Last night we added something to our Death rules, we came up with another social called the Spongebob.
This is when your fielder completely dives for a ball and lays on the ground completely flat and motioinless.
We got the idea from the cartoon my sister watches called Spongebob SquarePants.
One day she was complaiing when somehow the screen froze and the yellow spongebob guy was laying face down in the middle of a green pasture for about 25 minutes, it was the funniest thing I had ever seen, looked like a sniper got him.
So everytime it happens in the game we hoist our glasses and yell Spongebob!
That's the beauty of the RBI Drinking Game, it is infinitely expandable....
a rule we like to use in the drinking game is that every time the slowest player on the team gets a triple, it is 6 drinks. The slowest players are guys like Tony Armas, Matt Nokes and Gary Carter who run around the bases at a snail's pace. another rule we have is that whenever there is a back to back homer, you have to drink double. Back to Back to Back is triple and so on. Joe got me on a back to back to back with Boston and went on to have a 10 run inning. Needless to say, I was ripping drunk by the time i got 10 run ruled. Death rules.
if you are playing anyone with any experience... i dont see how anyone could get a triple let alone the likes of armas... buckner... and carter. triples are like stolen bases... out of order!
They are very rare, but the occasional one may come about when you either get the super high wall flyball or the grounder right down the first base line. Even with these, you usually need help by having the fielder screw up the play or throwing to the wrong base. Or perhaps you ahve a runner on and they go for the runner at home...
either that or you are too drunk to hit the right direction on the controller. even with guys like raines, coleman and other "A" speedsters it is tough to get a three-bagger. it should be more drinks than a dinger cause they are so rare
In sober games, even the double is pretty rare... When you break out the booze, doubles and triples are much more prevalent. You get 5-6 games in a night and those flyballs get much tougher to catch and remembering how many outs is pretty much impossible...
remembering how many outs is REALLY DIFFICULT WHEN YOU ARE HAMMERED. Sometimes we think there are 2 outs when its only the first batter of the inning.
Being drunk is pretty cool...
All this posting is getting me in the mood to play some RBI tonight. Ahhh, I can't wait.
Let's break some records tonight, boys. Or let's just add another brick to Potsie's Wall o' Shame...
You betcha, getting some RBI'age in tonight.... A little bottom of the 9th "You're the best around" perhaps?
Played some death over the weekend and introduced 4 of my buddies to the game, they loved it. We added in the 1 drink grounding out to the pitcher, and a social for hitting the foul ball in the corners when it deflects of someone's head in the stands. All the new players were given the straight pitch treatment, while I was given any kind of curves they wanted. It made the games somewhat tougher , but I still prevailed in all.
Keep up the good work Greg, spread the word...
I like the social for the head-bouncing foul ball...
We went all out and shrunk down the rules and applied them to the back of our controllers. Just have to turn it upside down, unless you have them memorized......i'm getting there.
i have that same card but i keep it in my wallet cause i never know when i will need it.
hey man where did you get that card? just playing
i have a theory that bringing in subs is great at the plate yet it increases the odds that the sub will make an error in the field. another theory i have come up with is that trying to throw the ball just as it gets to the player also raises the odds that your player will botch the play.
I'm not quite sure if your theory of a worse fielding percentage from a sub holds, but I am sure about the quick throw. We here at the Dee-Nee house always make fun of the player who presses the a-button too quickly off a routine grounder, only to see the ball bounce off his face. The bop is then usually followed up by denial...
that would be burnsky at our place i have told him repeatedly but he continues to try and get rid of the ball as fast as he can. this includes his outfielders after they catch the ball with no one on. then he always insists on throwing the ball away after every put out its tired already burnsky... we dont need to see 12 errors at the end of the game.
keep close tabs on your subs and you will notice what i am talking about. i really think it affects your defense.
Good call on Burnzky, he loves the quick throw, and throwing the ball away, he loves getting as many errors as possible.
....it gets old burnzky but you'll grow out of it.
