Yankee4Life

I believe you. As soon as you told me this I disabled this mod. How are you a newbie? You have been here over four years now.

I really find this hard to believe. In fact I don't believe it at all. You have been a member here since 2009. Are you going to honestly tell me that you didn't know what you did would cause this kind of problem? You have been here long enough to see how quickly other people have been caught doing exactly what you did and how upset people become when this happens. There is no way you can plead ignorance here.

Now that I have disabled that mod by wilmer101 I want to come back and answer your post. When we are aware of people doing this to other modders we act quickly and help out the modder as fast as we can. Just ask daflyboys how quick I disabled the roster that someone uploaded not too long ago that was a direct steal of his work. On our end files are uploaded and await approval for everyone on the site to have access to. We do not know if any of the work is stolen unless we are told. Then we act as fast as we can. This is what I did to help solve this bad situation as you put it. I took that mod off line so no one can download it anymore. Wilmer101's uploads will be monitored from here on out. If there is anything else I can do let me know.

Basically by checking Google translate you said all you did was add a beard to the cyberface. Well you can't even do that without permission. Don't bother to upload anything here again if you are only going to take other people's work and modify it a little.

Quoting jogar from the "Boston Barbas Face" mod: I didn't see this jogar or really pay attention to it because I did not download the Boston beard cyberfaces at all. You say this is your work and I believe you. This mod has now been disabled.

Are you telling me that this guy took your work (or someone else's) ?

Hey don't you worry one bit my friend. Your health and your family come first. This is secondary and you get well first before doing anything with this game. Take care of yourself!

