The Tools of Ignorance

Monday, April 10, 2006

Thompson Not Retarded Anymore!
Finds RBI reenactment of Game Six of the 1986 World Series



This is my first world series memory. I have to admit to being a couple years too young to remember the Padres road to glory holes--well, atleast for Garvey--and near miss against Gibson, Sparky, and the 1984 Detriot Tigers. But I remember the Buckner game. It is my first incomprehensible sports moment. I do not think most people who watched the game really understood what had happened when the ball skipped through Buckner's legs.






And now, for the first time, you can see this watershed moment in American Baseball reenacted with the enhanced graphic engine of the Nintendo Entertainment System and their mind-blowing baseball simulator, RBI Baseball. With the technological advances of 8-bit video game technology, Game Six of the 1986 World Series comes to life like it never has before. Come celebrate with Mookie and the gang, or hang your head with Billy, Rich, Bruce, Wade, and the rest of the hapless '86 Sox. Does this game set the record for most cocaine consumed during the post game celebration? Daryl, Doc, Vince, Mookie, and, well, it was the '80s, so someone on the Sox HAD to be doing blow. Gedman, I'm looking in your direction, but I'm thinking about Spike Owen. Or Hendu.

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