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SAVANNAH BANANAS coach Adam Virant and pitcher CONNOR HARRIS join the show! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  We love him every time he comes on the show.
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  We are now talking to Savannah Bananas pitcher Connor Harris
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  and Savannah Bananas coach and director, our friend Adam Byron.
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  What's up boys, How are you? Doing great.
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  How about? Yourself.
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  We're good and you guys go back and forth.
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  I could see who's the coach and who's the player And, and Jabba,
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  ladies and gentlemen, he he should pop in.
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  So Jabba's been moving his son. So his his son's coming back
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  from school and his his someplace for Hampton.
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  And Jabba might be obviously looking to, to land a job.
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  I don't know, he might be a pitching coach over there for
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  Hampton. Oh, there he is.
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  It's Hutch. It's Hutchinson, you Ding Dong.
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  I'm sorry. Hutchinson, I'm.
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  Sorry, give me a hutch. Almost went there Java.
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  There you. Go.
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  Oh, you did. Yeah, man.
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  Oh yeah. How we doing Java?
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  Now. Your hometown?
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  I'm from Omaha. My friend went to Pavilion La
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  Vista back in the day. Oh, good old Papio.
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  That's right, baby. I'm a little old.
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  I love it. Hell yeah.
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  All right. Yeah, yeah, no doubt.
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  What's up, boys? How you guys doing?
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  Doing great job. Hey, first of all, tell, that's
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  what I'm talking about. That's that.
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  That's that. Fires me up.
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  Fires me up right there. Oh, love it.
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  JD too. Love it.
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  Yeah, baby. I was a royal and I played with
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  JD there. You.
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  Go so and he doesn't have to hit off me.
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  Wow. He had to add that.
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  Hey, Jabba. Jabba had to add that.
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  Oh, that's what I'm talking, dude.
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  That's crazy. Like when when I see stuff like
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  that and like the 62 was never like, you know, it was Scott
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  Shields before like that, that made set up like what it was in
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  baseball when he's with the Angels.
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  And then, you know, the C 62 is not really a popular number When
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  you see all those things too. And they're like, that's because
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  of you. And I'm like, man, that's crazy.
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  Like it's, it's one of those cool things that you never think
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  that you're going to have that opportunity and like and be able
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  to like have people wear these things.
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  And it's just like, it's, it's super cool.
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  But what's not super cool is I haven't got an invite when you
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  guys are going to be in Lincoln at Haymarket and memorial to
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  throw. That's that's what I want to
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  know. You know, your invites going to
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  going to be in the mail moves a little slow this time of year,
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  you know, holiday season. So just just wait, man.
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  You know, you probably actually get a a text message instead of
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  that snowing on my friend. Perfect.
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  All right, I appreciate that. Yeah.
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  So I was just, I'm going anyways, but I was like, yeah, I
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  probably should jump on board on this thing.
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  Right. I think our bet should be held
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  over there. I think during like halftime we
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  should have one of their guys and you pitch and me try to
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  steal on you 5 times. How about that And somebody get
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  it, You know, somebody get in the the box and try to swing
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  against you and me try to steal against you.
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  Why? Don't we do that?
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  It's not going to happen. You say it's not going to
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  happen, so why do we do it? Why do we do?
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  It I'm going to pick I'm going to pick you off before you ever.
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  Why do we do? It and we'll do it at a Savannah
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  banana game. Why not?
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  Why not? I would love to do it.
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  So then when I do it and I get a chance to stand at second base
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  and put my pump my hands up saying I got you Jabba, I
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  gotcha. What are you going to say that?
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  Hey, so you noticed that he wanted to steal a base like he
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  didn't want to face me in the box that see he just he just he
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  wanted he wanted to. Freebase hold on freebase.
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  Freebase I'm not doing. Any yeah, you're getting you're,
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  you're starting at first. He didn't get that.
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  I went over his head, ladies and gentlemen, by the way, ladies
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  and gentlemen, we are talking to Savannah Bananas pitcher Connor
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  Harris and Savannah Bananas coach and director and a Viron.
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  Listen, I my our bet and it it's it's pretty simple.
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  Me and Jabba have a bet. We were going to do it in the
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  summertime. It never happened that there was
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  supposed to be somebody going into the box.
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  They have a catcher and Jabba would pitch.
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  I started first base. I get five chances to steal
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  against him. Somebody he's got to pitch
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  against somebody because he can't be that easy.
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  He's going to have to pitch around him and I got to pick my
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  pitches and I got to figure out when I want to steal against
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  them and I got five chances to steal against them.
