Yankee4Life

Agreed 100%

That's the same kind I had. I don't think blitzballs were around then. And I'll tell you guys like KC and SESBB30, those things didn't weigh much as Joe Rudi said but they still could cause some damage in someone's backyard when you hit them hard enough. I can recall one breaking a flower pot once.

You're kidding? So did we. Every single day in the summer. When we didn't get enough people for a game we played in the street. And we would save our money and buy brand new tennis balls from department stores because the ones that came directly out of the can had the best bounce to them and when you got a hold of one it went. And for everyone else reading this, tennis balls do hurt. You may not think so but they hurt if you got hit by one of them on a line drive (I can vouch for that) and also when you are up at bat and one hits you. But it was fun and I would give anything to play it again today.

The closest we got was this one guy who had it in his head that he could throw curve balls with it and he almost did but the ball always curved into us batters and we kept on getting hit from the head down to the knees.

I completely forgot that.

I played a lot of wiffle ball back in the B.C. days (before computers) and none of us ever pitched like these guys.

That's right. So if you really want to do this right Jim you have to do three things? Put the new stadium you want in to replace the minor league one (1) and then rename the LOC file (2) and then you got to find out the correct file name of the stadium photo and change that in Eagraph (3). Well, that's not bad but I want to stick with these minor league parks in this mod. If I want to use the Polo Grounds I'll play in another mod. Problem solved.

@rroy: I finally know a band that you featured! This one is Pretty Woman by Van Halen. It's a song originally recorded by Roy Orbison in the sixties but Van Halen juiced it up a little bit and it sounds ok to me. I also should admit here that when I first heard the song when I was a kid I thought Van Halen wrote it.

I don't know. But it sure is kind of odd isn't it? She's a big Bon Jovi fan and once I told her I met him and she fell for it. I wouldn't mind fessing up but either it will break her heart or else she'd break something on me. :lol:

Updated to 7-22 ...The arrest last week of Denver Broncos defensive end Elvis Dumervil for aggravated assault with a firearm means only one thing for football fans and that is that the NFL training camps are getting ready to open. ...Sarah Palin was not invited to next month's Republican Convention in Tampa, which only goes to show you how much the GOP wants to win in November. ...The Boy Scouts of America recently reaffirmed its policy to excluding gays from joining or being leaders in their organization which of course brought on the expected backlash from the politically correct watchdogs. Agree with it or not, the BSA is a privately owned group and they can run it how they see fit. ...Although at the same time the BSA has to realize that after this the chance of Elton John and Ricky Martin performing for them at their annual convention has now slipped from slim to none. ...I had to laugh at the confessions that a Utah man owned up to after he died a few weeks back, admitting to a few things that he had done that no one knew about when he was alive and it got me to thinking what I'd write to my wife when it was my time. It might be something like this: 1. Honey, all the times you misplaced your phone and I said I was looking for it I really wasn't. 2. Remember that time that crystal vase broke upstairs and I said the dog did it? It was me. 3. Every single time you tried to make burgers on the grill and you burned them I said I didn't mind. I did. 4. Now I can tell you where I hid your Christmas presents all these years. I put them in the garage next to the garbage pail because I am aware that you know where everything in the house is except for that. 5. No, I never met John Bon Jovi. 6. When we were driving home from Cooperstown that time and I said I was taking a shortcut home and you said we were lost, well we were lost. 7. Every time I said I loved you I meant it. ...A woman from Massachusetts was arrested for stalking Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein and the reason she gave to the police was that she just wanted to invite him to go to church. At least one Cub has a fan even if it is the team president. ...Wait a minute. Now Pete Rose is going to have his own reality show? How exciting is this going to be watching a guy who spends his days at racetracks and playing poker? Oh yeah, I forgot. He also does card shows where he'll sign anything for a buck. Set your DVR's for this one. ...Cleveland pitcher Roberto Hernandez, better known to baseball fans as Fausto Carmona was suspended for three weeks by Major League Baseball for age and identity fraud. Back in January the Indians found out that Carmona wasn't actually Carmona and that he aged three years overnight. Doesn't matter because whether he calls himself Carmona or Hernandez or Santiago he's the same when he's out there pitching because he still can't get anybody out. ...When the subject of advertising possibly being placed on major league uniforms because the NBA will be allowing it was asked to Bud Selig, the king of doubletalk, he said that baseball was in no hurry to do this because baseball's uniforms are really important. But before he changed the subject and started talking about instant replay he said that you can "never say never" about having ads on the uniforms which just leads you to believe that if McDonalds gives this guy a check with a lot of zeros on it in a few years every team will have something from the dollar menu on their backs. ...It's that time of year Yankee fans as we wonder what stupid move they'll make at the trade deadline that costs us some of our good minor league players. ...There's an amusement park in China that is giving half price admission to women wearing short skirts and as an added attraction the patrons are encouraged to splash water on them. Makes you want to go there and join in on the fun, doesn't it? ...I saw a video of Justin Verlander pitching against Chicago's Gordon Beckham where he sawed off his bat after Beckham tried to check his swing on an 100 mile-per-hour pitch. The pitch that this occurred on was Verlander's 116th of the evening and for most pitchers at that time they are either out of gas or already out of the game. So much for Kate Upton distracting him. ...No one ever understands why it happens or what makes a person go into a movie theater to start shooting people that they don't even know but it does and it did happen and now all that is left is grieving families, lucky but terrified survivors and a bunch of answered questions about this starting with this one. Why? ...You can't help but wonder if there are going to be any permanent changes for movie goers after this. I won't even try to wager a guess but I can't help but think we are going to have something else besides high ticket prices and six dollar boxes of candy to deal with the next time we see a movie.

