Re: 2014 Cincinnati Reds Thread
I'm gonna leave this here. It's from DrJones from the NHL forum. It's an impression of Dusty Baker he had when working with him for Triple Play Baseball back in the early 2000s:
I'm gonna leave this here. It's from DrJones from the NHL forum. It's an impression of Dusty Baker he had when working with him for Triple Play Baseball back in the early 2000s:
Originally posted by DrJones
Dusty came up to EA's Burnaby studio (Burnaby's a Vancouver suburb and is Joe Sakic's hometown) in either late 2000 or early 2001.
This was for "Triple Play Baseball" (Jason Giambi cover), the 3rd EA baseball game I worked on. This was a strange year, as it was at the height of EA wanting to broaden their consumer base as far as possible (ie, try to get non-sports fans to buy sports games). Yes, this was as stupid as it sounds, and my head would silently explode at some of the weird things our executive producer would suggest at meetings. (Example: "Austin Powers is red hot right now. We should try to get Mike Myers to do funny commentary for us!" My left eyelid is twitching just remembering this.) Anyway, there was some big function at EAC where they brought up Giambi, Dusty, Chuck D of Public Enemy (he performed a "Triple Play" rap for the game's soundtrack), and flavour-of-the-month popster Vitamin C, who sang "I Know What Boys Like" on the soundtrack. I kid you not.
I remember Dusty actually got into a mocap suit (about as disturbing an image as you'd imagine) and acted out manager arguments, with my fellow producer Nate (who's now the lead producer on EA's UFC game) playing the umpire. We actually got Dusty to go all out with F-bombs galore. Don't recall if any of resulting animations made it into the game.
Afterwards (thankfully he'd changed out of the mocap suit), Dusty did a talk and Q & A with the Triple Play team. Don't remember the exact details, but Dusty talked about his childhood and his playing days, with the themes of leadership and overcoming adversity, that kind of thing. Pretty stirring stuff. Although I, like many baseball fans, criticized a lot of Dusty's in-game tactics over the years (and rightfully so), his motivational skills were obviously off the charts. Very believable as a leader of men.
One thing I distinctly remember: after the talk was over, Nate and I went up to Dusty to ask him what he thought of the Clemens/Piazza incident from the 2000 World Series.
In Dusty's opinion, did Clemens throw at Piazza on purpose?
His answer: "F*** yes he did! If I were Piazza, I'd've killed that motherf***er!!"
This was for "Triple Play Baseball" (Jason Giambi cover), the 3rd EA baseball game I worked on. This was a strange year, as it was at the height of EA wanting to broaden their consumer base as far as possible (ie, try to get non-sports fans to buy sports games). Yes, this was as stupid as it sounds, and my head would silently explode at some of the weird things our executive producer would suggest at meetings. (Example: "Austin Powers is red hot right now. We should try to get Mike Myers to do funny commentary for us!" My left eyelid is twitching just remembering this.) Anyway, there was some big function at EAC where they brought up Giambi, Dusty, Chuck D of Public Enemy (he performed a "Triple Play" rap for the game's soundtrack), and flavour-of-the-month popster Vitamin C, who sang "I Know What Boys Like" on the soundtrack. I kid you not.
I remember Dusty actually got into a mocap suit (about as disturbing an image as you'd imagine) and acted out manager arguments, with my fellow producer Nate (who's now the lead producer on EA's UFC game) playing the umpire. We actually got Dusty to go all out with F-bombs galore. Don't recall if any of resulting animations made it into the game.
Afterwards (thankfully he'd changed out of the mocap suit), Dusty did a talk and Q & A with the Triple Play team. Don't remember the exact details, but Dusty talked about his childhood and his playing days, with the themes of leadership and overcoming adversity, that kind of thing. Pretty stirring stuff. Although I, like many baseball fans, criticized a lot of Dusty's in-game tactics over the years (and rightfully so), his motivational skills were obviously off the charts. Very believable as a leader of men.
One thing I distinctly remember: after the talk was over, Nate and I went up to Dusty to ask him what he thought of the Clemens/Piazza incident from the 2000 World Series.
In Dusty's opinion, did Clemens throw at Piazza on purpose?
His answer: "F*** yes he did! If I were Piazza, I'd've killed that motherf***er!!"
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