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  So it never happened. Jabba couldn't come out here.
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  It's going to happen. We're going to, we're going to
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  make this bet and we've had this bet, you know, set up for it's
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  got to be about 7 months now, right?
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  At least what Kevin metros on in Nightmare too.
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  He said he would be the hitter. Yeah, it's it's been a while so
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  and I would love to do it. Why not do it at a Savannah
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  Bananas game? It'll be fun, it'll be fun.
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  I don't care. I listen if we can just
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  entertain the fans and be completely or complete
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  jackasses, which I always am, as you all know, as we all know,
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  there it is. We can have a little bit of fun
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  and I just I think the fans would love it.
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  And why not do it in front of a whole stadium of people?
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  Jabba Chamberlain against the mouth.
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  Errol Marx. We'll, we'll just, we'll just
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  let him have the fact that he thinks he can do it.
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  That's right. No, let's do it.
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  I want to do it. Let's do it.
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  No, I'm I'm saying the fact that you think you're actually going
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  to steal and I'm not going to pick you up.
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  You're. Going, you know what it is, is
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  you think I have no athletic ability whatsoever and I'm
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  pretty. Fast.
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  I never said that, but. You think I can't steal?
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  I was a pretty good base runner when I was a kid, so I I was a
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  good. Hockey, You're 40, you're 49
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  years old. Relax. 49 What do you 43 I'm
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  three years older than you OK. And I mean just.
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  As I look better than you. Yeah, OK, OK.
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  Any you want, You want to bet on that too?
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  You want to put money on that bananas beauty pageants You want
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  to make a bet on that I. Don't, but also I don't have to
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  add 1/2 an inch to my height either.
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  So that's what it is. Now he's going to make foot of
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  my height. Well, guess what?
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  Maybe listen, my stature is in my pants, buddy.
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  Perfect, that's fine. Mine's in college so I'm doing
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  just pretty well for myself as well.
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  Listen, this is not we're having fun.
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  And by the way, anybody that listens to and watches our show,
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  me and job will go back and forth.
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  We like to have fun and we like to crack jokes at each other.
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  So we're happy to have two very important guys to savant the
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  really the product that Savannah Savannah, the Savannah bananas
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  put out there. And it's funny because I was
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  watching the Jimmy Fallon show a couple of weeks ago and Steph
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  Curry was on it. And Steph Curry brought up the
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  Savannah Bananas and the product that they put out there and that
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  M and his children actually went to check it out the that I think
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  last year and said that it's one of the best products right now.
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  It's great. It's like how did they compare
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  it to with? With trotters, the.
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  Harlem Globetrotters of of baseball now, when you hear
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  something like that, guys and you guys have been a part of it
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  and and and really helped the growth.
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  When you hear something from a great player like Steph Curry
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  from the face, one of the faces of the NBA, what do you say from
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  that? You know, we hear that a lot.
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  That's a big comparison and it's an honor to be, you know,
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  compared to the Globetrotters, they they revolutionized the
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  game of basketball. The main difference is we didn't
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  revolutionize the game of baseball.
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  We were just putting a unique spin on it.
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  But the entertainment aspect is really where people are coming
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  up with that, that comparison. The biggest difference right is,
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  is, is our games are not scripted like the Globetrotters.
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  You know, it's I, I went to a game three years ago here in, in
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  Savannah and, you know, the Globetrotters never, you know,
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  they're always up by 30 points, right?
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  The generals were, were, were instructed to lose.
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  So, you know, the, the competitive element is, is a big
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  part of what we bring. You know, it's, it's real
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  baseball and really highly competitive baseball mixed in
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  with that entertainment. But yeah, when, when, when Jesse
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  Cole says start the clock, it's on for real.
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  And yeah, I mean, that's, that's huge praise from from Steph
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  Curry and so many other people that say it.
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  But you know, hats off to them. But we're we're doing our own
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  thing, running around race and and we love every stacking of
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  it. Yeah, I think the combination of
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  both the entertainment and a competitive side is what makes
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  it so special because it it's so interesting and entertaining for
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  so many different audiences. Like we'll get 3 year olds at
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  our game and we'll get 83 year olds at our game and everyone in
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  between, and they're all all having a great time watching it.
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  Yeah, no, like for me it's like, I love the fact like everybody
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  always says baseball is boring, right?
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  And, you know, getting getting to know Burnsey, like when this
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  whole thing was going and we were kind of just talking about,
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  you know, certain things. Like I love how you brought a
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  different dynamic to what actually baseball is.
