In all fairness, about 2 weeks before the R.B.I. Baseball video went up, I got the itch to play a little Super Bases Loaded. You know, winter. The baseball months.

But actually chemtrails.

Follow the money

simple. he sent that video into the past with his MIND.

@billymagnum said:

This is correct.

Jeff is a wizard.

There may have been been rumours of a new RBI baseball game circulating on the game journalist grapevine, and that gave him the urge to play the original.

That or he's a prophet.

#COLLUSION

I seem to recall him mentioning Rise of the Triad out of nowhere shortly before the remake was announced, too. So, yeah, chemtrails all up in this piece.

FOLLOW THE PENNIES!

What's great is that I read your question before looking at the options, and I said to myself "Chemtrails", and then it was actually an option. An option that I picked, obviously.

He had a dream

Jeff has a long and storied history of being unintentionally prophetic. He could probably run a cult if he wanted to.

You haven't heard Jeff mention RBI Baseball? I feel like he does it all the time...

I'm pretty sure it's the Illuminati.

Also:

True. Also, whenever he is pressed on the issue (of his off-hand predictions coming true) he shrugs it off nonchalantly. If he has nothing to hide why doesn't he answer the question.

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OMG Jeff is Some kind of Magician with magic or something.

ILLUMINATUS! ILLUMINATUS!

Chemtrails!

Actually it's very likely that someone on the inside told him, and asked him not to say anything until after the announcement.

Yeah, I feel like he brings it up every few months.

Chemtrails? Illuminati? Come on now, let's not be ridiculous.

The most rational explanation is that Jeff is a lizard.

Jeff had gone into great depth and played many versions of RBI Baseball during the stream of Ryan and him playing Famicom games.

http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb/b/349982135

@three0nefive said:

10000% agree. It's reasonable to think Jeff was replaced by a reptile body-double sometime between the GOTY deliberations and last weeks podcast, I think.

Remember the livestream before leaving the office? Jeff stated clearly: "Fuck all videogames". But successively, and slowly, it has become "I don't like videogames" and I now present you with this image:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bd9v6j0CIAAHbFy.png

Other things that point to this is the new premium feature, dubbed simply "???????????????????????" as if written in some strange, alien language.

God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth.

FOLLOW THE FUCKIN' MONEY SON.

@xymox: Well, the picture is from Demon's Souls but these new developments have convinced me that IT'S A FIVE HOUR, NON-STOP, MARATHON OF RBI BASEBALL DONE LIVE FOR OUR AMUSEMENT AND THAT PICTURE OF DEMON'S SOULS IS THERE TO THROW US OFF.

They were talking on the Bombcast about baseball games lately, about how the MLB ended their licencing agreement with 2K (or something), which probably got Jeff thinking about, you know, when Baseball games used to be better.

follow

the

money

They predicted that Gears of War: Judgement trailer.

Also they predicted that that game would only have like four maps and the multiplayer would suck in comparison to other Gears games.

Time Cube.

OBVIOUSLY HE'S ON THE TAKE.

The real question is what does this mean for the Giant Bomb Sports Team? Has Jeff broken away to use his powers for personal gain by resurrecting this franchise? Where does this leave Vinny, or is he in on this?

This is the sort of poll where you need to be able to select multiple answers, because the correct answer is all of the above.

Jeff is not part of the video game illuminati. He IS the video game illuminati.

Also he's a ghost.

@shagge said:

I knew there was another prophecy fairly recently, but couldn't remember the game. Also chemtrails.

obviusly nanobots

Ancient Aliens? The Nazca Lines spell out R.B.I.

Jeff predicted that Red Dead Redemption and Alan Wake would come out on the same day years before the games release dates were actually announced. If memory serves the group was talking about rumors of Rockstar making a new Red Dead. Jeff made a laugh and said "Yeah, that'll come out right along Alan Wake," which then got laughs from the other duders.

So, yeah, Prophetic Chem Trails.

THERE'S BARIUM IN HER HAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Um, I think he may already run a cult... Giantbomb.

What if Jeff was baseball?

Ooh!

Most likely option is the one that's not listed which is to say he already heard about it (rumors or someone working on it spilled before hand) and it gave him interest in checking out the old one.

Or coincidence, sure.

Not because Jeff influences the industry, but because Jeff runs the whole show.

The Giantbomb crew are prophets. Also Giantbomb is an anagram for 'Ban Big Tom', 'Ma Bong Bit', 'An Big Tomb' and 'Bating Mob'. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? #COLLUSION

1) Jeff talks about RBI Baseball fairly frequently.

2) He probably heard insider rumors about a new one and decided it was a good time to record the video.

3) Illuminati

Surprised Jeff didn't even mention RBI' 14 during the most recent Bombcast (March 18th). More details about the game and screen shots were released just last week. Looks like it will be great. As long as it's no more than $15. It's old school top down view with sharp graphics. There's couch co op but no online play.

@xymox: That's Jeff Gerstmanh totally different.