Welcome all to the new RBI Forum! I hope this will become the new haven for the casual and obsessive RBI fan. And I sincerely hope this gets more traffic than the old Yahoo message board did..
Feel free to throw out an introduction here or start a new topic...
Gantry
QuoteI hope this will become the new haven for the casual and obsessive RBI fan.
Dee-Nee!!
Solid pic! I think it's time to find an appropriate one for Potsie...
Just wanted to be the first guest in this forum. I'm not gonna say anything important just yet. I'll be back.
Dee-Nee!
I'm even more psyched to win the RBI Tournament Y2K+2 now because of the championship belt.
--Sperling
It's all about the belt, don't you know? Extra Motivation!! That's the key, and after this year, my friend, all four us (the roommates) will have a title.
Mark my words...
You can't hold a good Jew down forever...
I think we should extend the tournament entries. Unless of course you think that an outsider will take control of the belt. Especially one that has won 3 games in a row.
Lips - You're right, fortunately for us, you're not a good Jew...
Jason - You have been solid lately, but you have to prove yourself in the lower circuits. Quarterly tourneys are a definite possibility. Besides, you don't have the tolerance just yet...
Point well taken but a bird has to learn how to fly by crashing to the ground. I propose a "qualifying" entry into the tourney with the following people. Me, Nick, Choi and of course Potsie because he sucks. Then the top 2 would gain entrance into the tourney. The rest of the losers must wait until next year. In addition, the two last place finishers in the tourney must enter the qualifying round for the following year. This puts added pressure for placing in the tourney and for other players to get in.
And as for tolerance...I'm in training right now. Preparation is the key.
I like your idea of having a qualifier, seems to make sense. Choi and Nick aren't ready for the big time yet, but perhaps if they get a few tourneys under their belt...
I do like this idea very much, though perhaps we go top six out of seven and have seeds for the big show, that way three people aren't shunned. What does everyone else think about this?
I defintely feel that the lower ranks have to get better before we open up the doors, but when you have a sport as popular as this, expansion is necessary at some point...
I have nothing against a qualifier. The one thing I don't know is how we would do the championship tourney. I personally like how it is run today, with a total of four people in the first round, round-robin. The way it stands today, there's more than enough drinking that takes place in the first round (six games). If we added just one more person to the first round, there's no way we can do a round-robin as eight games is too many for a player and too long as the first round would last for about eight hours, and that's before the two or three game final. We would have to re-work the format of the first round, but I think the current state of the championship is the most fair, since you face-off against each opponent twice.
I think the qualifier would have to take place a month before the tourney. What I also think should happen is the two finalists from the previous year should automatically qualify for the current year's first round of the championship. Then the two players who took third and fourth from the previous year would be thrown into the qualifier with whoever else that wants to join. If the qualifier turns out to be three or four people, then a round-robin (two games against everyone) is in order, like the championship tourney. But if five show up for the qualifier (i.e., Potsie, me, Jason, Nick, and Jae), then I don't have a great answer, but this is what I thought of... The third and fourth place finishers from the previous year would be exempt from a 1-game elimination round. Then Jason, Nick, and Jae would rock-paper-scissors. The one person who wins would then join Pots and I in the qualifier where the other two would have to face off in a one-game battle to see who enters the qualifier. Meaning, it's going to be real tough to get to the tourney if you didn't qualify the previous year. But that's the way I think it should be. What does everyone else thing?
You bring up some quality ideas Lips except for the end...
No way you should be able to qualify for any round via rock-paper-scissors. If the case arises where you have seven in the tourney it goes like these:
- Finalists from last year automatically make the semis
- 3rd-4th from last year make the qualifier
- 3 Outside teams go 1 game round-robin, 0-2 team is out
- All 1-1 results in top two total runs
It adds more games, but it would be done on another date or same day as qualifier without drinking. This way either current or previous accomplishments get your into the qualifier...
Just wanted to let you guys know how much ass you kick. Me and my buddies (MookieWilson is my roomate) are sophmores here at the University of Connecticut and we're avid viewers of your site. We are hardcore RBI fans. Hell we even got written up last semester by our RA because we were going so nuts while playing. The drinking game is the perfect way to start any weekend! As for my favorite team, it would have to be either Detroit or Boston(mostly because i'm a sox fan in real life and all they do in the game is hit homers). Well, we'll definetly be posting constantly so just wanted to let you know that you rock and RBI rocks.
