Randomly Post The First RBI Baseball-Related Thing That Pops Into Your Head

[fknmclane]

Never realized it was first pipe after lava every time.

[nomaaa]

yeah dog. thats like the only one i actually have to "play" when speed running.

its awesome theres still mysteries to learn about that game

[Nacho]

Lava pipe is a good nickname for a butthole imo.

[nomaaa]

good call, lava pipe

[fightonusc]

Take it to the Randomly Post the First Super Mario Bros.-Related Thing That Pops Into Your Head thread.

[Guido13]

All of my Paul Molitor baseball cards aren't worth anything but when growing up I felt like they were minted in gold.

[Gantry]

Still have his rookie card with Alan Trammel, you saying I won't be able to retire off it?

[Big Hath]

been playing through several user-created roms listed on the editor recently.  Just played a game as Minnesota vs Cleveland from a rom called "rbi_ArcadeII Jake".  Can't find it in the list right now but I know I got it from the editor.  Anyway in that test game against the computer, Minnesota proceeded to commit 29 errors.  Loaded the ROM in the editor and discovered that Minn's error stat is at 200 in that rom.

Also, the pitchers in that rom have 0 power and 0 speed so their ABs are kind of crazy.

[Gantry]

Are they basically bunts? 

[Big Hath]

if you hit it fair, yes.  But if you foul off pitches they go screaming to the backstop then bounce back into fair territory sometimes all the way to the outfield fence.

Somehow the computer pitchers are hitting homeruns, but when they make contact you can't really tell what i happening as it looks like it should have been a foul ball based on the camera angle.  Eventually it's just called a homerun.

[nomaaa]

gonna need some video

[ultimate7]

been playing through several user-created roms listed on the editor recently.  Just played a game as Minnesota vs Cleveland from a rom called "rbi_ArcadeII Jake".  Can't find it in the list right now but I know I got it from the editor.  Anyway in that test game against the computer, Minnesota proceeded to commit 29 errors.  Loaded the ROM in the editor and discovered that Minn's error stat is at 200 in that rom.

Also, the pitchers in that rom have 0 power and 0 speed so their ABs are kind of crazy.

Sounds like Jake messed with my ArcadeII ROM which I don't think I have used in 10 years.  I always wanted to make a cart of that one.

[Brookensrules!]

Gary Pettis RBI base coach in the World Series?

[fightonusc]

Gary Pettis RBI base coach in the World Series?

Third base.

[Big Hath]

I don't know

Third base.

[BeefMaster]

In Joe Posnanski's latest podcast with Michael Schur (Ken Tremendous from the Fire Joe Morgan blog, also Mose Schrute and the creator of "Parks and Recreation"), they have a short discussion of RBI Baseball.  Schur mentions that he had an NES in his office when he worked on SNL, and he estimates that they played a couple thousand games of RBI during his time there.

UPDATE: I submitted "What is your favorite sports video game?" as a question for their podcast this week (forgetting about this discussion six years ago, I guess), and they answered it - Schur's favorite is RBI, while Posnanski is partial to Tecmo Super Bowl.  He mentioned that he and Seth Meyers played a ton of RBI in their SNL days, starting with a World Series, expanding to a World Series of World Series, and ultimately ending with a World Series of World Series of World Series, which Schur believes he won 4-2.  They kept score for these games, and at Meyers' wedding, Schur presented him with the stack of papers from all their RBI Baseball games.

My question is at 1:00:55 of the podcast, but you should listen to the whole thing because those guys are the best.

[Nacho]

The Astros were the best NL team? I declare shenanigans...

[TβG]

I don't know if we have a better place for real life RBI MLB highlights:

1986 playoffs:

[BeefMaster]

Joe Posnanski is doing a "Things we'll never see again" series for MLB.com, starting with a piece on Nolan Ryan.

It includes some pretty incredible statistics, including the fact that if you combine the THREE active pitching leaders in career walks, it's still short of Ryan's career total.

[ultimate7]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfSO0YFjDsi/

Lead from Off With Their Heads playing RBI 3 (or is it 2?)