Savannah Bananas

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In Cleveland, The Party Animals recreate an iconic scene from Major League:

https://x.com/ThePrtyAnimals/status/1823162732184572043

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Pretty cool and entertaining, but anyone else here hates the fact that the Bananas sold out Nats Park while the actual Nats aren't exactly having a good season, attendance-wise?

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Pretty cool and entertaining, but anyone else here hates the fact that the Bananas sold out Nats Park while the actual Nats aren't exactly having a good season, attendance-wise?

no more so than Springsteen or Green Day selling out the park. The Bananas are baseball-entertainment that is currently hot. We'll see how long it lasts.

FWIW, the last Harlem Globetrotters show I went to was at Eagle Bank Arena in front of a 50% of capacity crowd or so a few years ago.

I do think there are some elements that MLB could take from Banana Ball, most notably is the ability for a batter to steal first on a passed ball / wild pitch.

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no more so than Springsteen or Green Day selling out the park. The Bananas are baseball-entertainment that is currently hot. We'll see how long it lasts.

FWIW, the last Harlem Globetrotters show I went to was at Eagle Bank Arena in front of a 50% of capacity crowd or so a few years ago.

I do think there are some elements that MLB could take from Banana Ball, most notably is the ability for a batter to steal first on a passed ball / wild pitch.

Yeah but the difference between Springsteen/Green Day and the Bananas is that the Bananas are actually playing "baseball" (albeit a goofy form of baseball) ... that's what makes it painful when you compare the attendance, IMO.

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Yeah but the difference between Springsteen/Green Day and the Bananas is that the Bananas are actually playing "baseball" (albeit a goofy form of baseball) ... that's what makes it painful when you compare the attendance, IMO.

it's as much a baseball game as a Harlem Globetrotters game is a basketball game competing with the NBA.

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it's as much a baseball game as a Harlem Globetrotters game is a basketball game competing with the NBA.

Do the globe trotters sell out? When we saw them, it was at Mason and the tickets where cheap (I think we paid about $100 for 4 seats three rows in)

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Do the globe trotters sell out? When we saw them, it was at Mason and the tickets where cheap (I think we paid about $100 for 4 seats three rows in)

I mentioned above i saw them about a year ago at Eagle Bank at GMU and it was about half full. I assume they sold out regularly in the days of Meadowlark Lemon.

The Bananas now have three teams, I assume they will add a fourth at some point. Maybe they turn it into an actual league at some point.

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I mentioned above i saw them about a year ago at Eagle Bank at GMU and it was about half full. I assume they sold out regularly in the days of Meadowlark Lemon.

The Bananas now have three teams, I assume they will add a fourth at some point. Maybe they turn it into an actual league at some point.

There used to be two globetrotter teams touring.  Back in the day.

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There used to be two globetrotter teams touring.  Back in the day.

I don’t know if there are multiple teams now, but about half of the rostered players were present at mason

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I don’t know if there are multiple teams now, but about half of the rostered players were present at mason

there were two teams last time i checked. Both tour as the globetrotters whereas there is only one Bananas team but two other teams that tour (Firefighters and Party Animals). They ran games earlier this year with the Party Animals playing the Firefighters.