For many of you, the answer is most likely "no." But for me, this is a terrible problem: Does anyone have the same difficulty as me at finding human opponents who have a clue what they're doing in this game?
I am the proud owner of an original NES that somehow has not broken for 18 years. Many people who come to my house see games like RBI Baseball and are dying to play.
Unfortunately, it generally turns out they've lost their skills over the past 10-15 years, so they always get creamed something like 16-0, which causes them to throw down the controller, say "this game sucks!" and not play anymore. I have not had a decent game of RBI Baseball against a human opponent in at least 10 years.
Which brings me to the question: Where do I find others who still know how to play? Does anyone know of a league in the San Francisco area? I have no idea how I'd stack up against a serious opponent, but I'd like to at least see for myself.
Do you play straight pitch or curve?
There are straight pitch players in the bay area for sure...and I have family in the bay area (I'm out there every few yrs)--but I strictly play curve.
If your human opponent really sucks, level the playing field. When I play my brother, I pick Houston and let him curve it against me and he'll be Detroit and get straight pitches. Makes it much tougher to win..
Yeah, I've done this too, when I can convince my wife to play, straight pitch vs curve, Houston vs ALL Star
Well, I've always played curve; I like it because you have more things to take control of. When I'm beating up on someone real bad, I will do things like pick Houston, throw all straight pitches or not take so many extra bases... Still, they inevitably get killed. Plus it's not much fun for me to be crappy teams every time. I hope Denny Walling breaks his neck.
Basically, most of the people I've run into have not played the game in years, and they're probably going to spend their time playing dog shit football games on the PS2, not relearning RBI. Finding people who still play regularly is what I'm after, and at this point I don't care whether it's straight-pitch or curve.