I'm really curious to get everyone's greatest RBI moment of all time. I would have to say one of mine was camping out for Uconn men's b-ball tix and setting up the TV and nintendo inside of the tent. We drank so much and played hours and hours of RBI, it was awesome. But my ultimate moment for RBI would have to be last semester when we were going nuts one night and our game randomly had a glitch. The look of the game got all screwed up and we thought it was just gonna crash and we'd have to restart but it continued to play. There appeared to be two balls all the time, every homerun came up as GOMEQUM, California was playing California, outs were ous's, and everything about the game was absolutely insane. This was the night we got written up by our RA we because we were going crazy. This is by far the best game ever made and i'm curious to learn everyone else's greatest moment.
Greatest RBI Moment: Donnie Moore getting redemption on Dave Henderson with a double play in the bottom of the ninth to preserve a 12-10 victory. Maybe if this had happened in 1986, he wouldn't have commited suicide.
Greatest Baseball Moment of all Time- Mookie "our lord and savior" Wilson's little roller through Billy "Whoops" Buckner's legs. Joe (Yankees-Suck) is still bitter about this as everytime I play with the mets and mookie comes up, he intentionally beans Mookie. Its OK though as "I'm Keith Hernandez" usually makes him pay with a double in the gap to score a run.
Great thread! You guys have actually witnessed the ultimate glitch. Even got the cali/cali matchup, check out our pics:
http://dee-nee.com/rbi/pics/glitch/index.html
My greatest moment is definitely winning the 2k1 tourney. I was really on a roll heading into it and pretty much blew away the comp. Even though I was so drunk I couldn't remember the winning game, it was oh so sweet. Hope to repeat come April...
And that RBI-in-the-tent story is priceless, you guys have the drive. You guys are hereby the east-coast RBI representatives - we'll take the Midwest and Dennis Kim and crew get the West Side....
Lips (Boston) and Potsie (Cali) are squaring off as we speak. I get winner, though we're out of beer....
Thanks Gantry. We'll try and uphold the East Coast tradition. Being hardcore alchoholics really helps us be able to play many games of "Death" in one night. We'll post some messages tommorow night when we are nice and smashed. We feel a good way to start our friday nights is to play a bunch of games of "death", then go out to a party, watch Joe get turned down by chicks (just kidding joe), then come back and watch Joe pass out. We're slowing building up interest on the floor, as about 3 guys are addicted right now, and another is getting there. I think my girlfriend is starting to get pissed that our talk time is going down now that i waste my life away playing RBI. but i guess you have to make some sacrifices.
You guys pretty much sound like us three years ago (seems like ages though). We always started the evenings with RBI and then hit the town...
And I empathize with the girlfriend thing, as virtually every girl we knew at school absolutely hated RBI. They'd always walk into the apartment and go "oh no, not RBI! Lets play cards" - but RBI always won out...
I beat Gantry!!!!! Boston vs St. Louis circa. fall 2000. Too bad that was the only time I beat him, and it didn't help that he was St. Louis. Damm that coleman is fast.
Probably our best RBI moment was when we bought about 100 yards of extension cord so we could run it out of the window of my upstairs APT all the way out to the parking lot. We set up the TV and NES and played for what seemed like hours; extremely late into the night. There weren't too many extreme RBI moments, but you should've seen everyone's faces when they saw us in the parking lot with a TV and NES and probably 30 empty beer cans. BTW, RBI's graphics are infinitely enhanced under the Arkansas moonlight
Good story Dill, something oddly intriguing about RBI outdoors...
I forgot to mention the many trips RBI has made with us on our journeys across this fine country. RBI has accompanied us to Las Vegas, St. Louis and Iowa City. Come March, it will make appearances in Albany and NYC...
If you ever happen to play RBI in Vegas, watch out for Matt Nokes - he brings his "A" game there...
I can see Matty Nokes playing his finest in Vegas. Something about the bright lights would bring out the best in him. I just got back from Vegas a couple of weeks ago. I wish I would've known about this phenomenon earlier. But then again, the new wife told me I couldn't bring RBI with us on the honeymoon.
Matty sure does love the bright lights, he's a man of action...
