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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Final Hour on this Thursday, Dan and the Day. That's
Dan Patrick's show, keeping an eye on the Open Championship.
Tiger just double bogied few over parr Conditions aren't going
to get much better at Royal Troon certainly today had
some rain and some wins, probably around twenty twenty five
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miles per hour, and players are struggling to kind of
figure it out. Also, the greens a little bit slower.
When you play in Scotland or Ireland, they're usually a
little bit slower, and certainly after a little bit of
rain as well. So the adjustments are taking place as
we speak. At Royal Trum USA basketball handled Serbia yesterday
twenty four. For Steph Curry, he is such a showman,
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even in warm ups, even before warm ups, he's out
there to entertain the crowd. If you show up early,
he's going to entertain you. Other players are just going
through whatever their normal game routine is. But he is
having fun. He's a showman. And then you have the
game where he had where he had twenty four. It's
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just one of those reminders when you watch and sometimes
we take greatness. For granted, you get to a point
where you go, yeah, I expect that out of him.
And it's not fair to these players because you know
the degree of difficulty to be able to do it
on a consistent basis, when everybody knows what you like
to do, what's your favorite move, favorite place on the
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floor like, and still be able to do it. It's
remarkable and Steph that ability to be able to shoot
and be the greatest shooter of all time. And you
can say you got a chance in your lifetime to
see the greatest shooter of all time, and really there's
no argument with that. You also got to see an
innovator because he did change the game. He changed the game.
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Now we can argue did he change the game for
the good? Because there's a lot of imitators there. And
if you watch AAU basketball, you even go down to
high school basketball, junior high basketball, everybody wants to shoot
the three. Not everybody should shoot the three, but they
all want to shoot the three because of Steph Curry.
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And you have Caitlin Clark because of Steph Curry. You know,
it's a byproducts. There's going to be players, you know,
the next five seven ten years where they're greatly influenced
by Kitlyn Clark, greatly influenced by Steph Curry, pattern their
game after them. And you know, the greatest form of
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you know, I guess respect is imitation. You're trying to
be that player, trying to play like that player, and
you had that with Steph Curry, and certainly Caitlin Clark.
The impact she's going to have might not be felt.
It'll be felt now because it's tangible people coming to
those games, the audience now, a new TV deal, the
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style of play. You might not realize that we might
not see that the true impact for another five to
seven ten years, where players coming up are going to
be that's who I pattern my game after. All right,
see pole question for the final hour on this Thursday.
We got a real doozy.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I'm shocked at how close the poll question from our
one is Okay, I'd rather attend the Olympics or the
Open Championship. For most of the day, Open Championship has
been winning. In the last like fifteen minutes or so,
that's flipped out to the Olympics at fifty.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, I get it. Going to the Open Championship is
a bucket list for guys, and especially if you go
to Saint Andrews because that whole environment there. You're in
a college town and it's great. You know that the
course isn't as great as some of the other courses
over there, but it's still Saint Andrews and it should
be on your bucket list. You know. Royal Troon is
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a unique golf course, but I don't know if that's
a travel destination for a lot of people, but it's great.
It's still great to be able to go there. And
the uh, you know train tracks going by. I think
that's the eleventh hole. They got a postage stamp with
you know, coffin bunkers that truly look like you could
bury a coffin in those bunkers. And uh, you know,
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it's just the weather. You know, it's just unique. And
when you play, you know, you're looking out at a
hole and you've only played it this, you know, the
first time you play it, and you look out and
you go, where am I hitting it to? And then
you got a caddie who's got a heavy accent. They're
usually betting on you. Uh my guy had a flask
he was drinking. Uh, you know, taking a little we
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whatever they call it. And so I'm like, all right,
you know, I'll take a we nip off of that.
You know, there, take a we nip. It was cold.
It was cold, and it's cold now. You know, it's
it's a July and you got you know, these guys
are bundled up. It's like they're going to a Bears
game in December. But it's unique and the people they
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understand golf, and you know, it's fun to do it
if you get an opportunity. It is a bucket list item.
But going to the Olympics, it's great if you go
to the right place. And I said London was spectacular,
Sochi was terrible. We couldn't go anywhere. They were worried
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about security when we were in Russia. That I went
pretty much a two mile radius every single day that
I was there at the Olympics. I couldn't go off campus,
we couldn't go into downtown. They wouldn't let us go anywhere.
