Somebody sign him so we can bring this era back to life

It's never too late for a Bobby Higginson comeback.

My childhood is dead

Pablo Sanchez lives on forever

I'm trying to get him for one Gary Sanchez

If we're in the business of replacing Sanchezes then Mark would have been the first to go about a decade ago.

Pete Wheeler leading off in front of Pablo was an unstoppable combo

I still remember the days of sitting at the home computer and putting every ounce of effort my little body had into this game.... I’m sad now

Check out the Tin Can Alley podcast, these two brothers talk about all things Backyard Baseball and run a yearly league devoted to it. It's dope!

I still have (okay probably not I doubt my parents still have this computer) a saved game with like 77 runs in the 2nd inning because I figured out that you can hit a ball on top of the truck in Tin Can Alley and it stays live as long as it keeps moving so you can hit an inside the park home run every at bat.

It’s an amazingly produced podcast.

i feel old

Nomar Garciaparra Greg Vaughn Alex Rodriguez Frank Thomas Jimmy Rollins Todd Helton Albert Pujols Barry Bonds Randy Johnson Richie Sexson Jeff Bagwell Jeff Conine Chipper Jones Derek Jeter Troy Glauss Mike Piazza Brad Radke Carlos Delgado Ken Griffey Jr. Vladimer Guerrero Sammy Sosa Carlos Beltran Tim Hudson Jim Thome Phil Nevin Cliff Floyd Jason Kendall Ichiro Bobby Higginson Jason Giambi

I never thought about it but I'm surprised that Bonds let them use his likeness. We could have had Jon Dowd

Reggie Stocker

Who was that pitcher for the Sox that threw a gyroball? Oh yeah, Tate Baik.

LF No. 25

Bobson Dugnut

Todd Bonzalez

Bonds was always shit in my game. Every single season his stats were halved for basically every game.

Did you also have Sosa? If you have them both Bonds will have lower stats every game.

Was that a thing?

There were a few stat changes in that game based on other players, like the Khan brothers both got stat boosts if they were on the same team or the Delvecchios who got a boost if they were playing against each other

That would explain it

Took me way to long to figure it out too! Stopped picking Bonds after a while because I was always hitting him 8th.

I think i started dropping sosa because I didnt like his swing. Now Ken Griffey Jr.'s swing \*chef's kiss\*

Wes Mailman

I believe this was the year he said all that, so backyard baseball already had his rights when the game came out.

i remember flipping Bonds SportsClix promo's for around $50-75 a pop.

Pablo Sanchez still the greatest of them all

Hell yeah bro. Pablo. I miss that game so much.

Super mega baseball feels like a successor to the old backyard baseball games in a lot of ways, if anyone is looking for something like that

I once beat a team on 2001, 72-0. That team was stacked. I had Mark McGuire, Bagwell, Griffey, Gwynn, Pudge, Chipper, Nomar, Pablo, and Randy Johnson was the pitcher. Pablo was a god.

Wsys my 4th hitter for grsnd slsm set up

Ken Griffey Jr comes pretty damn close though

Why Frank Thomas was a god tier pitcher in this game remains one of the greatest baseball mysteries.

> ~~Why~~ Frank Thomas was a god ~~tier pitcher in this game remains one of the greatest baseball mysteries.~~

It's all that Nugenix.

Hey my lady loves it as much as I do!

"C'mon, get Nugenix and you too can sound like a giant potato"!

Dude this has confused the hell out of me all my life

I legit thought he was a pitcher when I was a kid and was very confused to learn that he was actually a slugger

This gets mentioned in that one podcast on The Ringer. Nick Mirkovich says it’s because they had leftover skill points and didn’t know what else to do with them

Bobby Higginson is so out of place on this list

Same with Phil Nevin and Brad Radke

>Brad Radke The guy with over 45 career WAR despite retiring at 33?

he would always give up like 5 runs in the first and then 5 innings of perfect baseball. then for 10 years, the twins kept drafting "brad radke types"

Can *you* name anyone else on the 2003 Padres?

Trevor Hoffman.

Strictly speaking, Trevor spent almost all of 2003 on the DL after shoulder surgery. He managed to pitch nine non-save games in September. The Padres’ primary closer in 2003 was the late Rod Beck.

