Yankee4Life

I've collected them all from two places on the Internet. Basically I concentrate on Yankee photos but I do branch out on other ones. I keep a photo album and I add to it all the time. My sources are here: The Yahoo web site for Yankee pictures. Note if you go there you will see an option on the right hand side that has a drop down menu that says "Other teams." You can view photos from every team that way. Of course, during the baseball season there are a lot more added to this daily. I also get them from CBS Sportsline. Check out this thread right here on how I do it. Again, you get more photos when the season is going on.

DUnit: Here are some Bubba Crosby photos

Here are some Melky's for you:

Even if they don't sign this guy the media and just about everyone in here will get on the Yankees for having money yet again.

Updated to 11-5 ...Wow, this thread is over a year old now. Pretty good. I like how topics can branch off into anything in here and it's always fun to read. Maybe that's what it's called random thoughts? :mexican: ...I'm glad Halloween is over. I don't like watching horror movies at all. And in the next few days the elections will be done and all the windbag politicians will go back in the woodwork. ...Oh, I am not either a Democrat or a Republican. I don't give a *&* to listen to either one of them and their lies. I've never once had an interest in politics. ...Free agent filings should be due any day now. I forget the exact date. Note to self: check UncleMo's sig and I'll find out there. :grin: ...I hate Scott Boras. ...Gary Sheffield is one reason why the general public dislikes today's ballplayers. He's crying because the Yankees decided to pick up his 13 million dollar option. That means they are going to pay him that much. That guy's got a hard life for sure. ...Jeff Suppan?? What the hell? Just because he had a good post season I read articles how the Yankees and other teams are "looking at him" for pitching help next year. This guy's a Kansas City reject. Keep this idiot out of the Bronx. :headache: ...And I am glad Bernie Williams has filed for free agency. As soon as he leaves, close the door and change the locks. He's done. ...The rest of this year is going to fly, just watch. And then when January gets here, it will start to drag. Happens every year. ...Anyone have the NFL Network? I got it on Directv and it's pretty good. Sure they got some crap on it, but it's still not bad. ...Sorry if this is old news to some, but they are making a sequel to one of my favorite movies, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. The second movie, which is to be released next year some time is going to be called Harold and Kumar go to Amsterdam.

You're fine. There's never been a complaint about you.

Updated to 10-29 ...It drives me nuts when I can't find something that I just set down three seconds ago. I look around, move stuff, pick things up, and then you find it, like it was waiting for you all this time. ...I wonder how low the ratings were for this year's World Series? ...Now it's time for Joe Frontrunner to put away his White Sox hat next to his Red Sox hat and wear his Cardinal gear, because after all, he's a "lifelong" Cardinal fan. ...The day can't come soon enough that Gary Sheffield is traded by the Yankees. ...I just love the smell of a wood burning fireplace. ...Pittsburgh Steelers vs. the Oakland Raiders today. Years ago that really meant something. ...The toughest part about going to work each day is hearing that alarm clock go off. ...I like eggs Benedict for breakfast every once in awhile. If you've never tried them, give it a shot. The first time I ever had them was when I was in Texas six years ago. ...You see, now I'm thinking of them and I might go to my closest breakfast place to get some. ...This baseball season, heck, even this year, has just flown by. I just went back and looked at some of our threads at the beginning of April. Everyone was so happy that the season was under way. And just like that six months went by. ...I'm glad the MLB and players agreement is done. One less thing to worry about. ...Clocks back one hour here in the east today. Have a good week.

Don't worry about it, everything's fine.

No I'm not. I'm more concerned about keeping this thread on the subject of the Mvp 07 mod and not having it branch out into stupid arguements that have no purpose here.

Enough of this joking before it gets out of control. All NYM has to do is work on his Shea mod, test it out and send it to Kraw for approval. Then he's all set. He'll get his proper due.

Not true. Ideas are just being thrown around now, that's all.

God damn, Hory was right.

Hey, no problem on my end! Check this out

Any idea is not a dumb idea. Remember that. And I'm not just referring to you Bama, anyone who reads this thread. Throw your ideas out and see which one of them sticks.

Of course not. I just wanted to get this back on course. I just did what I was able to do, sticky this thing and now we have it in one thread so we can concentrate on what can be done instead of wasting time on things that don't matter anyway. Besides, how can I take over? Kraw's a genius. :stickman:

Let's try this again, shall we? What I want to do in this thread is to have a central meeting point for anyone who wants to help out Krawhitham and his team of modders with the 2007 mod. Put in any idea you want for this mod in this thread. If you have something you want to contribute, post it in here. If you want to help out on the mod, let them know in here or via private message. I am starting this thread tonight because there was a misunderstanding with one of our members earlier today. Some people thought he jumped the gun and wanted to take over this proposed project, but it wasn't the case. He is just an enthusiastic user who wants to be involved in some way. Maybe his wording in his post was wrong, but his intentions to help out were not. Ok, that's out of the way. What is more important are these basic questions: Mvp 06 was great. How can it be improved upon? Can anything else be added? What wasn't added that time did not allow? What new mods or ideas can be incorporated into this? These are just some questions we will find out together. The only thing I know is that you men in here can make anything happen. Any help I can do you let me know. On to Mvp 07!

