How many drinks should someone take for allowing someone else to steal home on them?
What about when the throw home is errant and rolls to the wall?
All this and more (3 strikeouts) happened last night while celebrating my entrance to the quarter century club.
Stealing home is COMPLETELY unacceptable, unless it is the opponents first time playing... my friends and I actually view this move as sort of a rite of passage, because telling someone how to defend another player stealing home isn't something you usually remember when giving the game's basic instructions... so whenever we get a new player, we always steal home as he helplessly watches his catcher just chill about 3 feet behind the plate... the guy usually gets a lil pissed, but eventually we have his turn to pull this feat on somebody else..
Quote from: Wilfong on 08/27/04, 11:06:45 AM
How many drinks should someone take for allowing someone else to steal home on them?
What about when the throw home is errant and rolls to the wall?
All this and more (3 strikeouts) happened last night while celebrating my entrance to the quarter century club.
I vote for an entire beer if both players are experienced. There's no excuse for that shit. None.
3 strikeout?! straight pitch. Were you playing blindfolded?
I think a finish is definitely in order for giving up a steal of home. We already play a finish for a straight pitck K which happens more than you would think when you're drinking.
The guy who allowed the steal of home has played before, but it was the first time he was in that situation. I told him he had to finish a beer for the steal of home and the Ks. It was a sad game for him, hilarious for everyone else. Eventually he figured out that he had to move on the steal of home, but then he ran to 2nd base.
Another interesting thing that happened was a play at 2nd where it looked like the 2nd baseman caught the ball, but the guy wasn't out. So then he tried throwing it to 2nd, thinking the cutoff man right next to the base had it. Some how he threw the ball into center field without anyone moving off the base. Has anyone seen anything like that?
Stealing home is possible even with veterans. Errr, make that veteran:
http://dee-nee.com/rbi/potshame.shtml (http://dee-nee.com/rbi/potshame.shtml)
Finishing a beer is appropriate... And striking out is rare but does happen in heavy drinking games. You typically lose track of the count...