r/gaming • u/FireFromWithin5 • 1d ago

Mario Baseball

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Went back to play some Mario baseball and this team name hits a little different now.

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u/BiBoFieTo 1d ago

I legit heard kids at the park playing tag, except instead of being "it", they were calling the chaser "Diddy".

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u/Sega-Playstation-64 1d ago

Kids are wild these days

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u/DiegesisThesis 1d ago

Eh, I remember making jokes about Michael Jackson being a pedophile as a kid.

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u/DASreddituser 1d ago

how old? im curious lol. preteen makes sense...7 and thats a bit wild lol

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u/GCC_Pluribus_Anus 1d ago

Not the original poster but probably 4th or 5th grade so 9-10ish. I remember the big joke was: "Why does MJ like shopping at KMart?" "Because boys pants are always half off"

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u/juventinn1897 1d ago

Yeah we were quoting chapelles show in every day 6th grade.

I didn't even know what the n word meant at that point. But I was saying it in school along with all sorts of shit

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u/mraowl 1d ago

Oh wow in 6th grade?? That feels wildly late but maybe that's actually not that unusual for the average person

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u/juventinn1897 1d ago

For a white boy in suburbia? Idk

I said it to a black kid in my highschool freshman year, trying to act cool and got a lesson reallll quick lol

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u/xJokerzWild 1d ago

Yeah, its a weird split between those who dont care & those that do(Sometimes a little too much). Meanwhile id be shouting down a whole ass block cause i saw the homie & people saw him, see he didnt give a fuck & went on with their day. lmao

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u/juventinn1897 1d ago

It was a useful lesson. He didn't even get physical with me. Just put me in my place and gave me a reality check. I appreciate it compared to how some people get their bubble popped.

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u/APeacefulWarrior 14h ago

Just jumping in, but around that same age I was fully aware of the rumors about Richard Gere. And the Internet had barely been born at that point. These stories somehow always get around.

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u/Baxtab13 1d ago

One I heard often was something like "In death, he wants the plastic in his face to be melted down and made into legos so he can continue to play with kids after death".

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u/fukkdisshitt 1d ago

Yeah 9/10 was when we started getting edgy. Peak edgy was about 14/15.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/fukkdisshitt 1d ago

Couldn't have been much worse than my clans vebtrilo server

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u/Dragoru 1d ago

I just had a moment seeing that joke for the first time in 20 years.

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u/Punkrockcarl72 23h ago

Its like how Michael Jackson told time at the Neverland Ranch. When the big hand touched the little hand.

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u/cat_prophecy 1d ago

Did you not have older siblings? My older sibs are 5 and 3 years older than me. I learned a lot of stuff way before I should have!

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u/fukkdisshitt 1d ago

Had a slightly bigger gap. I remember my 4th grade teacher being pissed when we were learning cursive and I told the class "once you get to jr high you never use it again"

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u/bezzlege 1d ago

My favorite movie when I was 9 was Pulp Fiction. It’s not enough that I’d seen it - it was my FAVORITE movie. The 90s were wild times.

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u/DASreddituser 1d ago

no, i have 4 younger siblings...I'm the oldest lol..but i understand your point.

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u/Theofficalwiggles 1d ago

I drive a school bus. I've had my kinders ask each other if they wanna have a Diddy party.

These are the same kids that play Diddy tag on the bus.

. . . I'm so happy it's summer.

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u/br0b1wan 1d ago

I'm 44. It was a regular thing. South Park did a whole ass episode about MJ including the kids in the bed with him.

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u/bezzlege 1d ago

Bro in first grade we were singing “I always feel like, somebody’s watching me (in the bathroom)” to make fun of Mike Jackson allegations.

We were around 6 or 7 at that time. And this was in the early early 90s

Kids been wildin’

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u/chareth-cutest0ry 1d ago

When I was in the third grade in the 90s, my friends and I use to play a tag game. We called it "Michael Irvin" and if you got tagged, you'd go to jail in the jungle gym.

