Based upon Shooty's idea:
The rules are simple- pick the next RBI'er to die.
If you win, you will get a hearty congrats from the Dee-Nee community and be labeled as the "Dee-Nee Oracle".
EDIT: Please select cause of death as well so that way people can pick the same person, but perhaps a different cause of death. Edit2 - At this point one RBI'er to one person. If you disagree, do a followup post...
Gantry Edit - The list
* Atezz - Al Pedrique
* BDawk - Pedro Guerrero
* Beefmaster - Jose Canseco
* Big AppleRBIChamp - Dave Smith
* Big Hath - Andres Galarraga
* Bonny - Willie Hernandez
* Broiler - Bob Brenly
* Caveman - Jose Cruz
* CurtFlood - Ruppert Jones
* Dark Side - Darrell Evans
* Defen - Lenny Dykstra
* EDFan - George Hendrick
* FathedX - Scott Garrelts
* Gantry - Kevin Mitchell
* GDavis - Jeff Reardon
* Gerlost - Bob Boone
* Fknmclane - Don Sutton
* GoReds - Doyle Alexander
* Japetus462 - Terry Puhl
* JerryD - Tim Teufel
* Malnuboy - Fernando Valenzuela
* Metal King - Bill Schroeder
* Moses - Rafael Santana
* Nacho - John Kruk
* Nomaa - Spike Owen
* OctogenarianFranco - Doc Gooden
* Racktacular - Darryl Strawberry
* redfanrod - Charlie Kerfeld
* Ryno - Wally Backman
* ShitPaw - John Tudor
* Shooty Babbit - Mark McGwire
* Stock - Kent Hrbek
* Strassy - Juan Berengeur
* TBT - Tony Armas
* TeddyBallGame - Roger Clemens
* Ultimate7 - Don Baylor
* WeatherMatt - Keith Hernandez
Total Players - 37 (120 remain)
My vote is for Darryl Strawberry
EDIT: Cause of death= drug overdose (specifically cocaine)
Don Sutton will die in an accident with Napolean Dynamite.
Kevin Mitchell will die, and die soon...
I guess we'll use this thread for fresh votes instead of the old RBI Dead Pool one...
Quote from: Gantry on 02/13/06, 10:19:48 AM
Kevin Mitchell will die, and die soon...
I guess we'll use this thread for fresh votes instead of the old RBI Dead Pool one...
There was an old one? Whoops.
I disallowed Darryl in my other thread, because his history of cancer and drug use makes him too easy a choice. I think I picked hJose Canseco, as I can imagine him and his brother being found in a ditch after a bar fight someday. Don Baylor recently had cancer, I think, which would make him a good choice.
We may as well use this thread - it'll be a little more up-to-date, since the other one is mostly from 2003.
all-cancer team: galrga, edavis, strwby, baylor?, dykstr?, ??
Kruk had nut cancer, and is also fat. Not a bad bet.
I shall morbidly take Doc Gooden (drug/alcohol-related car accident).
I'm gonna take Al Pedriq, he'll be murdered while managing in Mexico and since it's Al Pedriq, nobody will care.
RBI Cancer Roster
Galarraga - Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, diagnosed 1999
Strawberry - Colon (spread to lymph nodes), diagnosed 1998
Baylor - Multiple myeloma (bone marrow), diagnosed 2003
Davis - Colon, diagnosed 1997
Kruk - Testicular, diagnosed 1994
I searched on Dykstra, and it doesn't appear that he had cancer, although he and Molitor were spokesmen for the National Spit Tobacco Education Program, which was trying to combat mouth cancer.
I'd do a drug use list, but it'd be easier to just link to the Mets' page (http://dee-nee.com/rbi/mets.shtml) and also mention Raines and Canseco (they're the first ones who come to mind offhand).
Doc Gooden - heart attack (drugs)
McGwire - heart attack (casued by steroid abuse)
I voted for Pedro Guerrero in the other thread. I'm sticking with that.
