I like hearing all the stories about these past R.BI. Heroes like Viola, I never realized it, but I met rbi legend Rick Burlson a couple years ago, I didn't tell him that he rarely played for me though. But still kind of funny, I asked one of my good friends last night about Randy Bush, my friend played at University of New Orleans, he said, "yeah he was my coach." He said coach never schueduled practice before 3:00, cause the coach knew they went out late at night partying. Now thats an R.B.I. Hero!!!
I've been hearing a lot from gantry about Harry Speilman, i gave him a go today in the 1 slot, first pitch opposite field jack, then another homer deep to right later, 3 for 3. Good Lord!
One of my friends has been a part of both Tom Brunansky's and Kent Hrbek's weddings. I am not Catholic, but I guess he is the kid that dresses up in the robe and stands up there during the ceremony for some reason. His cousin played for the Twins back then, but I can't remember his name right now; I'll try to find out who it is. Actually, he is decent friends with Bruno. My friend and Bruno have drank a few brews together in the past and has seen him in the last year.
Oh yeah, he also said that a lot of the Twins were at these weddings and he met them all. This was in '88 also. I would've invited them to play some RBI...
Great stories guys...
Jason is starting to ride the Spilman train, got 3 dingers with him last game in a one run victory....
Here's some FYI about an RBI legend. Reggie Jackson has come out of the shadows to buy a Nascar team, the #92 of Andy Houston. Being an RBI legend does pay off.
Just think of all the money he has raked in speaking at those RBI conventions...
A remember awhile back about Jackson owning a computer hardware company, wonder if he still does that in addition to his racecar thing...
I must say that harry Spilman is very good. Just as Gantry said back-to-back-to-back jacks in 1 game and 2 homers in the next. He's good. I'm gonna try to get better with S.F. in the near future. Boston's inconsistency pisses me off. Also I must say that Aldrete is also very good off the bench and so is Youngblood. Maybe the best bench squad in RBI.
Also I must say that Sullivan is the best 1 AB pinch hitter hands down. He's not good enough to play a whole game with but he makes the most out of his bottom of the 7th AB. He's won 2 games for me with 3 run homers and has gotten countles hits in crucial situations. Sullivan is definately a legend!
I agree with Jason about Sullivan working the magic once and only once...
I feel Youngblood is the same way too - he has a tremendouly high 1st AB homer percentage, but then does nothing after that. If you can find that magical 3rd sub (because Uribe, Brenly, and Thompson all blow), then SF can compete. I have yet to find that magic mixture though, Youngblood and Speier just aren't consistent full-timers for me..
For the record, Bill Schroeder, Nintendo - American League All-star Catcher has served as the Brewers color man on tv broadcasts the past few years.
My friend from Detroit told me a funny story about Kirk Gibson. Gibby allegedly does the color commentary for the Tigers on the radio. Well, one day he was making fun of Scott Mitchell, the Lions' QB at the time, on the air. Mitchell got wind of this and said he wanted to kick Gibby's ass! Gibson heard of this, and proceeded to laugh on the air at Mitchell saying "Can you imagine Scott Mitchell trying to kick MY ass!?! Yeah right!" When will NFL players realize that it is impossible to kick ass on RBI legends?
i'd have to argue with sf having the best bench corps... i think that detroit has the best benchwarmers... as for the team with the weakest bench... that would have to be st. louis. if it weren't for lindeman... they'd never get into the game which is a shame cause if they were better they could get some playing time for the likes of tommy herr, ford and jala(pena).
Yeah, there's no way SF has the best bench - cali, boston and detroit are all way better....
St Louis has an absolutely brutal bench. They are the worst team when you play Dill's "sub your opponents players" game. You take Jack Clark off that team and they are Absolute ass...
st louis is ass with clark so i could only imagine the degree of impotance if i tried dill's style. there is just something about lake, oquindo and morris that sreams futility.
News on an RBI legend.
Looks like Doc Gooden was arrested today for drunk driving.
Gotta love watching RBI legends lives going down the shitter. At least he was just drunk and not on coke this time.
You can always count on the Doctor to fuck things up....
I remember my dad buying about 50 of his rookie cards for a couple bucks apiece, still has them. Were worth $25-30 at one point, now they are less than a dollar...
What a waste of talent!
Cy Young his rookie year, and then just went in the tank.
