RBI tourney results

[JoeDirt]

Okay, here's the day two breakdown.

Seed 2 Riley and Seed 3 Bridges played until 1:30 AM last night...I was gone already, but apparently it was quite the series that could have gone either way.  In the end, Bridges won in the final game of the series to advance to the championship.

Seed 1 Dirt and Seed 4 Gantry kicked off early Sun morning.  The fact that Gantry was in the final four is a major accomplishment in itself.  I did not have much trouble advancing past Gantry, but the level of respect that I have for his game is at an all-time high.

Championship Game: Dirt vs. Bridges.  At this point in the tourney, my record was 13-1.  I outscored my Sat opponents 45-9 (including Bridges 11-4) and was feeling really good about things.  However, this is when my tourney went to hell.  I couldn't see so good, I tell ya!  I just couldn't hit...it wasn't nerves or anything like that...I always say that this game is a game of streaks, and my hot streak ended and turned into ice without a moment's notice.

So perhaps I am Jim Kelly, but I prefer to think of myself as Phil Michelson before he won one (we're both lefties, after all)...but I guess I can take a little solace in knowing that Jim Kelly is in the HOF.

Bridges won in 5.

I suck and I hate me!

PS...two things that really impressed me this weekend: 1) Gantry's over all performance (as already discussed), and the fact that my only loss in my 1st 14 games was to my dear friend, TBT (Sl 1 Ho 0).

[JoeDirt]

I hate me mclane!

[Briznock]

I really only want to talk about 12 things.....

1. Tim Teuful.  His name in German apparently means Satan.  His mother bad decision to not abort has ruined my RBI life.  And I am throwing a party when he dies.  TBT sounds thrilled with this idea and all are welcome to join us.

2a. New York is officially the worst team on the game, hands down.
2b. AL is the 4th best team on the game.  I got perfect gamed and struck out 6 times I think.  I know it wasn't in double digits...  How the F do you make contact 18 times with AL and not score a run....  Just shameful  I am curious to see where my ERA ranks in the round robin...

[JoeDirt]

In my mind, the top known ATG players in the world (in no particular order):

Dirt
Riley
Beales
Foster
Silverblatt
McCormick (Rory)
Bridges

Although I do wish to stipulate that a few of the above names have played in only one tourney...not really enough to go on, but they did very well in it...

[TβG]

from what i can understand about the tourney and brackets, it doesn't seem very fair.

to me, more of a round robin type of tourney would get the guys into a better seeding situation.  but maybe that takes too long, i don't know, i've never hosted a tourney.

[JoeDirt]

WTF are you even saying?!  Explain yourself, sir!

[JoeDirt]

Also, day one was totally round robin...each player played every other player one time.  The best 4 records from day 1 advanced to day 2 to participate in a 4 man bracket (5 game rd 1 series and 7 game rd 2 series).

[TβG]

so did you not end up using the lottery system i picked out of a hat?

[JoeDirt]

No because they were for 8 and 9 man scenarios...we didn't know how many players we were ultimately going to end up with, so we had yours for 8 and 9, and the round robin 1x game vs. every other player format for 10+.

[Reds]

I really cant stress enough how badly I played and how much I think I was in my own head this weekend.  Truly disappointing.

[TβG]

ok, in the end i trust your judgment as i was not there to officiate.   when i pulled the names out of the hat the situation looked pretty bad from what i could tell.  i'm glad you didn't use them.

[BeefMaster]

Did the news article air yet?  I believe it needs to be linked/posted whenever that happens.

[Attezz]

I don't think the news crew ever showed up.

I DID NOT get beaten by JoeDirt this weekend.

I did hit a home run off of Gantry with JUribe (this was seriously called, albeit before the at bat, not on the very pitch like with Herr). This was also a game where Gantry and I pitched a reliever all game.

I did beat Octo, and only gave up 2 runs against AM with Roger Clemens going the full nine.

Like GoReds, I was in my head all day too, there was not a moment in any game where I expected that I would win, and I think that ultimately cost me, since I was attacking, I was more sitting around waiting for the collapse each game.

[malnuboy]

the real tourney was on Friday!

Bridges is good people, congradulations!

[Gantry]

It was a great tourney, I had a blast.  Dirt, Mark and Riley clearly outclassed me but I felt like I was holding my own.  By the end of the day I couldn't keep up but I learned a fuckton about curve pitch and I'll be signed up forall future tourneys...

[JoeDirt]

I hope it is not in poor taste to bring up actual RBI strategy in this thread, but one major trait that all of the great ATG players have is already possessed by Gantry--the ability to quickly read your opponent's tendencies and adjust accordingly.  This applies to both pitching and hitting.

[Gantry]

Patience and defense were my two best traits (the little 'incident' in game 1 against Dirt notwithstanding) this weekend.  But when it came down to it, I didn't have pitching consistency to hang with the big boys...

PS - I hate Mike Aldrete more than any human being hates anyone...

[Darky]

Sounds like the tourney went well. Round robin is the best format to go with in those kinds of situations.

Congrats to bridges and that's fuckin odd that JoeDirt choked again. ha ha ha

I wish I could have been there to win it all against you meat heads who think you know ball and rbi.......my time will come, but for now, I got a  real tourney to play in over in Portugal.

Great shit guys and sooner or later I will show up to one of these tourneys.

Briz and TBT, I am dissapointed in you fucks.

Gantry, you even surprised me with your impressive showing. Good job.

[ultimate7]

What were the payouts?

[TbT]

my apologies to Dee-Nee for my performance.  i sucked hard all day long.  I shouldnt have started with the 1st game of the day.  with the fucked up TV situatiosn (again) and trying to co-ordinate all this, i shoulda taken an hour to get organization underway 1st.  it was a cluster fuck cause we had some issue with the TV's not working again.

mark bridges was a maniac in game one.  I was pretty much shaking and nervous all game and didnt get my head straight, and lost 3-0.  Then Ronnie beat me 4-2 and i took a small break to get my shit together. 

didnt pan out as i then dropped back to back HOU vs STL games.....i manned each team one.  from there.  i considered my self eliminated and then played better the rest of the way out. 

I ran thru all my opponents except joe dirt, then i went and played some tecmo to relax.  I did beat Joe dirt later that night 1-0 STL over HOU.  for what its worth, that was my world series for the day.  to stink it up in that game would have been more disappointing than anything.