Edit: reason: falling out of a tree
Quote from: BeefMaster on 02/13/06, 10:45:41 AM
RBI Cancer Roster
Galarraga - Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, diagnosed 1999
Strawberry - Colon (spread to lymph nodes), diagnosed 1998
Baylor - Multiple myeloma (bone marrow), diagnosed 2003
Davis - Colon, diagnosed 1997
Kruk - Testicular, diagnosed 1994
I searched on Dykstra, and it doesn't appear that he had cancer, although he and Molitor were spokesmen for the National Spit Tobacco Education Program, which was trying to combat mouth cancer.
I'd do a drug use list, but it'd be easier to just link to the Mets' page (http://dee-nee.com/rbi/mets.shtml) and also mention Raines and Canseco (they're the first ones who come to mind offhand).
Savage work Beef, seutp a database page with this info:
http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php/RBI_and_Cancer
Bob Boone will be struck down by God for his terrible play with the Hip Young Popes.
I wonder how many more times we'll have this thread.
I'll go with Baylor
Quote from: Gantry on 02/13/06, 10:19:48 AM
Kevin Mitchell will die, and die soon...
I guess we'll use this thread for fresh votes instead of the old RBI Dead Pool one...
I think Gantry meant to cast this vote in the "Next RBI'er to kill something" puhl
If there's an RBI'ers cat Dead Pool, I also vote for Mitchell...
I think that everyone gets to vote for one player and one player only. I don't like picking cause of death because the odds are nobody will be right then. It's a total crapshoot since nobody is on the virge of death, so everyone gets one player. Thoughts?
Quote from: Gantry on 02/13/06, 11:24:16 AM
Quote from: BeefMaster on 02/13/06, 10:45:41 AM
RBI Cancer Roster
Galarraga - Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, diagnosed 1999
Strawberry - Colon (spread to lymph nodes), diagnosed 1998
Baylor - Multiple myeloma (bone marrow), diagnosed 2003
Davis - Colon, diagnosed 1997
Kruk - Testicular, diagnosed 1994
I searched on Dykstra, and it doesn't appear that he had cancer, although he and Molitor were spokesmen for the National Spit Tobacco Education Program, which was trying to combat mouth cancer.
I'd do a drug use list, but it'd be easier to just link to the Mets' page (http://dee-nee.com/rbi/mets.shtml) and also mention Raines and Canseco (they're the first ones who come to mind offhand).
Savage work Beef, seutp a database page with this info:
http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php/RBI_and_Cancer
I didn't search on any players I didn't know (basically, all the ones already mentioned)... there could be others, too.
I'm going with Wally Backman.
After losing the D'Backs job, he's resorted to giving Hand Jobs / blow jobs on the streets of Phoenix.
After an encounter with a drunken Mike D., backman catches syphylis and dies 3 days later. . . .on October 9, 2006.
Can you die from syphilis that quickly?
If Miked gives it to you
OK folks, I edited Rack's original post to give the current Dee-Nee members and their vote. I urge EVERYONE to vote in the RBI Dead Pool, this could be huge. I'm shooting for 50 guys to get listed, that would rule.
Nacho - You have to vote again as Shooty already took McGwire before you.
* TBG - Roger Clemens shot by dick cheney in a hunting accident.
12 down, 38 more to go! Perhaps this should be a sticky?
Kent Hrbek; hardening of the arteries. fatass.
edited for ultimate.
Quote from: Stock on 02/14/06, 12:06:43 PM
Kent Herbeck
please tell me this was a typo
I like the cause of death...maybe it could be used as a tiebreaker...if say two RBIers die in a dual suicide love pact...wait, that wouldn't work either... I just like my cause of death.
Listing causes of death is definitely cool, but we have 160 RBI'ers and I don't think we need to pick the same guy...
Rickey Henderson from a broken heart.
Tony Armas will croak by the end of 07.
that is all.
I think that if you kill the person you pick, you should be disqualified
I think aspiring to kill RBI'ers will lead to more RBI discussion, so I"m going to allow it...