Something's going to be done about it. I am home tomorrow so I got some time to think.

Updated to 10-22 ...I only watched three minutes of the opening game of the World Series last night because I was waiting for a movie to start on the Encore channel. Sour grapes Y4L??? You bet. ...It gets me nervous each time Boo Selig says that the labor-management talks are "amicable" because that usually means the opposite. ...I wonder why no one in here was gloating when the Mets lost the NLCS but when the Yankees lost, it was a cause for celebration? Double standards. ...I read this article last night on CNN and I still don't get it. Why wouldn't he want to leave? Unless maybe he gets free satellite and Internet service there. ...Anyone ever watch a show called "The Wild, Wild West"? I've been watching season one of it for the past week. I used to watch the reruns of it on TBS not to long ago. ...The late W.C. Fields once said "I never vote for anybody, I vote against them." Which is exactly how I'll approach this year's voting. ...Ted Lilly, please come back to New York. You never should have left in the first place. ...I got the Thanksgiving week off, but only you guys in here know this. No one in my family does as of yet. Because if they do, something will get planned or we'll have to go somewhere "since you are home anyways" at the last minute. ...Shopping carts hurt. Damn, they hurt. Especially when someone doesn't watch where they are going. And I've had this happen before! ...MTV sucks. I know it has been years since I watched it, but it is even worse then I imagined.

I'm sure Soriano has already done that. :binkybaby:

Who the heck is Chris Leak?

Updated to 10-15 ...Well, I've been getting more sleep at night now that the Yankees are not playing baseball anymore. Isn't that nice?? :gack: :cry: ...I don't care how much people wanted the underdog Tigers to win, I still didn't like it. ...I didn't need some politician named Foley to remind me how much I dislike and distrust politics, all it did was confirm it for me once again. ...Hard to believe some areas of New York State got blasted with snow this past week. Like Buffalo for instance. Glad I don't live in that area. To borrow a phrase, Buffalo has two seasons: August and winter. ...Hey, Terrell Owens got into another arguement with a coach a few days ago. Who didn't see that coming? ...Everyone I talk to about the bargaining agreement expiring soon does not seem to be worried about it. But I sure am. I don't think this is going to be as cut and dry as people are hoping for. ...I hate people that use their car horn as doorbells. ...Hi-Def TV's and me are a marriage made in heaven. I just don't have one yet. :spin: ...I'd like to win the lottery just once and then I promise never to play it again. ...Finally saw Gridiron Gang last night. Not a bad movie at all.

I know you didn't and I never thought you did. But some of these winners in here might think so. You know, the same ones who call us Nazis. Now I'll go even further: Hitler built up a depression era Germany. Gave them jobs and pride in the country. Then his thoughts of world domination and his hatred for other races and religions were his downfall. My source for this?? History books. Read them.

Neither do I but it gives me a day off with pay so I'll take it.

Updated to 10-8 ....As much as I try, all my random thoughts today seem to revolve around the Yankees and how they blew it yesterday in Detroit. ...Well, so much for the lineup that was "going to score 1,000 runs" crap! ...Yes, Detroit deserved it. But as Alex Rodriguez said, you get tired of giving the other team credit. ...As soon as the last out was made yesterday I immediately thought about what was going to be happening for the Yankees this off season. Because I really feel we are going to see some shakeups that are going to surprise a few people. ...And I don't know what this means for Joe Torre. ...I know he did not affect anything in this series, but I would really like to see Kyle Farnsworth off the team. I hate that guy. There's a reason why the Cubs, Braves and Tigers got rid of him and now I know why. ...Same for Randy Johnson. ...I also think it is time for Bernie Williams to hand in his bat and take his guitar and go home. ...I really feel bad for Derek Jeter. He was the only Yankee that played with any heart in these four games. ...One final thought about Jeter: I wonder what he really feels about this team of overpriced SOB's as compared to the Yankee champions he played on? ...Oh well, for me, it's on to 2007. God knows what that will bring.

