Backyard Baseball is officially back for the first time in over a decade, and it took the internet about five minutes to figure out the real use case: sticking the entire Barstool roster into it and seeing what happens. That's exactly what Mostly Sports did, dropping custom Power Ups and Specials onto an All-Barstool squad and letting it rip against the CPU.
Mostly Sports built an All-Barstool roster for Backyard Baseball complete with Power Ups and Specials. @_BackyardSports https://t.co/WO6xJH8AoT
The game itself is a genuine comeback story. Backyard Baseball hit Steam this week as the first new entry in the Backyard Sports franchise since 2015 and the first console release since 2010, built by Mega Cat Studios with over 40 playable characters and the same 24 team-logo, 11-field setup that made the 1997 original a childhood staple. It's the kind of nostalgia bait that was always going to end up in a Barstool video within days of launch, and it did.
What made it a real moment instead of just a novelty clip was the scoreboard. The custom Barstool lineup didn't just win an inning, it detonated one, with the runs stacking from 1-0 to 6-0 to 13-0 in a single frame before the crew could even process what was happening.
Mostly Sports built a Barstool roster on Backyard Baseball and scored FOURTEEN RUNS in an inning. @_BackyardSports https://t.co/p3ARypxtVm
That kind of blowout is basically the whole appeal of Backyard Baseball's arcade-y power-up system, where a hot lineup can snowball fast once the CPU pitching starts cracking. It's also peak Mostly Sports content: low stakes, high chaos, and a scoreboard screenshot-able enough to spread across every Barstool account within the hour.
Of course, no Barstool video goes anywhere without Dave Portnoy weighing in, even if it's just to clown the show's name for the millionth time.
Breaking: It has come across my desk that the name of Almost Sports is Mostly Sports. End of communication
Petty as it is, the joke works because it means the video actually cut through. Mostly Sports getting a Portnoy jab, a Barstool Baseball repost, and a full-blown Viva La Stool relay all in the same day is the closest thing this corner of the internet has to a viral stamp of approval. With the console versions of Backyard Baseball landing on PlayStation and Xbox next month, don't be surprised if this isn't the last time the All-Barstool roster runs up a ridiculous score.