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  And it should be fun. But what I think a lot of people
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  don't understand is how unbelievably talented you guys
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  are in doing what you're doing. And like where like as as you
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  sit and see where it started and where it is now, Like how much
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  of that part is is obviously the athletic ability of of being
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  great baseball players. But like, was there ever like a
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  little transition of like the acting or was that part of, of
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  getting the right guys was not only being obviously great
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  baseball players, but also like the personality and like, hey,
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  there's going to be a different dynamics of this, like, and, and
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  how did you figure out and pick and choose like kind of what was
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  going to work and what wasn't? Yeah, you nailed it, Jabba.
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  It takes the right type of guy to to play banana ball.
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  It really does because the name of our organization is fans
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  first. Everything we do is is for the
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  fans. And that's before the game,
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  during the game, after the game, signed in autographs, making
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  those connections. That's not for everybody.
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  You know, there's, there's guys that just want to suit it up and
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  go out there and play. That's there's, that's totally
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  fine. And there's nothing wrong with
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  that. But in order to survive and
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  actually thrive in banana land, you have to get out of your
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  comfort zone. You have to make those those
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  personal connections. So not only do you have to be a
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  great baseball player and highly athletic, you've got to be an A+
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  human being. And that's one thing that we've
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  been really proud of. I've been with the organization
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  for five years. We've learned a lot, but but
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  present day we just have we just have high caliber, high quality
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  individuals who who know what this whole thing is about.
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  They play at a high level. They're playing free and easy,
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  unlike they were in college or pro ball.
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  But more importantly, they're creating unforgettable moments
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  by making those connections with those fans.
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  So we value that culture piece more than the athleticism
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  because we can find good baseball players.
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  They're out there, guys that got released, guys that are, you
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  know, in Indy ball that didn't get signed.
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  We can find those guys. But to find the right mix of
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  man, you're a fans first, you're a high culture guy, You get it.
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  You're willing to send those trick plays.
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  You're willing to do things a little bit differently and but
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  also still play at a high level and have fun.
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  Yeah, we we value the character immensely in Banana Land.
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  Viral and I have actually talked about this, but it's also the
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  ability for all these players to be able to turn that switch on
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  and off. So like Jabba, whether it was
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  you were starting or relieving when you ran out to that mound,
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  it was like you were completely locked in and you still are
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  facing all of these really talented players and you still
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  have to be that locked in, but then have to kind of stick a
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  step back and entertain for a SEC and then go back on the
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  mound and face all these really talented hitters again.
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  So it's it's a learning curve finding that moment of OK, like
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  now it's time to go. So I wanted to bring up the
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  rules, Adam. We've talked about the banana
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  ball rules a lot. I love the showdown.
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  I love the ball 4 sprints. Those are probably my 2
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  favorites are the ones we've discussed for you, for any new
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  rules that you guys have been thinking about coming up with.
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  And for you, Connor, as a pitcher, like playing in those
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  type of rules with that type of like, OK, you have this ball, 4
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  sprints and stuff like that. How does it change from other
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  levels of baseball that you've played in the past?
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  It was adjustment. So this summer I went right from
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  pitching in college with obviously normal baseball rules
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  to the banana ball rules. And the biggest adjustment is
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  that it's just so much faster. Like you're getting the ball and
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  going and then the ball. 4 sprints is just kind of another
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  level 2 throw strikes, 2 LB the zone.
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  But I mean, the the game itself, I tell people this all the time,
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  the game itself doesn't change. It's still that mano Vimano
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  pitch reverse hitter mentality that makes baseball so special.
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  It's just at a much faster level and there's a lot of stuff going
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  on. You just need to stay locked in
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  in here. Also, like Viral was talking
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  about with the fans first is you can't go have a bad game and
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  then just go sit in your locker. Like you can't be like a bad
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  teammate after that. Like you have to find a way of
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  OK, like now this is something that's bigger than baseball.
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  It's bigger than the result. I have to go make an impact on a
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  fan because every time you go talk to these fans, it's their
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  first time meeting you. Yeah, I mean, I'm going to touch
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  on something there and Jabba, you would have loved this when
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  you were playing. We have a, our pitchers throw on
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  average a pitch every six seconds and that's literally
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  from when they catch the ball back from the catcher to when
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  they lift that lead leg. Working fast is, is a big deal.
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  Batters cannot step out of the batter's box.
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  So being able to kind of mess with them and, and disrupt that
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  timing by working fast, getting those quick pitches in there.