On a completely different topic from RBI Baseball, HOW BOUT THE BELARUS HOCKEY TEAM!!! UPSET CITY BABY!!! I bet you there are gonna be some angry swedes tonight.
you think... thanks to the swedes tank... the canadians can waltz into the gold medal game against the winner of the us-russia game... hey i thought this was an rbi legends page... as far as doc goes... he couldnt stop snorting the foul lines.
I think i saw on ESPN that they are doing a special on Doc and Straw, showing how two rbi legends who could have been future hall of famers screwed up big time and are off selling their bodies on the side of the road for cocaine, or something like that. Too bad about half the mets in the 80's were a bunch of crackheads.
there was a book that came out about that 86 mets team regarding a few players' habits. these include kevin mitchell beheading cats and kevin elster having sex with other players' wives in the clubhouse during games. too bad kevin didnt make it to rbi fame. he could have danny heep's spot.
That Kevin Elster would be a prime RBI legend with those credentials. Didn't some team just sign him?
I think the yankees brought him into camp. I doubt he'll make the team though. another thing about the mets. I think it was 87 or 88, in spring training, two RBI legends, Strawberry and I'm Keith Hernandez got in a big fight while taking the TEAM PICTURE!!! It was hilarious. Way too many drugs going around that clubhouse.
I saw on ESPN yesterday that Timmy Rock Raines was signed to a minor league contract by some team. If he is half as good as he is on RBI, he has a chance.
In other RBI news, Joe just informed me that Kirby Puckett's wife filed for a divorce. Apparently, he threatened to kill her. He must still be pissed that the creators of RBI made him nowhere near as good as he should be.
poor kirby... not only does he suck in rbi but he had to retire prematurely.
plus isn't he blind in one of his eyes or something?
Denny Walling level.........
Yeah, he has one really screwed up eye.... I think we should defintiely have a "Wife Beaters" section on the Where are they now page. If you guys know of at least 3 wife-beaters, then we'll add to the page...
I'm pretty sure Canseco fits in that category, didnt' he ram his car into his wife's car years ago.
My favorite Canseco moment was when he was playing right field in one game. The ball was hit to him and it bounced off his head and over the wall for a homerun. That might have been the funniest thing i've ever seen. The ultimate bop in history.
That was pretty funny, and Sportscenter showed it every day for a month or something like that...
The guy could hit (and run when he was younger), but he was a terrible fielder...
I know that Wade Boggs used to beat his wife, so there's one more wife-beater.
i dont know about any wife beaters but what about caddies... the only job ray knight can find is carrying around his old lady's sticks.
Does Ray Knight still do ESPN?
And we might have to change his nickname from MVP (as in world series mvp). As Potsie recently discovered, RBI'ers won four straight World Series MVPs
'84 - AT
'85 - Saberhagen
'86 - Ray Knight
'87 - Viola
The Caddy might work...
no i think he got fired from espn...
as far as the four straight mvp's... goes to show when rbi was at its prime and gibson should have won in 88 cause his dinger in the bottom of the ninth crushed eckersly and the a's.
i would have to rank the caddy up there as the fattest of all rbi players right up there with reuschel and robinson of the giants.
i got a nick name for your site...
for doyle alexander
how about:
o'doyle rules! you know from billy madison.
i have another nickname... for bobby ojeda... the skipper dating back to his voyage on the lake in which his buddies steve olin and tim cruse were killed when their ski boat hit the dock. a reminder that boating and booze do not mix either.
I was watching a friends high school baseball game today in AZ, after the game he said, "did you see Bob Brenly, he was sitting right behind you". I had no idea that an RBI hero was sitting right behind me.
You always have to be on the lookout for RBI Legends, they could be anywhere....
The skipper is a bit harsh, but I like it!
"Knocking back, have another one... Drinking and boating is so much fun" -- The Business
i never figured this site to be sensored... its brutal honesty at its finest.
Sometimes it's good to respect the dead, but if we can make fun of Donnie Moore's death the only proper thing to do is make fun of all death involving RBI players....
And the nickname has been changed, we never used ocelot anyway - I think I came up with it while I was writing the mets page...
what is ocelot anyways...?
what about doyle's nickname... not good enough
o'doyle rules!
well what do you know... rbi legend dino(darryl Strawberry) was arrested again for violating his court imposed drug rehab program... and i thought he was clean... yah- whatever. darryl is a fucking waste of a human being.