Like I posted in today's POTD, it is the anniversary of Bucky Dent's dramatic three run home run in the one game playoff for the 1978 American League East title that was played in Boston. I am going to try to give you a little background on what went on that day and what I was doing. It is a day that has not faded from my memory. It's one of those days that you remember where you were when Bucky Dent stepped to the plate in the seventh inning in Fenway Park. It was a school day and I usually took a bus home, and I did the same thing that day. My mother met me at the bus stop because she knew I was going to be running home and maybe not watching where I was going. It's a good thing because maybe I would have done just that. It didn't take long to get home but it seemed as if she was driving two miles an hour. In the New York Metropolitan area, this game was televised on WPIX TV channel 11, the home of the Yankees before they went to MSG and then after that, to YES. I did not see the WPIX telecast of the game because I do not live in New York. I live in Upstate New York and I, along with the rest of the country got to view this game on ABC TV with Howard Cosell and Keith Jackson doing the play by play. Think about that for a second. The Yankees were allowed to broadcast this playoff game even though it was being shown on National TV. That's something that does not happen these days with FOX holding all the cards. In the early innings, this game just flew by. And that's because of a couple of things. The Red Sox took a early 2 - 0 lead on Ron Guidry, who was not at his sharpest. And Mike Torrez was strong as he was nursing a one hit shutout through six innings. And I was getting nervous. And I remember watching this game, there was no outside interruptions. The phone only rang once, and it was in between innings from an aunt who was calling my house to ask my mother how I was holding up and if I was still breathing. Little did I know I was a Yankee4Life in training back then. But that was it. No one else called. At the end of the sixth inning, I got up and walked around the house because it was getting to me. I remember glancing out the window at my house and looking outside. No one was out. No cars were driving by. Nothing. The seventh inning is something that I'll never forget. I know I said this before, but to witness what happened was something else. And when Dent did hit that homerun, there was no way anyone thought it was over. I was happy that the Yankees finally had a lead. I can still recall how it happened: Graig Nettles hit a fly to right for the first out, but then Chris Chambliss hit an opposite field single that I thought for a second Jim Rice would catch. Roy White singled to center, a line drive single that sent Chambliss to second. Brian Doyle was pinch hit for by Jim Spencer, and that was important in the outcome of the game, but I didn't know this until Dent came up and I read about it the next day. Spencer flew out to Jim Rice for the second out. Torrez was almost out of the inning! Now, here is why it was important that Spencer came in the game at that time. Willie Randolph was hurt and did not play. Brian Doyle was playing second base. The only other utility infielder was Fred Stanley, and he was going in to play second in the seventh inning. Bucky Dent, all .243 batting average of his, had to go up and hit in the seventh inning for the Yankees because they had no one to pinch hit for him! Of course, we all know what Dent did. He homered over the wall and the Yankees took a 3-2 lead. (Another thing about baseball rules back then, this home run by Dent was the game winning RBI, even though Jackson homered in the 8th. Rules back then stated that the hit that gave your team the lead that you never lost was the GWRBI.) But then Mickey Rivers walked and that knocked out Torrez. Bob Stanley, in his only good year in the major leagues, came in to pitch. Stanley was a tall, lumbering right hander and Mickey Rivers stole second base easy on him. Thurman Munson then hit a double to center field to score Rivers as the Yankees took a 4-2 lead. In the eighth, Reggie Jackson hit a homerun for a 5-2 Yankee lead. Now, here was when the game slowed down for me. All the Yankees needed was six more outs and each one of them it seemed was harder to get then the previous one. Rich Gossage, the Yankee ace in the bullpen, came in to relieve Guidry in the seventh inning. In those days, closers did not just pitch one inning and that was that. Gossage pitched the rest of the game. The Sox got to Gossage in the 8th for two runs and in the bottom of the ninth, it was 5-4, Yankees on the good side. We all know that Carl Yastrzemski made the final out on a pop up to Nettles at third, but the Sox made it too interesting with runners on 1st and 2nd before Yaz got up. Luckily, Yaz got under the pitch and the rest was history. Many people got all over Mike Torrez for this game, and I never felt it was justified. Torrez, in 1977, was a member of the Yankees. (The Yanks acquired him in an April trade from Oakland) Torrez won 14 games for the Yankees and was a key figure in the game five win against the Royals at Kansas City. (Back then, the ALCS was best out of five.) How key was he? He came in relief of Ron Guidry and pitched 5 1/3 innings of shutout ball and gave the Yankees time to get back in it. And Torrez was the winning pitcher in game six of the World Series against the Dodgers as the Yankees won their first world title since 1962. In the off season, Torrez took Mrs. Yawkey's money and signed with Boston. His 16 wins that year kept them in the hunt all year long. He just never got win number 17. Here's some photos of that day: This picture is taken from a newspaper that someone saved from that day. http://www.yankeetradition.com/denthr.jpg Mike Torrez. He deserved better http://www.cjonline.com/images/032903/c.torrez.jpg