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  You also don't have to come set. We do have box, but there's no
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  box for not coming set. So that quick pitching, that
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  kind of stutter stepping really has an opportunity to throw off
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  those hitters to really kind of jam them up.
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  They know the hitters know that the pitchers are working quick
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  and filling up the zone. We want to induce contact
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  because those guys behind them are ripping trick plays at A at
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  a 98% clip. But you know, the the biggest
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  change, at least for pitchers, that's they have the toughest
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  time in banana ball because they're just gassed, right?
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  The cardio has to be at an all time high.
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  They're working fast. Sometimes they have to throw in
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  a dance, maybe not. But they're also facing really
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  good dudes who are able to get comfortable in the box.
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  But they have these, these, these, these these kind of like
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  little tools in their tool belt to disrupt that and kind of
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  level the playing field. So pitching is is a lot of fun
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  in banana ball. If you learn how to use it and
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  you don't kind of revert back to all right, make this pitch.
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  You can do that right. There are times to I got to make
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  this pitch. I'm facing Jake school, former
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  first round pick out of high school.
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  I got to make this pitch or I can just grab and go piss them
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  off, move them off the plate, quick pitch them, you know,
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  slide, whatever you got to do. It's kind of it's kind of
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  interesting and we're continuing to unlock new ways that pitchers
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  can kind of like level the playing field on these hitters
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  because they know they're filling up the zone.
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  That's the biggest transition to.
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  The pitchers, I got a question too on that.
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  Like as far as like just the adjustments or whatever, like as
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  far from the creative side of it, Is there ever like a sit
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  down like, hey, this is what we're going to do?
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  Or is it just kind of both? Like obviously you said it's not
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  scripted, which we all know, but is there a creative aspect to it
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  where you where you guys sit down and be like, hey, I think
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  this works. Or if there's like a viral
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  TikTok dance or something that you can always throw in in
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  certain places. Do you do you have?
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  A creative like. Where you guys sit before games
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  or before like a tour, whatever you guys doing to be like, hey,
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  I think this will hit. Maybe it doesn't and then maybe
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  you thought something hit and it doesn't.
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  Do you guys, do you have like a creative or anything?
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  If you sit down and be like, yeah, that that didn't really go
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  great. Or hey, we we might want to
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  change it or hey, this was awesome.
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  We're going to continue to do this.
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  Yeah, we we have a whole creative team.
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  We have a director of entertainment, we have a
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  marketing team that they know the current trends on on all the
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  social media platforms and they'll implement and program
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  some. We do a thing called a 322.
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  That's probably where you saw the pitcher in the, the second
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  baseman, shortstop in the center field.
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  They're all come kind of converged and they do that
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  little dance and they throw a pitch that's called the 322.
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  Usually happens in the third inning, second batter, second
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  pitch, everybody knows it's coming.
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  We just don't know what pitch is going to be thrown.
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  But but those things are programmed by our entertainment
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  team, but we also, we also get inspiration from the players.
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  We want the players to be bought in.
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  If players have great ideas, they will be bought in on those
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  great ideas. And yeah, they may fall flat
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  and, and we adjust, but every game we do anywhere between 25
• 18:34
  to 30 different new elements, entertainment elements, every
• 18:38
  single game. We have our standards, but we
• 18:41
  also do new things because people who come to the games who
• 18:44
  they come to multiple games, We don't want to just be a 1 trick
• 18:47
  pony where they said, I've seen it, I don't need to see it
• 18:49
  again. There's always going to be new
• 18:51
  things kind of like Saturday Night Live.
• 18:53
  Saturday Night Live is usually a a brand new show every single
• 18:56
  weekend. We are no different from the
• 18:58
  entertainment aspect of that I'm.
• 18:59
  Going to get out of here. I love you guys.
• 19:01
  I hope, I hope to see you guys again.
• 19:04
  See you buddy. Yeah, great meeting you, Java.
• 19:07
  I was going to say that right when I got to Savannah, it was,
• 19:11
  it was very much encouraged to be yourself.
• 19:14
  And if you had any sort of ideas like share them and any way that
• 19:19
  you feel like you can be different.
• 19:21
  Like we always say, whatever is normal, do the complete
• 19:23
  opposite. So it just makes for such a a
• 19:26
  great room of people just collaborating and trying to to
• 19:30
  find some awesome ideas. Well, and by the way, we are
• 19:33
  talking to Savannah Bananas pitcher Connor Harris and
• 19:36
  Savannah Bananas coach and director Adam Byron.