Let me get this straight, because throwing in the idea of "semis" threw me off. When you said semis, I took that as making it to the championship tourney, round one. If that's the case, then you're basically saying the same thing as me except that the bottom three teams play a total of three games to determine the worst team instead of a one-game elimination game post rock-paper-scissors. I like that idea too, I just didn't suggest it because it would probably mean that we would have to have a qualifier for the qualifier, do you know what I mean? I guess we could work it so the three square off on a Friday night, with one getting eliminated. Followed by a Saturday of Death for the qualifier. I definitely think the qualifier should be Death as the guys playing are qualifying for the Death Championship. I even think the qualifier for the qualifier (on Friday) should be the same way, just because drinking is such a big part of the championship...
YankeesSuck:
Welcome man! Please keep on coming, that's what this forum is for. It's about time RBI'ers had their own place...
Getting written up by the RA for RBI is pretty solid. I'm sure we would have gotten a few of those, but we invented the drinking game the year after we moved out of the dorms...
Lips:
Yeah, that's what I meant by semis and it is the same except for the 3 player round-robin. I just put it in a chart to simply things...
And I do think it can all be done on the same day. Sub the "qualifier for the qualifier" and you have the three games that are usually used for the finals. This is good too because the lowest people have to prove themselves the most, and three more games of drinking is a good way...
Obviously, the qualifier would be a week or two before the actual tourney (aka semis), but I like this system...
Yeah, I think this system will work too. The question now is, will Jason, Nick, and Jae all want to join the fun?
I don't know, but there's no way I'm giving them a shot this year....
The problem with Jae and Nick is that they really suck. Combine that with Jae's notoriously low tolerance, and I don't see how he'd ever make it to the actual tourney. Nick I can see because he owns the game, while Jae doesn't and only plays sparingly...
Also, getting all 7 around at one time may be tough. Jason and Jae seem to be out of state a lot, though that may change soon...
Been short-term solution is a tourney a few months after the championships. Lets see what they're made of...
Hey, guys. I'm a big fan of your site and an addict of RBI Baseball. The drinking game definitely kicks ass, just don't do it while your RA is studying for finals. He will not be pleased. anyway, we found another glitch yesterday while playing. I was pitching against my friend Ryan in the top of the 8th in a one run game. Ryan had runners on first and second with one out. Then he hit a long pop fly to left field. While i was going back on the ball, it randomly called Ryan's man out before the ball was even coming down. It was awesome. Then i got the next guy out on a grounder and ended up scoring 4 times in the bottom of the eighth as I went on to an easy victory. Hardcore glitches rule!!
The fly-ball out, very interesting. Probably similar to the grand-slam out but I'm pretty sure those landed...
Will add that glitch to the site later on today...
I agree totally with the "qualifier of the qualifier" it's a good "eliminator" of the shittiest player and the 3rd and 4th place people should have to prove themselves for the next year. Who knows, some rookie may be moving up the ladder. BUT, I think that we should do it starting this year. If Choi sucks (or whoever) that person doesn't qualify. It's that simple. This would involve an added dimension to the tourney making it more competitive and thus a good thing. Therefore we should implement (spelling?) this for this year. Because as long as I can follow a fly ball while drunk...it's ALL OVER FOR YOU!
Hey! I was on the yahoo rbi group and changed to this one. I too am a yankee hater and die hard cub fan, but since there isn't a cubs team I usually play with Boston and St. Louis (to let the other guy have a chance). I have a cable hookup and am willing to do any kind of tourney. I'll check back to see the news. Great Site and Forum.
Kramer
Been playing R.B.I. since the beginning, we have 3 belts, Tengen Belt, Atari Belt, and a very large R.B.I. Belt for the overall champion. Something to motivate us to play, I'm glad others are doing the same.
Funny you should mention belts, as we just bought a novelty belt at the local Toys R' Us over the weekend for this years championship. It's coming up in April...
Three belts is impressive, we are most jealous of Dennis Kim's engraved beer stein:
http://rbibaseball.tripod.com/hammerlongside.html
Now that's motivation!!!
And welcome Kramer, good to see some chi-towners in here...
We bought our belts at Big 5 sporting goods, 2 medium sized brown weight belts, and a large black one. Then decorated them Tengen and Atari have all the teams on them, the big black one for the R.B.I. champion we put a big white ball and in the lettering R.B.I. is the red, white, and blue just like on the box cover. they look pretty nice.
That sounds pretty sweet...
If you have the ability, send me a digital pic and I'll put them on the website....