Updated to 10-13 ...I thought I was done listening to Michael Kay for the year but there he was, announcing the Athletics - Tigers series on ESPN radio. I was listening to him online since I wasn't near a TV because I had some work to do on the computer and I kept on waiting for him to start singing the praises of Derek Jeter. ...Thanks to a nine year old boy who slipped through security at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport and who was able to fly on a Delta Air Lines plane to Las Vegas without a boarding pass, the TSA is no doubt going to come up with some more new rules to inconvenience passengers that are not runaways. Crew members became suspicious of the boy during the flight because he was behaving himself and not bothering other passengers and contacted the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department who picked up the boy when the plane landed and returned him to his family in Minneapolis. The boy was able to get through the airport security and board the plane when TSA agents were busy checking out the nude x-ray of the woman in front of him but how he got to the airport in the first place and why didn't anyone, like his parents, report him missing made no sense. His father, who refused to identify himself and hid behind a hood tied tightly to his face explained that the kid went to go throw the garbage out and when he didn't come home they assumed he was at the home of one of his friends. Instead he took a train to the airport and the rest is history. Right there is where they lost me. Here was this guy at a press conference hiding his face and literally crying to the press that he needed help with this boy because he doesn't listen to them and does what he wants to do all the time but in the same breath he admits he had no idea where he was and just assumed he was with a friend. This family needs more than help raising an out of control kid. ...I am about as far away from California as you can get while still living in the continental U.S. but even I am aware of the money problems that the Golden State has been going through for quite some time now. So when I read that they spent one billion dollars to purchase iPads for over 650,000 students for the kids in Los Angeles in an effort to boost their interest in their school work, the skeptic in me immediately came to the surface once again. Sure enough a group of kids cracked the security settings in the tablet and instead of having something to help them with their homework they are instead using it to play games and update their Facebook accounts, which as everyone knows is much more important. The L.A. school system's goal is to have an iPad in the hands of every student and teacher in the city's 1,000 schools by next year. As soon as Apple found that out they must have been doing backflips. Their purpose was to assist students in a district where 80 percent of the students come from low-income families and this idea could actually work if they only can figure a way to block Facebook. ...Even in Saudi Arabia online pictures can get you in trouble. When a Saudi man saw a picture that his wife posted of her tenderly kissing her pet horse in a display of love and affection he immediately told her to pack up her riding gear and get out because he was divorcing her. Isn't that something? Who the hell knew that there was divorce in Islam? Usually they just go straight to the beheading or stoning part and call it a day. ...I don't feel too bad for Matt Flynn even though Oakland had to give up a draft choice to get him. The Raiders weren't going to use him and after five games he has a good chance to hook up with someone else for the remainder of the season (Jacksonville maybe?) instead of sitting on the bench. Sure, the Raiders looked bad by doing this but what I like most about this move is that they owned up to making a mistake in trading for him right now instead of stringing him along. And with fourteen million dollars left on his contract that he signed with Seattle I won't worry about him at all. ...Commissioner Roger Goodell is really pushing having NFL games played in London because the league scheduled three regular season games next year at London's Wembley Stadium next year with the Jaguars, Falcons and Raiders being the "home" teams. I had no idea that American football was so popular in Europe. I recall that NFL Europe league that they had a few years ago. The crowds weren't that good and most importantly to the NFL, they weren't making any money. It's no secret that Goodell wants a team in London and like any big shot in the sports world he'll probably get his way. ...Goodell was also busy last week when he said he would agree to meet with representatives of the Oneida Indian Nation to discuss the possible name change of the Washington Redskins. I know I have commented on this before but this is just getting more out of control as time goes on. And why does the Oneida Indian Nation have to get involved in this? These people are located in Central New York and the last time I looked at a map that's no where near Washington, D.C. Around here what these people are mostly known for is running the Turning Stone Resort Casino that does a hell of a good business and attracts many people from Upstate New York and Ontario, Canada. And now they get free press because they want the Redskins to change their name. Even the President commented about this by saying that he would think about changing the name of the team. I think right now he has more important things to concern himself than something like this and what to call an NFL team should be the very last. I guess I still look at things the old-fashioned way. Why were people more tolerant years ago? People back then did not walk around looking for something to be offended by but today all you got to do is look around and you'll see people bothered by the most ridiculous things possible just to get attention and when you get right down to it that is what this "name change" talk can be summarized to. When you get the representative from this Indian nation saying with a straight face that the name of a football team has caused very serious public health consequences for his people the logical thing would be to say how is this possible? But the public is so used to hearing excuses like this they don't even question them anymore. When I was in grammar school many years ago for some reason the entire sixth grade was made up of Redskin fans. When we were outside of school you could always tell who was a sixth-grader just by who was wearing a Redskin hat or coat . But what I most recall about this was there were two Indian boys that were part of the sixth grade class and these two were not shy in letting anyone know that they were Indian and who their favorite team was. Some of the other kids wished they were Indians too because those two kids looked at themselves as the best Redskin fans in the entire school. They were rooting on their team and that's all there was to it. I'm not saying that people years ago were better than people today because then I'd be overemphasizing my point. What I am saying is that people back then didn't spend their lives looking for any further reasons to be upset about something because everyday life, as it is today, was frustrating enough. ...David Freese (who makes 3 million a year) has had more clutch hits and big games in the post season than Alex Rodriguez (28 million a year) has ever dreamed of having. ...You ever get the feeling that every time the Atlanta Braves are in the playoffs they play like they want to go home for the winter as fast as they can? ...While I was watching the Tampa Bay Rays in the playoffs last week I couldn't help wondering how dangerous they would be if their ownership actually spent some money and signed a few hitters for them. ...With all the lawsuits that Alex Rodriguez has going on right now it's worth noting that Albert Pujols has one going on himself since he isn't in the playoffs this year and presently has nothing else to do. He's suing Jack Clark for comments he made over the summer that Pujols used steroids. To his credit Clark isn't backing down from what he said and has not apologized to Pujols. Truthfully I would be amazed if this ever went to trial because Clark's defense team will find witnesses and just maybe as an added attraction we will all find out how old Pujols really is. ...After finding out that Bruce Jenner split with his wife Kris Jenner all I had to say was what took him so long? He must have been either very tolerant or stupid to stick around for twenty-two years and I wish him luck from here on out although part of me is wondering if this is nothing but a publicity stunt to get more ratings for her talk show. ...The web has me so trained now that it's not even funny. Every time I click on a video I am used to being forced to watch a commercial before I get to what I want to see but on the rare instances when the ad is bypassed it always catches me by surprise. ...Hannah Anderson, the girl who made news by being kidnapped in early August, got herself back on the front page last Wednesday as she described new details with her time with her capture Jim Dimaggio. She is now claiming that he handcuffed her, bound her feet with a zip tie and tried to force her to play Russian roulette with his pistol. What I don't get about this is why are we hearing about this now after all this time has past? It could be that this has a lot to do with a new book that is soon going to be released that seriously questions her story and involvement in the deaths of her mother and little brother and she is now putting herself back in the spotlight to get attention away from that book since she knows nothing that she says can be corroborated. I've always wondered if Dimaggio had not of died that day how much we would have known what really happened because all we have to rely on is the word of a sixteen year old girl who on her return home after this nightmare has instead acted like she was just on an overnight sleep over at her friend's house with not a care in the world. ...Very sad to hear the story that came out of Denver last week when police found four young, very under-fed brothers who were forced to live in a filthy environment where rotten food, trash and insects were the norm and was also filled with an unbearable odor that was described like that of a decomposing animal. Their parents, who both looked like they haven't missed a meal in years, are facing felony child-abuse charges. All four boys were found wearing unwashed dirty clothing and could hardly talk at all and were taken away and placed in protective custody. The mother was released on bail while the father, who from the look of him last touched a razor sometime in the 60's, remained behind as a guest of the county in a nice, comfortable cell. ...Stories like this amaze me. There always seems to be people like this who slip through the cracks and when they are finally caught people are amazed at what they got away with. The sad part of all this is there are probably a lot more families like this one around the country that are still getting away with this. ...Last week I said that I wanted Tampa Bay, Oakland, Pittsburgh and Atlanta all to come out on top in the divisional series that they played in and every one of them lost. Good thing I didn't put any money on this.

