2002 RBI Baseball COTUT Completed

[DXXPAC321]

Congratulations to Colin Foster for becoming the 2002 RBI Baseball Champion of the Universe.  He defeated Mike Beales in the Championship Series.  Joey Freedman took 3rd
place and Jim Callan took 4th.  John Drissen and John O'Connor also tied for 5th place. Here is the way Sunday went.

Sunday started off with the highlight matchup that many were looking forward too with Freedman vs. Beales.  The winner earns a spot in the Championship while the loser would end up playing Colin Foster.  This series went 6 games with Beales taking the series.

Freedman then played Foster again which was a rematch from a earlier first round game on Friday where Freedman defeated Foster 2 games to 0.  In this 7 game series, Foster
comes back and beats Freedman in 6 games.

Right after that series the Championship Series started where the matchup was Foster vs. Beales.  Because Foster was coming from the losers bracket, he had to defeat Beales in two consecutive 7 games series.  He managaed to beat Beales in 6 games in the first series, and then after having a 3 to 1 lead in the series, Beales managed to tie the series at 3 a piece which gave us a marquee matchup in game 7 to determine the Champion of the Universe.  Beales had Boston while Foster had Detroit.  Foster won game 7 with the score of 5 to 2 which gave him the title of Champion of the Universe.  

On a personal note, I would like to say that Colin Foster truly proved he was the best player in the tournament and deserved the championship.  Congratulations to Colin Foster
for becoming the 2002 RBI Baseball Champion of the Universe.  He defeated Mike Beales in the Championship Series.  Joey Freedman took 3rd place and Jim Callan took 4th.  John Drissen and John O'Connor also tied for 5th place.  Here is the way Sunday went.

Sunday started off with the highlight matchup that many were looking forward too with Freedman vs. Beales.  The winner earns a spot in the Championship while the loser would end up playing Colin Foster.  This series went 6 games with Beales taking the series.

Freedman then played Foster again which was a rematch from a earlier first round game on Friday where Freedman defeated Foster 2 games to 0.  In this 7 game series, Foster
comes back and beats Freedman in 6 games.

Right after that series the Championship Series started where the matchup was Foster vs. Beales.  Because Foster was coming from the losers bracket, he had to defeat Beales in two consecutive 7 games series.  He managaed to beat Beales in 6 games in the first series, and then after having a 3 to 1 lead in the series, Beales managed to tie the series at 3 a piece which gave us a marquee matchup in game 7 to determine the Champion of the Universe.  Beales had Boston while Foster had Detroit.  Foster won game 7 with the score of 5 to 2 which gave him the title of Champion of the Universe.  

On a personal note, I would like to say that Colin Foster truly proved he was the best player in the tournament and deserved the championship.  The amount of pain he went through is unthinkable to me.  He had the toughest road to the championship since he lost his first round game.  He had to play the maximium amount series to win the championship.  Congratuations again Colin.  You earned it.

DXXPAC321
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[SmokedUBad13]

Colin Foster (HoJoFan), without a doubt, deserves the title of champion.  It was previously thought impossible for somebody to become champion after losing their first series.  Yet, Colin proved the impossible with an enthusiasm/determination/mental capacity never before seen to man.

After losing his initial series to Joey Freedman (russellcox), he won his next 10 series.  In this tournament he knocked out several notable players including Jason Kazmierczak (Ozzy362), Tim McDonald, John Drissen, Jim Callan (jcbbal86), Joey Freedman (russellcox), and finally Mike Beales (SmokedUBad) in order to obtain the title of Champion of the Universe.

So congratulations to Colin Foster on becoming the Second Biannual R.B.I. Baseball Champion of the Universe.  A much deserved and admired title.

SmokedUBad
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[jcbball86]

wow, what a turnout.  i guess i didnt expect this to happen but congrats to foster with the big upset victory.  im happy with fourth though, even if i did oversleep, but thats another story...
Also, a good tournament for beales and freedman.  you guys are pretty damn good.

[Gantry]

Wow, well done to Collin!!  Very surprised that Joey lost twice, good job to Mike & Collin for cracking his awesome pitching....

Ten series victories is a most impressive (and grueling) feat...

Great tourney Mike & Jeff...