Saturday, November 29, 2008
Tigers season finished!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
3 Players tied at 10 HR!
P.S. can you see physical difference between Templar and Prisoner?
Monday, January 7, 2008
About Steve Palermo
One particular thing we can say about this Ken Griffey Jr's baseball game is that Steve Pamerlo's voice is really unforgeable. Everyone who played this game remember those voice's sounds. Just play the sample stand-alone and some people who hasn't played this game in years will recognize the voice like "Hey, where the fuck I already heard that?" Then, put the game on, haha. Here is what the official instruction booklet who came with the game says about Steve :« His career highlights also include umpiring two of the most famous games in New York Yankees history. In 1978, he worked the Yankees one-game playoff against the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park to determine the AL's Eastern Division winner. Palermo, serving as the third base umpire, signaled "fair ball" when Bucky Dent hit the game-winning home run. On July 4, 1983, Palermo worked behind the plate for Dave Righetti's no-hitter against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium.
On July 7, 1991, he and several friends were dining after a Texas Rangers game when they were alerted that two waitresses were being mugged in the parking lot. In an attempt to apprehend the assailants, he suffered a bullet wound to his spinal cord, resulting in instant paraplegia. It seemed that Palermo's umpiring career might have ended as doctors told Palermo and his wife, Debbie, that he would probably never walk again. Through rehabilitation and a lot of determination, however, Palermo managed to recover, walking with the use of one small leg brace and a cane. »
«The voice you hear in Ken Griffey Jr. Presents: Major League Baseballbelongs to American League Umpire Steve Palermo. Since breaking into the league in 1977, Steve has received many accolades and been involved in hundreds of big games. Throughout his career, Steve has appeared in 5 American League Championship Series (1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1989), 1 All-Star Game (1986), and 1 World Series (1983). Other historical events include the 1978 playoff between the Red Sox and the Yankees featuring Bucky Dent's unlikely, but timely, home run and working home plate during Dave Righetti's no-hitter in 1983.»Pretty strange to say, but the White House's homepage has a official Steve Palermo biography because he is the White House Tee-Ball Commissioner. (????) (I thought that Tee Ball was for little kids before playing baseball with a pincher who throw a ball instead of putting it on a stick.) (After reading a bit on this, I found out that it's a special Tee Ball game where all the kids who is playing has permanent injuries like Pamerlo himself.)
Random links I found about the man :
Wikipedia's page
White House's bio page
Midamericangames.com
Answers/Questions on Pamerlo
Autographed Sports Illustrated
“Always follow your dreams because it is possible that it can become a reality.” -Steve Palermo
P.S. I really like the quote line on that cover. I'm a Star Wars fan by the way.
Memorable Game #1
But what a fuckin' game it was. This is the first time a computer player score so much points against me, the first time I hit the 13 innings marks, the first time they hit 7 home runs and the first time, with the Brewers, I hit 3 home run with a player. It was one of my bubblegums chewers and a by-default bencher, Steel. The other bubblegum chewer, Peel, hits the other home run. All in all, a memorable game and a memorable lost. And I don't care about this lost, it was fuckin' too much fun.
Beer, Music & The Game
Friday, December 14, 2007
Prisoner Suck #1
First two games of the season = 3 HR. Nice. Last 12 games = 0 HR. Huh? What's wrong? Don't know but he hits pretty well, he has an amazing avg of .553. The problem is that he fuckin' aren't able to hit well when there is people on base. I thought he would hits other grand slam so this is why I have so much proof of this.
Proofs :
(Sorry about the fuck off at the end. The cam was standing right on the couch where I'm. The song wasn't intended to play while recording, hahaha.)
Real bad RBI/Hits ratio (edited!)
[Edit]
Yes! They did it again! I'm kidding... I just finished a game right now with the almost same ratio as the other game : 2 RBI (a HR by Peel) and 15 Hits. Some words regarding this news paper with this "Pitching duel". Ok, I did 5 K and its pretty rare I do so "much" K in a game. Yeah a pitching duel with a pitcher who is according 15 hits. Excuse me, this is not "a pitcher", it's "the pitchers". Duel? One pitcher (mine) against a horde of pitchers (their-they changed like 2 times). It's seem not to be a duel at the end, huh? Bah, it's like our real newspapers; they are not really telling the true, exactly. ^_^
Where I am playing (feat. Ming)
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Prisoner's Grand Slam on 1st game
By the way, this season won't be deleted because I will watch Jeff like hell next time he will come around my Ken's cartridge. I will upload the current season stats section when I will be at 9 games played.