• 19:39
  He's been on our show before, Adam's friend of the show, and
• 19:42
  he's been working with us trying to get us to a Savannah Banana
• 19:46
  game. And I'm, I'm not lying.
• 19:48
  Me and Jabba have been going back and forth.
• 19:50
  You could ask any of the guys on my show, my producers, my
• 19:52
  executive producers, This guy, he he's ducking and weaving me
• 19:57
  now. He really doesn't believe that I
• 19:59
  can't steal from him. Now I am athletically gifted.
• 20:02
  He could say whatever he wants. And he says, oh, well, why don't
• 20:06
  you get into a box? I never said I could get into a
• 20:08
  box and and swing against him. And if I do that, I got to, I
• 20:11
  got to get at least 5-6 hundred pitches before I'm going to
• 20:14
  stand in a box. That that a guy who's already
• 20:16
  come out and told me, tell him. Me, he could throw about 9495
• 20:20
  still, so if he could do that, it's going to take a little bit
• 20:23
  longer to figure out how to swing against him.
• 20:26
  So but when it comes to base stealing, it's really reading
• 20:29
  seeing where he's going to pitch and if he's pitching around
• 20:32
  somebody, if he's throwing it to the dirt, that's my best chance
• 20:35
  of getting a lead against them. So he thinks that I don't have
• 20:38
  it. I was a great athlete.
• 20:40
  I was I was a great hockey player.
• 20:43
  I was a semi pro hockey player, could have been a pro hockey
• 20:45
  player before I hurt my knee and the guy doesn't want to give me
• 20:48
  any. So you know what I have told
• 20:50
  Jabba? We'll do it in front of a
• 20:52
  crowded. He won't do it.
• 20:53
  You know what it is boys? He will not do it because if he
• 20:58
  knows he's going to be in front of 10/15/20 thousand people and
• 21:02
  I steal a base against Jabba Chamberlain, he will have a
• 21:07
  conniption. He will jump.
• 21:09
  He will absolutely try to RIP my frigging head off.
• 21:13
  And then he comes out and he says I'm in better shape than
• 21:15
  you Jabba. I we can have a contest with
• 21:18
  that. We'll have all the ladies vote.
• 21:20
  OK, this, this man makes fun of my size.
• 21:25
  I'm 510 1/2. OK, I'm not 6 three, I'm not 6
• 21:30
  three, but I'm in good shape. I, I, you know, I'm 2O5210.
• 21:34
  I'm in really good shape, but you don't want to give me any
• 21:36
  credit. You don't want to give me any
• 21:37
  credit. That's fine.
• 21:38
  He's my partner on this show and I love him.
• 21:41
  But one-on-one, when it comes to anything he wants to do, I will
• 21:46
  face him. I, I told him I'll play
• 21:48
  basketball with you. And now my executive producer in
• 21:50
  the background, Fish, who you guys have seen before, he does
• 21:54
  our sports minute. He, he says, let's do something.
• 21:57
  Let's try to do a football thing.
• 21:58
  Let's try to do a baseball thing.
• 22:00
  Let's do a, do a hockey thing. I'll do whatever Jabba wants.
• 22:03
  If he wants to do it, I don't think he's going to do it.
• 22:06
  I, I really don't. So I'll call him out on it.
• 22:09
  Let's do it at a Savannah banana game.
• 22:11
  I don't care. I am up for it.
• 22:14
  Jabba friggin Chamberlain against the mouth.
• 22:17
  And whoever wins, I'll do whatever he wants.
• 22:20
  I'll embarrass myself on a, on a baseball field, I'll do a dance.
• 22:23
  I, I mean, I, I love to dance. I break dance, I do all that
• 22:26
  stuff. I, I mean, I, I'll do whatever
• 22:29
  he wants me to do to embarrass myself.
• 22:30
  Anyways, this is not about us. This is about you guys.
• 22:33
  And you know, it's so interesting because Connor, I've
• 22:36
  always watched pitching and, and to me, pitching is the hardest
• 22:40
  thing in sports. It really is.
• 22:42
  I don't care what anybody says. It's it to me you getting into
• 22:47
  the mind of a of a hitter and, and really dominating at, you
• 22:52
  know, at the mound and trying to figure out what to pitch against
• 22:56
  a guy that's going to probably either guess or guess the right
• 23:01
  way or guess the wrong way to hit against you when you're on
• 23:03
  the mound. What is it like?
• 23:05
  Do you like that that thought in your mind where you have the
• 23:08
  control of the game and the game is in your hands?