I will admit that i do make many errors by trying to throw the ball quick after if catch it althougth there is no one on base. But having my first baseman throw the ball away after every put out just keeps me in the game. Plus if you hit the wall with the ball after 3 outs, the music willl sound funny when you go to the scoreboard inbetween innings.
whatever keeps you on your game tinypines. its killing your fielding percentage though. might hurt when it comes time to talk contract.
I have never heard or thought about this "sub is a worse fielder" rule, but you can be sure I will be playing close attention to it...
And the quick throw rule definitely causes BOPs, I'm sure of it. Another more controversial theory is that you can cause your defenders to BOP!!! I was mocked when I first started using it, but we all tend to do it now, especially when you really need that BOP to keep your inning alive. It's simple - when you are batting and pop a ball up, begin to hit the buttons as fast as you can when the defender gets close to catching it. I am convinced that this will cause more BOPs than not hitting the buttons, but it isn't officially proven yet. The technique varies - I hit both buttons, lips only hits one (don't remember which), and Potsie only hits the button as soon as the defender catches it, just like the quick throw. A golden nugget of RBI wisdom (or charlatanism) from your friends at dee-nee.com......
One more BOP theory I thought about involves the pitcher. We're convinced that the pitcher BOPs more than your average fielder. If there is a moderately high popup, we all typically bring the 3rd baseman in to catch it. It seems silly at first, but if you pay attention, you will notice that the pitcher has a higher BOP percentage...
Anyone else have some more BOP theories? If we get enough (and can get a BOP pic), Lips and I will make a BOP page. If not, I'll probably add these theories to the FAQ....
i have never tried to make the opponent bop but i do know that the pitchers get balls slapped of them more than any other players. however, some bops are of the soft variety and the pitcher has time to recover and throw the player out. unfortunately, he is still given an error for the play. what kind of official scorer does tengen have working up there in the booth.
gpines, instead of pushing buttons to make me miss pop ups, will have his runner(s) between 1st and 2nd or 2nd and 3rd run back and forth to try and block the shadow. it has yet to work but he is adament and tries it every time. it might work against someone with less experience or a high BAC.
I've never heard about hitting the buttons to make a BOP, but i will give it a try.
And yes someday I will make someone miss a pop up from getting my runner in the shadow, it's only a matter of time.
We do the "distract the fielder" technique as well, though it rarely works. It worked once or twice back in the day, but now it's more tradition than anything else. Either that or we're not drinking enough...
i think that it could work after about five games of death... other than that it is a reach. i would give credence to the button pushing before i expected the distraction to work.
I have used the "distract the fielder" approach against Stuart and it consistently works for 1 BOP per 3 game series. I will have the runner run back and forth quickly also, but not to distract the shadow. Instead, it is to mess up the RBI fielder's view, to possibly distract him from fully watching the ball all the way into the glove.
Dill is exaggerating greatly. The runner going back and forth to distract the fielder has worked twice at most in the many times we have played. I'm not that much of an amateur.
Don't let Stuart and his big words fool you. The distraction works. No telling how many times Tommy Herr has dropped the ball.
If only worked on the drunken RBI games where we took out all the good players. In regulation play, it worked maybe twice.
OK you got me on that fact. But you have to remember that I exaggerate everything I say. That play was more prevalent early on, but now the fielders are used to it. They have learned to concentrate in the face of adversity.
The fielders have definitely adjusted. And you're right, you are the biggest exaggerator of all time. I'm ready to play you this weekend. What should we drink? BTW Nolan might get fired tomorrow. And its not Nolan Ryan, fellow RBI fans.
stuart, you might want to question your players concentration level if they are distracted by dill's ploy.
Sorry to hear about Nolan, unless of course he is like Dan Duquette and is getting $2.5 mil for being fired.
I too have significant research to back up the BOP induction ritual by pounding the buttons. In fact, the term my posse uses is getting the "Japanese Rice". This is due to the Asian looking face that a player gets after committing the error, in conjunction with Jim Rice committing the first induced error on record. When the BOP is induced, we yell out "Japanese Rice!!!" Kind of like Mr. Miyagi yelling Banzai in karate kid. Always followed by a social.
