Glossary

[Big Apple RBI Champ]

Let me once again give mad props to Gantry for his site.  I just looked at the Glossary for the first time.  It is chock full of excellent terms.  Let me make one submission.  What you call "Tettleton", we call "Knoblauch".  The stance works surprisingly well, but can often result in pulling balls foul.

[Gantry]

Added Knoblauch to the Tettleton definition as an alternate term....

I like to use the Tettleton with powerful righties that I'm slumping with.  Though you have to make sure the bases are empty, because the Tettleton hits are much m ore ground-ball prone...

My best Tettleton moment was when I hit one with Davidson.  It was the first dinger I ever got with him, off Potsie of course...

[TβG]

i'd like to add two terms, see what you guys think:

Spiderman:  when the first baseman moves laterally to catch a low line drive then returns to firstbase to step on the bag because he's anticiapating NOT catching the ball.  I think this only happens with human controlled players.  What this looks like is the fielder does the "saturday night fever" stab with his glove, but the immediate motion as he moves in the opposite direction to run to first base gives the appearance that he has snagged the ball with a web shooting out of his hand.

fire hydrant:  when you hit a line-drive directly back the the pitcher and he catches it without moving.  the pitcher just stands there and doesn't extend the glove or anything to catch the ball.  becuase of his portly stature he's just standing there with the ball, looking like a fire-hydrant.

[Stock]

Forgot to mention his earlier.  Last night was playing my ex college roommate.  I had Burlsn pinch hitting for Witt.  He hit a long hooking line drive down the line.  The left fielder was up against the wall right where the fair line meats the left field wall.  The left fielder caught the ball, but it was called a HOME RUN.  I have never seen this before.  Do we have a term for this?  It is not quite a Wallzie since it never went through the wall.
Antother thing that was odd about this, is the ball was clearly a half a body length foul by where the left fielder was holding the ball up after catching it.

[JoeDirt]

was this online or on NES?

[Stock]

was this online or on NES?

Online.

[Nails]

Forgot to mention his earlier. Last night was playing my ex college roommate. I had Burlsn pinch hitting for Witt. He hit a long hooking line drive down the line. The left fielder was up against the wall right where the fair line meats the left field wall. The left fielder caught the ball, but it was called a HOME RUN. I have never seen this before. Do we have a term for this? It is not quite a Wallzie since it never went through the wall.
Antother thing that was odd about this, is the ball was clearly a half a body length foul by where the left fielder was holding the ball up after catching it.

Bizzare.  I've seen something similar with popups behind home plate.  The catcher catches it at the wall, ball in hand, and it's called foul.  This is probably common knowlegde of course, and i'm wasting everyone's time reading this.

[BeefMaster]

Bizzare.  I've seen something similar with popups behind home plate.  The catcher catches it at the wall, ball in hand, and it's called foul.  This is probably common knowlegde of course, and i'm wasting everyone's time reading this.

I've seen this with popups down the baselines, too.

Stock's glitch is crazy, though - I've never seen that.  It sounds similar to the glitch Nails mentioned, just on the opposite fence.

[Stock]

Bizzare.  I've seen something similar with popups behind home plate.  The catcher catches it at the wall, ball in hand, and it's called foul.  This is probably common knowlegde of course, and i'm wasting everyone's time reading this.

That is EXACTLY what it was like, except called fair.

[Nails]

Bizzare.  I've seen something similar with popups behind home plate.  The catcher catches it at the wall, ball in hand, and it's called foul.  This is probably common knowlegde of course, and i'm wasting everyone's time reading this.

That is EXACTLY what it was like, except called fair.

It's kind of like the evil opposite of the grand slam out (which i've never seen either).  Weird wild stuff.

[Stock]

What's the grand slam out?

[Nails]

What's the grand slam out?

From the glossary:

Hitting a grand slam that is called out - This has happened twice, both times to Lipitz. I only saw one, where he hit a granny to left that stayed in the stadium and was called out as soon as it hit the ground. This has to be the worst glitch out there.

[TβG]

i'd like to add two terms, see what you guys think:

Spiderman:  when the first baseman moves laterally to catch a low line drive then returns to firstbase to step on the bag because he's anticiapating NOT catching the ball.  I think this only happens with human controlled players.  What this looks like is the fielder does the "saturday night fever" stab with his glove, but the immediate motion as he moves in the opposite direction to run to first base gives the appearance that he has snagged the ball with a web shooting out of his hand.

fire hydrant:  when you hit a line-drive directly back to the pitcher and he catches it without moving.  the pitcher just stands there and doesn't extend the glove or anything to catch the ball.  becuase of his portly stature he's just standing there with the ball, looking like a fire-hydrant.

can i get some reaction from my first point?

