Greatest RBI moment

[YankeesSuck]

I'm really curious to get everyone's greatest RBI moment of all time.  I would have to say one of mine was camping out for Uconn men's b-ball tix and setting up the TV and nintendo inside of the tent.  We drank so much and played hours and hours of RBI, it was awesome.  But my ultimate moment for RBI would have to be last semester when we were going nuts one night and our game randomly had a glitch.  The look of the game got all screwed up and we thought it was just gonna crash and we'd have to restart but it continued to play.  There appeared to be two balls all the time, every homerun came up as GOMEQUM, California was playing California, outs were ous's, and everything about the game was absolutely insane.  This was the night we got written up by our RA we because we were going crazy.  This is by far the best game ever made and i'm curious to learn everyone else's greatest moment.

[mookiewilson]

Greatest RBI Moment: Donnie Moore getting redemption on Dave Henderson with a double play in the bottom of the ninth to preserve a 12-10 victory.  Maybe if this had happened in 1986, he wouldn't have commited suicide.

Greatest Baseball Moment of all Time- Mookie "our lord and savior" Wilson's little roller through Billy "Whoops" Buckner's legs.  Joe (Yankees-Suck) is still bitter about this as everytime I play with the mets and mookie comes up, he intentionally beans Mookie.  Its OK though as "I'm Keith Hernandez" usually makes him pay with a double in the gap to score a run.

[Gantry]

Great thread!  You guys have actually witnessed the ultimate glitch.  Even got the cali/cali matchup, check out our pics:

http://dee-nee.com/rbi/pics/glitch/index.html

My greatest moment is definitely winning the 2k1 tourney.  I was really on a roll heading into it and pretty much blew away the comp.  Even though I was so drunk I couldn't remember the winning game, it was oh so sweet.  Hope to repeat come April...

[Gantry]

And that RBI-in-the-tent story is priceless, you guys have the drive.  You guys are hereby the east-coast RBI representatives - we'll take the Midwest and Dennis Kim and crew get the West Side....

Lips (Boston) and Potsie (Cali) are squaring off as we speak.  I get winner, though we're out of beer....

[mookiewilson]

Thanks Gantry. We'll try and uphold the East Coast tradition. Being hardcore alchoholics really helps us be able to play many games of "Death" in one night.  We'll post some messages tommorow night when we are nice and smashed. We feel a good way to start our friday nights is to play a bunch of games of "death", then go out to a party, watch Joe get turned down by chicks (just kidding joe), then come back and watch Joe pass out.  We're slowing building up interest on the floor, as about 3 guys are addicted right now, and another is getting there.     I think my girlfriend is starting to get pissed that our talk time is going down now that i waste my life away playing RBI. but i guess you have to make some sacrifices.

[Gantry]

You guys pretty much sound like us three years ago (seems like ages though).  We always started the evenings with RBI and then hit the town...

And I empathize with the girlfriend thing, as virtually every girl we knew at school absolutely hated RBI.  They'd always walk into the apartment and go "oh no, not RBI!  Lets play cards" - but RBI always won out...

[killspilman]

I beat Gantry!!!!! Boston vs St. Louis circa. fall 2000.  Too bad that was the only time I beat him, and it didn't help that he was St. Louis.  Damm that coleman is fast.

[Dill]

Probably our best RBI moment was when we bought about 100 yards of extension cord so we could run it out of the window of my upstairs APT all the way out to the parking lot.  We set up the TV and NES and played for what seemed like hours; extremely late into the night.  There weren't too many extreme RBI moments, but you should've seen everyone's faces when they saw us in the parking lot with a TV and NES and probably 30 empty beer cans.  BTW, RBI's graphics are infinitely enhanced under the Arkansas moonlight

[Gantry]

Good story Dill, something oddly intriguing about RBI outdoors...

I forgot to mention the many trips RBI has made with us on our journeys across this fine country.  RBI has accompanied us to Las Vegas, St. Louis and Iowa City.  Come March, it will make appearances in Albany and NYC...

