LansdowneSt's Facegen Checklist

[LansdowneSt]

Craig Monroe’s nine-year MLB career was spread out across four different teams. However, he found almost all of his major league success while wearing the Old English D. He was selected off waivers from the Rangers by the Tigers before the 2002 season and played sparingly, going 3-for-25. The powerful right-hander reached his peak over the next four seasons in Detroit. From 2003-2006, Monroe slashed .267/.312/.466 with a 104 OPS+. He averaged 22 home runs and 81 RBI per season. Monroe, like so many of his teammates, peaked in 2006. He set career highs in doubles (35) home runs (28) RBI (92) and total bases (261). He caught fire in the postseason, smacking five home runs and driving in nine. He hit two home runs in the World Series but went 1-for-20 otherwise.

Monroe spent the majority of 2007 with the Tigers before being shipped to the Cubs in August for Clay Rapada. He struggled in the Windy City and was traded after the season to the Twins and then to the Pirates. He finished with 115 career home runs, 101 of them in a Tigers uniform. Tiger fans have seen plenty of Monroe in his post playing days. The outfielder joined the broadcast team back in 2012 as a studio analyst. He occasionally provides color commentary as well. - motorcitybengals.com

Redid the facegen. I think I used the same source picture as the fg in the pack did, a younger Monroe, and it definitely had an orange tint embedded in it, but I knocked it back for the most part. He always had a chin, but (like so many of us) the years and the pounds made it less prominent as he aged so I tweaked it accordingly a bit.

[hfield007]

that is perfect!! appreciate the work as always. top notch.

[LansdowneSt]

Because of his dark complexion, he was called Nig. For the same reason, some sportswriters referred to him as the Cuban Warrior or the Cuban Hero. But Nig Cuppy was not African-American or Cuban. He was a first-generation American, son of immigrants from Bavaria. On April 16, 1892, the 22-year-old Cuppy made his major-league debut with the National League Cleveland Spiders. He known as a slow pitcher, not only for the number of off-speed pitches he threw, but also because of the time he took between deliveries, which many hitters found frustrating. Newspapers of the day took delight in describing Cuppy’s actions in the pitcher’s box. One reporter wrote, “It is really amusing to those in the stands to witness the maneuvers of this little twirler with the swarthy complexion and pearly teeth. He fondles the ball, rubs it on the back of his neck, grins at the batsman, and then stops to adjust his cap and hitch up his trousers. He does all this several more times before he delivers the ball to the batsman.”

During his first six seasons in the majors, Cuppy had five 20-win seasons and 163 wins in total. (He collected 17 victories in the exception, his “poor” 1893 season.) In 1897 his arm gave out. He won only ten games that season and never came close to 20 again. During Cuppy’s tenure with Cleveland, the club consistently finished in the first division, including three seasons in second place, but they captured no pennants. He concluded his career with the Boston Americans for their debut 1901 season. After leaving the majors, Cuppy returned to Indiana, where he pitched for and managed an Elkhart semipro club in 1902. For some time, he and his former catcher Lou Criger ran a billiard parlor, appropriately called The Battery. Later he entered the retail tobacco business. - SABR

Redid the facegen.

[FancySkunk]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Redid the facegen. Never seen him with the goatee before. The goatee is the CU Facepack fg and the second one is the one that ships with the game.

Well shoot. I see what happened with this one. The goatee-sporting Erasmo Ramirez is the former Rangers pitcher. I seem to have gotten the files crossed with the currently active pitcher.

[LansdowneSt]

One of the greatest pitchers in 19th-century major-league baseball, Tim Keefe won 342 games and still ranks among the top ten pitchers in lifetime victories. He was known for his change-of-pace pitch, which he used to establish a still-standing major-league record of 19 consecutive victories in 1888. “No more graceful, skillful and strategic pitcher ever tossed a ball over the plate to the bewilderment and dismay of opposing batsmen,” one writer wrote of Keefe in 1890. In addition to his pitching prowess, Keefe was also a leader in the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players, which led a revolt of National League ballplayers to form the ill-fated Players League in 1890.

In 1928, Boston Globe sportswriter Ford Sawyer ran across Keefe at a Red Sox game at Fenway Park, where “the 70-year-old real estate owner is unknown to the vast majority of the thousands who are urging on their Boston favorites.” Keefe, who now regularly attended ballgames once a week, told Sawyer that baseball was “fundamentally the same old game” as back in the 1880s, and that he particularly liked to watch Ty Cobb. In 1936, at the time of the first BBWAA election for the Baseball Hall of Fame, Keefe’s pitching exploits for the New York Giants in the 1880s were largely forgotten, as he received just one vote on the 78 ballots cast for the 19th-century stars component of the initial Hall of Fame class.

Keefe was more famous in the 1930s as the mythical pitcher in “Casey at the Bat.” His name carried on in corrupted versions of the poem “Casey at the Bat” that first began appearing in about 1900 in a number of anthologies of humorous verse. These versions of Thayer’s poem substituted the line “He signaled the pitcher” with “He signaled to Sir Timothy,” and more specifically indicated Keefe through the change of the term “the writhing pitcher” to “the New York pitcher.”

In 1964 Keefe was enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee. Since he had no children, several nieces and nephews, the children of his younger sister Ellen, represented him at the induction ceremony. - SABR

Redid the facegen. @AESP, go ahead and ping me in this thread for a request or via DM. The other thread has so many posts in a single day, I don't always catch a request or call-out. It was only earlier tonight that I saw the Tim Keefe note from two days ago.