Jason, I look forward to your challenge of becoming a future RBI champ, but I agree with Gantry. I think you should have to wait a year. First, you'll have to get your tolerance up, plain and simple. I don't want to see someone at a 2-2 record heading into the final round to face you while you are 3 beers past your limit, possibly even passing out or just fucking the legitimacy of the tourney. And second, it wouldn't be fair to Potsie and I to be forced into a qualifier tourney that we knew nothing about at the time of last year's championship. This way, going into the 2K2 championship...all four of us (Gantry, Mark, Pots, and I) will know what the repercussions are. Losing is one thing, but knowing that you're going to have to prove your worth the following year is another.
As a side note, I'm up for playing a tourney in February. Let us know of a date, and we'll try to set it up with Nick and Choi too. The thing is, the only way you're going to get better is to play more. You have to remember that we have been playing "Death" for about four years now. Give it time, and we'll accept you as a worthy adversary.
I'm not the best with computers, but I have a scanner and might be able to send some pictures of the belts, that would be sweet if you posted them.
How did you get the California Angel dude on your profile, I was trying to get the Detroit guy on mine.
Lips- If you want to wait until next year for expansion that's fine...whatever. However, your reasoning for doing it that way sucks. You said to wait until next year so now the people know the repercusions of losing. Umm, hello...unless your name is Shoelace Joe or part of some ruthless RBI scandal, I don't think that you were trying to lose. You and Potsie just lost and let's face it you were trying to win. Correct? But that's fine we'll wait but I'm coming over on Sunday...actually I have to go to the bank on Saturday so I'll be back early Saturday morning. I'm coming over and I want a piece of YOU! You can be my 4th victim in a row.
{RIP}
Without doing too much work, you might just want to reference rbibaseball.com's site. Here's the url and the image:
http://www.rbibaseball.com/images/player-dt.gif
(http://www.rbibaseball.com/images/player-dt.gif)
So, goto your profile page, by clicking on "Profile" atop all the Forum pages. On the Profile page, you'll see a section entitled, "I have my own pic". Click on the checkbox and enter in the URL from above, and then you should be set.
Jason--
The whole point is...Potsie and I shouldn't be penalized more off than anyone else. Let me give you a small analogy that somewhat fits the bill...
When Gantry and I COMPLETED the first Fantasy Wrestling championships, we decided that the winner would get the first pick for the following year. But since we didn't decide on that prior to the championship, Gantry (the winner of the first championships) didn't automatically get the first pick in the second annual draft -- we rock-paper-scissored for it, EXACTLY like we did for the first draft.
Basically, a qualifier for this year isn't right, but next year it would be fine since we all know the rules going in.
Peace...
I've got three words for you and your four-in-a-row...
JUST BRING IT!!!!!!!!
Hi, I'm Skups. I am usually forced to watch these FREAKS play RBI from time to time, or should I say, ALL THE TIME. But it's cool. Okay, that's all I have to say today...
Talk to you later!
GO PATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hell of a game....
I, as well as the roommates, want to express my disgust with Adam Vinatieri not winning the MVP. We are huge fantasy football fans, and Lipitz has had Vinatieri (known as the V-Man) every single year since his rookie year. He had the greatest kicking performance in Super Bowl history, yet Tom Brady wins it. I thought Brady played well, but MVP?? Absolutely not...
Either way, congrats to V-Man and the Patriots!
It's all about family friends, don't you know? V-Man, congrats on the Super Bowl victory... And to all my friends, hands off the V-Man next year. He's all mine, again. Dee-Nee!!
Hey Gantry I e-mailed you a pic of our title belts, did you receive it ok?
Got em, check Houston post or main page...
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Umm, hello...unless your name is Shoelace Joe or part of some ruthless RBI scandal, I don't think that you were trying to lose.
someone wrote this earlier
you should be ashamed
It's Shoeless Joe because he played a game without shoes
haven't you ever seen Eight Men Out??
LUTZ-
Umm I don't want to make too much of an issue out of this mainly because you play RBI and not real baseball and are probably too drunk to realize...BUT...I was referring to Shoelace Jow Jackson and his role in the 1919 Blacksox SCANDAL. Not that he actually wore black socks! Maybe go read a baseball history book or look in a baseball almanac and get facts before you post on something outside your realm. But no hard feelings here. Maybe you should change your name to SlavePhanPUTZ. :D
Hey Gantry the belts look great, thanks for posting them on your site, very cool!