[Stock]

What's the grand slam out?

From the glossary:

Hitting a grand slam that is called out - This has happened twice, both times to Lipitz. I only saw one, where he hit a granny to left that stayed in the stadium and was called out as soon as it hit the ground. This has to be the worst glitch out there.

I don't think this is a glitch.  This happened to us in college a few times, then we figure out why this happened.  If you hit a high fly home run ball, but are screwing around with your base runners, sometimes you will end up with 2 base runners on the same base right before the "Home Run" is called.  This will result in an "OUT".

[Nails]

I don't think this is a glitch. This happened to us in college a few times, then we figure out why this happened. If you hit a high fly home run ball, but are screwing around with your base runners, sometimes you will end up with 2 base runners on the same base right before the "Home Run" is called. This will result in an "OUT".

Anythings possible.  You'd have to get Gantry or Lips' thoughts on that.

[Nails]

i'd like to add two terms, see what you guys think:

Spiderman:  when the first baseman moves laterally to catch a low line drive then returns to firstbase to step on the bag because he's anticiapating NOT catching the ball.  I think this only happens with human controlled players.  What this looks like is the fielder does the "saturday night fever" stab with his glove, but the immediate motion as he moves in the opposite direction to run to first base gives the appearance that he has snagged the ball with a web shooting out of his hand.

fire hydrant:  when you hit a line-drive directly back to the pitcher and he catches it without moving.  the pitcher just stands there and doesn't extend the glove or anything to catch the ball.  becuase of his portly stature he's just standing there with the ball, looking like a fire-hydrant.

can i get some reaction from my first point?

I think they're great suggestions.  That is all.

[Lips]

What's the grand slam out?

From the glossary:

Hitting a grand slam that is called out - This has happened twice, both times to Lipitz. I only saw one, where he hit a granny to left that stayed in the stadium and was called out as soon as it hit the ground. This has to be the worst glitch out there.

I don't think this is a glitch. This happened to us in college a few times, then we figure out why this happened. If you hit a high fly home run ball, but are screwing around with your base runners, sometimes you will end up with 2 base runners on the same base right before the "Home Run" is called. This will result in an "OUT".

We have touched on this before, and while what you (stockw19) say has merit and may possibly be right...I'm not 100% sure.  I mean, either the Dee-Nee house's older Nintendo or cartridge was nutty.  Gantry used to always get the "Fucked up substitution" glitch too.  Although, we don't play as much as we used to...I can't even remember the last time Gantry or anyone else got that glitch.

One thing that I do know is...I don't fuck around with my baserunners as much, just in case that was the problem.

But if it was the problem, the one thing that I question is...why would I, BOTH times, fuck up the baserunners if there were 2 outs?  I would either be sending them or not touching the controller.  If there were two outs, I shouldn't have been doing the run back and forth thing.  Of course, I could have been drunk (or stupid) both times, not knowing how many outs there were.

[Lips]

The reason why I mention two outs is because both times that the "Hitting a grand slam that is called out" glitch occured, 0 runs scored.

[TβG]

i'd like to add two terms, see what you guys think:

Spiderman:  when the first baseman moves laterally to catch a low line drive then returns to firstbase to step on the bag because he's anticiapating NOT catching the ball.  I think this only happens with human controlled players.  What this looks like is the fielder does the "saturday night fever" stab with his glove, but the immediate motion as he moves in the opposite direction to run to first base gives the appearance that he has snagged the ball with a web shooting out of his hand.

fire hydrant:  when you hit a line-drive directly back the the pitcher and he catches it without moving.  the pitcher just stands there and doesn't extend the glove or anything to catch the ball.  becuase of his portly stature he's just standing there with the ball, looking like a fire-hydrant.

i wanted to see if gantry would add these, i'd like to contribute to the glossary for posterity... and by "posterity," i mean i'm an attention whore.

[Stock]

Never seen the "spiderman" before.  Still trying to picture what this would look like.

We have always just referred to the "firehydrant" as a "look what I found".  When there is a "bop" on an attempted "firehydrant' we call it a "Fleming" because of the time Dave Fleming got nailed in the head with a line drive.