Since there's only 4 left...

[Wilfong]

Gantry - if you want a list of when players retired, I could probably make one some day at the office. It's not really essential to the game, but might be interesting. From the few players I've checked, Grich was the first to leave the game.

[Gantry]

If you are offering, I'll gladly take it.  Would be nice for the RBI Database/wikipedia, which will happen at some point...

[TβG]

what are you invisioning for the RBI database?  i haven't noticed that being discussed before.

[ultimate7]

I have a bunch of stuff in Access tables

[OctoFranco]

If I invent a time machine, who will go back to me to the time where ALL RBI players were in the real game?

This is the problem with having been pre-school age when RBI orginally came out.  I never had the pleasure to watch many of my now-favorite stars actually play and am sadly familiar with the majority of them only through the baseball cards I ravenously collected as a boy.

It's fair to say that I'm wildly enthusiastic about the remaining RBI'ers and will route for them as long as they play.  In fact, I actually quite disliked Clemens until the active RBI'er pool waned down to just a handful of players.  Now I can't get enough of the guy.

And having a list of the retirement years of all the players would be a good reference/fun thing to look over when bored (like the RBI'er birthdays page).  Quick, without looking, can anybody tell me who the oldest and youngest RBI'ers are?

Trivia kicks ass.

[Nails]

Quick, without looking, can anybody tell me who the oldest and youngest RBI'ers are?

Guess: Kevin Mitchell and Don Sutton? 

[ultimate7]

I didn't look though I have before.

Pretty sure Santiago was the youngest, Sutton sounds right for oldest, or maybe Lopes.

[Gantry]

The RBI Database is actually already up and running, I guess it's a matter of seeing if you guys want to use it.  New post time!

[JoeDirt]

Seattle Mariners   Updated:05/18/2005
The Mariners are interested in veteran Pat Borders, 42, who is with the Brewers' Triple-A team in Nashville, and the Milwaukee organization won't block the catcher from returning to the majors, says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. However a report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says Seattle might sign Benito Santiago, recently released by the Pirates.

[Gantry]

Pat Borders, jesus....  Haven't head that name in awhile....

I would definitely take Benito over Borders

[BeefMaster]

Pat Borders, jesus....  Haven't head that name in awhile....

I would definitely take Benito over Borders

Borders was the Twins' backup catcher for awhile last year after Joe Mauer got hurt.  He hit about as well as you'd expect a 41-year-old catcher to hit.

[fightonusc]

Borders was the Twins' backup catcher for awhile last year after Joe Mauer got hurt. He hit about as well as you'd expect a 41-year-old catcher who isn't full of more steroids than the East German swim team to hit.

[OctoFranco]

Quick, without looking, can anybody tell me who the oldest and youngest RBI'ers are?

Guess: Kevin Mitchell and Don Sutton? 

Didn't mean to keep you stewing for a week and a half.  You're right with Sutton (who was freakin' born when WWII was still going on) and Ultimate had it with Benny.   Although I don't trust the official birth date given by any Latino player.  From the Little League world series to my boy Julio (of whom I have baseball cards with varying birth years), they tend to fib.

[ultimate7]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2067797

Roger left yesterday's game with a tight groin, lucky for the Cubs

[fightonusc]

And unlucky for Mrs. Clemens.

[JoeDirt]

And unlucky for Mrs. Clemens.

assuming it was his groin, yes.

[OctoFranco]

Oh Julio!  Breaking out of his slump with a pinch hit RBI single today, staying in the game to just homer to center a second ago in the ninth, his second of the year.  If he knocks another four bagger in a couple months, he'll be the oldest player to homer in MLB history.

Mind you I'm only listening to the game on radio, which sucks because it means I'm going to force myself to watch Sportscenter tonight to catch Julio's shot.  You'd think that a local TV station here in Maryland would have the good fucking sense to regularly broadcast our new "hometown" team, the Nats, but we are not so lucky.

[Gantry]

Way to go Julio!  There was an impressive front page article on Julio in the Cleveland Plain Dealer when I was there  for Lipitz's wedding.  Brought back with me, good stuff...

He's the oldest position player in MLB history...

[Attezzobal]

The Nats are on UPN 20 a bit, probably not tonight, it's the new MASN (Mid Atlantic Sports Network) that the Orioles created to show maybe 40 O's games and about the same amount of Nats game, sadly, they haven't really gotten a set schedule.

Ron Darling is there color man though, man I loved Ron Darling when I was wee little.

[OctoFranco]

 Mr. Clutch!  Julio got the game-winning RBI double with two outs in the 9th in Atlanta's 1-0 victory over Pittsburgh.

Would you believe it was opposite field?

Also, am I the only one who wrote in Julio for the NL All-Star first baseman? (Dongsuckingness of MLB voting aside...)