January 2005 Archives

December 28, 2005

I'm still alive folks, just lazy. Still getting 10,000 posts a month on the forums, so use that for your daily RBI fix.

Two quick updates, a Hall of Shame entry for Jeff Reardon's recent recent problems with the law. To boot, a couple new entries for Jim Rice and Cal Ripken. I also added a new user-created RBI rule to the appropriate entry on the RBI Baseball FAQ. Happy holidays all!

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August 23, 2005

Today's RBI Baseball Link of the Day is an online poll for the All-time Greatest Sports Video Game. Right now RBI is in the second round and fighting an uphill battle against NHL 94. We need your votes people, please vote now!

Rumors abound that Clemens may be juicing, but don't believe the hype until there is official proof. As we all know, an RBI'er has never been caught using drugs...

August 8, 2005

Sad news in the world of RBI - Gene Mauch, manager of RBI's 1986 California Angels, passed away at age 79. Today's RBI Baseball Link of the Day is an ESPN Classic article on Gene's death. I also took a few minutes and made a quick Mauch page on the RBIdb. Rest in peace...

Also added a bunch of 2nd generation RBI'ers, including the kids of Robbie Thompson, Kevin Bass, Tony Gwynn and Tommy Herr. RBI lives on in the youth of those who came before....

August 3, 2005

Today's RBI Baseball Link of the day is a literary piece. St. Louis bench player John "Blank" Morris wrote a book on his experiences in baseball called Bullet Bob Comes to Louisville : And Other Tales from a Baseball Life. It includes 22 short stories, a forward by RBI's own Willie McGee and generally favorable reviews. It should be an essential addition to any RBI collection...

And while you have Blank on the brain, be sure an check out his impressive RBIdb page. Thanks to ShitPaw for the link, db page and idea for putting this up. While you are in the area, peruse the St. Louis page for stats, strategy and lineup tips.

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August 2, 2005

First things first, congrats to Wade Boggs and Ryne Sandberg for officially getting inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame! Two more RBI'ers make the list and we're hoping one or two can sneak in next year. Blyleven absolutely deserves to be in there, and Dawson and Rice are darn close.

Lets see how long I stick to this, today's RBI Baseball Link of the Day is a nice Q & A session with Don Robinson. I learned a ton about Robinson from the interview, so much so that I created his RBI Database Entry. It's chock full of goodies, so check out both links...

Thanks to many wonderful members of the forums, specifically ShitPaw, I have done a ton of additions and corrections to the where are they now page. We've even begun two new categories, team owners and still playing, sort of. The latter section still needs major updating (including folks like Fernando) so check back for more updates. But the WATN is as current as its been in years.

Oh yeah, I'm even older now, not quite sure how that happened. Dah-Nah to aging...

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July 6, 2005

First off, congrats to Mike Riley who won the 16-man National RBI Tournament in Columbus last weekend. It's the second straight national title for Riley, cementing his place among the all-time greats. I was in Columbus (along with numerous members of the forums) and it was a fantastic time. My liver is still in recovery, but it was worth it. Congrats to JoeDirt for taking second and running a heck of a tournament. There were folks from CA, AZ, IA, IL, OH, PA, TX and MD in the tourney, truly a national affair. Malnuboy from the forums took a ton of pictures, and I'll get those up shortly.

In some very disturbing news, the Houston Astros have demoted John Franco for reassignment, meaning he's off their 40-man roster. We'll know more in a few days, but it could be the end of his career. With Santiago in the minors, there are only two RBI'ers on active rosters (Roger Clemens and Julio Franco). Lets hope John gets another shot soon, because at 44 he is running out of chances. On a more positive note, Kirk Gibson has been named hitting coach for the Detroit Tigers. The WATN has been updated...

Looks like the Sports Guy took notice and linked to dee-nee. In no small coincidence, the site traffic jumped 11x yesterday. Definitely our best outside link so far, looks like we're gonna make it after all...

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June 17, 2005

We've got a wiki started up - The RBI Baseball Database. The plan is to fill the wiki with all things RBI and forums - players, teams, terms, strategy, silly forum stuff, etc. We are off to a decent start, sign up and start editing. Anyone can work on it. At the very least, I'd like to get all the players and all the info on this site on there. A wiki is much easier to deal with and we aren't relying on my lazy ass to do updates. So get crackin' folks...