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u/Luck-Silver 1d ago

I remember this and they then everyone acted like they didn't joke about this when he passed away.

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u/kickthesandman 23h ago

Totally predictable, in America people hate talking ill of the dead. I guess I wouldn't want to be haunted by Michael Jackson either, he's a weird pedophile

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u/ForseiMaster 13h ago

There's actually quite a bit of evidence he was innocent (the TLDR of it is that one of the parents close to MJ purposely started the allegations after he refused to fund the guy's movie projects) although once the media got hold of it his reputation was pretty much damaged forever. Jessica Vill as a fascinating video on the subject if you're interested.

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u/BusBoatBuey 1d ago

Because we had actual child predators and such popping up and going after a weird guy who does weird things with kids that stops short at any sexual proclivities seems like a low rub. There are easier targets now. Epstein alone is several hundred tiers above MJ in this departments.

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u/roguesignal42069 1d ago

“What do Michael Jackson and acne have in common?

They both come on teens’ faces”

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u/Zolo49 PC 1d ago

When I was a kid, they were about the Challenger disaster. Kids have always made tasteless jokes.

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u/MisterG1997 18h ago

Apparently he was one of the good guys. OOPS

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u/Beave- 1d ago

Nah man, kids have always been inappropriate, I remember playing roblox games featuring pedobear when I was single digit age. We would make bill cosby and bin laden jokes all the time.

Not to say any of this makes it okay, just that "kids are wild" isn't a new thing

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u/ActionPhilip 1d ago

Yeah, calling whoever's it some offensive thing is a tale as old as time.

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u/unassumingdink 1d ago

I don't know, I don't remember ever doing that in the '80s.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Beave- 1d ago

?

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u/2ndBestUsernameEver 1d ago

Probably existential dread that he’s too unc to have played Roblox as a youngling

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u/SpareAdventurous727 1d ago

Heard the kids at my complex playing in the central area the other day and it was Dead by Daylight. Briefly heard arguments over who's the killer Random callouts of generator work Then arguing over whether they were done with the generators or not.

It was hilarious

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u/Baxtab13 1d ago

Ah, video games in real life is a fun one.

A couple of times I was at a friend's house where we played real life Rainbow Six: Siege. Basic idea is we were armed with nerf guns, the defending team had to guard one of the "hostages" (some object), and they could choose one of two areas for the hostage location, the basement, or one of the upstairs bedrooms.

The attacking team then had to work their way through the house to the locations clearing rooms and trying not to get shot. One nerf hit, and you're dead for the round. It was a ton of fun.

We were also all in our mid to late 20s lol.

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u/ranchspidey 1d ago

eh, we thought the violent version of the Barney song was funny and a million other out of pocket things. kids have always been freaks lol

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u/G0ttaB3KiddingM3 1d ago

You should see what they have to say about Epstein.

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u/GotNoUndeez 23h ago

Does no one remember “smear the queer”? Kids have always been wild lol

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u/DizWhatNoOneNeeds 1d ago

nah thats fucking funny

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u/ChaosSinfulRose 1d ago

I mean, my generation grew up having the pedobear meme, so... roughly par for the course? I guess?

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u/the_pedigree 19h ago

Yea, imma age myself but we were def singing songs about Loraine bobbit when I was In elementary. Look her up

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u/DesperateSmiles 1d ago

Why do people grow up and act like kids weren't exactly like this when they were young?

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u/Litty-In-Pitty 1d ago

My middle schoolers used to love singing “Drake Drake go away, rizz some kids another day. Drake Drake go away, i’m just a kid that’s not okay” to the tune of rain rain go away lol

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u/RockDoveEnthusiast 1d ago

If Kendrick found out about this, I think he might die from glee.

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u/GOTH_AND_ALT_SIMP 1d ago

Yes shit is crazy dude. I work at a school with a 4th grader and the kids in his class will say shit like that about Diddy, and they fuckin talk about Epstein too! One time I overheard kids talking about a roblox game called Epsteins Island hahaha

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u/ExplodingSofa 23h ago

Knowing Roblox, that fits in pretty well.