They were worried that something could happen. So it was
really a miserable experience. I mean I got to host
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the Olympics and got to go to events, but still
you couldn't experience Sochi Rio Rio was fun. But then
they said at night where we were, you know, be
careful of pickpocketers. Make sure you're walking with a couple
of people, or we had to have security walking around.
But you know, the scenery was spectacular, certainly when you
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went to the beach in Brazil, if you know what
I mean. London was great. I can't say enough about London.
Vancouver was wonderful as well, very very pretty. So to
be able to go to the Olympics, not even you know,
working the Olympics, but just to go and see certain events,
events that you would probably never think you would go to,
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and then you end up you're watching badminton and you're going, damn,
they are great. Just one of those where you go,
like team handball, You're going, yes, this is exciting. How
does this not take off in the United States? Handball?
Team handball? It's violent out there.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yes, Marvin, what's your first sport to go to if
you had your choice of the summer Olympics, where would
you go?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Track and field? Probably track and field because there's a
lot going on. I mean the basketball, you know, I went.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
See them all year.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, yeah, so's that's nothing unique. Swimming was great swimming
because Michael Phelps was swimming. And now you have Katie
Ladeci just to be in the building when those things happen,
and when you're watching Michael Phelps and you you know,
I didn't see Mark Spitz swim in person in the
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what seventy two Olympics. But to be able to see
Michael Phelps, Katie Ladeci, I mean, derra torres. I mean
you're able to say that, you know, you know, you've
got to see some of the greatest of all time
do what they do. And that's why I got into
this in the first place, to be able to cover
these events, to be able to see them in person.
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And the Olympics still special. When I saw Usain Bolt
run and he was running the two hundred meters and
I remember we were right on the turn, my wife
and I right on the turn, and I just like
she said, is it over? And I said yes, because
it you know, it's twenty seconds, and she goes, is
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it over? I go yes, he goes, that was fast.
I go. But watching him in person and realizing how
TV can slow it down so it doesn't look like
they're running that fast. But when you see somebody run
by you and I think it kind of hit me,
just like people don't realize how fast that is. Like
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you watch it on TV and you're like, okay, what's
the time, you know, nineteen point three, and I'd be like,
all right. When you're watching it in person, it's it's
almost like here he comes, there he goes, and then
it was over. So you get a sense just oh
my god, dudes are flying. Yes, yes, it was he was.
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He was flying.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Well, those other guys are running faster than you've ever
seen anybody you're human eyed before too.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
There just happens to.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Be one guy.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
He was flying. They were running fast, and there was
a big difference in that.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That's got to really stink, like you're that good, you're
that fast, you're blazing fast. You're faster than most people
can even dream of running. But there's one guy that
just happens to be that guy.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But think of all the sports in history where it
was that guy got in the way. Michael Jordan got
in the way of a lot of guys having an
opportunity to win a title. Think about all the casualties
collateral damage of Oh I was during Jordan era, or
if you were facing Bill Russell and the Celtics. All
of those guys, I mean Jerry West lost what nine
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times eight times in the NBA finals, and not all
of them were to the Celtics. But you know, we
have those guys. If you're playing tennis and all of
a sudden, you're playing tennis and it's against you know,
Bjorn Borg at his peak, and you're like, h didn't
win Wimbledon, Borg did? Everybody has these sports where that
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guy or that woman, you know, Serena, that person was
in the way, Tiger, Tiger, all those people who could
have won, you know Jack Nicholas when he was playing
guys who could have won like five or six or
seven or eight majors, and then all of a sudden,
it's like, uh, yeah, well I played when Jack played,
Oh I played when Tiger played.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Paul I just went back and saw the video of
Usain Bolt running a nine to six y nine at
the Beijing Olympics, his first gold in one hundred and
at the eighty meter mark, he turns to the crowd
and puts his arms out and stops running hard and
is celebrating, we must have done three or four days
of shows, and everyone did what he could have done.
But to it's one hundred meter race.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It's not a marathon.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yeah, And at twenty meters to go he starts looking
at the crowd and enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
And I did say, wouldn't you be curious how fast
you could run that? And you know, there were a
lot of people said no, I mean it's a showman.