I'm just trying to protect the site from the potential liability
Quote from: Gantry on 02/14/06, 11:41:55 AM
Nacho - You have to vote again as Shooty already took McGwire before you.
Actually, I took Gooden, and I didn't know that only one person was allowed to believe that Gooden would die first.
Since that is the case, I'll take Kruk.
That puts us up to 15, hoping for 25 by the end of Taco Tuesday...
DIE DARRYL! DIE!
j/k
kinda
Len Dykstra - Nut cancer is contagious, plus how often were Kruk's balls in his mouth in Philadelphia?
Sticky would be good.
Fantastic idea. I'll take (it in the) Reardon
Sticky and up to 17
Scott Garrelts - death by anonymity
I'll take George Hendrick
Quote from: defen on 02/14/06, 02:40:57 PM
Len Dykstra - Nut cancer is contagious, plus how often were Kruk's balls in his mouth in Philadelphia?
Quote from: Racktacular on 02/14/06, 02:41:04 PM
Sticky would be good.
Quote from: GDavis on 02/14/06, 02:44:56 PM
Fantastic idea. I'll take (it in the) Reardon
Now that we know he is insane, Reardon is a good choice.
Willie Hernandez
any chance we had of an actual RBI'er contributing to this board has just, umm, died.
spike owen
murdered by jim rice when he gets into the hof before him.
Ruperto...because time heals all wounds (unless you're black).
Quote from: CurtFlood on 02/14/06, 08:42:58 PM
Ruperto...because time heals all wounds (unless you're black).
...in that case, you're a looter
Doyle Alexander
The oft ignored SP for Dt gets better as his stuff slows down...and he's old as balls I think.
Spike Owen and Rafeal Santana will both die together in a car accident.
i get to pick two because i am a girl.
Quote from: moses on 02/14/06, 09:16:55 PM
Spike Owen and Rafeal Santana will both die together in a car accident.
i get to pick two because i am a girl have major league yabboos.
Malnu selects Fernando Valenzuela
We hit 25 on the last Taco Tuesday song, BOOYAH!
Juan berengeur...combination of obesity and a fatal stabbing in this native land
Is there a list of the dead RBI'ers or is it just Donnie Moore?
Donnie Moore is the list
We need a list! Give us a list!
I'm takin Jose Cruz
I'll take the Big Cat
So is Al Pedrique available again?
Nope, he stays... Hopefully the death of Al Pedrique is all that is needed to get Atezz come back and make us a dee-nee family again. A small sacrifice considering the caliber of player he was. Atezz is much more valuable as a Dee-Nee member than Pedrique was an RBI'er...
Quote from: Gantry on 02/16/06, 12:42:21 PM
Nope, he stays... Hopefully the death of Al Pedrique is all that is needed to get Atezz come back and make us a dee-nee family again. A small sacrifice considering the caliber of player he was. Atezz is much more valuable as a Dee-Nee member than Pedrique was an RBI'er...
Pedriq is the MR RBI of NES RBI. I banned him years ago
bob brenly. he seemed old when he was playing
Rafael Santana makes sense, even though he's already listed. Why? Because of his monster-sized cock. :'(
We need your vote Velair! The list is stagnating...
Quote from: VerlairWightSL on 02/23/06, 04:56:34 PM
Rafael Santana makes sense, even though he's already listed. Why? Because of his monster-sized cock. :'(
I'm not sure I want to know how you know about his cock size
See here BDawk:
http://forums.dee-nee.com/index.php?topic=2985.msg217217#msg217217
Good for Santana. I guess he needs something good in his life...because he is so shitty in RBI baseball. Now he can get laid
Tim Teufel by heart attack
What do i get if I win?
(Lemonparty please!)
Terry Puhl.
Darrell Evans. Is Rick Reushel dead. If not, take him.
