did you see who just went in there? We then agreed not to say a word about it to anyone else there because if we did there would have been a madhouse. So we shut our mouths and waited. Finally after about twenty minutes Aaron came out and he signed for the both of us and immediately after that a swarm of people came by him. That's when the ushers shooed everyone away and we both knew we had a once in a lifetime opportunity and didn't blow it. 2. Mike Torrez. You may think this would be an odd choice and you are probably also thinking that I broke out in a dance in front of him laughing about the 1978 playoff game. Not even close. I shook his hand and said thank you. He asked me "for what"? And I told him that I can understand his name is mostly linked with that famous playoff game but I wanted to thank him for what he did a year before that. You see, in the fifth game of the 1977 ALCS at Kansas City Torrez came on in relief of an ineffective Ron Guidry in the third inning and pitched 5 1/3 innings of scoreless baseball and by doing that the Yankees shut down the Royals the rest of the way and were able to win the game and pennant in the ninth inning. That's why I said thank you and I after I said it I could tell it meant a lot to him.

Yes it is an important tool. But there should be no reason why you can't download it. Does it time out all the time you try? I'll log back on here tomorrow to see if you can finally get this file.

I have no idea why you are getting that message. I wish I could help you. All I know is that there is nothing wrong with the link. I don't know how you can fix that.

I can't even see your screenshot because it is so small.

I don't know what you mean. The link for TiT is right here and there is no problem with the download.

This week recognition is given to a modder who provided updated portraits to the last three modern day conversion mods that we made here and a cyberface modder who first became well known for his work in Mvp before moving on to 2k Sports baseball. And the Behind the Scenes modder this week is another guy who helped make the players in Total Classics look so good. PhilthePat Philthepat was a modder who created updated portrait sets for existing mods that included photos of players that for some reason had their status changed after the mod was released. These were made after trades were made during the season and in the off season and with free agent signings. Each of these new portraits made the mods look a lot better. August Portraits Update. For Mvp 13 Offseason Portraits Update. For Mvp 12 Missing Portrait Set #1. Set of two. For Mvp 2008. 2009 Updated Major League Portraits. For Mvp 2008. Complete Portrait Update. For Mvp 2008. Zach Many of the new members here know Zach from his excellent cyberface work in MLB 2k11 and before that he created stadiums for the 2k9 and 2k10 versions of the game. And even before he began lending his hand to improve the 2k Sports game he was creating some very impressive cyberfaces for Mvp Baseball. No matter what game he happens to be working on his cyberface contributions stand out in it. For MLB 2K 11 Matt Kemp Cyberface. Jimmy Rollins Cyberface. Josh Hamilton Cyberface. Ryan Braun Cyberface. Cliff Lee Cyberface. This particular cyberface is so good that it looks like a photograph. Behind the Scenes TheMadcap TheMadcap was another modder whose contributions included creating quality cyberfaces that were used in Total Classics and Mvp 06 and 07. His individual mods were all of Phillie players including the very first cyberface of Gio Gonzalez when he was playing in the Philadelphia minor league system.

I am not too sure of what is going on around here with this download except that I've had two reports that a file of his is broken. Just by taking a guess here it appears to me that lifo80050917 is updating this mod. If this is the case then just let him do it. It will be done.