I'm back from the dead, or Champaign Illinois....
Ocelot is a big cat, like a lynx I guess. Stupid nickname that was never used. Sometimes I just invented nicknames on the spot so there weren't too many "None" entries...
O'Doyle rules doesn't go to the dance, sorry. Never seen Billy Madison...
dont let gpines and burnzky know you havent seen that one, i think they know the script by heart. you should give it a try... its adam sandlers first and best movie. plus... brigitte wilson is nice to look at.
looks like the caddy is going to once again be unemployed... thats right, ray knight, better known as the caddy for his wife, nancy lopez, wont be able to carry her sticks around after this year as she announced her retirement effective the end of this year.
ill say it here and ill say it loud....i hate ray knight....i hope this doesnt offend anyone or set a negative tone to this forum...but the man has been a thorn in my side ever since he scampered like a giddy school girl into home after buckners errror (as a red sox fan and boston area native, its almost required to be eternally bitter about that)...since that day....he has tortured me on RBI....him and dimebag daryl are the only two players on that team that i fear in any respect....but the caddy can eat me....
needless to say, most chowd fans get queazy when they think of that fat ASS frolicking around the bases. my old man is a chowd transplant out here in socal and he remembers that moment and to this day he is still bitter... like all chowds.
the caddy is fat, and he is second fiddle to his golfing broad.
I kind of liked Ray Knight when he was managing and on ESPN. Too many politicians in modern sports today, they never say anything meaningful or offensive. Ray spoke his mind, which makes him OK in my book. Of course it's probably impossible for a Red Sox fan to like him...
ah, bban just hates ray because he's taken him deep more often than you would expect. my successes against bban have been limited, but when they occur they really get under his skin.
and now i expect to be slapped when i get home from work.
i make a case for blank (john?) morris to be added to the Legends roster, if not only for being the most mysterious player in the game.
he's either extremely good or extremely bad. makes every game interesting.
do i have any supporters?
To be honest, I've never used Morris for an entire game. I never give this guy a chance, but if he's the goods like you say, I could be missing out on another Harry Spilman. He'll definitely get a few starts for me in the upcoming weeks...
john morris is definately better than tommy herr... he deserves to hit in the 3 spot. pena hasnt been playing up to his potential for me so he doesnt play anymore. jim lindeman is my new catcher... and he has no problem throwing out runners... 90%
after watching some opening day games, i have noticed that there are few more rbi legends still hanging around. first off, terry pendleton is the hitting coach for the braves. secondly, and more shocking, is that bob boone has hired the caddy back as his bench coach.
Today I saw another R.B.I. legend on the baseball field. Jose Oquendo still coaching 3rd for the cards. Joe u probably noticed that Tony's announcing.
yah i saw tony working next to yoda, aka, john miller, and i thought he did a great job...
speaking of announcers, we should add a category for them to the "where are they now".
i know of a few,
gibby- detroit
dave henderson- seattle
the perm- atlanta
bill schroeder- milwaukee
rick sutlciffe- espn/san diego
gwynn- espn
if i see any more i will let you know
i found a couple more...
mike krukow- giants
bert blyleven- twins
These could be very obvious, but here are a couple more: Davey Lopes with Milwaukee, Phil Garner with the Tigers, Bill Madlock is the hitting coach for the Tigers, Jack Clark is some minor league coach, John Kruk on the Best Damn Sports Show Period, and Kirby Puckett has one eye and beats his wife and cheats on her and threatens to kill both women.
needless to say, kirby has lost his reputation as a stand up guy, similar to another guy playing in minnesota at that time... warren moon, who was this almighty, pious individual who just happened to choke his wife.
got another one for our list of broadcasters... mike krukow is working for the giants on fox sports net.
I never knew that aboot Moon. He was the man in Houston. Probably my favorite QB of all time. I am sorry to hear that he has joined the ranks of Kirby and that asshole Boggs.
thats why everyone was so shocked... moon was a character guy, big in the community and so forth. i still wouldnt put him in the category with chicken boy.
its so weird to think that moon and kirby took it to women...i mean boggs i can understand, what the hell else does he have to do?...he has to compensate for being worthless at the plate (just ask t)....but warren moon played football until he was 55 and kirby could own the state of minnesota if he wanted it....but i guess not being able to see and not being doug williams finally got to the twin city heroes
has there been a bigger one shot wonder than doug williams... i guess if you include the running back for that redskins team(timmy smith) you'd have a flash in the pan combo that disappeared faster than a fart in the wind.
as far as i am concerned, moon was a more successful qb than doug williams... however, his off the field actions ruined his chances of becoming a broadcaster.