Blanche Deveroe
I would like to select Bary Bonds if he has not been selected yet. Cause of death will be either the cream or the clear but he will definatly have a broken neck as a result of his swollen head.
Quote from: THE beaver on 03/01/06, 02:29:25 AM
I would like to select Bary Bonds if he has not been selected yet. Cause of death will be either the cream or the clear but he will definatly have a broken neck as a result of his swollen head.
Barry Bonds is not in RBI Baseball.
Quote from: BeefMaster on 03/01/06, 07:42:36 AMBarry Bonds is not in RBI Baseball.
But he coulda been if he'd started juicing earlier.
Quote from: THE beaver on 03/01/06, 02:29:25 AM
I would like to select Bary Bonds if he has not been selected yet. Cause of death will be either the cream or the clear but he will definatly have a broken neck as a result of his swollen head.
I say worst post ever a lot, but this is the definition of worst...post...ever.
er... Kirby Puckett...
Good pick, Nails
Nails won
I'm convinced that Kirby would still be alive if this thread was never started. How do you evil fuckers live with yourselves?
Liquor.
Quote from: GDavis on 03/06/06, 07:33:37 PM
I'm convinced that Kirby would still be alive if this thread was never started. How do you evil fuckers live with yourselves?
I think it's pretty clear whose fault this was. One man became so obsessed with RBI'ers dying that he willed it to happen.
http://forums.dee-nee.com/index.php?topic=12036.0
This thread sucks...
Why couldn't this have ended with a more cheerful death?
This thread does suck.
I move this thread be deleted/closed.
Quote from: JerryD on 03/06/06, 10:28:49 PM
I move this thread be deleted/closed.
I disagree. Let the irony continue...
I don't think this thread is that bad. Its just kind of crazy an RBI'er actually died so close to when we started this. Gonna get a little Darksidey here, but it just seems that we should be a little more in touch our own mortality. I'll make one promise to all of you, your gonna die. We could take guesses at which DeeNee'er would be the first to perish, and if a bunch of you guys picked me I wouldn't care nor worry. I'm fairly confident that our thread had nothing to do with Kirby's death, and if there is any website out there that will truly acknowledge and celebrate Kirby's exsistence its Dee-Nee. Not some bullshit ESPN/SI site that is just running a story because they have to when ever a pominent athelete dies.
I also want to note that Kirby was on the cover of a shit ton of SI for Kids, perhaps more than Jordan.
Just my take, but its probaly a bit skewed.
I agree with Malnu, it's not like we are rooting for anyone to die, it's a sad day when someone does die, we are just determing the micro scale actuarial likelihood of who will die next.
Like Malnu said...this thread is ok. Death happens.
Quote from: ultimate7 on 03/07/06, 07:22:58 AM
I agree with Malnu, it's not like we are rooting for anyone to die, unless of course we're talking about a big fat groping son of a bitch like Kirby Puckett.
You heartless cunt.
I don't know the guy. Death is a bitch, but it's not like he ever did anything for me. He could be the biggest piece of shit ever...I don't know. He was at least a part time slimeball
Given the fact that we all lost, it may be time to make this thread go away. I have to admit that I felt a little badly that an RBI'er died and we had been trying to predict which one it would be. Obviously a coincidence, but not a necessary one. Sorry Kirby, and sorry for picking you George Hendrick. Here's hoping that you live to be 3,000 thousand years old
Quote from: ericdavisfan on 03/07/06, 09:30:34 AM
I have to admit that I felt a little badly that an RBI'er died and I didn't pick him.
Shooty has the ability to see right through me :'(
I have the final say, and I say this thread sucks. I'm taking off the sticky at a minimum...
Is it too late to pick Kirby?
What would really suck is if we had a "The next dee neer to die...cast your vote" thread. I hope I didn't just jinx myself.
Let's have a "last dee-neer to die thread". Wouldn't it suck if you didn't bet on youself and you were the last to die?
bumpst...it doesnt seem anyone picked uribe...the contest continues.
