# The Game Room **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-game-room/17.md?page=545 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 546 --- ## [Has THIS Been Done? OLDEST Living Baseball MGR.?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-been-done-oldest-living-baseball-mgr/504751)
**Author:** [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-been-done-oldest-living-baseball-mgr/504751 "2009-08-01T03:33:26Z")
I was thinking Bobby Cox (Atlanta Braves), but could I be wrong? Thanks! Quasi --- ## [So FinnAgain level with me (EVE)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-finnagain-level-with-me-eve/503828)
**Author:** [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-finnagain-level-with-me-eve/503828 "2009-08-01T02:40:28Z")
Did you and your commie rag have something to do with ruining my cruise missile market in Dodixie? I ruled the Wrath Cruise Missile market in Sinq Laison with a velvet glove for nearly 8 months carefully managing the pr… --- ## [Poptropica](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poptropica/504902)
**Author:** [@MarioPeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarioPeach)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poptropica/504902 "2009-07-31T18:58:07Z")
I am looking for Poptropica fans to help me with astro knights island. first request get to help. :D:D --- ## [Anyone headed to the WBCs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-headed-to-the-wbcs/504684)
**Author:** [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-headed-to-the-wbcs/504684 "2009-07-31T18:40:20Z")
It’s that time of year for us cardboard grognards, the World Boardgaming Championships! See: http://www.boardgamers.org/ Anyone else headed up to Lancaster, Pa for 6 days and nights of little sleep, bad food (well bad… --- ## [Left 4 Dead Add-On Maps](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-4-dead-add-on-maps/504876)
**Author:** [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-4-dead-add-on-maps/504876 "2009-07-31T17:27:12Z")
I’m having tons of fun with these. I like to play campaign a lot, so I was pretty bored with the original Valve maps. Favorites: Death Aboard - I think this is generally acknowledged to be the best. Creative, beautif… --- ## [RIP Arturo Gatti](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-arturo-gatti/503002)
**Author:** [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-arturo-gatti/503002 "2009-07-31T14:46:58Z")
Arturo “Thunder” Gatti died this weekend in a resort in Brazil, apparently strangled by his wife. He was probably best known for his three fight series with “Irish” Micky Ward. Among boxing fans, he was one of those al… --- ## [Bobby Robson has died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-robson-has-died/504855)
**Author:** [@CatInASuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInASuit)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2009, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-robson-has-died/504855 "2009-07-31T14:07:56Z")
England’s best manager since the '66 Cup has died aged 76. The former player and manager of some of the best clubs in Europe passed away following his battle with cancer. He will be missed. :frowning: --- ## [So what RPG version are people playing these days?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-rpg-version-are-people-playing-these-days/504520)
**Author:** [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2009, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-rpg-version-are-people-playing-these-days/504520 "2009-07-31T10:13:18Z")
SO I’ve been thinking about getting back into role playing games. Sometime during AD&D me and my friends left the D&D world for Palladium and Heroes and Rifts . (The last D&D Elf I played was an Elf, no class, just race.… --- ## [Japanese baseball](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-baseball/496708)
**Author:** [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-baseball/496708 "2009-07-31T00:42:57Z")
I know we have some Dopers living in Japan. I will be in Fukuoka/Nagasaki in late August and would like to attend a game… probably the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks at their stadium in Fukuoka. Where can I find a schedule onli… --- ## [Vick reinstatement conditions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vick-reinstatement-conditions/504543)
**Author:** [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vick-reinstatement-conditions/504543 "2009-07-31T00:29:08Z")
Also Tony Dungy will serve as amentor. What’s wrong with ‘Welcome back. Don’t fuck up.’? Quote from http://www.averagebro.com/2009/07/hes-baaaaccckkk-nfl-reinstates-michael.html --- ## [Golf Payouts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golf-payouts/504753)
**Author:** [@Olie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olie)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golf-payouts/504753 "2009-07-30T21:24:34Z")
Golfers get paid quite a bit for winning a tournament, but where does the money come from and who determines who-gets-what. --- ## [Brian Urlacher thinks Jay Cutler is a "pussy."](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-urlacher-thinks-jay-cutler-is-a-pussy/504688)
**Author:** [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brian-urlacher-thinks-jay-cutler-is-a-pussy/504688 "2009-07-30T17:54:10Z")
A little while ago, I was listening to a local, Twin Cities sports-talk radio station, called KFAN. Vikings Wide Receiver, Bobby Wade, was on (Vikings radio play-by-play announcer) Paul Allen’s show and said that he had … --- ## [The Lost Mafia Forbidden Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-mafia-forbidden-thread/499486)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 206\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-mafia-forbidden-thread/499486 "2009-07-30T17:24:22Z")
Do not post or read this thread if you are active in the game. Spectate, speculate, suggest, and criticize away. I will be creating a spoiler thread for those who want to be fully spoiled, but right now I only have the… --- ## [Bud Selig must be stopped!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-must-be-stopped/504443)
**Author:** [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2009, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bud-selig-must-be-stopped/504443 "2009-07-30T05:54:28Z")
Link. Re-instate Pete Rose? Never! Never, ever, ever! Let him rot. --- ## [Justify a well-known bad sports trade](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justify-a-well-known-bad-sports-trade/504156)
**Author:** [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justify-a-well-known-bad-sports-trade/504156 "2009-07-29T21:08:54Z")
Reading Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Blunders, I’m struck at how several times he shows how, at the time, a trade that has gone down in history at a terrible deal for one team really didn’t look that way when you loo… --- ## [What in the world is wrong with Stephon Marbury?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-world-is-wrong-with-stephon-marbury/504698)
