Meet the Melonheads

Many of our attempts to break Backyard Baseball will focus on a lovable group of screwups, the Humongous Melonheads. They're our guinea pigs. If anyone from PETA has issues with using the term "guinea pigs," they can shove it.

Clockwise from top-left: Ricky Johnson, Ashley Webber, Kimmy Eckman, Lisa Crocket, Marky Dubois, Gretchen Hasselhoff, Kenny Kawaguchi, Maria Luna and Reese Worthington.

These are your Melonheads. They will compete in the AL Central and their home field is Parks Department Field #2, which offers teams no distinct advantage or disadvantage.

As anyone familiar with Backyard Baseball 2003 knows, this team is not very good. Winning the Backyard World Series, or even making the playoffs, will be quite the challenge for these youngsters.

In addition to the limitations that come from their lack of talent, we'll be throwing all sorts of other obstacles in their path. I've planned out a few challenges that these Melonheads will face over their 14-game season, but any other ideas will be welcomed. You can tweet them to me (@EthanRKassel), and if they're not too difficult to execute, I'll play a game using your ideas. Ideally, we'll have a few twists focused on individual members of this team, a few focused on stadiums, and a few based on concepts from MLB. 

Melonheads Schedule:

Chicago White Sox

Cleveland Indians

Kansas City Royals

@ Chicago White Sox

@ Cleveland Indians

@ Kansas City Royals

Green Wombats

@ Tampa Bay Devil Rays

@ Texas Rangers

Seattle Mariners

Pittsburgh Pirates

@ Super-Duper Monsters

Florida Marlins

@ Mighty Hornets

For those of you that aren't familiar with the game or need a reminder, the players:

Well, this team has decent speed, and some of the pitching isn't too awful, but that's about it. On that note, we've got work to do. Opening Day is upon us.