He won the gold medal, But in my mind, it's like,
I want to run it as fast as possible, not
let me put on a display for the crowd. Now
it did. It did become an iconic photograph of him
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doing that, basically saying, uh, hello world here.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
I am.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh by the way, my day only lasts around nine
point four seconds here. But to watch speed, and I
go back to when you watch something in person and
you walk watch at court level or field level, it's
just different. You know, sit behind home plate when somebody
is thrown a hundred uh be on the sidelines, when
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somebody gets tackled right in front of you, when somebody
comes down the lane and dunks on somebody, uh be
behind uh you know the goalie, and watch what that.
You know, the chaos that happens in front of a goalie,
you know, just fun things, unique things to be able
to witness that. But it's different in person. It is yes, Mark,
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you saying both. You know, the young kids say that
I'm him Himathy. That's one of those I'm him moments, Yes,
where it's like I'm dominating so bad my arms are
out before the race is even over. And these are
some of the fastest people that have ever walked the earth.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
The guy who finished in dead last, you couldn't I
couldn't fathom being that fast and he is two seconds
behind this guy.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
But you're you're I think he might be underrated. I
think Usain Bolt might be underrated because we just don't
realize how much better he was in a sport where
you're better by a tenth, like a thick. I mean,
these guys are running these events and you see Bolt
and he's finishing, and these guys are stretching and got
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their head out like they're they're doing their best just
to make it close competitive, and nobody did. I mean,
that's when Prince Harry came in and he said, so
they were waiting to start the race and then all
of a sudden they all come on the track and
you see all the light bulbs, you know, flashball, boom boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
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boom boom, and then all of a sudden, Prince Harry
comes in, sits down. Runners, take your mark over. Prince
Harry gets up and he got up quicker than Usain
Bolt probably did take, you know, running the two hundred meters.
But yeah, it's just that that vision will never ever
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leave me. There's certain ones that I've witnessed in a
lot of different sports, but that's one that I still
I can't describe it that I was there and you're
just going, damn, that's fast. TV stays with them the
whole time. He comes right to me and then he goes,
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and then he's gone, it's amazing and these are the
other fastest seven people in the world, and he is
just going, uh see you see. We were also talking
about buyouts here that Jimbo Fisher Texas A and M
seventy seven million dollars he's still owed. Damn. Here's some
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other ones. Auburn is still paying a coach, what fifteen
and a half million dollars? Is that Brian Harrison Yep,
fifteen and a half million dollars. Scott Frost, who's getting
fifteen million from Nebraska. Jeff Collins fired from Georgia Tech
eleven and a half million, Paul Christ fired from Wisconsin
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eleven million. Let's see Carl Durell fired from Colorado eight
point seven million, Herm Edwards our buddy getting four point
four from ASU, and Zach Barnett fired from Mississippi State
getting four million dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Wow, Jimbo Fisher gets seven point two million dollars a
year through twenty thirty one. That's why I have to
laugh when these coaches are like, ah, the transferred portal
is ruining things, and anil is ruining things. You know, really,
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is that what's ruining sports? Right now? All right? Coming up,
we're going to talk to the founder of the Savannah Bananas.
I thought this might be a fun interview, a Jesse Cole.
He is a showman, usually wears a bright yellow almost
like something from Dumb and Dumber, a ringleader, you know,
at a circus. But he is an entertainer. Savannah Bananas
(15:40):
play a really high end level of baseball travel the country.
I think they just had fifty thousand in attendance in
DC maybe last week, but we'll talk to Jesse Cole,
the Savannah Bananas founder. He'll join us coming up. We're
back after this in the Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 2 (16:47):
Before we get to the founder of the baseball team,
the Savannah Bananas, a couple of phone calls Spike in
Virginia Beach, h Spike, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9 (16:58):
Hey d privilege to take a call they want to show.
Let us DT show for life.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Thanks Spike. I got a couple of names.
Speaker 10 (17:07):
With the vote.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
We could keep it simple DT Nation, but we all
stick it to him and call it Dampa Bay s
E eights.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I brings back bad memories when we heard from Tom
Brady's people. Well, we heard from the law firm representing
Tom Brady and they set a cease and dessist letter
and we thought, wow, this is pretty cool. We got
a cease and assist letter from Tom Brady and then
McLevin goes, oh, you don't want to mess with that
law firm. He had heard of them, Yes, he had.