If you ever happen to play RBI in Vegas, watch out for Matt Nokes - he brings his "A" game there...

[Dill]

I can see Matty Nokes playing his finest in Vegas.  Something about the bright lights would bring out the best in him.  I just got back from Vegas a couple of weeks ago.  I wish I would've known about this phenomenon earlier.  But then again, the new wife told me I couldn't bring RBI with us on the honeymoon.  

[Gantry]

Matty sure does love the bright lights, he's a man of action...

Speaking of which, Matt Nokes is STILL playing baseball.  He's in the minors playing for the Schaumburg Flyers right here in Illinois.  In fact, Potsie works in Schaumburg - scary but true...

And RBI to the honeymoon is probably a bit over the top, even for us...

[Stuart]

There is nothing quite like RBI outside.  Me and Dill considered braving the elements and playing during a big snow once.  It would have been cumbersome to play with gloves so we would have probably suffered without using them.   Everyone in this forum, if you are a true fan, needs to experience RBI on a nice summer night.  Have some Busch Light as well.  You will get looks from people that you have never gotten before.

As far as other great RBI moments, me and a friend played an 18 inning marathon session.  Then the next week we proceeded to play a 20 inning game.  The greatest part of the games were that we were not using our second starter due to our 1 starter only rules.  Our relievers arms were literally falling off by the end of the game.  I think Ken Dayley went 9 in one of the games.  

[Gantry]

Busch Light is the outdoor drinking beer, a staple when tailgating...

A 20 inning game is very impressive, but couldn't anyone hit a home when the pitcher was throwing 25mph?

[YankeesSuck]

Dude, i totally agree about Busch Light.  Its all we drink here.  We're all poor college students and busch light is definetly cheap and decent.  Busch Light for MVP!!!

[Dill]

I am glad to see that Busch Light is so prevalent in RBI circles.  Me and Stu discovered, through MUCH experimentation, that the Prince of Beers goes the best with a nice, low scoring, 4-3 ballgame just like the 1980s intended.

[Stuart]

Gantry-  Weird things happened in those marathon games.  We had triple plays, 3 run homers by Ozzie Smith, just a bunch of weird stuff kept the games going.  If I scored 2 in the 14th, the other guy would respond with 2 to keep it going.   The strange thing is that I didn't play that guy very much at all and had those long games and the longest game I've had with Dill went 12 innings.    

[mookiewilson]

Busch Light is only my choice of Beer for Death because its so damn cheap.  $12.99 for a 30 pack is perfect for a student like myself who gets by on welfare.  I don't have anything to prove this, but i bet i can find a place where you can get Busch Light using Food Stamps.  Anyways, my favorite beer is definitely Coors Light.  Its fairly cheap and tastes really good.  

[YankeesSuck]

Chris you aren't on welfare you whore.  You're just a cheap bastard.  As am I.  Even though busch light does taste exactly like water, it starts to get decent after about 7 of them.  And how is your favorite beer coors light, Corona is definetly god.  If there was a Corona religeon i would probably join it.  Maybe that coors light is destroying your brain and that's why i beat your ass every game!!!  

[mookiewilson]

Very true Joe on both the Corona part, and the part about you kicking my ass.  I can't afford Corona though....  

Edited by Gantry - None of that type of statement here Mookie...

[Gantry]

The less a beer tastes like beer, the better it is...

Busch Light is definitely a good cheapo beer, but nowadays it's saved pretty much for special (read outdoor & no bottles allowed) occasions.  Since our senior year of college, it's been pretty much Miller Lite in bottles.  Now I drink all kinds of beer, but Miller Lite is the standard.  I'm a big fan of Corona, but there's gotta be some limes around...

If you want to get hammered, go for Bud Ice.  There is no rational explanation, but Bud Ice gets you drunker than any other beer in RBI.  We used to call it the blackout beer, but be warned - it tastes like complete shit.  After a couple months we couldn't stand it anymore.  But we did thoroughly enjoy the times we did have, just absolutely piss drunk by the time the bar/party came around...