Just a some info on east coast rituals.
That's a quality name... Japanese Rice has been listed as a variant in the definition for BOP...
Any mention of Karate Kid on this forum will garner special favors. We bought the soundtrack CD a couple weeks ago and it's currently #1 in the RBI Rotation. "The Best Around" is a top5 RBI-inspiration song, productivity just soars when it's played. Not at "Hit Me With Your Best Shot Level" yet, but it's getting there..
Thats a good inspiration song....but
I dont' know when I hear Karate Kid I think about Ralph Machio(or however you spell it) he should be on your banned list if he's not allready.
Watch yourself there Greg.... The karate kid was one of our all-time favs (and part two wasn't too shabby), plus he was in The Outsiders and My Cousin Vinny. I can't vouch for the rest of his stuff though...
karate kid is a classic especially the soundtrack bananarama... how can you go wrong with that classic 80's group. and machio is not nearly as bad as the actors on the banned list.
I have to admit I grew up watching the Karate Kid, I dont' know maybe I could settle for banishment for post Karate Kid era.
karate kid 2 was good too... now three, that was a waste of money. gotta give it up for outsiders... how many stars came out of that one. imagine if they tried to put that cast together today with the salaries those guys get. its too bad ralph turns into a crispy critter though.
Sh!t, I used to know The Karate Kid line by line, trivia fact by trivia fact. Yeah...I was a geek, but the movie rocked and still does!! Now every once and again, HBO plays the original -- it's all about Crane Kick, don't you know?
its all about mr. myagi and his hand clap that saved danny's knee... what about those crack heads he was fighting against. what kind of drugs were they on?
Back to the original topic, until this post came out, I never really paid attention to the sponges, but man...they happen so regularly. And everytime they happen, I think of this post. Ok, so this post has nothing news-worthy...I just wanted to get to the Walling Level...
DEE-NEE!!!!!!!!
and if you want to add to the effect of the spongebob... let him lay there a bit(especially with a slow runner i.e. armas) to really piss your oppenent off.
Disrespecting the opponent is key - I had a "Strike a pose" lineout against potsie tonight with Joyner. The thing was that he had a runner on and Joyner was striking a pose right on the basepath, and his guy didn't tag up. So he had to run back to first, right into Joyner. So I sat there in the strike a pose position waiting for Potsie to run into me. Potsie took the easy way out and ran to second, forcing me to tag first base...
what a poor sport...
and how come potsie never ventures into the forum...
is he the black sheep of your group or what?
Potsie and Sperling are lurkers, but never post. I'm the same way on other message boards... But they are hip to the scene, no need to worry...
as of right now... what are your player rankings?
Player rankings in terms of the four of us? We would all have different opinons, but I would say Lips and I are neck-and-neck and Potsie is VERY close behind. Sperling is definely 4th at this point because he never plays. Though Sperling has made every championship finals, so he's never out come tourney time...
you guys should give curve style a try in an exhibition tournament... you'd be surprised as to how it raises your player's skill level. i bet your scores dont go down as much as you think.
Curve style is on the agenda, but it's definitely on the back-burner until after the tourney. Kind of like in "Seaching for Bobby Fisher" when the kid plays speed-chess and it messes up his overall game....
One good thing about straight-pitch is consistent parity. Curves definitely have more skill, but part of the fun with our games is that anyone can win any given game. No matter how good you are in straight pitch you will lose a certain percentage of your games...
this is true... i definately see your point. as long as you eventually give it a try... cause you cant knock it until you try it. i think we might have to come up with a straight pitch belt.
Ahhh, the tourney is just less than 40 days away. It's gonna be craziness at it's max... I can't wait. Today wasn't the best of days for me, but like I have said before, I'm feeling confident...very confident these days. But like any year, anything can happen...and it usually does, so unless I show up for the tourney, nothing matters.
But first thing's first... Win the NCAA Fantasy Wrestling Championships. Then, and only then, the tourney will enter the mind.