[AESP_pres]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

@AESP, go ahead and ping me in this thread for a request or via DM. The other thread has so many posts in a single day, I don't always catch a request or call-out. It was only earlier tonight that I saw the Tim Keefe note from two days ago.

Will do... I just don't want to bother you too much since, contrary to me, you have a life. It's the reason why in my end of season list I wrote when a player picture exist but I was unable to work with it.


Also thanks!

[percolaten]

Lansdowne, I posted this on the other thread a few days ago, I noticed Danny Murtaugh and Billy Martin could use make-overs. Their facegens almost make them look related, lol. Oh, and the Dick Allen I have is a little rough, too. If you feel like taking a gander at it. Thanks!

[LansdowneSt]

percolaten,

I'll add these to the list and get them out in the next few days or so. The Dick Allen in the CU Facepack looks like - and yet does NOT look like - the one you posted. The low-res performance of Mac facegens in the game is to blame for that pic you posted. Here's how the one currently in the pack appears to me. It's tinted yellow but the detail is far better than yours. I don't know how folks with Macs play with the fg's given how washed out they look.

EDIT: Added the fg file for percolaten

[LansdowneSt]

How wild is this website with regard to facegens... that's Tim Keefe uploaded...

https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nost...4552122-500001

[percolaten]

Thanx so much!

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

percolaten,

I'll add these to the list and get them out in the next few days or so. The Dick Allen in the CU Facepack looks like - and yet does NOT look like - the one you posted. The low-res performance of Mac facegens in the game is to blame for that pic you posted. Here's how the one currently in the pack appears to me. It's tinted yellow but the detail is far better than yours. I don't know how folks with Macs play with the fg's given how washed out they look.

[LansdowneSt]

Serial retirement has a long tradition in sports. Boxing has produced many serial retirees, aging fighters who swear each fight is their last until the promise of another big payday becomes too much to resist. In the 2000s, no NFL season was complete without the will-he-won’t-he drama surrounding Brett Favre’s retirement. But perhaps the king of sports retirements is Danny Murtaugh, who retired from baseball as a player in 1951 and then retired as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates four times in a 13-year span in the 1960s and ’70s. Perhaps the most definitive words on why anyone would want to keep coming back to manage a ball club belong to Murtaugh himself, who said, “Managing a ballclub is like getting malaria. Once you’re bitten by the bug, it’s difficult to get it out of your bloodstream.”

Murtaugh was known for his wit and ability to give the media a good quote. As manager he often held court from a rocking chair in his office and offered up gems like “Why certainly I’d like to have a fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he’s pitching and who is always thinking about two innings ahead. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer, come down out of the stands, and do those things.”

While best known as a manager, he was also a fine second baseman for the Phillies and Pirates playing nine years (and losing two to military service in WWII). He finished ninth in the 1948 NL MVP race.

Redid the facegen. I think it works both as a player and manager fg. I used the same photo that was likely used for the current one but didn't smooth it out as much. I worry the detail won't hold for ya though, percolaten.

[percolaten]

Looks great! You got those eyebrows down :-)

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Redid the facegen. I think it works both as a player and manager fg. I used the same photo that was likely used for the current one but didn't smooth it out as much. I worry the detail won't hold for ya though, percolaten.

[percolaten]

Also, would you mind posting the Dick Allen file of the facegen snapshot you shared?

[LansdowneSt]

percolaten,

i added it but I think the one I have in my folder is the same as the one in the CU Facepack. I also think it is the same as the one you posted - it's just a difference in resolution on the computer. Even if I didn't know you were on a Mac, the resolution and washed-out appearance of the facegens you have tells me you are in Mac low-res mode. Load the one I sent you and repost a screenshot. I'm worried your results won't change and it will still look like the Dodger one from a few posts back....

I'll be back to the ones I owe people later this week - just been swamped with the real-life job this week...

[percolaten]

The one you have looks fine on my Mac, thanks. I think one of the problems I'm having is when I retire them and turn them into a coach, they do this squinting-eye thing that makes them look weird, even after I reload the coach with the original facegen. I'm guessing there's not a way to fix this, but I'll post some before and after becoming-a-coach screenshots of Dick Allen and Danny Murtaugh to give context.

[LansdowneSt]

Thanks for posting those. They do look like angry - and it might just be that. Check the emotions of them (do coaches get emotions like players, I wonder?) The smiles and the angry-face are the result of all the "happy with transactions/ team performance / etc" numbers in the editor. If in Commish mode you can see them and zero them out. If zero-ing them out and refreshing the facegen in the editor tool doesn't fix it, I'll dig further and turn some of mine into coaches. Another factor can be age since the game will age the facegen. Sometimes just refreshing it can make them look better if showing up with too much in-game age added.

Still looks lower res and washed out a bit next to mine though. Wish I could figure that out...

[percolaten]

I have emotions off on my game where I experiment with different facegens. After reading yours I turned them on to put personable/easygoing for the coaches and it didn't make a difference. Dick Allen still looks wasted, Danny Murtaugh still looks like he's doing a Clint Eastwood impression.

[LansdowneSt]

I looked it up and it's Morale. I can make mine angry and older but it's still not quite like yours ... but closer. He's a coach in these pics. But if I refresh the fg in the editor twice, he loses the age and if I set all the Morale scores to zero, and refresh again, he's calm and young again.

[percolaten]

Thanks for your help. On my mac it still looks a bit squinty eyed as coaches even if morale's high, but oh well. Aesthetics are far less important than actual game play and strategy.

[luckymann]

Yeah it happens with players as well. Even though you might have morale off, if you go into the editor you'll see it still registers, but doesn't affect game play other than be reflected in the FGs.