The baseball game is not boring and CW is not stupid, at least when it comes to Savana banana, the Georgia -based team that has re -written the rules about classic American entertainment. The network chose rights to broadcast a banana match on July 27 in Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia.
“Banana Ball” includes humor, gymnastics, lip sync, and dance dance design in the small baseball game in the league with rules that definitely do not match the baseball forces in the main league – although many players have MLB aspirations. This year, the team sold 18 balls from the main league, in addition to three football fields, with abilities of more than 70,000.
In recent years, CW tends to live sports coverage, which generally provides the results of the classifications to a quick -changing TV scene. The network has the NASCAR Xfinity series, WWE NXT on Tuesday nights, Grand Slam Track, AVP Beach Volleybal in Summer Saturdays, ACC-12, and football games in the fall, and begins next year, PBA Professional Bowling.
Banana Savana comes with a built -in audience that got posts on Tiktok, Facebook rollers and the like. The team has 10 million followers On Tiktok Lonely.
The Savanah Bananas team, a small basement club in the league, in the first “global” round this year, took its unique brand from the baseball to various cities throughout America.
“We have always been very clear about our goal,” Banana owner Jesse Cole I told the Times in 2022. “We are present to make the baseball game fun.”
“It is all about energy. We want to give people energy, and offer it every second, from the moment when we open the gates at the second hour until the last fans leave in 11,” he added at the weekend, when the team played with a mobilization of sale at the Anheim Stadium.
There is definitely the appetite of the Savannah team: There are tickets available for games in August and September, but only through the lottery – and the waiting list for a lottery is more than 3 million names. Last season’s games attracted a total of one million fans.
On Friday, the only way to Anheim was through the resale market. Hours before the first stadium, the lowest price (fees and taxes included) was a pair of banana tickets on Stumbhub 209.52 dollars, while it took only $ 171.72 to break a pair of tickets to Opening the Yankees-Dodgers series At Dodger Stadium on the same night.
Who needs Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge However: Banana Ball is facing the Savana team, which faces a players in Texas, firefighters, party animals and visitors.
While my deity and The judge can be relied upon to Running the multiple houseOnly bananas provide children’s races, dance and background before the balls are caught on the outer stadium. In addition, games are limited to a maximum of two hours, something Until the hour of the beloved MLB stadium It cannot be delivered.
“Banana Savana has taken the world of sports through the storm through a mixture of high energy from baseball and entertainment that relates to viewers of all ages,” Mike Virus, the first vice president of CW SPORTS, said in a statement on Tuesday.
“We are happy to partnership with them for the first time on television broadcasting, and we cannot wait to bring our audiences every unpredictable play in front of what is considered to be an electric atmosphere in Philadelphia.”
Banana Cole added in this press statement: “Banana Ball on the Cw is irrational.” “After seeing their recent commitment to sports, we knew that this might be a great partnership. With the speed and entertainment of Banana Ball, we look forward to creating new fans in the coming years.”
David Warton, David Warton and his colleague in Times contributed to this report.