(17:38):
Did you see where McLevin on his radio show called
out Bill Belichick, calling him a hypocrite.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
It's actually he writes pieces now for Athlon sports magazine. Yeah,
and he wrote a piece saying the media shouldn't have
hired Bill Belichick because he never participated with the media
for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, Bob Knight didn't either, Yeah. Sterling Sharp never did
that in Green Bay and became a great broadcaster. I mean,
it's not just Bill Belichick. If Belichick, you know, you
have to show up at those press conferences. He didn't
want to. He showed up and tried not to say anything.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
But he's I think what paraphrasing the piece is saying,
he never played the game at all with the media,
even to the base level of having basic conversations. He's
perpetually difficult. And then he's got ten media jobs waiting
for Hi when he's done.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Okay, but okay, blame that on the media companies Belichick,
you know, don't hire him, but he must have something
to say. I mean, do you blame Belichick? Is McLevin
calling Belichick a hypocrite? Or are you calling out the
media companies who are hiring He's doing all right? Good
(18:47):
for McLevin. Go get him Jay and Oklahoma, Hi Jay,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Well?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I had a name for the boat. I love you guys.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Got giv me like fifteen hours entertainment each week.
Speaker 11 (18:59):
Dots are great, appreciate you.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
Uh and reference to the bath robe.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
How about daddy's dingy, daddy's daddy's dingy, Oh, Daddy's dingy?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Uh Okay, Uh. Strick in Chattanooga, Hi.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
Strick, heybody, Hey, good morning Dan, Dannis Okay, ran this
hot tower. Coler seemed to like it. So uh done
you little more confirmation. So I was saying, man, you
know you buddy added seven and he goes ooh top
shellf top shelf. Okay, So a knot kN ot not.
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As a measurement of speed on the water, one not
equals one nautical mile. One not also equals one point
one five miles per hour. Okay, so here it comes,
wait for it, wait for it. Not too shabby once
a game. Not too all right.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
That's his Adam Sandler impersonation. I kind of like k
n ot not good as a playoff of Brady Hoak.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
You'll laugh every time you walk out the boat.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I every time I hear that Brady Hoke not. But
was that in reference to Urban Meyer and Ohio State?
It had something to do with Ohio State and I
just remember I think it was about him coming back.
Oh that urban was coming back. Yeah, what do you
think about Urban Meyer coming back to Ohio State?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Not good? Uh?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Brady Hoke. Jesse Cole is the founder of the Savannah
Bananas and their baseball team. Their entertainment and a baseball team.
You've probably seen a lot of the highlights there. They're
dressed in their banana yellow uniform and they put on
a show. They were just in DC. They had fifty
thousand fans who came out to see them. Where the
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Nationals play. Hey, the Nationals finally sold out a game.
It's with the Savannah Bananas and Jesse Cole, the founder
of the Savannah Bananas, joining us on the program. How
much is baseball and how much is entertainment with your team?
Speaker 10 (21:24):
I would say it's one hundred percent banana ball, So
I wouldn't even you know, compare an insulate to baseball.
Developing the new rules, the new experience, the new entertainment,
the new speed of the game, plus everything. It's a
different game. And yes we've been unbelievably inspired by baseball,
but you know it's it's a fast, entertaining, exciting game
that we're trying to make a little bit different than baseball.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
If I go to one of your games, what do
you guarantee.
Speaker 10 (21:49):
You're going to see something you've never seen before? In
a baseball field like centerfield, they're doing a backflip, catch,
a guy coming up to bat with a bat on fire,
a pitcher on st hilts. Infielders doing you know, catching
a ball between their legs, then dribbling it back and
then throwing in the first basement who then catches it
between their legs, then them celebrating at home with a
huge production dance number.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
But are you going after entertainer first, then athlete the
baseball player.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Well, all of our players have to play at a
high level.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
So you know, we have numerous guys that have been
in minor league baseball, professional baseball, from first round draft
picks to you know, high prospects that have been part
of organizations. So they have to be able to play
the game, but they also have to be able to
entertain and so every day these guys are working on
trip plays. Every day, these guys are working on new dances,
new celebrations, just to keep the fan base engaged so.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
More likely to hire a choreographer or a hitting coach both.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
And we have both.