If Marv Albert can keep a job after his forays into "forced sodomy"" there's hope for Warren...
the difference is that marv works in new york, a place where freakshows run rampant... moon, on the other hand, was trying to lock up a job in the midwest where gossip about freaks runs rampant.
marv albert getting his job back is hillarious...i just picture him tying up bill walton and screaming "yesssssss!" over and over again....im still waiting for nbc to trot oj back in...they could get quite a crew there....
baseball : pete rose, kirby puckett, hitler
football-- warren moon, oj, jim brown and dexter manley
basketball: marv albert, roy tarpley, hitler
hey bban,
i might be a tad out of it but who are you referring to as "hitler" cause i dont see the furer making a comeback anytime soon.
i used the "master of the mein kampf" for a few reasons:
1) a bit of comic relief
2) i couldnt really think of any other glaring basketball assholes
3) i heard that mr hitler had a mean jumpshot and played some of the best defense this side of the DMZ
oh, gotcha... he was a shitty artist too.
just want to say that i love espn classic. i am watching the 85 world series between the royals and the cards... great opportunity to watch one of the most impotent rbi teams in their prime. jack clark is still their only chance of hitting a homerun and willie mcgee was then and still is fugly!
give props to old fart and RBI LEGEND, Jesse Orozco who retired the braves in the bottom of the 16th inning to record a save... i dont know how long it has been since he nailed down his last one but 45 year old dudes should not be pitching in the major leagues let alone securing victories...
old people rule!
got an update for the WATN page...
watching the mariner-blue jay game on espn... color commentator is none other than chili davis... good to see another legend in the booth... gwynn has the boston-oakland game and i must say he is doing a great job... not that i am biased.
Gwynn's voice can be quite irritating, he needs to lay off the helium.
Chili has been added to the Where Are they Now page, as well as Strawberry under the new incarcerated category......
Would like too add a wife beater category, who do we have outside Puckett & Boggs again?
You can count Donnie Moore, he's a wife killer.
I've been hearing negative comments about Pena on St. Louis. As a self-titled veteran of RBI, I disagree! Pena has some legitimate power. He is one of the few bats on the Cardinals that can hit the ball deep. At least one homer a game, and a lot of the time 2. Lindeman comes in for Ford though, he's as worthless as a rope dick dog. Also, you can't forget about John Morris. This guy can bring you back in the game in the late innings so Dayley can close the door.
I must admit that I am a Pena-bigot, but Potsie swears by jalapena. We played on Wednesday and Pena went deep for him, so it's probably a case of me not giving him a chance. Any power with STL is a good thing and deserves to stay in...
he just shot her didnt he? correct me if i am wrong but he shot his wife and then offed himself...
Maybe he just shot her, i don't know if she died or not.
well its official... we can say good bye to jose canseco... he has announced his retirement after the whitesox refused to bring the slugger up from triple A charlotte. no more jose citings marks a sad day for this forum. :'(
Yeah too bad for Jose, but we can look forward to his book when it comes out, he promises to name every ballplayer involved with steroids, so I'm sure someone will off him soon after it his book starts selling, I will definately buy it.
I leave pena in, but he never get any production out of him. Hes nothing special for me. I do agree with morris though, he is worthy of getting the chance to hit for my pitcher in the later innings.
too bad for canseco, he had a long career, its a shame it had to end in AAA. I heard he needed only 38 more homeruns for the 500 club. :(
Canseco was my favorite player for a good five years. I collected all of his cards, including the vaunted 1986 Donruss...
FYI Gwynn - When you have a solid piece of info regarding RBI like Canseco's retirement, be sure and put it on a new thread, instead of throwing it out on a random thread. I know all the threads typically diverge from the original topic, but we should minimize it when possible. Though I guess Canseco is an RBI Legend...
I still have my Jose Canseco baseball glove. Interesting that I'd decide to get his glove, since he wasn't really known for his fielding. Didn't someone once hit a home run that bounced of Canseco's head and went over the fence?
that play alone will probably keep him out of the hall of fame... quite embarassing... but not as bad as when he blew out his arm pitching at the end of a blowout.