Here's Judas Priest's You got another thing comin' from their 1982 album Screaming for Vengeance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWhInhE6emE

Some people updated the rosters just like you. Most people didn't update the rosters and waited for others to do it for them. :)

Send me a PM about this.

With daflyboys roster you don't need to. That guy knows his rosters.

Yeah but it's easier to make someone else do it for you.

Here we go kyleb! Now you got to make another patch just for Youkilis.

Mvp 2012 Continued Starlin Castro steals second base in the last of the eighth but did not score. There must have been about five balls that got past Darwin Barney like this in today's game. The only time this guy was able to catch the ball was when it stopped rolling. Jeremy Affeldt is ejected from the game. He was the second Giant pitcher in the game to be thrown out but the difference between this one and Lincecum's ejection is that Affeldt aimed for and was successful in hitting Reed Johnson on purpose. Another attempt by the Giants to pick off a Cub base runner and this time the ball gets past first baseman Aubrey Huff. Final score, Giants 9, Cubs 7. Sergio Romo retires the side in order for the save.

Mvp 2012 Continued Lincecum did have flashes of brilliance however as he managed to strike out five in his three innings plus of work. This throw was a bit wide and the Giants were lucky that it did not get away. David Dejesus is caught between second and third after he doubled and tried to stretch it into a triple. After he saw what a bad idea it was he tried to scamper back to second but the Giants were having none of that. This Buster Posey single loaded the bases for San Francisco and before the inning was over the Giants scored two runs to take the lead 9 - 7. A fine day for a game at Chicago's Wrigley Field as the last of the seventh inning is about to begin.