Speaker 10 (22:46):
You know, we have a dance instructor, choreographer, we have
a live band. Yeah, every day we're doing new dances
they've never done before as well. And then we have
obviously some baseball coaches that are again teaching banana ball. We're
teaching pitchers how to throw a pitch every three to
four second, how to strike out a guy in nine seconds.
You know, we're teaching the game in a very different way,
and so there are baseball guys that have learned to
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evolve to banana ball.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Okay, but take me back when it first started.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
Back to eight years ago when we started the Savannah Bananas.
You know, my wife and I had this big dream
to make baseball fun and we came there. We started
telling everyone our vision, you know, inspired by P. T. Barnum,
Walt Disney, and people looked at us like we were crazy.
I mean, we only sold a handful of tickets in
our first few months, and by January twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
We overdrafted our account.
Speaker 10 (23:31):
We were out of money, we had to sell our
house MTR savings account. We were sleeping on an airbed and
it was because no one had seen it, you know,
they hadn't experienced it. And so once we got enough
people to come out of the first game and see,
you know, there are no ticket fees, no convenient fees,
no service fees, all inclusive food, everything that we believe
in fans first they started telling everyone and since that
first year, we've sold out every single game and the
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wait lists just passed over two point seven million for tickets.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Is there a Harlan Globetrotter's feel wet compared to that?
Speaker 10 (24:00):
And at first, you know, definitely honored. I've studied them
as much as you know The Grateful Dead and Saturday
Night Live and WW and Circus LA.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
But with Harlem Globetrotters.
Speaker 10 (24:09):
You know, they fundamentally changed the game of basketball in
the nineteen thirties, forties and fifties. You know, as you know,
you know they Will Chamberlain played for them before he
played for the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
The Globetrotters beat the Lakers.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
You know, they were playing competitive basketball at the highest level.
And then it torned into let's do this all the
show and let's replicate that, and they did a great job.
Every game is competitive for us. You never know who's
going to win. And we're building something what we believe
is the sport of Banana ball as much as the
Bananas as the lead brand, so inspired by them, love
what they did for basketball. We hope we can bring
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more fun to the game of baseball.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
What's the one thing you do, the one rule that
you have that you wish Major League Baseball would adopt.
Speaker 10 (24:46):
I think everyone will say if a fan catches a
foul ball, it's an out, because you know, just last
week at the Nationals Park, you know, we had three
fans catch foul balls and big situations, and we've had
a fifteen year old kid catch a foul ball to
win a game, which is unbelievable. But you know, think
about the two hour time limit and you think about
if you win an inning, you get a point. So
every inning is a walk off situation. I mean walk
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off home runs in the fifth inning. It's exciting. No
stepping out of the box, no walks, no bunting, no
mound visits. So everything has tried to make the game faster.
And you know, he played the game on ESPN the
day an hour in twenty nine minutes, nine innings. So
I think everyone wants the fan caught foul ball, but
I think there's other ones that could probably go into
the game a little easier.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
How do you get resumes or I'm guessing maybe players
send videos as opposed to a resume.
Speaker 10 (25:33):
Yeah, you got that right. It's auditions. So it's audition tapes,
so very similar. You know, again Saturday Night Live and
you know probably Circus LA. We get audition videos and
so yeah, I mean at first, when no one wanted
to buy tickets, no one wanted to play for a
team called the Bananas. I think we've heard from maybe
four or five thousand players and a lot of guys
in minor league ball, and they send videos of them
juggling or videos of them dancing or you know what,
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tap dancing or whatever they can while throwing the ball
ninety two miles an hour, and I'm like, all right,
looks good.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Let's see what we got.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
He's Jesse Cole, the Savannah Bananas owner, co founder of
Fans First Entertainment. When you start to look at putting
on nights, different nights with the Bananas, you've had good
and bad. Give me, give me some of the good
that you've done, and then a couple of the bad
nights that you were trying to present.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Well, the bad's easier.
Speaker 10 (26:24):
You know, every night is a show, and we do
ten to fifteen things every night We've never done in
front of a live crowd. So I could go into
you know, the living Pinata to the pregnant women dance
off to flatulence fun.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Night, to salute underwear night.
Speaker 10 (26:37):
You know, we do things every single night that might
not go well.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Wait, wait, how does flatulence fun night?
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
That was very simple. You know.
Speaker 10 (26:45):
We gave out whoopy cushions, had a beam berat in contest.
