Exciting games between Ryno and Nails to start off week two of the Straight Pitch League.
Game 1 - Hoggs 1, Nails 0 - 9 innings
Game 1 was a classic pitcher's duel as Doc Gooden took the mound against Bert Blyleven. The Hoggs scored the only run of the game with a 1 out solo homerun by Kirby Pucket in the 1st. The rest was all up to the pitchers as Gooden and Blyleven dominated, with solid relief from both teams. In the end, the Hoggs held on for their 1st win of the season.
Game 2 - Hoggs 5, Nails 4 - 10 innings
The Nailbiting continued, as the Hoggs claimed victory in dramatic fashion. Nails hit 3 homeruns by Dave Henderson, Andre Dawson, and Sweet Lou Whitaker. The effort was not enough, as the Hoggs pounded homers by Pucket, Ripken, and two by Kirk Gibson, including a walkoff homer in the 10th for the win.
Game 3 - Hoggs 5, Nails 4 - 9 innings
The GM for Nails should've named his team the '62 Mets. More sharp pitching performances as the Hoggs came from behind and porked Nails. Doc Gooden shut down the Hoggs for 7+ innings, allowing only one run. But Nails' bullpen could not hold on, as the Hoggs rallied for 2 in the eighth, and 2 more in the ninth for the win. Dale Murphy, Dwight Evans, and Gary Carter all hit bombs for the Hoggs, while Will Clark and Andre Dawson went deep for Nails.
Wow! You guys are ambitious.
Kick ass!!
All of these games were classics. Great pitching, clutch hits, back and forth taking of the lead, lots of drama. Despite dropping to 0-6, it was a hell of a lot of fun.
Quote from: Nails on 02/08/05, 09:57:27 PM
The Nailbiting continued
So he bit you? And he calls me the cheater...
Nope, just an awful pun.
These may be the only three wins I get this year.
Almost forgot: Last night, Ryno drilled one to left (to the warning track, if there were one) with Bert Blyleven. Luckily my left fielder struck a pose and made a spectacular diving catch. It was almost as deep as the shot by Jimmy Key in the Fantasy RBI league a couple weeks ago. I needed a clean pair of shorts after that.
Bump.
Please post your Week 2 Results on this thread.
during week two I've masturbated 4 times, ate some girl scout cookies, and took 8 dumps.
Can't wait for week 3.
Did you do that all at the same time? Because that would be impressive...
some of those activities were done at the same time.
For example:
while taking a dump I beated off with one had and ate girl scout cookies with the other.
Clash of the (Week 1) Titans
After both going (3-0) in their respective first series, Stock and Lips were set to battle it out for for early supremacy in the RBI Straight Pitch League.
Game 1 didn't disappoint at all!!!!
The Thundercats came out fast and furiously to build up a 6-1 lead through the first 5 innings. But Stock and his troops wouldn't give up. They came back to take a 2 run lead of their own late in the game. Things were looking down for awhile, but the Week 1 stud Go-Go hit a 2 run dinger to mark a 5-run inning to get The Thundercats back into the lead, going into the 9th? Stock, once again, wouldn't let up...and came through huge to tie the game in the 9th. With last wraps, all The Thundercats had to do was get a run in.
It just wasn't that easy...
3 innings later, in the bottom of the 12th...The Thundercats prevailed (Stock, help me out here with the "how" if you can) 12-11, to take a (1-0) series lead.
The homers went as follows...
Stock:
Armas 1
DaEvans 2
Hernandez 2
Maldo 1
Laudner 1
Grich 1
While the Thundercats went as follows:
Leonard 2
Jones 1
Jackson 1
Sheridan 1
Schofield 2
Gedman 1
Game two recap to follow...
Game 2 was a little different.
Stock's bats were very cold. The Thundercats' bats were somewhat cold too, outside of a key sequence of events.
In the 6th/7th inning with 2 outs and The Thundercats batting, Schofield popped one up in the infield. But as luck would have it, The Bop God dropped a big one on Stock. And as we say in the Dee-Nee house, "If Bop, then Homer." It was glorious.
Pendleton homered in Schofield, only to be followed up by a Go-Go homer. When it rains, it pours. The Thundercats ended up winning, 8-3.
Things to note:
Stock hit into 5 DPs.
The Thundercats struck out 10 times.
And Pat Sheridan hit a check-swing homer.
Homers...
Stock:
DaEvans 1
Bruno 1
The Thundercats:
Leonard 1
Jackson 2
Sheridan 1
Schofield 1
Pendleton 1
Gedman 1
Ahhh, Game 3.
It was a very sour ending to the series for The Thundercats, but a bitter sweet one for Stock.