**Author:** [@davidw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidw)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-world-is-wrong-with-stephon-marbury/504698 "2009-07-29T20:40:04Z")
In case you haven’t seen… Seems to me that it’s a mental breakdown of some sort, though I’m not ruling out drugs. I’ve long thought he was kinda mentally unstable, since this isn’t the first time he’s exhibited bizarre … --- ## [Buehrle pitched a perfect game today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buehrle-pitched-a-perfect-game-today/504035)
**Author:** [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Replies:** 123\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buehrle-pitched-a-perfect-game-today/504035 "2009-07-29T13:34:37Z")
I hate the WhiteSox, but I’ll give a guy props when they are due. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/al/2009-07-23-2102448719\_x.htm (I just won’t spell his name right! Can a mod please change to Buehrle? Thx) --- ## [Hit batter rule](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-batter-rule/504623)
**Author:** [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2009, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-batter-rule/504623 "2009-07-29T12:09:44Z")
If a batter with 2 strikes on him swings at a curve and misses it, but it hits him does he get the base or is he a strikeout? --- ## [In MLB who calls the pitches?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-mlb-who-calls-the-pitches/504557)
**Author:** [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2009, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-mlb-who-calls-the-pitches/504557 "2009-07-29T05:41:52Z")
In MLB there is a lot of pre-game study as to what pitches to throw to what batters during a game based on their hitting patterns. Who is most responsible for knowing these and who calls the pitches during a game? Pitc… --- ## ["Related" characters from different sit-coms](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-characters-from-different-sit-coms/504512)
**Author:** [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-characters-from-different-sit-coms/504512 "2009-07-28T22:06:27Z")
Consider the statement: “John Goodman is Debra Messing’s half-brother.” This can only be true because Debbie Reynolds played Dan Conner’s mother in “Roseanne,” and she also played Grace Adler’s mother in “Will & Grace,… --- ## [Sports events that went off the script](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-events-that-went-off-the-script/503841)
**Author:** [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-events-that-went-off-the-script/503841 "2009-07-28T21:34:50Z")
What are your most memorble instances of a sporting event’s established storyline, big media story, or supposedly foregone conclusion being somehow completely knocked off the rails? Happy, sad, disappointing, shocking, … --- ## [What are the best adventure games you've played?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-adventure-games-youve-played/503532)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-adventure-games-youve-played/503532 "2009-07-28T18:40:31Z")
I’ve been playing the new Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, which is the original MI with updated graphics. It has taken me back to this genre that I loved so much growing up. I have been reviewing in my mind wha… --- ## [The Feud: In Sovet Russia, Feud Answers You! by WormTheRed (game over)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248)
**Author:** [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248 "2009-07-28T17:14:21Z")
\*\*1. DO NOT READ THIS THREAD BEFORE YOU POST YOUR ANSWERS\*\* \*\*2. Object of the game: Try to think of the most popular answer,\*\* to get the most people matching you. Google is allowed, if you desire. Only answers that a… --- ## [What do you do when your character dies? RPG Gaming](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-when-your-character-dies-rpg-gaming/504342)
**Author:** [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-when-your-character-dies-rpg-gaming/504342 "2009-07-28T16:47:04Z")
I recently had a character die. I wont’ go into how, as it’s not that impotrant, so suffice it to say it was largely because I was stuffed into an unwinnable situation alone with a really, really nasty opponent by anothe… --- ## [Tour de France '09](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tour-de-france-09/501783)
**Author:** [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Replies:** 127\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tour-de-france-09/501783 "2009-07-28T16:37:46Z")
So who’s watching? Up first we have the ITT around Monaco. Does anyone stand a chance outside of Cancellara? Is Bradley Wiggins gonna take one finally? As for the race as a whole (GC)… I suppose one has to start w… --- ## [What is the difference between a DH and a pinch hitter?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-a-dh-and-a-pinch-hitter/504185)
**Author:** [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2009, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-a-dh-and-a-pinch-hitter/504185 "2009-07-28T08:05:42Z")
I am at the Nat’s game and my wife asked me… --- ## [Experiences with the Fallout 2 Restoration Project?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-the-fallout-2-restoration-project/504347)
**Author:** [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-the-fallout-2-restoration-project/504347 "2009-07-28T03:15:45Z")
Has anybody here played Fallout 2 with the Restoration Project mod? What’s it like? I’m considering firing up FO2 again, and I’m trying to decide whether I should install the mod or stick with the plain vanilla version o… --- ## [Conquest of the New World question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conquest-of-the-new-world-question/504473)
**Author:** [@Telcontar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telcontar)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conquest-of-the-new-world-question/504473 "2009-07-27T19:46:49Z")
Hey all, I dug this computer game out yesterday and have since spent far too much time playing it. Such a great game, despite the occasional flaw. Anyway, I’ve always wondered about something and was wondering if the co… --- ## [MMA Fans: How much do we really know about Rickson Gracie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mma-fans-how-much-do-we-really-know-about-rickson-gracie/503007)
**Author:** [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mma-fans-how-much-do-we-really-know-about-rickson-gracie/503007 "2009-07-27T19:33:52Z")
So Rickson’s back in MMA headlines again after giving an interview to a newspaper in Rio De Janeiro. This time he’s claiming he could easily beat Brock Lesnar and Fedor Emelianenko. It seems like every couple of years wh… --- ## [Perfect games in baseball.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-games-in-baseball/504170)
**Author:** [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-games-in-baseball/504170 "2009-07-27T17:50:14Z")
Yesterday, Mark Buerhle pitched the sixteenth perfect game since 1900. For your perusal, here is a list of all of them, along with the date: 1904-05-05 Cy Young 1908-10-02 Addie Joss 1922-04-30 Charlie Robertson 1956… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-game-room/17.md?page=544) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/the-game-room/17.md?page=546)