You know, I have party podcasts on the field. That
was That was a very that was way back in
the day. That was even before the bananas, my first team.
So you know you try things, Dan, that's part of way.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Way do you bounce this off your wife and you say, hey,
hunh I got it flat chillunch night?
Speaker 10 (27:03):
Yes, and she usually looks at me like I'm crazy
and I'm used to that. But no, we have idea
sessions every single day where we said, hey, what are
the craziest things we can do tonight that we've never
done before and that keeps it fun for our players
and funds for our fans.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
And pregnant women night too. Dance that pregnant dancing women.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Yeah, to push it by salt, by salt and pepper.
So we had them dancing by salt and pepper, which
was which, which was great.
Speaker 10 (27:27):
Or Or we had the cougar race where we had
women in their late forties and they had and they
had to race around first have a drink with the players,
run around second, run around third, pick up the players,
put them on their backs and run them and take
them home. That was a fun one we did at Houston,
our major League stadium for the first time. But uh
mena pops, I mean I could keep going. We did
pass the Bill in DC where we actually had people
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our teams passing people named Bill all the way down
the lines.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
And so there's a lot of creativity.
Speaker 10 (27:53):
A lot of things do work, but our fans expect
their ridiculousness, which is which is pretty cool to say.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Okay, in all seriousness, if you can sit down with
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred and he asked for advice how
to make Major League Baseball more fun, what would you
tell him.
Speaker 10 (28:12):
Encourage all the celebrating for the players, break down the
barriers between the players and the fans. You go back
to when it was a game back in the nineteen
fifties and sixties, and you see the fans interacting with
the players. In different levels, you see the players having
more fun, and I think the celebrating. You know, in
some levels of baseball they discourage all of that. Kids
want to see something that is fun. You think about
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football in the touchdown celebrations. I know, when we play
the game, Dan, we're told act like you've done it before,
But that's not what creates fans. Creates fans seeing these
guys that are at the highest level celebrating it and
really enjoying it. You know, I think they're getting better
at the speed of the game, But just encourage guys
after a home run, after a big strikeout, to celebrate
and fun ways, use props, use dances, use all that.
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We try to celebrate things larger than life. And to
see the fans in their response to it has been really,
really special.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
When I first saw you guys, I couldn't help but
think what Bill Veck would be thinking about this, and
I'm sure he would have been smiling, saying, it's about
being a showman, it's about having fun. It's a game,
and there shouldn't be this line of demarcation between a
player and a fan. The line should blur.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
Bill Beck a tremendous inspiration for me. I've read all
his books, I've studied from him, I've got to know
his son, Mike Vac and I love his quote. I
try not to break the rules. I merely test their elasticity,
and that's and that's what he did. He went to
the edge on everything. He would sit with the fans,
you know. I mean he once gave a fan twelve
live lobsters during a game just to see what he
would do with them.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I mean, it was all about a reaction, and.
Speaker 10 (29:42):
He was unfortunately so far ahead of his time that
the other owners and baseball you know, gave him a
lot of challenges. I admire him, Walt Disney, P. T.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Barnum.
Speaker 10 (29:52):
I hope that, you know, we would be making him
proud with what we're doing to bring joy to the
game and also get so many more kids to play
the game and want to be a.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Part of it. I think that's part of what we're
trying to do.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Vas Sectomy night. Have you had that REVERSECT vas sectomy night?
Speaker 5 (30:08):
That was I think I think his son Mike Veck
did that right.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
Yeah, yeah, it's I mean the idea is again so
many great ideas of the industry. You know, we're just
trying to look at the sport and try to keep
keep that going, you know, because as we've gone into
more stats and more analytics and more competitiveness. I mean,
now we're fortunate that we have so many major leaguers
joining us, you know, from Roger Clemens playing with us,
and Jake Peeve and all these guys joining.
Speaker 12 (30:29):
Us, and they say they get to just go out
and have fun, and it was so competitive, it was
so die hard you had to compete. Now they want
that and that's why we played as a kid. So
you know, I hope between all that study and analytics
and details that you know, we can just remember that
it was a game and it was developed for kids
and keep doing that every day.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
What's the website in case people are curious about seeing
game or if you guys are on the road.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
We're very Savannah Bananas. You can Savanna banaz dot com.
