RBI Tourney Today!

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Once Jeff had NL and SF eliminated he tok off.  Brian left as well leaving chad and I to battle it out for the finish.  Chad had both his teams NL and NY left for the 3rd place game in the conso bracket.

He took AL, and I got NY.  on the 1st pitch Mcgwire went opo and put it out, giving my opponent the lead for the 1st time al night.  crazy 

I tie it up the next inning, and then Hernandez goes yard knocking in 3 to give me a 4-1 lead.  Hernandez tacks on another homer and NY cruises 5-3.  it was kinda weird in the conso bracket cause sometimes we would forget that we had 2 SP's at out disposal.  i believe  started the game with orosco, but im not for certain.  NY takes 3rd palce...AL takes 4th.  not a bad night for Chad though.

In the finals.  Chad is gassed and only wants to play a best of 3 series, which is cool by me.

Game 1.  Bos 8  MIN 1.  From what i remember this game slowly came unravelled for chad as i got a few runs here and there.  Homers by....Boggs 1  Baylor 1 Armas 1......Bush. 

I didnt notice at the time but in the 8th inning icant remember the batter but he hit a pop up that i should have got with my 2b, but i went after with my pitcher...anyways it fell in for a hit breaking up my nohitter from clemens.  crazy that neither of noticed this was going on.  Bush PH in the next inning and went yard on clemens giving them thier only run.

Game 2.  Bos 3  MIN 1.  Homers by Henderson 1 Burks 1 rICE 1......Bruno provided the highlights.  This game was contested pretty tightly as i only lead 2-0 thru probably 5.

in the series i got a good dose of the greatness that is blyleven.....didnt get the o goign till he came out, then i fkn pounded sr smoke.

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Overall Player records

TBT 11-0
Chad 5-5
Brian 3-7
Jeff 1-6

Team records.

1. Bos 6-0
2. Min 4-2
3. NY 4-2
4. A.L. 2-3
5. Det 2-4
6. CAL 1-3
7. N.L. 1-3
8. SF 0-3

we didnt really document our other tourneys too well so i cant look them up, but i do remember losing in the championship round during the1st tourney we had.  I also remember not even making it to the championship round the 2nd time around.  To dominate like this was quite feat. 

Looks like all those hours with nate getting ready for the cotu paid off.  I havent played against these guys in roughly a year.  that time we just had 3 of us(chad/brian) and we played 3 game cotut sets, and no tourney like this.  i stunk it up in that get together and went 1-5 that night.  so this was a huge improvement.  I dont know if it was just the 1SP thing or what.  I did get Boston who i am very comfortable with, and MIN didnt have an unbeatable opponent in the brackets either so those 2 factors possibly helped.

player home run totals to come next.

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Team records and home run totals
Player home run totals.

BOS  6-0   19 HR's 
Baylor 5
Rice 4
Henderson 4
Armas 2
Burks 2
Evans 1
Boggs 1

MIN  4-2  13 HR's
Brunansky 3
Laudner3
Puckett 2
Gagne 2
Gaetti 1
Bush 1
Lombardozzi 1

NY 4-2  6 HR's
Strawberry 2
Hernandez 2
Johnson 2

A.L. 2-3  12  HR's
Bell 4
Mcgwire 3
Scroeder 1
Molitor 1
Mattingly 1
Ripken 1
Baines 1

DET 2-4  14 HR's
Nokes 4
Trammel 3
Gibson 2
Brookens 2
Madlock 2
Evans 1

CAL 1-3  2 HR's
Joyner 1
Decinces 1

N.L. 1-3  2 HR's
Dawson 2

SF 0-3  2 HR's
Mitchell 1
Maldonado 1

[Big Apple RBI Champ]

Incredibly thorough recap.  We all have to be impressed with TBT.

I must believe that the Iowa loss has got to be crushing many folks on this board.  I have to believe Bucky will be ahead of Hawkeyes in the polls.  Now that old man Frye is gone, paint the locker rooms a real fckng color.  That is the gayest sht in college or pro sports.  Embarrassingly unsportsmanlike to have visiting pink locker rooms.  We'll see you soon at your place.  Please paint the locker room before we get there.  The sooner, the more you'l regain respect on a national scale.

Lastly, have you noticed how many bombs were hit in the FD tourney?  Goes to my point... speed means little.

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Lastly, have you noticed how many bombs were hit in the FD tourney?  Goes to my point... speed means little.

it was 1SP games for the most part (20 games total/15 games 1SP) so that usually does mean more offense.  There was also a fair share of bad pitching from the other guys.  I gave up 12 homers in 11 games, so i think i did my part pitching wise. 

Im not down on the factor that speed translates to.  Dykstra and Mookie used thier speed to get me in the biggest jam i faced all night clinging to a small lead, bases load/1 out, and Carter/Strawberry due up.  A lefty hit, and a very hard hit ball that was a BOP allowed both to reach base. 

In another scenario, Burks repeatedly beat out double play attempts for me all night so the big bats could get busy with some men on base.

[Darky]

Good shit TBT, way to represent Dee Nee. I am damn proud of you son.

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All props must go to Joe Dirt and Nate Nate Nate. The teacher, and sparring partner.  Too bad Nate wasnt in the tourney yesterday.  he could have probably gotten a team to the finals as well.  or at least kept me from going undefeated.

[BeefMaster]

i am jealous.  i wish i was back in sioux city like i was in '98 as the voice of the explorers.

At five of the six Canaries games I went to this summer, they were playing the Explorers.