What is all this Shoelace Joe business? We all know who you are talking about, and it is Shoeless Joe Jackson. This has nothing to do with the color of his socks, but it does matter that he played a game without a shoe, hence the name. Long Live RBI!
Those belts are awesome!!
We need to make some of our own.
Me and Gwynn3k(Joe) are about to square off in Death curved-style, hope one of us lives to tell about it. Later
The Death game was short lived, due to the fact that Joe only had one can of cherry 7up, and one can of A@W Root Beer, and a large bottle of SOCO, those were some strong drinks. The highlight had to be J.Rice grounding to the Vacuum cleaner, tagging the runner, going to second, then onto first for the 11 drink Triple Play. I jumped over the table yelling at the top of my lungs, not knowing that Joes Mom was asleep in the next room. I also had a scare when Ozzie smith flew out to the right field wall, off the bat it looke like a HR. All and all it was a fun night, good drink to try:
Cherry 7up and Parrot Bay, great combo.
Sperling (hello?) and I have felt the sting of the SoCo RBI Drinking Game many a times, and the outcome usually isn't pretty. We had some quality Jim Beam RBI Games in college, but pretty much any RBI Drinking game nowadays is 90% Beer, 10% SoCo...
I'd rather drink a mix of my urine and turpentine than Parrot Bay and Cherry 7up, but to each their own....
beer is definitely better for death than liquor. I would definitely be puking if we played with liquor. Its bad enough i have to try and sit through matt nokes running around the bases without puking, let alone do it while drinking liquor.
Hey Everyone, just wanted to tell you guys that the site kicks ass! I'm the third member of the yankeessuck, mookiewilson trio here at UConn, and I'm totally obsessed with RBI. It definitely is the best game ever!
BOP!!!
Welcome Chad, UConn is certainly one of the top RBI schools in the country...
I think I found the 1st dee-nee thread ever! Sweet! What ever happened to g-pines? Is he still in the minors?
This has been dead for two years and now Sucka brought it back. Maybe it'll live a while longer.
I get to see a piece of dee nee past. :D
hi guys, my name is Malnuboy, I like this place alot.
Quote from: Vitb6 on 01/30/02, 04:18:37 PM
Just wanted to be the first guest in this forum. I'm not gonna say anything important just yet. I'll be back.
This Jan. 2002 post seems eerie in so many ways...
Quote from: Vitb6 on 01/30/02, 04:18:37 PM
Just wanted to be the first guest in this forum. I'm not gonna say anything important just yet ever. I'll be back.
Quote from: Skups on 02/02/02, 07:35:50 AM
Hi, I'm Skups. I am usually forced to watch these FREAKS play RBI from time to time, or should I say, ALL THE TIME. But it's cool. Okay, that's all I have to say today...
Talk to you later!
Hey baby.
Quote from: Gantry on 01/30/02, 12:31:51 PM
Solid pic! I think it's time to find an appropriate one for Potsie...
And so our torment began...
Quote from: Vitb6 on 02/04/02, 09:38:49 AM
LUTZ-
Umm I don't want to make too much of an issue out of this mainly because you play RBI and not real baseball and are probably too drunk to realize...BUT...I was referring to Shoelace Jow Jackson and his role in the 1919 Blacksox SCANDAL. Not that he actually wore black socks! Maybe go read a baseball history book or look in a baseball almanac and get facts before you post on something outside your realm. But no hard feelings here. Maybe you should change your name to SlavePhanPUTZ. :D
Unusual...
Quote from: Skups on 02/02/02, 07:35:50 AM
Hi, I'm Skups. I am usually forced to watch these FREAKS play RBI from time to time, or should I say, ALL THE TIME. But it's cool. Okay, that's all I have to say today...
Talk to you later!
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Liar!
Why are most of the 2002 posts on this thread followed by « Last Edit: 12/31/69, 07:00 PM by 1029042000 »
1969!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote from: Big Hath on 06/10/05, 09:12:33 AM
Why are most of the 2002 posts on this thread followed by « Last Edit: 12/31/69, 07:00 PM by 1029042000 »
1969!!!!!!!!!!!
An educated guess from nightwulf (http://forums.dee-nee.com/index.php?topic=62.msg101198#msg101198)
This thread sucks
Quote from: Gantry on 01/30/02, 12:31:51 PM
Solid pic! I think it's time to find an appropriate one for Potsie...
Is this post to blame?
Absolutely not, pretty sure I was trying to get his high school picture on there...