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Topic moved to the Buy, Sell & Trade area, 10-10-13. Everyone, I know this guy from the Yankee Pride forums and he's a good guy. I read on that website yesterday that he was looking to sell Mvp 05 for the PC and I suggested that he come here to see if anyone on our site is looking for one. Thank you!

Not a chance. I think the only way anyone could have used all these White Sox choices is to install these in different mods. It can be done if you want to be creative about it. For example with the 1941 mod. Fizzjob has the Chicago uniforms from 1921 to 1944. Well it wouldn't be accurate but you can install as many late 1930's up to 1944 as you can in that mod and in the 1927 mod install uniforms from the 20's. Won't be 100% accurate but it can be done and somehow you'll get all these uniforms in different mods. Thank you. I'm glad you enjoy this thread. There's a lot more to come.

I couldn't wait to come in here during the time these uniforms were released Jim. Just when I thought I saw one that I thought to myself was my "favorite" they would come up with something else to change my mind. One thing I never asked fizzjob was if he ever used all those White Sox uniforms in his game.

Here we go again another week and more accolades to the people who have contributed so much in here over the years, the Mvp modders. The two modders featured this week are well-known uniform creators when this website first started but for people who have joined in recent years their names will not be familiar to them. Fizzjob We are very lucky on this website to have so many wonderful uniform modders and some have already been featured in this thread in the previous weeks. But Fizzjob, along with the next name to be featured this week, were among the first to focus on throwback uniforms for Mvp 2005 and their work to this day is among the best out there. As I said, Fizzjob made a lot of throwback uniforms but his specialty was creating uniforms for the Chicago White Sox. He actually made every White Sox uniform from 1901 to the 1990's and that was no small feat. There's no way you can have all these uniforms he made for the White Sox in one game since there are so many. Because of this the White Sox have the most uniform representation out of any team in the uniform download area thanks to this one man alone. So if you are a White Sox fan and you have never heard of Fizzjob you need to check out the download area. While his work was White Sox dominated he made many other uniforms also. Some of his work can be seen in the Mvp 12 and Mvp 13 mods. Cleveland Indians Throwbacks. White Sox Uber Theme. White Sox Loading screens. Chicago American Giants. Oakland A's Throwbacks. Chicago White Sox 1901-1920. Sandman The main difference between Sandman and Fizzjob is that Sandman did not concentrate on one team almost exclusively. But like Fizzjob, Sandman was a modder who made the throwbacks as flawlessly as Fizzjob did. In fact the only problem was when these two were around and were making these uniforms was having enough uniform slots to place all their work. It was impossible. Sandman is also the co-creator of Total Classics *61 along with stecropper and if you happen to have an old copy of Mvp 2004 still around he has many throwbacks made for that game too. 1960 Washington Senators. 1963 Chicago White Sox. 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates. 1960 Cincinnati Reds. 1963 Los Angeles Dodgers. 1948 Cleveland Indians.