Does this mean we have to pick again, or does it mean that we have to wait until someone dies that one of us picked? Uribe's death could really make us re-think who might be the next to go...
There should be no changing
Same picks remain, anyone that hasn't picked still has 125 players to choose from assuming the first post in this thread is up to date.
OK 124 left, looks like the list was never updated to get ShitPaw's pick of John Tudor
No one took I'm Keith Hernandez?
That'll be my pick then.
Definitely fat old Charlie Kerfeld... chokes on ham sandwich!
why the heck did i pick roger clemens to die next? wishful thinking, i guess. anyway, i'm going to make a supplemental pick and go for mark davidson.
I forgot i voted. I hope nomaa and I win. not that i would want anyone to die of course. I am just tired of losing
Dave Smith. He was 55 years old in '86 so he's already 75 now.
Quote from: moses on 12/11/06, 07:30:51 PM
I forgot i voted. I hope nomaa and I win.
this is what i like to see.
Quote from: moses on 02/14/06, 09:16:55 PM
Spike Owen and Rafeal Santana will both die together in a car accident.
Nomaa that is because great minds think alike.
i still think jim rice will have something to do with spike's death.
mark it down.
Maybe he is the one who cuts the brake lines in the car.
Bill Schroeder, chokes while eating a bag of "Peanuts."
Heh heh, he gets my vote, but I'm saying it just for fun. Like that would ever happen anyway.......
Jose Canseco
Quote from: Racktacular on 02/13/06, 10:15:56 AM
* Atezz - Al Pedrique
* BDawk - Pedro Guerrero
* Beefmaster - Jose Canseco
* Big AppleRBIChamp - Dave Smith
* Big Hath - Andres Galarraga
* Bonny - Willie Hernandez
* Broiler - Bob Brenly
* Caveman - Jose Cruz
* CurtFlood - Ruppert Jones
* Dark Side - Darrell Evans
* Defen - Lenny Dykstra
* EDFan - George Hendrick
* FathedX - Scott Garrelts
* Gantry - Kevin Mitchell
* GDavis - Jeff Reardon
* Gerlost - Bob Boone
* Fknmclane - Don Sutton
* GoReds - Doyle Alexander
* Japetus462 - Terry Puhl
* JerryD - Tim Teufel
* Malnuboy - Fernando Valenzuela
* Metal King - Bill Schroeder
* Moses - Rafael Santana
* Nacho - John Kruk
* Nomaa - Spike Owen
* OctogenarianFranco - Doc Gooden
* Racktacular - Darryl Strawberry
* redfanrod - Charlie Kerfeld
* Ryno - Wally Backman
* ShitPaw - John Tudor
* Shooty Babbit - Mark McGwire
* Stock - Kent Hrbek
* Strassy - Juan Berengeur
* TBT - Tony Armas
* TeddyBallGame - Roger Clemens
* Ultimate7 - Don Baylor
* WeatherMatt - Keith Hernandez
Total Players - 37 (120 remain)
UPDATED LIST - I'm rejecting TBG's request to change his choice
Updated, thanks ultimate...
i can't believe nomaa is saying spike owen is next. spike owen will live forever, at least in my heart. does anyone else on the forums own an autographed spike owen 8x10? i did at one point, but I don't know what happened to it. i keep hoping it will turn up somewhere.
all i'm gonna say is that it wont be from natural causes.
Quote from: Axltacular on 02/13/06, 10:15:56 AM
* Big AppleRBIChamp - Dave Smith
Couple years late, but BigAppleRBIChamp wins
There's no way Kevin Mitchell is still alive, has anyone actually seen the motherfucker in the last few years?
Came to my niece's baptism.
I demand photographic evidence
i saw him near Pulaski's candy store!
Quote from: TβG on 06/07/11, 11:36:21 PM
i saw him near Pulaski's candy store!
Nobody likes a liar.
Has anyone got John KruK? His large weight may end him soon.
Nobody guessed Gary Carter.
Only the good (on the Mets) die young.