Playing RBI with my son

[Turd]

I always tell people somewhat jokingly that I've been growing myself a little friend ever since my oldest son was born 6 years ago.  Spending time with this kid is probably the greatest treasure I have in my life.  At his request, we hit batting practice in the backyard, throw the ball around, or field grounders nearly every day that weather permits.  He's fucking awesome at baseball.  I'm hoping his lefty power retires me early some day

So, I pulled out the powerpak today to play some RBI.  This kid has to do everything I do.  If he sees me wearing shorts, he'll run upstairs and put on shorts of his own.  He idolizes me, which both makes me proud and scares the shit out of me. Anyways, he saw me playing RBI and asked if he could play.  We played one inning each which basically consisted of straight pitch batting practice and me running in between the basepaths while I asked him to throw to a certain base to get the concept.  He caught on pretty quick!  We quit and got ready to eat supper.  During, he asked me if we could "play that RBI Baseball game again after supper," which of course I obliged.  We played 4 more innings of instructional RBI.  The li'l turd is catching on quick.  Not many of my friends still have the passion for the game these days that I do, so to have my dream of having an opponent has finally come to fruition.  It's time to get this kid learned up!

Anyways, thanks for reading, I felt it was fun and interesting enough to share...

[VEGAS]

Awesome! I need to introduce my guy to RBI-- he loves playing tecmo Super Bowl with me so I know he has good taste-- I bet he'd like RBI

[RBI Empire]

That's awesome Turd. My oldest son is 11, I have 9 and 7 year old girls and a 5 year old boy. I share your same sentiments.

I've been playing my eldest son in RBI 14 since it came out. He's yet to beat me. I'm 13-0 against him. But I refuse to play straight pitch with him because I want him to learn plate discipline. Our early games weren't close. I mercy ruled him a couple times. But tonight something happened. He learned to pitch and take pitches. No straight pitch has paid off for him. In 3 games tonight I won 4-1, 2–1 and 1-0. I was seriously ready to lose and I can't wait 'til he beats me!

I've been using RBI to teach my girls the rules as we'll. They both play fast pitch softball and it has helped them this week to learn force plays and where to throw the ball. It's so neat to see them learn through something I'm passionate about.

[Gantry]

Nice work Turd...

[Turd]

Emp, if go no straight pitch, but my boy is 6 so I have to balance teaching with keeping it fun. If he can hit a homer now and then, he gets excited and keeps him wanting to play. Some day though. I have one girl at 4 and another boy at 2. The youngest has now taken an interest in baseball and wants to be outside when we're hitting BP. Life sure is good.

[BeefMaster]

I've never been able to get my son really into RBI, although he has played a few games with me.  The remake has actually been a big boon - I'm not as good at it, comparatively, so we're on a bit more level field, and he's been much more willing to give it a shot.  He hasn't beaten me (and I'm not pitching too aggressively, mostly keeping stuff over the plate), but he came close once.