Updated to 10-6 ...Today is the last day for me being home alone because I have to pick my wife up at the airport late this afternoon. I did things last week that I have not been able to do in years. I watched a ball game -no, make that a few of them- without having someone have a running conversation with me about what is going on at her work and who said what to whom. Don't ask me how many times I've missed something that happened in the game after I finally gave up and listened to her. So you can imagine how strange it was for me to watch baseball and football and the only sound in the room besides the TV was dogs that were sound asleep. Absence does make the heart grow fonder but at the same time I think I could have held out for another week. ...Look at Alex Rodriguez go! He's so desperate to avoid that 211 game ban that he's suing everyone in sight. So far he's going after Major League Baseball (which they expected) and just to make his lawyers work more he's suing Doctor Chris Ahmad, who happens to be the Yankees team doctor and the New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center because they did not validate his parking when he went there for treatment. So far the Yankees themselves have not been sued but tomorrow starts another working week so you just never know. ...Of all the baseball that I watched last week on the MLB Network there was one stat that stood out the most for me and that was that seven out of the ten top payroll teams in baseball did not even make the playoffs this year and for any of us that follow this game as close as a lot of us do in here that should not surprise anyone. ...Larry Beinfest, the President of baseball operations for the Miami Marlins was fired by owner Jeffery Loria just days before the Marlins finished up their third consecutive last-place season in the NL East. After twelve years with the team this is probably the best thing that's happened to him in a long time. Last off season Loria had him trade away his best players and when they didn't win this year it was Beinfest's fault. Pretty soon Loria's not going to have anyone there to fire but himself. ...An up in Quebec, they are laughing. ...I wonder if the Phillies heard through the baseball grapevine that the Cubs were going to fire Dale Sveum as soon as the season ended and it was one of the reasons why they made Ryne Sandberg their permanent manager? ...As bad as the Oakland Raiders have started out this year they are still doing better than the winless Jacksonville Jaguars. The other week they even trie to entice fans to come to the game as they promised them two free beers if they just bought a ticket. I'm not sure how well that promotion worked out for them because some fans can knock off two beers on the way to their seat, but I give them credit for trying. Their season is going so bad that some fans have set up a web page for the Jags to sign Tim Tebow and during last Sunday's loss to the Colts a plane flew over the stadium carrying a sign that said TEBOW,WHY NOT? Why not indeed. Their season was over before it started. Nothing that Tebow can or can not do will change anything. ...Speaking of beer I read an article last week that drinking it could be good for your health because there is a high content of Vitamin B in it and that in turn is good for your bones. If that's true then the drunks that you see at sporting events are the healthiest people in the world. ...Because the Oakland Athletics are going to be hosting a divisional playoff game later today the NFL game between the visiting San Diego Chargers and the Raiders has been moved to 8:35 pm Pacific time, or 11:35 p.m. Eastern time. The reason for this is that the Oakland grounds crew needed more time to get the stadium ready after the baseball game is completed. I've got no problem with that because I'm sure it's not an easy procedure to convert a baseball field over to football dimensions. But the NFL knew the Athletics were in the playoffs over a week ago and that they'd be hosting the first two game in their series. Wouldn't it have made sense for them to switch the game to San Diego and then later on in the season when the Chargers are to host the Raiders (on December 22nd in week 16) play that game in Oakland? With this late start on the west coast those fans in that part of the country are finally going to feel what it's like to watch a game when it starts that late. Good luck for them staying up to the end. ...I find it funny that football fans think that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is so terrible because he wants to expand the playoffs to fourteen teams. Any baseball fan could tell them that he got this idea from watching Bud Selig water down baseball's post season over the years. This new proposal in scheduling would cut the pre-season down to three games but because there would be one less game in August another playoff team in each conference would be added. It's all about the money. Better to charge higher ticket prices for a game in January then to a game in the summer that no one cares about anyway. ...I don't think taking away a pre-season game is going to help any team. Coaches use these games to evaluate players, get a first look at drafted rookies in game situations and make cuts. Having only three games won't help this at all. Picture ending spring training around the 15th of March after a couple weeks and going right into the season. Imagine the problems that will cause. When I was a kid the NFL had a fourteen game season and the pre-season was six games. I don't want to think how bad Goodell would have ruined that. Pete Rozelle messed it up enough when he added two games to the season. ...Why does it seem that the first thing people say to you after you just got a haircut is did you just get a haircut? And it doesn't matter if these are people that see you every day. They'll still ask that same question. I always wished that I could come up with a funny comeback but I've never been able to. ...A few years back we put our home telephone number on something called a no-call list and for those of you who do not know what it is it's something that is supposed to stop unwanted sales calls and it works as well as a redneck trying to stay away from a yard sale. They still keep coming, especially the one that starts out with "there's no problem with your credit card..." and then they tell you to press one now to talk to a sales associate. One time I actually stayed on the line to ask these people not to call me again and I was surprised to learn that I was talking to someone from Bank of America and the reason why I was surprised was that we don't have a charge card or any kind of account with them. The lady that I talked to said they would be glad not to call me back but apparently she forgot our conversation as soon as we hung up with each other because the calls keep coming. ...Something similar like that happened last year to me when I turned on my cell phone and was amazed to see that there were eight voice messages for me. I don't use my cell phone every day. In fact I can go a whole month without turning it on. That's how little I use it. When people need to get in touch with me they use our land line number or they send me e-mail. After checking these messages I discovered that they were from collection agencies that were looking for someone named Donald Robinson, which I explained to them that I was not the guy they were looking for and that I didn't know him either. What I didn't understand was that how they got my cell phone number because I have had the same number for years now. What I'm telling you here happened in May of 2012. I spent one hour on the phone talking to these two different collection companies telling them what I knew about this guy, which was nothing. Both of these places agreed not to call me again and I thanked them and wished them well in finding this guy. For a long time I heard nothing back - until this spring when the voice messages started again. This time I just deleted them without calling them back. They must think I'm hiding Donald Robinson from them out in my shed in the backyard. ...Without a doubt the Pirate fan that was the happiest to see his team beat the Reds in the National League wild-card game Tuesday night was that guy who interfered with that home run that Shin-Soo Choo clobbered in the eighth inning. There was some question if it was a home run but once that guy tried to catch it and then dropped it, the umpires saw it went into the stands. TBS showed the guy three or four times after the play was over and had Cincinnati come back to win that game people would have known what he looked like and they'd have thrown him in the river. ...You really got to give the Atlanta Braves credit for keeping Dan Uggla off their NLDS playoff roster against the Dodgers. Sure he only hit .179 for them this year and only collected 80 hits for the entire season, 22 of them home runs and he had 55 RBI. One would think with a player like that you would keep him off the post season roster in a split second and move on. But Uggla's also raking in thirteen million dollars this year which makes him Atlanta's highest paid player. Most teams would feel pressured to keep someone like that on their roster. This is Uggla's third year of a five-year, $62 million contract. One would hope he has a little nest egg growing because if he keeps on hitting like this no one, least of all the Braves, are going to sign him after it runs out. ...Nick Swisher went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts for the Indians in the American League wild-card game Wednesday night against the Rays and if you would have run into any Yankee fan before the game they would have told you that this is exactly what to expect out of Swisher once the post season rolls around. ...Last week a woman who owns a bar near Wrigley Field took a break from running her business to go dumpster diving in a trash bin outside Wrigley Field because she spotted a pile of Ron Santo memorabilia in there that the Cubs accidentally threw away. These were the same items that a Cubs representative told a local radio station were already retrieved by the team and being held on to but later on in the week admitted to the Chicago Tribune that they had no idea where the memorabilia had disappeared to. It's unclear as to when these items were thrown out or even who in the Cubs front office made a determination to throw this stuff out. I mean they could have stored the Santo remembrances in their trophy case. They have plenty of room in there. ...At the beginning of last week former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar was pulled over by police on suspicion of drunk driving. After checking his license and registration the police put Kosar through a series of tests, which he all failed miserably. He couldn't recite the alphabet or pursue an object with his eyes and then when the officer asked him if he had any problems that would prevent him from standing on one leg or walking and turning, Kosar told him that he's had several surgeries on his knees and ankles because his offensive line couldn't block for him during his playing days. This makes for a funny story, I won't deny that but I guarantee you that the next day there were a whole lot of Browns fans who had no trouble believing Kosar's story that he told to the cops. The police apparently didn't since they charged him with a DUI and they advised him to stay away double whiskeys and offensive lines in the future when he was going to be behind the wheel. The next day his lawyer entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. Good luck with that. ...For those of you that come in here each week to read these postings I am sure you have noticed the lack of political conversation in here and that's because I don't follow what's going down in Washington at all. About the only time that I do is when I bring up the Palins and that's only when Sarah and company are doing something stupid up in America's Wasteland. That being said even a political inactivist like me knew about the government shutdown last week although I have no idea why it happened or what caused it. To take the time to learn about it would have required me to do some reading and put some time in watching CNN and this time not just for looking at Ashley Banfield. Blame it on the baseball playoffs because I did neither and I don't regret it one bit. ...I've heard the Dodgers say more than once that they are not interested in signing Robinson Cano when he becomes a free agent next month which of course makes me think they're going to go after him. Don't misunderstand. I hope they get him because I'd love to see nothing more than watching him loaf down the line at Chavez-Ravine next year than at Yankee Stadium. ...Here's my wish list for the divisional series match-ups: Tampa Bay, Oakland, Pittsburgh and Atlanta.