You can find us and Banana Ball is really you know,
we have our second team, the Party Animals that now
they have more followers than every Major League Baseball team
on tik It's crazy. There are a second team and
then the Firefighters are third team. So we're really building
the game of bandaball over the country and that's really
where you can find everything.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Congrats, Jess, good to talk to you, Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Dan jesse Cole, founder of Savannah Bananas, and I thought
it was something different, introduce you to something maybe you
weren't aware of, and if you were aware, just how
much fun they're having. And it comes back to that
when you watch when you go to a ballpark having fun.
Minor league baseball love it awesome. And I remember going
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to games when I first got to ESPN and the
New Britain Red Sox. Remember Jeff Bagwell was playing third base,
I think, and I would go to those games afternoon,
and you know, you spend twenty bucks and you've had
a full day, something to eat, a couple of beers,
(31:58):
and you got to see some players who were going
to go to the major leagues, and there was more
interaction with the players because you know it's not the
major leagues. You can talk to them vice versa. And
you know, I always had a great appreciation for minor
league baseball and uh, Savannah Bananas, if you get a chance,
they'll put on a show and it's only two hours
(32:19):
because they don't go any longer than that.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Yes, Marvin, minor league baseball feels like that tests your
love for the game.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I don't. I didn't view it that way.
Speaker 11 (32:29):
I'm talking about for the players. Oh oh oh yeah.
Well the guys who have to stay in the minors
for years. You don't make money. You're in buses or vans.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Maybe maybe a bus, bigger bus if you're with Michael Jordan,
a luxury bus. But yeah, it's a it's almost like
you're with a band that's just starting out and you
gotta go on the road. Everywhere you go and it's
you know, small town, small town. You know, hotels, commons
(33:00):
not great and but you know, Savannah bananas. It must
have been pretty lean when they started out, how many
people were going, But to have fifty thousand show up crazy,
That's that's that's where you get people's attention. All right,
Last call for phone calls? What we learn, What's in
store tomorrow. We'll take a break, return after this.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Last Call for phone Calls, What we Learn? What's in
store Tomorrow? Treated the Dan Ads to some smash burghers
with King Sawaiian rolls. You're welcome. I was very thoughtful.
Thank you, Todd. Jim Rome's not doing that for his
staff today.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
I don't believe he is.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Check Colin Cowhard's not doing it.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
I think they ordered pizza.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I'm not sure though, Okay, but I have major Burgers there.
King Sawaiian, by the way. On this date in two
thousand and eight, this artist performs the last of two
concerts dubbed the Last Play at Shay, final concert event
before the stadium is demolished. The guest included Roger Daltrey
(34:10):
of The Who, Tony Bennett, Garth Brooks, Paul McCartney. If
you said Billy Joel, you would be correct. It was
called the Last Play at Shay and he did two
concerts and then they demolished Shae Stadium. I hated Shase
Stadium because it was really tough to interview players before
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the game because the planes were going overhead. It was
a nightmare. Be like you'd be talking to Darryl Strawberry
and be like, so, Darryl, can you tell me what's
happened so far in the last couple of weeks? Well,
I go, can we start that again? Or somebody would
(34:51):
give you a really good answer and then they wouldn't
be able to finish it, and then i'd have to go.
Can I ask you again? I'd like to be able
to ask you that question again if I could.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
So.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
That was the last play at chick Now City Field,
which they have put up in place of Shake Stadium
concert last night with the Foo Fighters. Really bad lightning show,
not scheduled, rain, lightning, thunder two thirds of the way through.
Dave Grohl, I don't know the name of the song,
(35:23):
but I think it was their their big song. They're
ever Long, ever Long. Okay, it's a big one. So
Dave was out there get ready and all of a
sudden they had to shut it down. Some thunder and
lightning there, Yes, Paul, To.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
Be clear, the band has no say in the matter.
The local authorities, people who run it and security call
it when they have lightning in the area. They called
it mid song too.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
You can't give them like, no, no, no, there's so
much metal around in the B side.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
It's a hit. I mean, the odds of I know.
But yeah, you had to shut that, But you're sending
every out into the store. Well you didn't pop a
dome on the plate. Well what are you gonna do?
I don't there's nothing you could do. Let's play ball.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Then No, that's when you send them home. Maybe you
should have sent them home earlier.