Updated to 3-2 ...I feel bad for the Australian officials who are working hard to get everything ready for next month's Major League games that will be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Baseball's pretty big down under and it's getting even more popular so you can understand the organizers are doing everything they can to make the best impression possible. So you can understand their disappointment when they heard that one of the players who is making the trip to Sydney say publicly that there is no excitement in going to Australia and honestly can not think of one reason to get excited about going there. One thing that is pretty clear here is that Zach Greinke is not that well known down there because if he was they would have ignored his comments and just considered the source because Greinke has as many psychological issues as Derek Jeter has base hits. ...I understand the need to promote baseball around the world. The game doesn't need any bolstering in Asia anymore because they are baseball-crazy over there. There hasn't been a regular season game in Europe yet and I wonder if that is next and if relations with Cuba ever improve they will go wild to host a few major league games there. But let me tell you what I really miss. Opening Days that begin in Cincinnati. I remember many years ago that on the first game of the season, even though there were a full slate of games to be played in the eastern time zone, the Reds would begin their game a half hour before everyone else. That was baseball then and it's just another tradition that has been taken away over time. ...So far the first few days of Yankees camp have been pretty good. The shock of Derek Jeter's retirement announcement has worn off and life has gone on as we know it. But then Alfonso Soriano put a smile on everyone's faces (well, at least mine) when he said that he also may retire at the end of this season. He said it depends on how he feels. If he feels ok, Soriano will play next year. If he doesn't feel ok then he won't. That's good. There's no room for debate. Either one way or the other. Here's hoping he has a year like Curtis Granderson had last year. ...Last week the temperature around here rarely got above ten degrees and on two occasions I was forced to leave the house to run some errands and get gas and each time I was out I saw people walking around without a coat on and who were seemingly oblivious to the cold front going on literally before their eyes. And here I was wearing a winter coat with the hat and gloves along with it and I'm saying to myself that even with this stuff that I'm wearing I'm the one that ends up catching the colds instead of them. ...Colorado has been raking in the money since retail sales of marijuana became legal this past January 1st and it's no wonder because their highways have been jammed with out of state visitors since that day who have all suddenly decided to visit the Centennial State. Some of the money that the marijuana sales generate will go towards substance abuse prevention and youth marijuana use prevention. In other words they plan on printing out a bunch of pamphlets to pass around to all the schools in the state telling schoolchildren to avoid it but once they are of legal age by all means buy as much as you want. And in Washington, the other state that legalized cannabis in 2014, things are looking just as good financially for the state. Economic forecasters are predicting that Washington's new legal recreational marijuana market will bring nearly $190 million to state over the next four years. It should be noted that this figure was estimated before the Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl because by the middle of the fourth quarter when the Seahawk fans knew they were going to win they started lighting up and passing the pipe around and running out to get more. You have to wonder how long California with all their money problems will hold out and join these two states because if they do their sales will overshadow Colorado and Washington combined. ...I have to give Orioles manager Buck Showalter a lot of credit for being a no-nonsense sort of manager especially with the young prima donnas that seem to be all over baseball now on every single team. When Hall of Famer Frank Robinson visited Baltimore's spring training home last week in Sarasota, Florida, Showalter casually asked Josh Hart, a ninteen-year-old prospect of the ballclub if he knew who he was. Hart said he didn't and that he never heard of him. Now had you asked him if he knew who Mario Brothers were he'd be able to tell you but Frank Robinson to him was a mystery. Showalter couldn't believe it and instead of giving him chapter and verse on who Robinson was and what he accomplished he made him submit a one page report to him so he could be sure that he knew who he was. Talk about an easy homework assignment. Although it would have been funny had he given Showalter the report the next day just as he asked but instead of writing about Frank Robinson he wrote about Brooks. ...This isn't the first time we've heard of younger players not knowing who the older players were. It's just that this time it happened to make the wire stories. I remember something that Don Mattingly of all people said many years ago about Babe Ruth that still is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. Early in his Yankee career he was asked a question about Babe Ruth and he said that when he was growing up he thought that Babe Ruth was a cartoon character and the reason why he thought that was because he wasn't born until 1961 and that he grew up in Indiana. There are some things you just can not make up. ...A big middle finger to Joe Torre and Tony Larussa for changing the rules concerning home plate collisions. Understand that I don't get any satisfaction out of seeing the catcher or the baserunner get hurt on these plays but by putting these rules in you could cause other injuries. One of the new rules states that the catcher can not block the plate without the baseball. What if he's waiting for a throw? Where is he going to wait, in the on-deck circle? When the throw is coming what do they expect from him? To run in front of the plate, catch the ball and either run or dive back to make the tag? Try to picture that in your mind's eye for a moment. Wouldn't that leave the catcher wide open to any base runner who is charging towards home as fast as he can? And the other thing that is now banned is that baserunners can not deviate from the direct path to the plate in order to initiate contact with the