I've heard it pronounced both ways. Mike Ep-STINE and Mike Ep-STEEN. Take your pick.

Here in week six we feature a modder who has made 1960's Total Classics a huge hit and another modder who is well known for his superior cyberface creating ability and helpful tutorial work over the years. Stecropper Anyone who has played a Total Classics mod from the 1960's are already familiar with stecropper's work. The baseball seasons from that decade are his favorites and we are fortunate to have five of the ten years from that time period in the the total classics collection. He has taken his time making these season mods and the result is some of the best total conversion work available on this website. Total Classics *61 (with Sandman). Total Classics 1962. Total Classics 1964. Total Classics 1967. Total Classics 1969. Cyberface screenshots of each 504 Originals in Mvp. Cyberface screenshots of each 504 Originals in Mvp. (For modders use.This is a compilation of Screenshots for the 504 different Cyberfaces that exist in the original Models.big file that comes with MVP Baseball 2005. This file is useful for several functions including easily identifying facial structures to use for Cyberface Modders. Two different links are provided here because each download is different from the other.) Homer We are lucky here on this website that we have some very good cyberface makers and Homer is among one of the very best there is. Much of his work can already be found in past conversion mods as well as Mvp 2012 and 2013. He has released individual cyberfaces as well as his cyberface packs that have been used with the BaseUp! Rosters. Along with his impressive work with cyberfaces Homer has taken the time to create instruction tutorials and videos for people who want to learn how to mod themselves but who are unsure of how to begin. Audio Tutorial. Mvp 05 Uniform Slots. Homer's Cyberface Tutorial Videos. 2x Face Textures. Nick Franklin Cyberface.

