Gameplay Traditions

[Big_Reg44]

I know that with our group of friends that when the score or hits or errors are 11-6 then we do a celebration dance. it is a long story that ill make short, but we were playing basketball and no one knew exactly what the score was so I kept saying that it was 11-6. It kinda stuck so now it is the score when the actual score is not known. Another tradition we participate is that when Kirk Gibson hits a homerun to right you must pump your fist until the next batter is at the plate. While Don "Baseball" Mattingly is up at bat everyone is pressured to be quite, dont know how it started, i believe we all were blasted just messin around and it stuck. but thats mine and some of my friends, if ya got some interesting ones let us hear about them.

[japetus462]

My traditions usually include intense beer drinking. My friend always uses Boston, and is a cards fan so he calls Gedman "Jim Gedmons".

[doveRBI]

Basically when I lose at RBI I piss into the NES deck.

[Gantry]

From my RBI page of Miscellany - http://dee-nee.com/rbi/misc.shtml

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RBI Tendencies

After playing a few games with Lipitz tonight, I realized we do a bunch of really stupid things while playing RBI. While they have no scientifically provable effects, none of us would be the same player without them. Here we go:

   * Must play with a pillow in his lap - Gantry
   * Cannot play with anything in his pockets - Lipitz
   * Cannot play effectively when sitting on the right side - Gantry
   * Verbally insults players to get them out of slumps - Potsie
   * Must pause the game during bathroom/beer breaks to keep his "pitcher fresh" - Lipitz
   * Taps the buttons to make his players run faster - Jason
   * Grunts ala Monica Seles during important ABs - Lips
   * Won't field flyballs with the pitcher because they BOP more - All of us
   * Yells a players nickname in mid-swing to get more power - Potsie

[fknmclane]

Gantry, I laughed at the Tendencies the first time and laughed at them a second time.  Good stuff.

We always do the Gibby fistpump but that's just tradition.  I tend to call my best friend in the world some of the nastiest names in the book.  Plus I scratch my nuts too much.

"You know what would really make me happy?"
"5 more fingers and an extra set of balls?"

[Glassjoe]

"You know what would really make me happy?"
"5 more fingers and an extra set of balls?"

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?

[Baines]

Big Reg 44 stopped in the middle of a HS basketball game to point out that the score was 11-6.

Damn near the coolest thing I've ever seen.

[fknmclane]

The late, great John Candy.

"I've never seen that before.  I've never seen a man get picked up by his testicles."

[Glassjoe]

Two coins in a fountain, each of them seeking happiness...

Flinstones...!

[Baines]

Reg, ijust remembered another one of ours just now when I was kicking Priode's ass with Houston.  When Bass comes up you have to say "Kick his ass KBass!" and he will always come through.

[Spike_Owen#1]

H_Baines#3 can only win if he physically harms poor defenseless spike owen. It isn't a very nice thing to do.

[doveRBI]

Way to make a strong entry Spike on account of your excellent avatar.  By the way, in case you were wondering, I am the Gatekeeper.

[Baines]

Welcome to the forums Priode!!!
 
In all seriousness though, I will continue to bean his ass every time he steps to the plate just for the fact that you let him hit.

[Baines]

Houston 16, American 7 bitch what!

[Sal Bando]

I remember when we first got RBI for NES and when my little brother was old enough to actually play nintendo he was probably 4...he was born in 1987. So when he first started playing the game, and he could read the names, he would pronounce names differently. For example, it used to crack us up when he called Steve Bedrosian "Bedstain".  Or Sutcliff "Suffocate". Or Schroeder "Schredder". Gallaraga "Gorilla". Righetti "Righty". Seitzer "Seltzer".  There are more....I think it was because they couldn't put the full names on the screen, but even today when we play we still call some of these guys by the names that he used to call them a long time ago. It's just become a tradition. There's nothing like bringing in Bedstain to close the game for National.

[doveRBI]

Welcome Sal Bando, at the risk of sounding even dorkier than I am your name sounds like either a fuckign Star Wars bounty hunter or a Tiajuana ruffies salesman.  I love it!

[BDawk]

Either that or a former third baseman.

[dvldog]

Sal Bando
http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bandosa01.shtml

Oakland A's Legend

[doveRBI]

I think that the real Sal Bando was probably a pimp.  Are you the real Sal Bando?  To all: have you guys considered that there could be RBI'ers amongst us.  I mean what if a real RBIer just happens to love RBI and got plugged in here.  I think that Gladden or Brookens could be lurking here.  That or Shitpaw is Pettis.

[Gantry]

I could see Jim Lindeman perusing the forums every now and then...

Sal Bando is in the arcade version, though I don't usually get much out of him....