Here is the Grand Slam in its full glory. Look at the Prisoner's stats.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
My season has been erased!
I don't know, I will begin another Brewer's one, they were really nice, with an almost 10 points per game. It's just 10:00am on a saturday's morning today. I think that I have some time in front of me to re-fucking-begin a new season. I know my line-up.
TU AS TUÉ MA SAISON DE KEN GRIFFEY
FUCK YOU.
JE SUIS EN TABARNACK"
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Game #10 : 2 Grand Slam in 1 inning
Monday, December 3, 2007
First Season Complete
Classic epic loose, against the White Sox, 0-0 in the end of the 11th inning, Berry at bat, 1 out. Solo home run. I loose 1-0. It was a fuckin' pain that loose. Tabarnack. Classic win: against the Red Sox and their legendary defense of death, I hit 2 inside-the-park home run, one with Bambino (witch it was is second in the 3-game series against them) and one with Broadway. Another classic moment was the 2 time I hit 3 streak home run with the same 3 player in order, Harlem, Thurman, Bambino. Honorable mention: Clipper and his 16 HR-he already was just behind Harlem for some games. Another honorable mention is the 12 HR of Broadway. He is very small, he is the first hitter in the line-up but he hits triple his default-162-games HR stats in a 78-games season. Nice performance. I remember too, and it shocked me a bit, haha, in one game the computer stole him a HR. One last words about the high .avg of Thurman, woah, .470 I didn't even think it was possible to be over .450! It's all for this season. Supported by really high quality camera pic of the tv screen, here is my 3 stars of the season:
1st : HARLEM
2nd : THURMAN
3rd : BAMBINO
I will keep all the stats of the players in .txt file on the right column of this blog with its summary. Here is the full stats of the season. (including the final line-up)
YANKEES 1ST 78-GAMES SEASON (60-18)
LINE-UP AVG HR RBI
CF BROADWAY .366 12 29 *
3B QUEENS .337 8 15
SS CLIPPER .344 16 44 *
DH HARLEM .444 34 86 *
C THURMAN .470 22 51 *
2B BAMBINO .446 19 65 *
LF MICK .395 14 45 *
RF HORSE .329 10 40 *
1B BOWERY .293 7 32
BENCH
-- SCOOTER .358 2 6
-- BROOKLYN .264 2 5
-- ISLAND .363 0 0
-- REGGIE .320 4 19
-- BOMBER .000 0 0
-- BRONX .307 1 1
* = Played 78games
TOTAL HR : 151
TOTAL RBI: 448
PITCHERS W L S ERA
SP WHITEY 14 2 0 2.81
SP PFEIFLE 14 3 0 2.09
SP SNAKE 12 3 0 2.11
SP SOHO 8 4 0 2.22
SP STATE 5 2 0 2.31
RP ISLAND 2 0 0 0.00
RP BRIDGE 0 0 1 9.99
RP HUDSON 0 0 1 3.72
RP RIVER 3 0 1 1.55
RP GOOSE 2 4 3 3.48
See ya with the Brewers to see what they have to give!
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
I stole a home run!
Including my early games I played with my friend back in '94, I never ever stole a home run. It was against the Twins and I won the game too by the way. The Yankees stadium, with its littles walls, is a nice ballpark to made this kind of catch. I always talked and wanted to make one.
It already happened in this current season but it was the computer who stole me a home run. (I get really fucked like shit on that play... really) It was in the beginning of the season and I didn't note the team and others informations so I don't remember exactly who, from my team, was stolen and what was the "effect" of this play on the whole game. One thing I remember about it was that I loose.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Kicked by the Brewers
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Wink at Ruth
"The longest verifiable home run distance is about 575 feet (175 m), by Babe Ruth, to straightaway center field at Tiger Stadium, which landed nearly across the intersection of Trumbull and Cherry."I think that this is not only a coincidence that in KGJPMLB you can't hit a home run over 575ft. It's just a wink at Ruth's mythic hits! "No body can beat the ultimate home run made by Ruth. We, the programmers, will not made possible the hitting of a 576ft's home run. No." By the way, in the game, the "575ft-home-run-hit" is not happening rarely. In my "career" I actually made some with little boy like Island or Queen, for the Yanks. The computer made some against me too. But it's so nice to see that ball exiting the ballpark at that speed! Next time, I will have a thought about you, Ruth, haha!