Joba was unbelievable when he first came up. You know how you see good, young pitchers come up for other teams? Well that's what happened for the Yankees when they brought him up in 2007 and before you knew it he was useless. Today is his last game in a Yankee uniform and I am glad about that. Cano is already 30 years old right now. In fact he is going to be 31 next month. And he wants a ten year contract? Show him the door. Teixeira is another in a long line of free agents that did great before becoming a Yankee but when they get on this team they forget how to hit. Cashman does have a lot of work to do and it won't be done in one off season.

It is always nice to see people come back to the site for a visit. Yeah, I agree with you. This place has really changed. These new people don't post much and I have no idea why they don't. We never worried about that years ago. The shoutbox became restricted when new people to the site would use that as a place to get technical support instead of creating threads. I still recall spending a day and a half with one guy who did not know how to install two copies of the game on his hard drive. Now the shoutbox is for contributors, modders and staff members. It cuts down on the flooding. No way man. You couldn't hold a candle to me. I used to be a big Yankees homer myself and now I don't give a sh** anymore. That's from years of watching them choke in the playoffs. And I am not too happy with them not doing anything about Robinson Cano, who has no idea what it means to hustle. It was very hard watching class acts like Mariano Rivera and Andy Pettitte leave. They are tough to replace and I think we have some lean years ahead of us. I'm also done with Phil Hughes too. And you can add Joba Chamberlain, Curtis Granderson, Robinson Cano, Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira to that list too. Time to clean house? You bet.