Speaking of which, Matt Nokes is STILL playing baseball. He's in the minors playing for the Schaumburg Flyers right here in Illinois. In fact, Potsie works in Schaumburg - scary but true...
And RBI to the honeymoon is probably a bit over the top, even for us...
There is nothing quite like RBI outside. Me and Dill considered braving the elements and playing during a big snow once. It would have been cumbersome to play with gloves so we would have probably suffered without using them. Everyone in this forum, if you are a true fan, needs to experience RBI on a nice summer night. Have some Busch Light as well. You will get looks from people that you have never gotten before.
As far as other great RBI moments, me and a friend played an 18 inning marathon session. Then the next week we proceeded to play a 20 inning game. The greatest part of the games were that we were not using our second starter due to our 1 starter only rules. Our relievers arms were literally falling off by the end of the game. I think Ken Dayley went 9 in one of the games.
Busch Light is the outdoor drinking beer, a staple when tailgating...
A 20 inning game is very impressive, but couldn't anyone hit a home when the pitcher was throwing 25mph?
Dude, i totally agree about Busch Light. Its all we drink here. We're all poor college students and busch light is definetly cheap and decent. Busch Light for MVP!!!
I am glad to see that Busch Light is so prevalent in RBI circles. Me and Stu discovered, through MUCH experimentation, that the Prince of Beers goes the best with a nice, low scoring, 4-3 ballgame just like the 1980s intended.
Gantry- Weird things happened in those marathon games. We had triple plays, 3 run homers by Ozzie Smith, just a bunch of weird stuff kept the games going. If I scored 2 in the 14th, the other guy would respond with 2 to keep it going. The strange thing is that I didn't play that guy very much at all and had those long games and the longest game I've had with Dill went 12 innings.
Busch Light is only my choice of Beer for Death because its so damn cheap. $12.99 for a 30 pack is perfect for a student like myself who gets by on welfare. I don't have anything to prove this, but i bet i can find a place where you can get Busch Light using Food Stamps. Anyways, my favorite beer is definitely Coors Light. Its fairly cheap and tastes really good.
Chris you aren't on welfare you whore. You're just a cheap bastard. As am I. Even though busch light does taste exactly like water, it starts to get decent after about 7 of them. And how is your favorite beer coors light, Corona is definetly god. If there was a Corona religeon i would probably join it. Maybe that coors light is destroying your brain and that's why i beat your ass every game!!! 8)
Very true Joe on both the Corona part, and the part about you kicking my ass. I can't afford Corona though....
Edited by Gantry - None of that type of statement here Mookie...
The less a beer tastes like beer, the better it is...
Busch Light is definitely a good cheapo beer, but nowadays it's saved pretty much for special (read outdoor & no bottles allowed) occasions. Since our senior year of college, it's been pretty much Miller Lite in bottles. Now I drink all kinds of beer, but Miller Lite is the standard. I'm a big fan of Corona, but there's gotta be some limes around...
If you want to get hammered, go for Bud Ice. There is no rational explanation, but Bud Ice gets you drunker than any other beer in RBI. We used to call it the blackout beer, but be warned - it tastes like complete shit. After a couple months we couldn't stand it anymore. But we did thoroughly enjoy the times we did have, just absolutely piss drunk by the time the bar/party came around...
I've always thought Bud Ice wasn't that bad. I love the 5.5% alcohol, those things can get you pretty blitzed. The first one isn't that good but once you get to 6 you really start liking them. I think I'll have to get some for tomorrow now.
I think once you get to half a dozen of any beer they start to taste good. Except maybe Old Style...
Another beer from our college days was Steel Reserve - over 8% alcohol and came in tall, steel cans. Boy did it
taste bad though. Could never drink more than one....
Natural (read Natty) Ice can also be considered blackout beer, plus it is much cheaper than Bud Ice. More bang for your buck. It doesn't taste any worse than the Bud Ice. Try this if you are low on cash but really want to get trashed. It is obvious that the "Greatest RBI Moment" revolves around beer according to these conversations.
Natty Ice is by far the worse. I'd take out a second morgage before i drank that shit.