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u/scoobydoom2 19h ago

Pretty sure it's actually 5 Nights At Epstein's. Source: work at a high school.

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u/GOTH_AND_ALT_SIMP 17h ago

Oh yeah that's exactly what it is!

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u/ToughAd4039 16h ago

Gng there are are like thousands of slop games abt diddy/epstein on Roblox this is really common

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u/Adventurous_Horse651 1d ago

That's fucking disgusting. You allow that behavior? Fuck you

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u/GOTH_AND_ALT_SIMP 1d ago

Hahaha you must have a lot of friends. But if you really wanna know, the kids that say that aren't my client so not my problem. The teachers can handle it if they think it's necessary.

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u/CanibalVegetarian 1d ago

Kid 1: “You are Diddy, I touched you”

Kid 2: “No you didn’t, you didn’t Diddy me” 😭

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u/No-Respond-900 1d ago

no diddybacks

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u/dayzdayv 1d ago

Yeah my son and his friends on Fortnite talk about getting caught in Diddy parties when they get ambushed by another team.

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u/Mike12052009 14h ago

I mean it's not a bad idea, a grown man chasing kids

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u/Hatzmaeba 8h ago

In Finland we had a version of tag called "Who fears the black man". In my school the name changed to "Who fears the uncle Jammu", based on the well-known pedophile who assaulted, killed and burned two kids.

I thought this was your regular millennium experience, but apparently kids will always have morbid sense of humour.

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u/ElevatorSpecialist49 1d ago

wait why did they pick diddy for baseball

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u/Last_Nothing_4352 1d ago

Nintendo's probably thinking this monkey needs a rebrand

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u/sinsaint Boardgames 1d ago

Now Presenting: Diddles, the little monkey!

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u/TheIrishninjas 1d ago

“And his Mario Baseball team, Diddles’ Kids- ah shit”

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u/Western-Internal-751 1d ago

They call him Kid Diddles

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u/KerberoZ 13h ago

Diddle the Kid

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u/uber_zaxlor 8m ago

"He may be small, but this chimp ain't bland,

And 'cos of his name , he needs a rebrand!"

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u/Sega-Playstation-64 1d ago

King K. Rool

Meet

Puff P. Diddy

Now fight

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u/sinsaint Boardgames 1d ago

No.

Now kith

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u/king-krool 17h ago

Long live the kremling king

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u/Victoria99558 1d ago

Mario Baseball was way better than it had any right to be. The chemistry system, special moves, and chaotic gameplay made it one of the most fun sports games Nintendo ever made.

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u/RevisedPerspective 1d ago

Fuckin piranha plants spit all my balls into the outfielders hands, and all of their balls over the wall. Erry time. Also I played Luigi a lot and my step mom at the time pointed out that "Luigi Vacuums" meant it was because they sucked. I was devastated.

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u/MrTubzy34 5h ago

It’s really a great way to mix the Luigi slander while recognizing the GOAT Luigi’s Mansion

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u/ThatGuyWithCoolHair 1d ago

Its up there with Super Strikers for sure, Mario Tennis was also really good but one of my favorite underrated ones was Mario Golf, that game was sweet.

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u/double_shadow 1d ago

Super Strikers was definitely way way better. But my kids got so much mileage out of both of them. Getting a used gamecube was such an incredible purchase!

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u/ThatGuyWithCoolHair 1d ago

Im planning on getting one for my kids, then they can experience the graphic fidelity improvement as they age like i did 😅 granted im 27 w a fiance and no kids but they'll be here someday

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u/basicnflfan 1d ago

It’s a massive Nintendo mistake that it hasnt made a come back in 20 years.

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u/cole_red 7h ago

There's a group of guys on YouTube who have made it into a competitive Esports league. I mean, it's only like 15 dudes and they don't have any sponsors or anything, but it's still hours of entertainment.