Updated to 9-29 ...I'll be living the bachelor's life this week because my wife is in Dallas visiting her sister. Since she lives 1,500 miles away from her family she always wants people to come and visit her and when she offered to buy my wife her plane ticket she said yes so fast just in case she remembered that she had something else to do. If I wanted to go my plane ticket would have been taken care of too but as I was quick to explain to them someone had to remain behind and watch and care for the dogs. Thank God that person was me and after looking disappointed for a little while I had them believing that I really did want to go but I am remaining home because "someone had to do it." Sure, I'll travel all that way just to spend a week with two women who want to do nothing but shop. It's going to be a struggle here all by myself this week but I will try and hang in there. Wish me luck! ...I didn't want to get her worked up before her flight. My wife is not afraid of flying but she is afraid of snakes but not nearly as much as I am. So when I read an article about the Boeing 747 flight from Sydney, Australia to Tokyo that was grounded because someone found a snake near the doorway of the plane, I kept my mouth shut. Chances are if she would have heard about that she would have made me drive her to Texas. ...It was a week ago today that the Yankees held their ceremony to honor Mariano Rivera and while they showed him a lot of love and did many nice things for him there was something about it that just didn't seem right to me. I liked how they brought back some of his old teammates like Bernie Williams and Jorge Posada and manager Joe Torre and that he was the first player to get his number retired by the Yankees while he was still playing. The pièce de résistance was a Waterford crystal statue of his game glove which had to cost them a lot of money. Most of the things given to Rivera that day were checks made out to his foundation. All in all it was a very nice way to honor the man who was most responsible for the five championships the Yankees have won since 1996. However, thinking back on something that happened ten years ago it made me feel that the Yankees could have done more for him. It was back in 2003 that Roger Clemens announced his retirement and the Yankees, who were dumb enough to believe him, gave him a special day just as they did for Rivera last week. They went all out for Clemens as they gave him a Hummer to bring home to Texas and sent him and his wife on an all-expense paid vacation, among other things. His wife even got gifts for herself too. A few months later Clemens had a change of heart and decided to pitch for Houston in 2004 and did not retire for good until 2007. That's what I thought was missing here. If anyone deserves to be given stuff like this it is Rivera. I have no doubt that when it is time for Captain Twenty Million to hang them up the Yankees are going to go overboard with the gifts that they give him just to make themselves look good and to give Jeter a departing a$$ kissing before he goes home to Tampa. ...Good move by the Philadelphia Phillies to retain Ryne Sandberg as manager and giving him a three year contract beginning next year. It did not take them long to realize that they made a mistake thirty-one years ago when they traded him to the Cubs. They weren't going to make the same one again. ...Apple is one company that I have never cared for but when they released their gold iPhone -a device that does everything that a white iPhone does and nothing more- I had to give them a lot of credit because they knew that people would have to have it based on the color alone. And they were right. When the new iPhones went on sale nine days ago the demand for them was so great that stores literally were selling out in record time and for the people unlucky enough not to get their hands on one and who were too impatient to wait for the next shipments due to arrive next month they have engaged in online bidding wars in attempts to get one. In fact one ebay seller sold a single, unopened and unlocked 16GB gold Apple iPhone to someone for $10,000. Usually only crows and magpies and babies are fooled into going after shiny toys. It didn't take long for Apple to figure out that some adults can be too. ...Every year I say to myself that this is the year I am going to tune into the Emmy Awards just because I've never seen them and every year I never do it, usually because I find something more interesting to do. This year's excuse was a book that I could not put down and after hearing about it the next day I am glad I didn't watch it. I don't know if this is done every year but this show honors actors and actresses who have passed away during the year and with some they have individual segments to honor them. Granted with so many people that pass on during the year they can't single out everyone but Hollywood legends like Jack Klugman and Larry Hagman were pushed aside just so they can honor Cory Monteith, a thirty-one year old actor who died in July of a drug overdose. I don't know anything about this guy or even know what show (s) he was on but to give special tribute to a drug addict who overdosed is typical of Hollywood but I think I understand why. Klugman was 90 years old and Hagman was 81. They'd rather spotlight on someone younger just for the ratings. When it's Emmy time next year I won't even make an attempt to watch it. ...Some people should never be allowed outside Dept:My wife has a Samsung Galaxy S4 phone that she purchased from Best Buy back in July and lately she noticed that the back of her phone was getting very hot and we went back there last week to have someone look at it. After we arrived we were directed to the Geek Squad area to wait for someone to look at the phone. What should have been a problem that once it was looked at could have been taken care of in fifteen minutes, tops. But because of the lady that was ahead of us we were there for ninety minutes, which was the combined time it took for Best Buy to take care of her and help out my wife. That woman was there to pick up her laptop and she also purchased the latest version of Microsoft Office that she was going to have them install for her. This is when the fun began. At one point she had to provide her e-mail address. She didn't know it. And then she asked the technician if he knew it. Just by the look on his face you could tell that this had to be the stupidest question that he ever heard. Little did he know that this woman was just getting warmed up. After checking around in her phone for a few minutes the e-mail question was answered and the same problems arose when she had to put in her password. She didn't know it and I should also add neither did the guy helping her. She had to phone home and ask someone there what her password was. Again I stole a glance at the technician and I saw the concern in his eyes because a line was starting to form behind us. After hanging up with whomever she was talking to she asked if she will be able to view her Word and Excel documents after Office was installed. Finally I said to myself, an easy question that this guy can answer. When she heard that she could indeed view her documents she then asked -honest to God- what Microsoft Office was, which prompted more questions. Dealing with this woman must have been as much fun as a baseball bat to the head for this poor tech. Finally two other Geek Squad people were called out from the back to help out with the crowd and that is how we managed to escape from there because if we would have stayed any longer they'd have charged us rent. ...Why do supermarkets even bother to have express lanes for people that have fifteen items or less when they completely ignore it and the store looks the other way when it happens? ...When the Yankees were eliminated last Wednesday night from making the playoffs I didn't feel any disappointment, I wasn't angry and I certainly didn't think about it for days afterward, which is something that I would customarily do over and over in the past. It was a tough year and that's not even bringing up all the injuries that they had, so I won't. Watching Mariano Rivera one last time made this season worth it because nothing else came close and that includes lazy, self-centered Robinson Cano. He wants a thirty million dollar a year payday next year? I can identify with that because that's exactly how much I want but at least I know I'm not getting it. Thirty million dollars a year for a guy who can't be bothered to run to first base like he really means it? I really think the Yankees told Joe Girardi not to say anything to Cano about this because they didn't want to make him mad at them before contract talks. I really don't think there is any other explanation...Oh, and C.C. Sabathia said that he will be the same ace he's always been. That means when the Yankees really need him to win a game he won't. I feel better already...What to do about Alex Rodriguez? Who knows, but his hearing starts tomorrow. I'm hoping for the best and expecting nothing...At least when we start talking about real, live baseball again in February Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain will be making fans on some other team mad at them...Already a bright spot for next year. ...Look for the positive, look for the positive. And there it is! Bud Selig is retiring after the 2014 season. And why not? He's done enough damage. ...The Yankee situation may be a mess but at least they don't have B.J. Upton to worry about. One season into a five-year, $75.25 million contract he is only hitting .184 for the Braves. ...Since September 4 the Pittsburgh Pirates have had a 12 - 11 record down the stretch and that is the reason why the Cardinals won the division and they didn't. Pirate fans should be happy they are in the post season again but they won't be there for long if they keep playing like they have been. ...For a long time now, ever since I have been a member of this website, I have played a little game with people's screen names. When I read the screen name I think of the first thing that pops into my mind about it based on what the name is. It doesn't work for all screen names however. Say for example PaulW, who is one of our modders. Well that's the man's name so it is kind of hard for me to picture a Paul W. But for other names, well, you'll see. Dylan Bradbury: Scary stories. Only because I immediately think of Ray Bradbury the writer. Oinkersthepig: I picture some guy with bags and bags of pork rinds around his computer. StormsWarning: Thunderstorms. Also, there's a book called Storm Warning by Jack Higgins, a favorite writer of mine. Fuzzone: Some kid who needs a shave. JoeRudi26: Well this one is a different. I don't picture the user. I picture the player himself and when I do he is making that famous catch in left field off of Denis Menke in the 1972 World Series. What a leap. AlcoholicStepfather: Yes there really is a member here by that name. I think of a guy sitting in a comfy chair drinking a lot of beer. MrDudleyDoWright: I think of the cartoon and the Canadian Mounties. UncleMo: Rhymes with Uncle Joe. As in Uncle Joe from Petticoat Junction. DustintheWin: That damn song by Kansas. Every time I hear it I think it will never end. Drovebykeptgoing: Some guy who drove by and kept going and didn't feel like picking someone up. ...If I were a Dodger fan and I was in San Francisco to watch my team I would not wear one thing that would be mistaken for Dodger Blue. And the same goes for Giants fans who travel to Los Angeles for a game. Keep the orange and black colored gear at home. It could mean your life. ...A few years back the father of my wife's friend had an extra ticket to a Buffalo Bills game and she asked my wife if she wanted to go with her. She agreed because she's never been to Rich Stadium before and also because the Bills were playing the Miami Dolphins, which is her favorite team. (She knows nothing about football and the reason why she likes the Dolphins is because she likes the colors of their uniform.) After she came home she was so upset because people were yelling at her for being a Dolphin fan and finally after being screamed at one too many times she goes up to the guy and tells him that she doesn't play for Miami, she's just wearing their jersey. I told her that the guy who was yelling at her must have had one too many beers two hours ago and if she ever gets a chance to go back she'll be wearing something that has no team insignia on it. She doesn't understand how team rivalries affect fans which is strange because she lives with me and she sees how I am when the Red Sox are on TV. After she told me about what she went through at that game she asked me if she would have had the same treatment had she went to a Raider game instead of a Buffalo game wearing her Dolphins jersey. I said you sure would and I'd be one of the people yelling at you. I reserve the right not to tell you what happened next.

