Monday: Clemson sells out

One of the biggest names in sports sells out Death Valley… but it wasn’t the Tigers.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
About eight or nine years ago.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
And I don't they didn't write the guy's name down,
but I can look it up here in a second.
This guy in Georgia had this idea for baseball that
was fun, to put the fun back in baseball. And
you don't watch musicals, do you? The greatest showman? Have

(00:26):
you ever seen that?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
No?

Speaker 3 (00:27):
But Grease and Jersey Boys. Those are the quote unquote
only two. Well the criticals, I'll watch. The greatest showman
is Hugh Jackman. And he's a fantastic actor, so he
can pull this off.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's like it's ringing Brisley. It's the story of Barnum.
To create Barnum and Bailey. Yeah, I'm sure it was
embellished a lot, but he plays p. T. Barnum in
the show. And basically he wanted to just to make things.
He wanted to take the absurd and the unusual and

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the outcasts of society and turned them into a show
that people would pay to go watch. And and so
that's kind of what I think the Savannah Savannah bananas are.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Jesse jesse Cole. Jesse Cole, that's his name. He's the
founder of Fans First Entertainment.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
He got married. Uh, he had to sell his house,
he had to sell his cars. H they they had
like scooters and they lived in a makeshift I think
they rented a room basically, and they had an air
mattress on the floor. And they they ate a lot
of Ramen noodles for dinner.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
There's nothing wrong with ramen noodles. Yeah, I had the
I don't be every now and then. There's nothing wrong
with put a little salt pepper in there, right, But.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
And he just turned this into an unbelievable successful deal
on a dream. It's it's just like the if you
watched The America The Greatest Showman.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Uh, it's uh the.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I'm not gonna sing because you don't want to hear
me sing, but it's basically, a million dreams are keeping
me awake. And I think this guy had a million
dreams to keep him awake, and he's created the Savannah
Bananas and eighty one thousand people feel Death Valley the
Stadium at Clemson, South Carolina on Saturday night to watch

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this thing happen. I mean, they were so far away
from the stadium, if you were out in deep center field,
you couldn't even see much. But they still sold it
out and they've obviously had it on the Jumbo trons.
I thought it when this originally came out, that this
was the Harlem Glowtrotters, But it's more, it's more the circus.
Now everything is scripted except the game. There is no

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predetermined outcome of the game. And they have two different
squads of bananas. Those ones where the yellow uniforms and
the other ones wear blue or.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Gray or whatever.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
And he said, the game itself is still if you
get a hit and get the first base or you're
safer out, but they have outfielders doing flips after they
catch the ball in the outfield. They still have the
rule if you hit the ball in foul territory out
of the park and a fan catches it, you're out,
because that's that's just the way they're doing it. There

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are no you cannot step out of the batter's box.
If you step out of the batter's box, it's automatic strike.
If you're a pitcher and you step off the rubber,
it's automatic ball. And they play to a two hour
time limit from first pitch, so every time you win
an inning, you get a point for winning the inning,
and whichever team has the most innings, one after two
hours is the winner. And there's also a clock, and

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there's no extra innings. And they have a guy that
plays on stilts. With the stilts, he's ten feet nine
inches tall and he bats and pitches and he can
somehow take three or four giant steps and get to
the first base on a but he doesn't have much speed.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
He's not going to steal any vases. He hadn't figured
out how to do that.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I saw somewhere where I thought they were coming to
Wall Stadium. I don't think they are, but because if
you look at several there's there was a website that
said they.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Were coming, but I don't think. I don't think they're
coming here.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
They could literally sell out the Alamodome if they wanted
to do that, because they're now They're playing in every
baseball stadium this year at some point or another when
those teams have days off. This is this is kind
of a cool phenomenon, and maybe it sparks an interest
in real baseball. A lot of the players were baseball
players that didn't make it, and they still want something

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to do for fun, and I guess they're figuring out
a way to not work in seers and play banana ball.
But this is something that is. This guy was dead
broke ten years ago and this franchise is worse a
lot right now. I'm not sure what the total number is,
but it's a lot.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
No, they actually are coming to San Antonio. They are.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
It's in September. September twelfth and the thirteenth. They will
be at Nelson Wolf State. Really yes, and if a
couple of other places in Texas as well, if you're
in the area from September fifth and the sixth, they'll
be at Frisco at Ryder's Field, and September nineteenth through
the twenty if they'll be at Round Rock.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
They are literally a traveling circus.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
And then they'll be in Houston from September twenty sixth
and twenty seven, so we'll stadium in September September. It
will be on football weekend.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Thank you very much for doing it on a night
I can't go. All right, there you go. We'll talk
about the Cowboys Draft next. It's the Andy Average show
on the ticket