About

Baseball, Huh? is a catchphrase that originates from an Al Jokes YouTube Shorts video called "When you hear a phrase you're going to be stealing" in which a character mistakes the saying "that tracks" for "baseball, huh?" The character then uses "Baseball, Huh?" incorrectly. The original video was posted in late March 2025 and the catchphrase became a spam comment on YouTube heading into April 2025. It's commonly used to replace "that tracks," but its definition has also lost meaning over time — in line with the original video.

Origin

On March 10th, 2025, YouTuber^[1] Al Jokes posted a video skit called "When you hear a phrase you're going to be stealing." The two characters are having a conversation. One says that they played baseball in college, making the other say, "Baseball, huh? That tracks." The first character asks what the phrase means and eventually conflates its meaning with "that makes sense." The character then mistakenly says, "Baseball, huh?" when an Asian stereotype about bad driving comes up. The video received over 3.3 million views and 344,000 likes in a month (shown below).

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On March 12th, 2025, Redditor^[2] imli700 reposted the video to the subreddit /r/ExplainTheJoke, gaining over 660 upvotes in three weeks.

Also on March 12th, Al Jokes shared a new YouTube^[3] video. In the comment section, users made numerous "Baseball, Huh?" jokes. The top comment read, "'Explain it to me like I'm five' / 'Baseball, huh?'" and received over 50,000 likes in three weeks (shown below).

On March 19th, 2025, Redditor^[4] Alphahaukdaboss shared a "Baseball, Huh?" meme to /r/shitposting, gaining over 70 upvotes in two weeks (shown below).

On March 24th, YouTuber^[5] @icecoldtip8590 shared a video skit as a Short, structurally similar to Al Jokes' original video. The video was called "When the internet joke starts going too far," gaining over 11,000 views in nine days (shown below).

On March 30th, 2025, YouTuber^[6] Al Jokes shared a new video about the "Baseball, Huh?" joke, gaining over 501,700 views in three days (shown below).

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