Friday, November 16, 2007
Harlem
I will always love his posture design and the way he "practices" himself with his bat just before the pinch comes. The feeling I have when I am holding the controller and looking at him just before hitting, is really special. I almost "know" that this guy, just by his looking and stuff, WILL hit home runs. It's strange, but I'm almost feeling it, haha. The same thing happen with Earp from the Rangers; his basic stats wrote "10 Hr." but when we are playing with him into a season, at 30 games, Earp beat it already. I'm making a link with Earp because he has exactly the same hitting posture but not the same stats. (Earp has, as I remember, 6 Bat & 7 Power, something like this) Harlem is my personal favorites hitters from the Yankees; I'm always looking forward to hit others home runs! Now, as the season goes, he will almost reach 75 Hr. Powerful hitter!
Plans
There is 26 teams in the game and I doubt that I will be able, in my whole life, to complete a season with each of them. This is why I will spot some teams to play with firstly. I know that I will do at least those teams : Rangers, Giants, Yankees, White Sox, Athletics, Angels, Mariners, Rookies, Blue Jays. Right now, as a "warm up", I am playing a 162-games season with the Yankees and I am at my 50th games.
GO YANKS GO!
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Introduction
I'm so obsessed, now, with that game. I felt on it last month and it opened me a whole bunch of old souvenirs. I played so much at that game, back in the days... I started it in the last months and I was stunned because almost every player's name remembered me something special deep in my kid life. I played baseball personally for about 8 years in the 90's. Before I felt in love with that game, who came out in 1994, I was a fan of the Baseball Star series on the NES. That game was a mess.; the customizing team mode, the cash you can earn when your team wins season's games, the "cartoon" looking of the players, the Superstar Team, the way you can stole an home run and then able to fall outside of the field, after the catch. (!!!) But when Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball came out, it was THE game every baseball player like me played before and after our "real" baseball game.
I remember calling my friend at 8am (I were 9 or 10 so we woke up early back in those days) and playing until his mother shout "go outside, it's shiny and I won't let you play SNES for the whole afternoon". And when we came outside, we were playing baseball by imitating the hitter's motion from various famous players from the game. I think about Conrad, Ernest, Faulkner, Josh, Mulin, Williams, etc. (because at that time, our season was with the Athletics and with the White Sox) Things I really liked but not restricted to is : the cartoonish hitter's look (those giant arms, or those little skinny legs), the amazing control and catching style that every fielders can made, the voice "Stttttriiiiiike!", the pumping in-game music, the fast general playing style (15 min-game style), the distance of the home runs, the ability to rename as you want every player's name and that green field. In all my career playing, I heard that in-game songs for about thousands and thousands hours. I can't get rid of it. Most of my play time, at this time in my life, was in the 90's with that friend. Consisting seasons with the Athletics, the White Sox (my only 162-games season completed without loosing data) and the Rangers. I remember trying to complete the 162-games season, but each time, something went wrong and the data reseted. (maybe because the cartridge was so much traveled from home to home...) One time, we reached the fact that every fuckin' player's name (National and American) was renamed with the REAL equivalent player. But, like each time we tried to finish a 162-games season, all the data was removed again. I remember my friend seeing that on the screen, taking the 2 controllers away, pitching them against the wall 10 times, until the 2 controllers broke. (he wasn't able to control himself by breaking only one controller...) So, by the year 1998, I entered secondary school and forgot all those moments (and my friend, by the way)... until LAST MONTH.
Since then, I am playing at this game in season and it is fuckin' awesome. More awesome then it was back in the days. I begun to search on the web, googlin' and youtubin' and I was surprised that there were no further information about this game. It was into the comments from the only 3 "videos" of the game that I found out that I wasn't the only person who like this game as hell. I wanted to share the things I know about it. I will post here some screenshots of my lineups, miscellaneous videos, stats and all others stuff related to the game. If you fall here because you are too a fan of that game, put comments!
Welcome to my Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB's blog!
p.s. as you can see/read, my English is not perfect, my doubt; it's my second language. I started to blog it in English because I wanted to reach the most people possible.