Stock switched up his game plan...and started the game with Jimmy Key. Let's just say, Key cleaned The Thundercats' clock.
After a 1-1 first inning which saw Bob Brenly lead off with a homer, Stock was playing in a homerun hitting contest...while the Thundercats couldn't even see a pitch. Everything that The Thundercats hit...went straight up, barely fair/foul...with Stock catching everything, and 3-4 on the wall. Very impressive for Stock. Very Dah-Nah for The Thundercats.
Stock ended up whooping me 12-1 in 7 innings. The Thundercats cut down the strikeouts to 3, but they just couldn't do anything with their bats at all.
Homers...
Stock:
Brenly 1
Armas 1
Hernandez 1
DeCinces 2
Laudner 1
The Thundercats:
The Donut
mmmmmmmmmmmm. donuts.
Dirt/Baines week two results:
Game 1: Baines takes early lead with a solo shot by Brookens that barely cleared the wall, but Dirt overcomes small deficit and wins 9-6.
PS HRs:Brookens, GDavis (2), Brett, Baylor
JD HRs: Hrbek (2), Trammell, Guerrero, Mitchell
Game 2: Dirt in a route, 11-1.
PS HR: EDavis
JD HRs: Hrbek (2), Guerrero, McGwire
Game 3: Replay of game two--Dirt in another route, 11-1.
PS HR: Baylor
JD HRs: Trammell (2), Guerrero (2), Mattingly, Mitchell
Quotefuck them all. they are a bunch of fuckin no talent ass clowns. i'll fuckin kill them. here's a typical baines online game:
popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, HR, popup, popup, popup, HR, popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, HR, HR, popup, popup, popup, HR, popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, HR, popup
This would explain why I have 25 runs for the season and 19 HR's.
Fuck moving and never getting to play RBI anymore. One would think that after playing a game on and off for 15 years that you wouldn't lose it in 6 months but I have completely and totally lost my rhythm at the plate. I honestly don't even belong in this league. Hey at least all you guys can count on 3 W's when Parish State comes up on the schedule.
QuoteGame 1: Baines takes early lead with a solo shot by Brookens that barely cleared the wall, but Dirt overcomes small deficit and wins 9-6.
I forgot about that shot from Brookens. I have no idea how that thing cleared the fence. There was a little bit of lag at the time which made it hard to see and made it look like a wallzie in left center.
Quote from: Baines on 02/14/05, 11:35:45 PM
Quotefuck them all. they are a bunch of fuckin no talent ass clowns. i'll fuckin kill them. here's a typical baines online game:
popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, HR, popup, popup, popup, HR, popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, HR, HR, popup, popup, popup, HR, popup, popup, popup, popup, popup, HR, popup
This would explain why I have 25 runs for the season and 19 HR's.
Fuck moving and never getting to play RBI anymore. One would think that after playing a game on and off for 15 years that you wouldn't lose it in 6 months but I have completely and totally lost my rhythm at the plate. I honestly don't even belong in this league. Hey at least all you guys can count on 3 W's when Parish State comes up on the schedule.
You have the shanks. It happens.
Jack off a bunch of times and you should be okay.
QuoteYou have the shanks. It happens.
Jack off a bunch of times and you should be okay.
I think I've got that one covered. Hasn't helped me so far though.
Oh, I think another quality detail that deserves mentioning is that I struck out 11 times in one of those games and it may not have even gone a full nine.
JoeDirt/Baines,
Did games 2 and 3 of your series go the full 9 innings?
Neither did.
I don't remember. Baines?
I think game two went 5 and game 3 went 7.
Quote from: JoeDirt on 02/15/05, 10:38:13 AM
I don't remember. Baines?
I think game two went 5 and game 3 went 7.
Thanks,
I will "pencil" those in. I just need these in case it comes down to one of the tie-breakers.
Baines, please let me know if these are not correct.
Sounds about right to me.
Noah and I have had a tough time hooking up this week, so we won't get our games in until next week. Does anyone have any qualms if I played my week 3 games before week 2? Noah is out of town this weekend and I'd like to get some play in...
Nope.... play on.
QuoteNoah and I have had a tough time hooking up this week, so we won't get our games in until next week. Does anyone have any qualms if I played my week 3 games before week 2? Noah is out of town this weekend and I'd like to get some play in...
If I'm not mistaken I think we play in week 3 so I'm ready whenever you are. Going skiing Saturday but other than that I'll be around from now through the end of the weekend.
Damn... I sent you a PM a few seconds after I got one from you asking to play tonight.
A nice feature for everyone is to enable notification when you get a new PM. Go to Profile --> Personal Message Options --> Show a Popup When You Received New Messages. Very handy, though to have to the PM actually show up (instead of just getting a message) you have to make sure forums.dee-nee.com are in your allowed popup list.