Speaker 13 (36:12):
Yes, tod I know won't sound is good, but can
you sing it really fast? Like putting a forty five
record on seventy eight and you see what happened?
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Like the Chipmunks A.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Little bitgger stuff. I don't know. Dave Grohl Foo Fighters
last night.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
Yes, two years ago, Dave Matthews was playing the last
set of like a festival concert and he was about
six or seven songs in and he even looks up
and sees the lightning and the distance. He goes, they're
telling us we got ten minutes. He goes, I'm sorry,
he goes, but let's go, and he just went to
the next two songs.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I wouldn't stay around for the next song. No, I
would be like, oh, ten minutes before let's go, let's
get out of here. Find a results to the poll question.
There see no count.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Yeah, I'm seeing here too that on their tour, Food
Fighters have been doing like about twenty twenty one twenty
two songs. Yeah, and they got to I think that
was the fourteenth song they usually close with ever long.
I think that I think that they knew they were
getting taken off stage, and we're like, you know what,
let's just try and get the one everybody wants to
see real quick.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Oh they didn't even get through them. I don't think
that they were able to. Yeah, that's pretty open.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
People wondering, by the way, if we're gonna get suck
at Port, suck at Starboard side, suck at Port, suck
at starboard, starboard starboard, Yeah, starboard star star board.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
We can't. We can't. Well, what side would you be on?
So is it me? Looking so at my angle? Are
you guys? Port Son, Paulie, You and.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
You're the captains? Yes, your right side would be seton.
That'd be starboard.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
So you're starboard. You and Marvin barboard. So Marvin and
seton starboard. Todd and Paul are support. Yeah, your port.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Their names all their names all have four letters, Paul,
Todd Port.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
How about that? That's how you remember? Okay, you're never
we're gonna forget that. I will not forget that. I'll
never forget that.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Yeah, this pollqust has been really close all day. You'd
rather attend the Olympics Open Championship if the voting closes
right now, and this is it. Olympics wins fifty of
the vote.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
About that much? Okay, fifty They're very sharp, very rare. Yeah,
they get it. Uh Terry in South Carolina? Hi, Terry,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 14 (38:26):
Hey dv um. Let me start off with six foot
two and a manchoro. Ave just had a couple vote
names I wanted to rattle off for you. Uh thinking height, wait.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Dingy okay height and wait dinghy.
Speaker 14 (38:48):
Dan pond.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Okay?
Speaker 14 (38:53):
Uh davigated by anchor.
Speaker 9 (38:57):
And the Bill Steamer.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
All right, PAULI this day in sports history. Glad I
could follow that.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
Let's go nineteen twenty seven, Ty Cobb got hit number
four thousand. He finished with forty one ninety one. Nineteen
sixty four, Pete Rose did this for the only time
in his career. Did this and d'sey didn't bet on the.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Game inside the park home run.
Speaker 6 (39:22):
He hit a grand Slam Grand.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Slam inside the park home ru.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Jack Nicholas, at age twenty three, made his playing debut
on the tour Cole Valley, Illinois. How about that?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Okay, that's it?
Speaker 11 (39:38):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Nadya Komen Each nineteen seventy six, the first gymnast to
score a perfect ten. She had seven tens at the
Montreal Olympics. The Lakers on this day, nineteen ninety six,
signed Patrick Shut the hell Up Shaquille O'Neal to a
seven year, one hundred twenty one million dollar contract. At
(40:00):
the time the Larches steal in NBA history. Justin Thomas
has the lead so far, brooks Kopka's on the leaderboard.
Tiger is not doing well. Rory did not do well.
Bryson Dischambeau did not do well either. Todd didn't do well,
but he leads us off and what he learned today, Todd.
Speaker 13 (40:20):
You would buy stock in the WNBA over MLS. You
might take UFCMMA over both of those.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Yeah, that's a multi billion dollar company. See no Connor.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Savannah Bananas had fifty thousand people at a game.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Yeah, Holy Washington, DC. Marvin. Would you learn today you
like the name man Cove? I do. I thought that
was pretty good. I liked Uh. What was the other one?
Naughty by nautical by names, nautical by nature? I like
that one too, PAULI would you learn ever long?
Speaker 6 (40:49):
Was ever short?
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Ever long? What we learned brought to you by King
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Speaker 5 (40:56):
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Speaker 2 (40:56):
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