The next mod that will be reviewed in this thread is the Mvp 2012 mod. This mod is without a doubt the most eagerly anticipated season mod in the past few years on this website and that includes the past few total classics mods that have been posted here. Of course there is a very good reason for this. The total classics mods are worked on without the knowledge of the entire community here for two very good reasons. First the modders are able to work on their mod at their own pace and when it is done and they are satisfied, they release it. Secondly, if they announced they were working on a mod they'd get bothered with questions again and again as to when it is coming out. Ask Jim or Krawhitham or Homer to confirm this. When they are done, they are released, much to everyone's surprise. Not so with this 2012 mod! The idea for this mod started with daflyboys when he asked if this mod could take place. Then Kyleb (a guy who did not have the PC version of the game until recently) said why not and took charge of the project and before long the great modders that we have here chipped in and the mod slowly started to come together. Finally after much beta testing the mod was competed last week and the results were well worth the wait. You can download the 2012 mod right here. The installation of this mod is quick and easy. Just point the installer in the right direction to a clean copy of Mvp 05 and then get out of its way. Once you are done with the preliminaries you can get into the game and the first thing you should do is have a look around, and I'll explain further in a minute. Something that will stand out when you are getting ready to play a game is the unbelievable amount of uniform choices you have here. In the mod description it says that there are over seven hundred uniforms to choose from and that is from A ball right up to the major leagues. A lot of these uniforms were made by bctrackboi11 and Dennis James, two people whose talents were invaluable in the making and completion of this mod. As I stated previously, look around the mod. Check out the uniforms and try them out. If there are any questions about one of them bring it to kyleb's attention and he will take a look at it. Also check out other areas that you think may have to be changed. There has been some minor things that have already been caught by different users and kyleb addressed every one of the issues when he released the first patch for Mvp 12 a few days after the mod was posted. One very interesting direction they went into with this mod was the elimination of the classic stadiums and in their place they have put in minor league parks and also the Tokyo Dome. This I thought was an outstanding idea and while I do not know if it was their intention or not this decision to remove the older stadiums in favor of these parks was a subtle move to distinguish their work from previous mods. If so, it worked because these minor league parks look good. The jukebox music in this mod is as modern as the mod itself. Kyleb stated that he wanted to have this particular jukebox focused towards modern rock music and I am here to tell him that I believe he succeeded in doing so because I personally have never heard of any of these songs. Another big part of this game is the batter walk up music that was put in here. They must have spent a lot of time with this because the walk ups are jam packed with different songs. And if you want a roster set that is up to date with the latest moves, get the one made by daflyboys and keep in mind the next update will be after the July 31 trading deadline. This is a mod that Mvp enthusiasts will enjoy playing again and again and this is also a mod that will return former Mvp players to Mvp baseball. Video: Alfonso Soriano makes the last out of the game. Screenshots Ryan Dempster started for the Cubs today but did not stay in the game long or earn a decision. Dempster gave up six runs in 5 1/3 innings and left the game with the lead but with a high pitch count of 102. Melky Cabrera scores the Giants first run on a double by Pablo Sandoval. Giant pitcher Tim Lincecum was wild today. Here he hits his counterpart Ryan Dempster with a pitch, the first of two times that he did it in the game. The second time he did it in the fourth inning he was ejected. Both benches were warned after the first time Dempster was hit. Even though it was unintentional it still was a good feeling for Dempster as he scored the tying run on Starlin Castro's triple.

Well I'm an axegrinder, Piledriver Mother says that I never never mind her Got no brains I'm insane Teacher says that I'm one big pain.... And that began the biggest hit of Quiet Riot's career, this 1983 song called Metal Health. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3oeGwq9Qy0

As the old saying goes there is more than one way to skin a cat and the more that I thought about what Kyleb said about breaking up the patch into smaller files to install with TiT the more I figured why not give it a try? I was going to do this later on tonight but curiosity got the better of me and I tried it just now. Result? It worked. Vista seems to throw a fit when it comes across a TiT file that is too big for their liking and I cut it down to size like kyleb said and all is right in the world now. Now that this is over I can get to work on the much anticipated Mvp 2012 mod review. For those of you filling up my PM inbox asking about this hold on because it will be posted soon. Thank you kyleb.

No, it didn't get corrupted. The patch is just a little less than 20mg and I tried it a few times and got the same file size each time. Now when I tried to install this patch on my XP laptop it worked perfectly. This convinces me more that it is a Vista issue. So that takes care of that. I'll have the updated 2012 game on my laptop and not on my desktop. I'm kind of curious to know how long this took you? So instead of a 19 to 20 mg file I could have a few smaller ones? Hmmm. This could work. I can try this tonight when I have some time to spare.

I did exactly this Jim (I should add without drinking anything) and the same thing happened. I really have come to the conclusion that it is another "Vista" issue. I had no trouble installing the updated red White Sox uniforms or the updated Yankee uniforms that Dennis made but for a bigger file like this patch is it did not work. I kept on getting a message that the TiT stopped working and when you see that error message come up you know it's not going to work.