We'll tangle next week Noah, enjoy your weekend...
I'm due to play noah next week as well.
Hopefully he'll break both hands, thus requiring him to use his feet to play.
This is the only way for me to have any sort of advantage.
Monkey nuts, I do suck 'em.
what the H? I think my next opponent is boy Noah, too.
Gantry was scheduled to play Noah in week 2. JoeDirt, you are scheduled to play noah in week 3. Ryno plays him in week 4. Ryno has already played his week 3 game, so that is why he said he is playing Noah next.
Take a look at the schedule listed in the 4th post of the Sticky Thread
In the first game of the belated Poopybutts/Noah series went down to the wire:
Noah G - 10, 6 HRs
Poopybutts - 8, 7 HRs
In an affair dubbed the "lag bowl" Noah plays savvy and picks up the win. Both guys had trouble even seeing some pitches as the lag fucked up both offense and defense. Noah used a balanced offensive attack to get their runs while the Poopybutts relied one the 1-2 punch of Harry Spilman and Jack Clark to garner most of their offense. Spilman just missed his 4th homer when his deep flyball hit the top of the centerfield wall in the 8th. All in all a great game and the next two should be doozies:
HRs for Noah - Gaetti (2), Downing, Wilfong, Hendrick, McGee
HRs for Poopybutts - Spilman (3), Jack Clark (2), Canseco, Schmidt
Uh oh, I think I might have missed a dinger for Noah. That or he only had 5 dingers...
Spilman is the man....
Game two also went Noah's way in a 4-2 slugfest. I had ZERO dingers while Noah got homers from Joyner, Wilfong and Downing. Notice the California connection in his power numbers the first two games, gotta love it...
The lag was even worse this game and timing a pitch was definitely an adventure. Noah was able to get on the board early and turned some tricky double plays to seal the deal...
Game 3 is postponed due to lag. If anyone else wants to test out the servers tonight (especially 209.242.26.125) please do so and let me know. I'm going to do some lag testing tonight to see what is up. But the servers are barely playable at this point...
Dare I say this is the first instance of a game being "postponed due to lag" in the history of . . . . .. the world?
Another dee-nee.com first...
Game three ended like the rest, a close win for Noah but that was likely the strangest game I ever played:
Noah G - 6, 2HRs
Poopybutts - 5, 5HRs
NoahG homers for Downing and Wilfong, Poopybutts dingers for Strawberry, Canseco, Lindeman, Nokes and Schmidt...
Where do I begin with that one? First off, there was finally no lag. As a result I couldn't hit a fucking thing. Had one hit through 7 innings. I finally get the bats going when all hell breaks loose. Noah brings in Worrell as his last pitcher in the 8th. My strategy was simple, keep taking pitches until I wear the fucker out. So I am taking every fastball under the sun and Worrell's 15 stamina is easily gone one out into the 8th. But then Worrell fires off a pitch to lindeman...
It was the slowest pitch in the history of standard RBI Baseball. It was so slow that I retreated to the bottom, came back to the center of the plate and still hit it off the edge of the bat. Why I didn't take the pitch I just don't know. Noah and i stop to talk and confirm that we've both never seen anything like it. I'm fuming about not taking the pitch while Lindeman goes yard...
But then it happens again! I struggle to find the screenshot button but couldn't do it in time. The pitch registers at 10mph. That's right, ten miles an hour...
Fast forward to the top of the 9th... I tie up the game and have Worrell completely worn out. He can't top 75 on his fastballs and his slowballs have no drop. This is my chance I tell myself. Then suddenly something else happens. Worrells normal pitch is going about 95 even though his stamina is completely out. My dumb ass mentions it to Noah, who was throwing almost exclusively slowballs and fastballs. So the last two batters are a foulout and popout on "normal" pitches I can't time because they are 20 mph faster then his fastball...
So we're tied going into the bottom of the 9th. Noah subs in Gwyn n and he pops it weakly to second base. BOP! So with Gwynn on second and two outs Noah is forced to bat with the pitcher. Worrell swings late and knocks an opposite field liner over the 1st baseman's head. Ballgame...
That, my friends, was the RBI Baseball Twilight Zone. Hope you enjoyed it, I certainly didn't. But it was a fun series, Noah is a tough player. As much as I'd like to blame the glitches or lag, he simply outpitched and outsmarted me. That's why he went 3-0...
joe dirt's LOONy ass won't be easy to beat.
There was this one time that I beat him. . . . . . . . . yeah, that's it. . . . . just one time.
All of the games could have went either way, but you typically made less mistakes or threw better clutch pitches - which is why you won. Too many strikeouts and my inability to nab you on rundowns really hurt me. I was too rushed both at the plate and in the field...