catcher. Now what the *$#& do you want to do that for in the first place? Again, try to picture this. You've just rounded third and are going to try to score but before you try to do that you are going to veer off a foot and a half to your right so you can plow the catcher. What for? This is all being done because of the injury that happened to Buster Posey a couple of years ago but as serious as it was it wasn't a cheap shot and it was part of the game. ...There was a bill in Arizona last week that was currently awaiting the approval or rejection of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer that many people across the country were paying close attention to. It was a bill that would protect any Arizona businesses that refuses service to gays and others on religious grounds and that the governor ended up vetoing last Wednesday. This was one of those topics that if you came out and publicly said you supported it you risk the chance of practically getting labeled a monster and someone who is intolerant towards others. You may think I am exaggerating the point a little here but I don't think by much. Right or wrong I feel that this is something that should only involve the people in Arizona because it should not matter what I think, being a New York State resident. It's none of my business. The NFL also kept watch on what happened down in Arizona because as they said in a PR statement last week their policies "emphasize tolerance and prohibit any kind of discrimination." This is also the same league that employs rapists, killers and wife beaters. I don't trust any organization that comes out making statements like this because you have no idea when the sincerity stops and the bull**** takes over. Without even saying it the NFL is getting the point across that if the bill passed the Super Bowl may not be played in Arizona in 2015. If that ended up taking place it would not have been the first time that the NFL took its football and went to play somewhere else. Back in 1990 when Arizona voters refused to honor Martin Luther King's birthday as a holiday the league moved the 1993 Super Bowl to Pasedena, California and as soon as the NFL saw that those same voters were going to play nice when they approved King's birthday as a holiday a few years later, they gave them the 1996 game. Maybe the next bill that comes before Governor Brewer is the one to send the Cardinals back to St. Louis. ...A man's got to live somehow, Dept: Spring training has already started but Ervin Santana has not budged one inch on his demand for a fifty million dollar contract for four years. That's pretty steep for a guy who didn't even have a winning record last year. So, he's sitting home waiting for some major league team that is dumb enough to sign him and he knows that could happen at any time after someone goes down with the first major injury of the spring. Besides, Ubaldo Jimenez recently got a deal for around the same amount of money he's looking for with Baltimore and wherever he goes Santana knows he can give up just as many home runs. ...There is a wild tiger that is loose in the northern part of India that has killed ten people over the course of two months, some so bad that they were beyond recognition. Since this has been going on the people in that area have been terrified of where and when this tiger is going to strike again. Right now a hunt is going on with the intent to shoot and kill this animal and be done with it but amazingly enough there are some wildlife conservationists who do not want these hunters to kill it and they also don't want it to be captured and be sent off to a zoo someplace. Naturally they did not offer any answers on what should be done about this problem. It seems that all they were good for was telling everyone what not to do. Somehow I don't think they'd have any problems with a hunter shooting that thing where it stood if they were face-to-face with it and they were going to be her next meal. ...What the hell is going on down in Florida? They've already got Pythons, boa constrictors, alligators and some snail that has a hard enough shell that it can puncture your car tires. Now they have something called a tegu lizard that has already been seen by residents in central Florida more than one hundred times now. These damned things can reach up to four feet in length and weigh up to thirty-five pounds and while they are not a threat to people, they have a bite on them that can literally crush the bones in your hands. Just like the snakes they have down there these lizards were originally released into the wild by idiots who bought them as pets and didn't know what to do with them anymore. If I lived down there I wouldn't go anywhere without a baseball bat in my hand ready to clobber anything I see slither around. All of a sudden the snow and freezing temperatures don't seem so bad. ...Finally I have to stop and remember the greatness that was Harold Ramis. I first saw him when one of the TV stations in town began airing reruns of Second City and this guy was hilarious. They all were. Writer, actor, director, comedian, the guy could do it all and he did. R.I.P.

The Book of the Month for March is The Long Ball - Summer of '75 - Spaceman, Catfish, Charlie Hustle & Greatest World Series Ever Played. Book Description. The 1975 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds is generally considered the best of all time, and baseball historians often rank its sixth game as the greatest single game ever played. In this resoundingly acclaimed bestseller, Tom Adelman tells the story of the season that led up to that classic Series and then delivers the inside pitch on those amazing seven games. I will be doing something different this month for this book since I had no idea if anyone downloaded last month's book and I want to be sure that I am not just wasting my time here because I can find other things to do. I see too many people uploading their mods here and they hardly get a thank you or some kind of comment. Those guys are not here because they work for you and I, they are here because they donate their own time and skills to improve Mvp 05 or the 2k game. Ok, off my soapbox. However if you want this book then you come in this thread and make a post saying that you'd like it. That's it. Then I will provide you with the links for this because this is a full and unabridged audio reading of this book. It's twelve CD's. And if anyone thinks I am going to upload twelve CD's that no one plans on downloading then...well I won't answer that.

Here I am thinking he is talking about a milkshake.