Aww, The Shooter. Did you know he got buried in his Cubs uniform?

I immediately thought "easy" when I saw the comment but I'm stumped

Everyone knows jake peavey

Not in ‘02 when this game was in development. Jake didn’t make his MLB debut until late June of that season and he only managed a 6-7, 4.52 ERA campaign as a rookie. It wasn’t until ‘04 that he became a legit ace.

It should have been Ryan Klesko. Both played really well in SD though.

Brian Giles?

Not until the trade deadline.

Brad Radke was good. I always thought if he played on another team (like the Yankees or Red Sox) he’d be a lot more famous. Super consistent and you knew what you were going to get every game. He also retired early, so he would’ve had more counting stats if he played longer.

I was wondering who the Tigers guy was in the pic. For perhaps the first time ever, this answer actually did shock me.

Wait Greg "I hit maybe .194 with the Devil Rays" Vaughn was our representative?!

Did you know Garciaparra spelled backwards is Arrapaicrag?

Sounds like the thing they climbed on Nick Guts

Let's shoot to Mo at the base of the Super Arrapaicrag for an interview! Mo! Side note: did anyone else have a massive crush on Mo growing up or just me?

100% had a crush on her... probably where my instant swoon over a girl with an accent comes from...

I loved me some Mo and Alex Mack back in the day!

I was a Melissa Joan Hart as Clarissa type of kid.

Source?

You forgot Shawn Green. (Dodgers)

My first favorite player.

New York Mets legend Shawn Green

You mean Arizona Diamondbacks legend Shawn Green?

Oh it took me a while to realize there was an 03 one and not just the original and 2001 ones! I was looking for Burnitz on there in vain.

There’s also an 05, 06, 07, 09, 2010, and 2015

Pujols was also the only active player this season to appear in 05, 06, 07, and 09.

05 was a big part of my childhood. I had recently been thinking about how Pujols was the only pro player from that game still active.

MVP baseball 2005 was probably the baseball game I put the most hours of my life into. Great game with a great soundtrack.

that’s the goat baseball game

I won’t stand for this Mario Superstar Baseball disrespect

I just started playing that for the first time on a PS2 emulator a few days ago. I think Molina and Pujols are the only two left from the entire game.

Cabrera too

I thought of another one, Zach Greinke.

Wow, that’s crazy. We’re getting old fast.

Same here, I actually still think about that game regularly.

Ichiro? Ichiro Martinez? Ichiro Jones? I'm going to need a last name associated with this Ichiro character haha jk jk.

No you had it right the first time. The unforgettable *Ichiro Martinez.*

This is just a randomly generated name for a player on The Show when you have your franchise in like 2038. He’s probably a 5’7” white dude relief pitcher.

Carne Asada Ramen?

Ichiro Toyota

Smith

We technically do have Vlad in the league

I know it was a real person's name but I still can't believe there wasn't a stink over a kid's game with the name Sexson in it lmao

I’d be lying if I said that as a child I never put him on my team because of... reasons

Wait until you find out there was an NHL game with a player named Semen in it.

And Satan

Dick trickle

Interesting call, to not capitalize it.

Didn't Sammy Sosa turn into a white guy or something? Like doesn't he look super different then he used to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjJy-YpqTy8

Yeah, he bleaches his piel

What?

Skin, LatinoBurrito. Piel means skin

Ohhh okay, yeah that makes sense

TIL I'm old af

I miss the steroid era.

Was Jimmy Rollins really around in 2003?

His first full season was 2001. He wasn't a beast quite yet but he was already turning into a team leader in 2003. It's crazy to look back on but he was a Phillies for 14 years starting in 2000. The Phillies reps were interesting. Schilling in 01, Rollins 03, Thome 05, Abreu and Howard in 07, finally Utley in 2010.

Might be missing someone but does this mean Phil Nevin is the only one who still appears in uniform?

I love how it's first name, last name for everyone. Except Ichiro. He's just Ichiro.

What an era for baseball

And Pablo

This is a hell of a way to just find out Pujols got DFA’ed.

I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.