You were just straight money with your California players, makes me very proud. You play a mean Wilfong and I never feared Brian Downing so much in my life. I was throwing all the junk pitches his way. Thank god you didn't get a chance to draft Potatoes...
My best feat of the last game was that I nabbed Vince Coleman on a steal to second...
Regarding the glitch with Worrel:
<Ability> <--Speed-->
No Name R/L ERA Snk Curve Snk Crv Fst Sta Un1 Un2
======================================================
Default NES data: 04 Worrel RHP 2.66 4 5 3 176 180 204 15 113 141
dee_nee str8 league: 04 Worrel RHP 2.66 4 5 3 176 18 204 15 114 141
You make the call. ;)
Nightwulf
This is wierd. According to this, you would think every "normal" speed pitch would be 10 MPH. Also, this does not explain the 95 MPH pitch with no stamina left. Very odd!
The Sticky Thread is updated with Standings and Home Runs through the end of Week 2. Noah had the last pick in the Draft, and it did not slow him down a bit. He is the only undefeated team thru 2 weeks of play. I am in 4th place but the future looks grim. I have to still play the #1 & #2 teams and I have a losing record against the #3 team.
Week 3 is nearly finished as well. JoeDirt and Noah have to play their series (1st place vs 2nd place; clearly the game of the week).
Then Gantry and Baines need to finish game 3 of their series.
Quote from: nightwulf on 03/03/05, 01:24:16 AM
Regarding the glitch with Worrel:
<Ability> <--Speed-->
No Name R/L ERA Snk Curve Snk Crv Fst Sta Un1 Un2
======================================================
Default NES data: 04 Worrel RHP 2.66 4 5 3 176 180 204 15 113 141
dee_nee str8 league: 04 Worrel RHP 2.66 4 5 3 176 18 204 15 114 141
You make the call. ;)
Nightwulf
I'm going to have to vote to not replay the game. As a victim of a chemically altered RBI playe I see it kinda like the current MLB steroid fiasco. If Bonds hits a game winning homer today, then gets caught taking 'roids tomorrow, his homer still stands as does his teams' victory.
that's not from my rom, right?
Quote from: JoeDirt on 03/03/05, 08:47:42 AM
that's not from my rom, right?
Not sure who's it is. Nobody downloaded either of the ROMs that are posted on the sticky thread.
I will check them both right now in the editor.
Not sure what happened here or where Gantry/Noah downloaded this ROM. The ROMs son the sticky thread and the ROMs saved to the editor are fine.
It might have had something to do with when my ROM was renamed with your ROM's name that one day.
I just modified the Sticky thread with both of our ROMs on their again. My future advice is to only use the ROMs on the sticky thread or to download them directly from Nightwulf's editor.
I downloaded and edited the ROM JoeDirt made on this thread:
http://forums.dee-nee.com/index.php?topic=5498.msg89004#msg89004
At the time, it was only ROM available with Worrell on Noah G's team. That is why we used it... I checked the ROM and it does in fact have an 18 curve for Worrell, simply a typo. These things happen, no harm no foul. Though it should enhance the "JoeDirt is a cheater" mystique (smiley)
QuoteThis is wierd. According to this, you would think every "normal" speed pitch would be 10 MPH. Also, this does not explain the 95 MPH pitch with no stamina left. Very odd!
I saw so few of those weird pitches, because Noah was working so heavily with the fastball and slowball. He just didn't throw that many "normal" pitches. When Worrell's stamina went past zero (before that you got the super slow pitches), it wrapped around to an FF (255) speed. So those babies were probably well over 100 mph then, since the top speed is around 120...
I'll see if I can convince Nightwulf to add a "trade player" feature, that would help minimize error with small roster moves...
Quote from: Gantry on 03/03/05, 10:22:29 AM
I'll see if I can convince Nightwulf to add a "trade player" feature, that would help minimize error with small roster moves...
That would really be a great feature.
I requested the same of Nightwulf. He was quick to point out to me that you can use the "move" feature to move players btwn teams and not just within their own line ups...
Quote from: JoeDirt on 03/03/05, 10:34:17 AM
I requested the same of Nightwulf. He was quick to point out to me that you can use the "move" feature to move players btwn teams and not just within their own line ups...
Son of a bitch, that's great. Never knew it worked that way...
Of course, reading the directions right on the page would've helped. We have failed you, Nightwulf.
Switch button
The "switch" button allows you to easily switch the location of two players. First, click the "switch" button next to the player you wish to move. Next, click the "switch" button next to the player you wish to switch locations with. You can change teams with the team selector in the menu area before selecting the second player if the players you wish to switch are on different teams. To cancel a player switch, press the same "switch" button twice.