Are the Fishies an MLB team?

We head back to the yard in Backyard Baseball 2001! Time to put our bat skills to the test once again in this classic PC game!

Okay so usually when we play these Backyard games, especially the Steam versions, they always use generic teams which I assumed was what was going to happen here. But to my shocker, they use actual MLB teams? U wat m8? Yeah you can choose an actual MLB team to represent! So of course we have to go with our boys of the Detroit Tigers! Though this is also when I noticed something strange. So it's Backyard Baseball 2001. But for some reason I notice the modern day Cleveland Guardians logo? I mean they weren't the Guardians in 2001. They were the Cleveland Indians. But even MORE weirdly is how there's a mix of old logos and names. And some teams like the fucking Houston Astros are in a completely different league! It's like they modified the game for the Steam release but did it so fucking quickly. Oh I hate that. Either way, I choose the Tigers and now it's time to make a lineup! See my plan was to do something like what V did and recreate the actual modern day Tigers. But you can only make ONE custom character. BOOOOO!!!! I made our boy Tarik Skubal and... that's it. But then when it came to just starting to play, when I checked the standings.... WHO THE FUCK ARE THESE TEAMS? The Monsters? Melonheads? WOMBATS???? Okay... these divisions some how got mega fucked suddenly. Yeah I didn't like that. Maybe there was some weird ass issue with the Steam version. So I went to see if I could (totally legally) obtain a copy of the original version and... okay I guess no one has archived it. Cool cool. I mean yes there is a mod that restores teams to their older versions. Like the Guardians back to the Indians. Plus now I was running the game through ScummVM. That didn't seem to fix the issue of the weird ass divisions though. Ah well. I guess it is what it is. My only focus is to destroy the Cleveland Indians. I embarrassingly don't even realize Skubal isn't my starting pitcher. Not like it mattered. I still 1-2-3'd the Indians. Didn't go 1-2-3 myself. Did get a single with Ken Griffey Jr. Though that was all that happened. i was trying to figure out how I could change my pitcher. Couldn't seem to find out though. Ah well. This other girl who I am having pitch is looking good. Though until a simple fly ball for the life of me can't be caught and then I throw to 1st while the dude is going to 3rd.

As you can tell, that didn't go so well. So now there's a guy on 3rd with 1 out. Though despite intentionally walking George Coleman, the next couple Cleveland batters strikeout and then fly out. So thankfully I get out of the hole! Juan Gonzalez starts off the bottom 2nd with a walk. Angela Delvecchio grounds to a single. Mo Vaughn walks. Loading the bases with nobody out! Amir Khan strikes out... dammit... Ashley Webber singles... though Vaughn is running at about 1 MPH and is out at 2nd. But I do get a run in! Our boy Skubal walks to load the bases again... oh no sorry... Skubl... yeah sadly I had just not enough characters for the full name. Luanne Lui has a bases loaded walk to make it 2-0 Tigers! Griffey Jr. with a single to make it 3-0! And Jose Canseco with a walk to score another run! Man this pitcher SUCKS! XD! That's all sadly for runs but... I will happily take a 4-0 lead! Surely I don't blow this! I don't know if I would say the top 3rd was 1-2-3. Because Stephanie Morgan got a single? Although I can't believe this fucking worked but I deliberately threw the ball to right field and then back to 2nd for the OUT! WOOOO! GET REKT FUCKER! XD! And then I got the last girl out! Angela Delvecchio wastes no time in the bottom 3rd and hits a BOMB to make it 5-0 Tigers! Oh and I finally figure out how to change my pitcher in the top 4th. Now we got Skubal on the mound! And he just CRUSHES his first 3 batters! I get another run in the bottom 4th. Something really fucking weird happened when I had Jose Canseco at bat. The little screen on the top like started to... glitch out? I think it was freaking the fuck out because the ball ended up in a position it wasn't supposed to be? Well I'm up 6-0 and just destroying the Indians. I am feeling good! Though I do give up a double + error for Krissy Mulligan. Tried to do the fool again though I suppose trying to throw to right field from 2nd and then trying to throw to 3rd wasn't the best idea. She would later end up scoring and so would Heidi Thurman. Could've been worse though. The 2nd out was so fucking weird. But that did help reduce how many more runs Cleveland could score. Still up 4 in the bottom 5th! Sadly don't score and I guess I didn't learn because I thought I could do another fool play throwing from short to home. Though the runner scored before the ball got there.

I'm sure my stupid mistakes won't come back to bite me in the ass. Still up 3. I get 1-2-3'd in the bottom 6th. Top 7th just goes so fucking bad. Can't throw to 2nd to save my tits and the ball is out of play to let Coleman get to 3rd. Oh yeah, fucking under grounder swings exist which literally make the fucking ball go UNDER the ground and pop out... somewhere. Anywhere! WHAT A CHEAP SHOT! Yeah it happens fucking twice too. 1 out to get. Still up 2. And Wendy Parsons fucking cheaps it just like the others and now the fucking game is tied. GOOD! Up 6-0 and now we're tied. Amazing. Bottom 7th, Top 8th, Bottom 8th, and Top 9th are all scoreless. Good I didn't need to give up any more runs. Though I am PISSED I didn't score during the bottom 8th. I decide to say "fuck it" and use an under grounder swing to put guys on 2nd and 3rd with only 1 out. And a walk loads them with still 1 out. But an in field fly rule and strike out end the fucking inning. That is what fucking stings the most. With a chance to walk it off in bottom 9th, I... don't... welp. To extras. Or at least to me it's extras. I assume the game follows MLB innings rules. Thankfully I don't give up any runs in top 10th. It also helps with no ghost runner. With 2 outs in bottom 10th, Ken Griffey Jr. is my shot. Full 3-2 count... Ramona Bennett sends the pitch flying and I BLAST THAT SUCKER TO RIGHT AND WALK IT OFF! LET'S FUCKING GOOOO LADS! WOOOO That shit felt good. Hey... I may have blown a 6-0 lead but at least I can say I won SIX SEVENNNNNNN! XD!

Oh it's so worth driving V crazy saying that. XD!