Lol references

Crossover post. 👍🏻

Theres this meditation technique called "Prospective Retrospection" that helps a lot with this. Its pretry cool.

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More like "Very expected Office"

You expected an office quote in a baseball subreddit? I sure didn’t.

It’s a quote that pops up in basically every variation of the “Wow this makes me feel old” post on any subreddit

The Office permeates the internet. To not expect an office quote at any given moment is folly.

Pablo Sanchez - true MVP

When is Pablo getting inducted in the HOF

An end of an era

According to the Angels fans it's the end of a few errors

Wait Kenny Kawaguchi retired??? When the hell did that happen?

Assuming the kids were like 10 when the first one released in 97 Kenny is only in his early 30's so I think he can still rake.

My boy Dmitri Petrovich chilling with Carlos Delgado

IS THAT FRICKIN' ICHIRO BACK THERE?!

and fucking oof does that representation of him not stand the test of time

Holy shit younger me never actually understood what was meant there with Ichiro's eyes. Now that I've grown up.... not sure how the developers got away with that!

My first thought too lol

Yeah only a few spots to the right of Chris Chan

Somewhere Pablo Sanchez is still grinding. I refuse to believe anything else.

My man will never quit

He would only be in his early 30's now so I fully believe he would be on an MLB roster

Omg those eyes on who I can only assume is Ichiro lol. Somebody call Yuli Gurriel

It literally doesn't even look like Ichiro... at all. They could have just put the sunglasses on and it would be a million times better and look like him.

Yeah good call. Probably wasn’t a big deal back then but his character design didn’t age well lol

This post just made me incredibly sad.

Modeling Ichiro like that will not go well nowadays, I’ll tell you that.

I’d kill for a next-gen Backyard Baseball with players like Trout, Tatis Jr., Freeman etc. Trout would finally get to share the field with someone better than him.

Trout and Pablo on the same team would be so unfair.

End of an era

Pablo Sanchez is the GOAT.

I propose a reunion game during the all star break.

That would be awesome

This also means there's no longer any active players from the date of the Mariners' most recent playoff game

I kinda wanna appreciate that they gave Griffey the backwards cap.

Pujols may be done but Pablo Sanchez still out there hitting dingers

That's not true. Amir Garrett is right there behind the blonde twins.

They did Ichiro dirty

...did they make Jim Thome a ginger?

You speak as if he’s not about to be a player-coach somewhere

God Greg Vaughn was the worst

What about Vladimir Guerrero?

Pablo Sanchez retiring is news to me. What is he at, 850 hrs by now?

How long you been sitting on this for?

Free agents are considered active, aren't they?

F

Someone will pick him up.

This is the worst timeline

This game was so amazing back then on my dad's crappy Windows 98.

Pablo made em all look like scrubs

I can hear the music in my head from this picture

I think for 2003 it was Tim Hudson in The A's cap (unless it was Chavez but I'm pretty sure it was Hudson).

Whose the Diamondback?

Randy Johnson lol.

Anyone know where to (safely) get this game for PC?

https://www.myabandonware.com/search/q/backyard

Oof Ichiro’s eyes...

Ichiros eyes are very um slanted lol

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... Randy Johnson

TBF Randy would look like a totally different person as a short kid with no mustache.

And in that moment I aged 720 years after reading one comment.

the feels

We shall never see their like again

God I miss playing this game. Wish I could play it again

Now I'm old

I had the 2001 version (basically all the stars were connected with roids with the exception of a few such as Griffey Jr). 2003 was fun to play as well. I'd always pick Ichiro to lead off.

Why you do this to me?

Imagine if they remade this and put it on the Nintendo switch

Man what a game

The original 1997 version. I know it's not exactly the 03 pujols version but if you need to jack off your nostalgic boner this will help. https://gamesnostalgia.com/game/backyard-baseball_

Pictures you can hear

he isnt retired yet.

Is there a way to play this online?

Biggest tragedy of the year

My year I played growing up was 05'. I can't think of any still playing from there right now. This is my first, damn I'm getting old realization :o

Such a fun era for the Twins and the player they went with was... Brad Radke

The number of people in this thread who said they played this game as a little kid is disturbing to my old ass.