All I could say now is FRAYER...if he does it, then there's the slightest of possibilities of me winning the first eight weight classes. Yeah...that's right, Gantry... It could happen... But there are like six classes up in the air this year, and who knows what's going to happen.
The Semis are key, and like usual...you will feel the WRATH!!!!!! Oh yeah, the WRATH of Lipitz...
hey lips i think you wanted to write that in the wrestling forum cause these rbi afficionados arent going to like reading that on "their" forum. pines will be all over you.
i on the other hand could care less. post where ever you wish
To that, all I could say is...
SHRODARIFIC, I AM...
what does that mean in english?
Gantry, your Bobby Fischer metaphor was one of the best of all time. I am just now getting around to replying to some old posts, so forgive me. Me and Stu played the straight pitch for a couple of weekends when I was in town, and when we tried to go back to curvy style, it was a complete disaster. Your natural game really does suffer when changing styles and then trying to go back. But Stuart is coming up to visit us in West Central Missouri for the next week, so we will get our games back.
west central missouri huh, what city is that?
anyways, curve style is a way of killing your skill level for it weakens your eye hand coordination and when you go back to curve style you immediately notice the difference.
Although this thread has completely deviated from the original topic (and there ain't nothing wrong with that), I added Spongebob to the glossary tonight:
http://dee-nee.com/rbi/glossary.shtml#SPONGEBOB
Wallzie also made it thanks to guy...
The "city" is Knob Noster, MO (I don't know what the hell it means or where it came from). Aboot an hour east of KC. Anyway, Stu made his way up here today and we immediately played of couple games of curvy RBI. We're back. 2 great NL games pitting Houston vs SF. We split, with Nolan getting the win in the game he pitched for me. More to come from this week long RBI outing.
is that a military base... where do you call home... arkansas or western central missouri north of the 28th parallel?
Yeah, it is an Air Force base. I lived in Fayetteville, AR for 22 years, but they shipped me up to MO. The only good thing aboot MO is that they sell beer and alcohol on Sunday.
Out here in IL we don't have any of those funky alcohol rules. Just came back from New York and they couldn't sell hard alcohol and beer in the same stores! In NYC you could buy beer all night but good luck findnig a place that sells the hard stuff after 9pm....
you dont realize the restricitions on booze until you travel. i had no idea that arkansas was a dry state... pennsylvania, on the other hand is versed in quaker purity and i see why they have their laws. as for out here in california, liquor stores, gas stations(beer/wine), grocery stores, they all sell it depending on who wants to buy the license... and they seel up to 2 a.m.
the ultimate is vegas where you can get booze all night long and walk down las vegas blvd with beer the size of a football... sin city baby!
Arkansas is not a dry state! Only on Sundays. But there are some dry counties, which is pointless because it is only aboot a 5 minute drive to another county to buy booze. It appears this forum has turned into a forum discussing beer and alcohol. Oh well.
i am sure you will be able to get your beer... i am not worried about that... dill, you need to relax a bit.
Oh Gwynn, take a joke. I am not being hostile. I just didn't want everyone thinking we were a bunch of mormons or amish people in Arkansas who don't drink beer or caffeine. We drink our fair share.
i didnt mean it in that way... i would never compare any other state with utah...
Damn Gwynn, are you awake at 4 in the AM? I thought I was the only one ever awake at this time because I work nights. What the hell time is it where you are, and where are you?
its 2 am here in california and i just got home with my tengen belt after i defeated burnzky in the prelims 3-1 and took pines out in a best of seven championship series... 4-2.
Well, 2 AM is not that bad considering it is a Saturday night. At least you are not an idiot like some people (me) that post in the wee hours of the fucking morning at work and then sleep all day. I never see the sun.
i work graveyards once in a while and i dont mind them cause i feel like i am not missing anything... and the fact that i am locked in a room watching equipment so i usually catch some zzzz. at least you are getting paid to post on the forum... i should be in bed cause i have a game tomarrow morning.
unfortunately i am too amped up from our championship that i am not tired...