'Sports' is a uniquely modern record, capturing the sort of love and loneliness that could only occur in the second decade of the second millennium. Recorded over a series of late nights at Drexel University's free studio and released by Lame-O Records at the end of 2012, Sports conveys how it feels to be young and hopeless in modern America—a cracked cellphone clutched in one’s hand, subconsciously refreshing social media, hoping to get noticed by that girl at the party and ignored by the ghosts from high school past. Calling on Say Anything's bravado, the Front Bottoms' tongue-in-cheek quirk and the Weakerthans' literary misery, Modern Baseball have made a record with remarkable depth and relatability

Philadelphia resident by way of New Jersey, Connor Byrne has been songwriting as soon as he learned to play guitar. Some of those songs went to bands he was a part of and others stayed specifically acoustic. Amidst the breaking up of his most recent band, Scarier Area, Connor has returned to the studio to record acoustic material again for the first time since 2011.