Lipitz did in fact get married, congrats to him. We all had a blast and even played RBI at the wedding! When we get pictures, I'll put them up on the site...

May 27, 2005

To quote the Muppets

Somebody's Getting Married Today...

Everybody's favorite co-webmaster is about to tie the knot. Lips will be swapping vows with Skups (aka Jen) this Sunday in Cleveland, OH. The dee-nee crew begins their excursion tomorrow morning - Sperling, Vit and I will be leaving Chicago just in time for the Indians game at 7:05pm. Saturday involves Potsie, golf, the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame and the Rehersal Dinner (read free booze). Sunday pm is the oh-so-short ceremony (under 30 mins) and the grand finale - Lipitz's wedding reception. Let me repeat that, Lipitz's wedding reception. Copious amounts of booze will be consumed and we should have plenty of pics? and hopefully videos. Should be quite the weekend, I am getting pumped. Only cost me a mohawk and a beard, but I plan to drink my weight in booze and have a rockin' good time...

May 3, 2005

The remaining two spots have been finalized for our yearly RBI Baseball Tournament, congrats to Jason and Sperling for making the grade. A special Dah-Nah goes out to Lips, who goes from champion to non-qualifier in two years. Though a disgrace in most of our eyes right now, we all know that he'll bounce back and be hitting center-field homers in no time. You can read the impressively verbose results on this forum thread.

In our continuing quest to get every RBI'er an entry into the RBI Baseball Hall of Shame, we've got first-time entires for Dwight Evans, Reggie Jackson, Chet Lemon, Calvin Schraldi, Wally Joyner and Mike Schmidt. In addition, I've have added new entries for Lenny Dykstra, Glenn Davis, George Brett, Tom Brookens, Alan Trammell, Bob Ojeda, Jeffrey Leonard and Charlie Kerfeld. Not only that, but there's a bunch more on the forums that I haven't gotten to. Yes, I'm too lazy to link all those names this time, you know where to find them...

Some other quickies - a WATN update for Danny Heep, a quality new pic for the RBI Baseball Drinking Game (thanks to BeeJay!) and a few mentions of RBI in the press, all added to the new Articles section of the RBI Links page. Wow, it's been seven and a half years since we came up with the drinking game...

April 23, 2005

Though a day late (not even since I'm updating at 4:30am), happy birthday to Lips who turns 28. Screw Earth Day, Aprill 22nd will always be Lipitz Day. Congrats buddy...

The big four are still ticking away thankfully, no more losses on the RBI front. Benito is on the DL with a virus of some sort, but Franco, Franco and Clemens are all playing and playing well. Keep it up boys...

A few new entries for the RBI Baseball Hall of Shame - Brian Downing, Chili Davis, Rick Reuschel and Mark McGwire. By my count, this gives us entries for exactly half the players in RBI Baseball. Eighty down, eighty to go - if you have any other embarrasing RBI moments, email me or post on the forum HOS thread. We'll get them all eventually, no RBI'er is safe...

There is a new online RBI league shaping up, with plenty of dedication and support - Purple Cobras Online RBI League. They are still looking for members for their May 2005 campaign, so go to the site and sign up! Page has also been added to the brand new "Newest Sites" section of the RBI Links Page.

Added a few entries to the RBI Roms Page - a couple variations of the RBI Arcade ROM (thanks nightwulf) and the RBI Anti-Heroes ROM. Ever wanted to bat nine times with Spike Owen or Rafael Santana? Now's your chance...

Two new music reviews - Concrete Blonde's Bloodletting and The Style Council's My Ever Changing Moods. I also divided the reviews page into separate music and book pages, as it was getting too lenghty.

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April 2, 2005

And then there were four

It's a sad day in the RBI Universe as Andres Galarraga calls it a Major League career. This leaves us with four active RBI'ers in baseball - Roger Clemens, Julio Franco, John Franco and Benito Santiago. This could be the last season in which a player from RBI Baseball remains in baseball. A sad thought indeed...