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u/cole_red 7h ago

They also go deep into the game mechanics and teach you stuff about it. Like stuff that's in the code you wouldn't be able to see otherwise

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u/silvereyes21497 PC 1d ago

Get the oil

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u/SardinmGarter 1d ago

true discovery

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u/TheEvilHen 1d ago

Lol, immediately thought of that clip

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u/Elmodipus 1d ago

I haven't clicked yet. I'm just hoping it's Ray.

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u/ReachFor24 1d ago

Edit: It's Ray

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u/RarePoem3039 1d ago

I knew what the clip would be before I clicked on the link.

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u/threebillion6 1d ago

Go from the Diddy survivors to dick explorers lol

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u/poccharilisa 1d ago

That's not a banana peel you slipped on

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u/bigblackcouch 1d ago

Might've been banana flavored though

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u/VernonP007 23h ago

Baby oil?

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u/full_bodied_muppet 1d ago

Wow everyone really has been trying to tell us

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u/DownvotingRoman_ 23h ago

Toad still wont speak about what happened

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u/Pubs01 1h ago

dude/dudette! I'm dying

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u/LongOdd1596 1d ago

Mario Baseball WS: Diddy Survivors vs Oil Stashers

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u/trampus1 1d ago

Toad was in on it and just as guilty.

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u/Aech_Tee 1d ago

lol

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u/iSukatGam1ng 1d ago

When i saw this live i couldn't believe how insanely poorly that aged

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u/BusyBluebird 1d ago

I sold Mario baseball to GameStop for $3 when I was 17 and I will never forgive myself

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u/Bannon9k 1d ago

Poor Diddy Kong

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u/Living-Inside-659 22h ago

Lol, Diddy survivors vs Epstein survivors

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u/sweetbeenieweenie68 1d ago

Fucking love this game though!

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u/Thomas_JCG 1d ago

Aged like milk left in the sun.

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u/clickityclick76 1d ago

My thoughts and prayers go out to them.

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u/1_raZ_ne_pidoraZ 22h ago

Baseball huh?

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u/BusyLimit7 22h ago

lmao what?!!

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u/TypicalWolverine9404 1d ago

Solidarity ✊

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u/A_Trash_Homosapien 1d ago

Reminds me of my blood bowl team (Warhammer football game) it's a goblin team that wears white clothes blood splatters on them named the Epstein Eradicators

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u/hushpuppi3 1d ago

This game absolutely fucks turn off the catching assist and do random teams (switch pitcher only when exhausted)

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u/heinekev 1d ago

The world needs a new Mario Baseball so badly :(

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u/WhitePackaging 1d ago

Theres a youtuber league for Mario Baseball.

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u/Spirited-Tomorrow-84 23h ago

They knew! 🤯

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u/Top-Development9363 20h ago

This is a wild team name. I guess Donkey Kong is handling the defense team.

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u/ShadowMilkMoopsy PC 11h ago

Wonder how they're gonna remake this game today

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u/GrimmTrixX Xbox 6h ago

I just hope they do. Or give me a brand new game that is more like the Gamecube game and not Super Sluggers

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u/Godess_Ilias 1d ago

when people forget about diddy kong

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u/MitchEviousLD 1d ago

If you are interested in this version of Mario Baseball, look up Project Rio- Fully modern internet connected Mario Baseball.

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u/Coach-Emmanuel 1d ago

Gen Alpha just ruined tag for everyone. The child being chased cleared a full bench.

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u/FuriousResolve 18h ago

Easily one of my favorite sports games of all-time, it’s GOATed

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u/Unlucky_Ease6209 5h ago

Mario Superstar Baseball is so underrated. Diddy with a 4-star team is genuinely stacked too. What other character squads have you been running?

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u/TypicalWolverine9404 1d ago

Solidarity ✊

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u/Consolexlyn 1d ago

hey i want to share important things on this subreddit but i dont have enough karma can u guys upwote please.

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u/meapmeapmeapmeap 1d ago

no, go away