Pablo Sanchez, Backyard Sports
Reader, I’ll let you in on a secret: Not only did Pablo Sanchez not make the final 64-character bracket, the Backyard Sports icon didn’t even make the final cuts list. I’m truly baffled and disappointed with my colleagues. Do they dislike home runs and touchdowns? Do they not care for 3-pointers and goals? This is a sports site, after all, and Pablo is the greatest athlete in video game history—part Alex Rodriguez, part Edgar Martínez, part Charlie Brown, in his creators’ telling; a diminutive, potbellied, multisport superstar with a veritable jam for a theme song and a sea of adoring internet fans.