The WATN page has been updated, along with a few coaching movements. I've made a bunch of updates here and there since the last entry, but as usual was too lazy to do the front page. But don't worry, the site is as active as ever, just head over to the forums and join in on the fun...

January 20, 2005

I have officialy joined Joe Cordiano's (aka JoeDirt) June 2005 RBI Tourney in Columbus, OH. Signup and meet RBI'ers from across this great country. Confirmed entries from California, Arizona, Illinois, Ohio and more. Joe is hoping for enough guys to run a 32-man bracket, so hop to it!

Another drive has started on the forums to get more entries into the RBI Baseball Hall of Shame. So far it's a success with the following people added this week - Mike Aldrete, Darrell Evans, Bobby Grich, Dale Murphy, Cal Ripken, Rafael Santana, Kevin Seitzer. 77 players down, 83 to go...

As the offseason is in full swing, many RBI'ers are moving around in coaching positions. The latest members of the Where Are they Now? page are Tom Brookens, Jim Rice, Jack Morris, Rafel Santana and Howard Johnson. It's obviously been a big week for Santana on dee-nee.com - caught with his penis out AND got a minor league gig.

The August 2004 updates are finally off the main page and added to the archives. A testament to my lack of updates...

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January 13, 2005

The biggest news since the last update is the software upgrade to the Dee-Nee Forums. We cast away the discontinued yabbSE software and moved to the new Simple Machines codebase. It really doesn't look a whole lot different but it's chock full of neat new features. Big thanks to nightwulf and Lips for helping me getting it up and running. Thanks also go out to JoeDirt and BeeJay for helping out with the bugfixing. Well done boys...

Finally got off my ass and added the Hall of Shame entries fightonusc posted for me a couple months ago. The following players got updates - Don Sutton, Eric Davis, Mike Scott, Gary Carter, Bret Saberhagen, Joel Youngblood, Todd Worrell, Mike Witt. Hopefully we'll get an entry for every RBI'er in there soon...

One addition to the FAQ - Are there any switch hitters in RBI?. Thanks to Nails of the forums for doing all the homework on this one...

The last of the fknmclane reviews are up, at least for this session - Kid Dynamite - Shorter, Faster, Louder.

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January 10, 2005

I added a new user-created version of RBI to the ROMs Page - Ryno's Greats of the 1980s. That gives us a best of 70s, 80s and 90s ROM. Who's up for doing the 1960s?

I also added all the Famicom versions of Family Stadium to the ROMs page. They really did milk the Family Stadium franchise in Japan, I wish Tengen would have followed their lead on how to make sequels. Even the Family Stadium '94 plays just like the original, just more features and teams. All these ROMs play just fine on FCE Ultra, and thanks to nightwulf for (unknowingly) letting me copy his ROMs directoy and html for the page...

New music review - The Misfits - Walk Among Us. And believe it or now, a new book review! Graham Greene - Journey Without Maps

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January 7, 2005

A long overdue update... The big news of course is Hall of Fame induction of RBI'ers Ryne Sandberg and Wade Boggs. Congrats boys! Sandberg was long overdue, thanks to MLBWA or whoever for making him wait for no reason. They are the tenth and eleventh RBI Baseball members in the HOF and have their spot on the where are they now page. Also added to the WATN are a few coaches and player movements, those affected are Roger McDowell, Andres Galarraga, Benito Santiago and George Hendrick. Check the page for each update...

Joe Cordiano (aka JoeDirt on the forums) is organizing a national, 16-man open tournament in Columbus, Ohio in late June 2005. Check out his tournament page for details and info on signing up. I will be there along with a bunch of RBI players from all around the country. Come by and play against the best RBI has to offer!

Ultimate7 of the forums created a great ROM - RBI Arcade II. Not sure if it's full name is RBI Arcade II, The Electric Boogaloo or RBI Arcade II, Through the Portal of Time - you decide. Basically he took the 10 best all-time teams not in RBI Arcade and made a ROM out of it. Good idea and good ROM, download it now, or find it later on the ROMs page.

One new music review - The Ramones - Rocket to Russia. Thanks for fknmclane for the CD, I have a few more reviews from his batch that'll come shortly...

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