It seems that cheapo canned beer is a regional thing. No cheapos drank Nat Ice at NIU, but people coming in from other college typically would. We were big on Keystone and their variants. Red Dog as well...
Alll great things are typically accompanied by beer. Tis a most solid discussion so far...
Natty Ice isn't for women.
The worst beer is a tough call...
Most of the bottom-tier beers fall into the 40oz range. I don't know how I drank so much of that shit when I was younger. I'm going for the Hurricane 40 as teh worst right now. Really, really bad...
Definitely have to agree that the worst beer is going to be a malt liquor in a 40oz bottle hidden inside of a brown paper sack. We had this stuff once called Camo which was 9.8% alcohol, but it was a can, but it was also horrible. Couldn't finish the can off. And this is coming from a guy who can stomach many cans of Old Style and Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Camo sounds like Steel Reserve with more alcohol, that's just scary...
King Cobra is another terrible 40, make Old English taste like champagne...
Speaking of PBR, Sperling (hello?) has an unopened can of Pabst's from the late 1970s. That might possibly be the worst beer of all time....
Anyone ever had Golden Anniversary Beer? That stuff is terrible. A good strategy is to start out with some good beers, lets say Corona or Heneken. Then after about 3, switch to cheapo beer such as Busch or Keystone. After 3, although still nowhere near drunk or buzzed, any beer tastes good.
I am thoroughly impressed Mookie, as I've never ever heard of Golden Anniversary beer....
You aren't missing out. I had it once. it was terrible. From here on out, it will never be spoken of again.
today(feb 19th) is a big day for rbi. two veterans are hanging on by thier teeth signing minor league deals. that is tim raines and jose canseco signed deals with seattle and montreal respectively. just keeping everyone up on current events.
just when i thought it couldn't get any better... we might have a player under to catagories in the "where are they now" board for i read that george stienbrenner is going to offer straw a coaching job as soon as he gets through rehab. that will be interesting.
I don't know if I'd want Straw hanging around my young stars. He'd start taking them to clubs and hotel parking lots...
I'm reviving a topic from 2002.
Since this was more about beer than RBI, have you guys had Blatz? How about Black label? I'm assuming you've at least heard of Milwaukee's Be(a)st right?
Any recent RBI moments guys? I'm going to say the most competitive game I've played in the last month was my (NY over BO) victory last night.
Actually, yes. The only friend I have left who's an RBI afficionado was in town last weekend. We played our usual three game series. I, as always, played the Cardinals; he played Houston. We split the first two games.
Game three. I managed to load the bases with no outs. Up steps Terry Pendleton, who prompty flies out. Next up, Curt Ford. Nuh uh. I sat on the substitute screen for probably a minute, deciding who to bring up. Jose Oquendo was finally my choice. One pitch, one swing, one grand slam. Yes, grand slam for Jose fucking Oquendo.
That ended up winning the game for me. Quite a game.
Nightwulf
Nicely done, I just can't believe you had to think for that long before bringing in The Weapon.
Well, Lindeman has the highest (cough) power on the Cardinals bench, but I hit better off of him with lefties. Morris has higher power than Oquendo ... what can I say. It just felt like Jose's day.
And it was! Dee-nee!
Nightwulf
Good call nightwulf, I can safely say that I'd never use Oquendo in a situation like that over Lindeman. Never... But that's probably why I never win with the Cards
Mr Utility is the last guy (besides Lake) who I would have brought in for that situation. Morris is clutch and Lindeman is well, Lindeman. But I guess this just proves yet again that I am an idiot.
Grand slam with Oquendo? I would have gone ballistic if I gave that gopher ball up.
the utility weapon isn't THAT bad. i've hit some bombs with him in my day. i guess if lindeman is available, i'd go with him, but after lindeman, the weapon is my man.
I much prefer Blank Morris to Oquendo, but this is typically for a whole game scenario. Jose does suck when playing all game, that's for sure...
Morris never seems to do all that much for me. I guess in a situation like that, if Lindeman isn't available, I go for the novelty of Oquendo. It's like 10x the victory because he's the one who hit the slam. Pinch hitters seem to go yard around here more than 50% of the time in their first at bat, Jose's probably no exception. I guess it's whoever you're most comfortable hitting with.
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