All I want to know is that when every time you start your PS3 to play this game do you get a notification that some Yankee just got injured?

That one was so life like it almost looked like a picture of the guy. This is the purpose of my modder spotlights. Jogar has eleven pages of his work in the download section and what I am trying to do by linking a few of the modder's work each week is to encourage people to check out their other contributions. You are no slouch yourself. Stay tuned.

Good Lord. It sounds like an enormous gathering of bees. I watched all 11 plus minutes of it without the sound on full blast and that is still ringing in my ears.

As we go to week number five we have two modders that are well known by everyone who plays Mvp baseball. Dylan Bradbury For the many dynasty players in here Dylan's work is very well known to them and his utilities that he created have been an invaluable tool for them in their dynasty play. His other specialty is the creation of accurate schedules for season mods. Schedule Generator. Schedules (1933-2005) Pitcher Rating Calculator. Batter Rating Calculator. Baseball Split Estimator. Jogar84 Where do you start with this modder? If you have played just about any season mod or total classic mod available here you have seen Jogar's work. His talent is cyberface making and his cyberfaces are so life-like and accurate that they are some of the most downloaded mods on the website. I have highlighted here his work on Yankee reliever Mariano Rivera. Check out the subtle differences in his 2007 version as compared to this year's version. That right there should give you an appreciation of his attention to detail. Besides creating cyberfaces Jogar has released audio enhancements for Mvp baseball. The Essential Cyberface Making Tutorial. Missing Audio for Mvp 12. Ichiro Face Mvp 12. Mariano Rivera (2007) Mariano Rivera (2013) Ryne Sandberg (2013) Manager's face.

That reminds me of something. I'm sure you recall SeanO who used to come around here a lot. Well it was at that time during the World Cup that year that he was watching it too and every day he was talking about it in the shoutbox. He made it sound as exciting as a come-from-behind win by your favorite team day after day. Finally curiosity got the better of me and I watched the next game that was on. I have no idea who was playing but I gave it a shot. So I'm watching it and watching it and finally half time comes and I say to myself that this is as exciting as watching grass grow. But I keep on watching because I wanted to see what Sean was raving about and when the game ended I still was not able to figure out what was so good about it. Maybe that's why you are more open to this sport Jim because your daughter was and still is involved in it. That was her interest and your interest is your daughter so you learned to like the game as much as she did. I understand why you dislike hockey. There could be a nice pace of the game going on, a few good shots on goal that the goalie knocks away, the skate back down to the other end, etc and then all of a sudden for some reason it turns into the bleachers at Fenway Park out there. I think the main reason why I don't follow hockey a lot (and basketball for that matter) is because those two sports are winter sports and as a kid I was such a big baseball fan and when the season was over I missed it so much that I didn't want to involve myself in other sports. It was baseball for me all the way. Good Lord. My father-in-law, may he rest in peace, loved NASCAR and as a good son-in-law I tried to watch it with him but even that man who loved that sport so much would eventually nod off during the telecast. As soon as I saw that I left the room.

Yeah, it was. From what I remember it was expensive to create and they had a hard time keeping costs down as compared to other systems that were around at the time. Then World Series Baseball moved over to the Dreamcast, which really was not bad.