• 23:11
  Or are you not one of those guys that don't like the control of
• 23:14
  the game and you want to make sure that everybody is working
• 23:17
  at, you know, everybody's working In Sync with each other
• 23:19
  on the field or even your manager or your coaches, you
• 23:22
  know, in the dugout? Yeah, great question.
• 23:24
  So I don't think anyone that's a pitcher will deny the fact that
• 23:29
  they love to be in control of the game.
• 23:31
  I mean, the game starts, the game starts with you.
• 23:35
  There's no way that anyone can hit a home run.
• 23:37
  No way can anyone get a strikeout, ground ball, anything
• 23:40
  without you throwing that pitch. So I used to always say that
• 23:43
  even at a young age that I just love being on the hill and I was
• 23:46
  able to look down at the hitter. But with that being said, you
• 23:50
  got to trust the people around you.
• 23:52
  So especially in banana ball, it's works so fast.
• 23:56
  So a lot of times they'll be different sequences and the
• 23:59
  catcher will call out a sequence and you'll have four straight
• 24:03
  pitches and you know what they are.
• 24:04
  So you can literally catch the ball and go right back into it.
• 24:08
  So just like any any team, you have a lot of confidence in
• 24:12
  yourself and you got to love that spotlight, but at the same
• 24:15
  time you got to trust your teammates as well.
• 24:17
  Adam, obviously you've been with the team for a long time and
• 24:19
  you've had all these different types of celebrities that have
• 24:22
  come in and ex baseball players that have played on the team
• 24:24
  even as some Errol's favorite football player, Travis Hunter
• 24:27
  was evolved with you guys this. Year.
• 24:29
  He is not my favorite football player.
• 24:31
  Don't let him lie to you. All right, here's the quick
• 24:34
  story, guys. I have gone to the Heisman
• 24:37
  Trophy dinner twice. I'm going this year.
• 24:41
  It's December 13th. It's it's a week from actually
• 24:44
  it's this week on Saturday. So I'm I'm going to be in the
• 24:47
  city. I'll be at the Heisman.
• 24:49
  We'll see if Fernando Mendoza wins the Heisman Trophy as as he
• 24:52
  is expected to do. I was there when the Gremlin
• 24:55
  won. I gave him the nickname the
• 24:57
  Gremlin. It's Travis the Gremlin hunter.
• 25:00
  All right, I was there and and here's the fact that that's him,
• 25:03
  that that's our cartoon character of Travis Hunter.
• 25:06
  All right, Travis is an interesting dude.
• 25:10
  All right, I don't I don't hate upon his personality.
• 25:13
  I think he's got a unique personality.
• 25:16
  He has a love fetish for Deion Sanders.
• 25:19
  All right, and Dion was there. I have I have a lot of respect
• 25:21
  for Deion because Dion has a great personality.
• 25:23
  He's one of the greatest at what he did as a as a football
• 25:26
  player. And he was he was actually
• 25:28
  professional baseball player. He's the only player I can
• 25:30
  remember that that have played in the same day two different
• 25:35
  sports. He's the only player I think has
• 25:36
  ever done that. So that's amazing what Deion
• 25:39
  Sanders has done. Travis Hunter is not the on
• 25:42
  Sanders. So when we were at the Heisman
• 25:45
  Trophy dinner, he was up, he was taking, they were all taking
• 25:48
  pictures with the Heisman Trophy before they go to the they go to
• 25:53
  the room where they're going to be.
• 25:54
  There's the announcement of who's going to win the Heisman.
• 25:57
  So I'm standing there and I'm upfront and I'm talking to
• 26:01
  Ashton Gente. All right?
• 26:03
  It was Cam, Cam Ward and Ashton Gente.
• 26:05
  And we're going back and forth and we're talking about the
• 26:07
  draft. So I go up there and they were
• 26:09
  talking. Ashton Gente asked Cam Ward, if
• 26:13
  one of the New York teams drafted you, you know what?
• 26:17
  You know, what would you do? Would you be excited to go to
• 26:19
  one of the New York teams? And Travis Hunter came right
• 26:22
  out. He's like, yeah, the Giants are
• 26:23
  pretty good. He's like those Jets who wants
• 26:25
  to play for The Jets. So I'm a Jet fan.
• 26:28
  I heard him say it and I turned around and I said, who are you?
• 26:34
  And he says, and he says, and he said he just started talking and
• 26:37
  said, were you a Jet fan? I said, yeah, you're in New
• 26:40
  York, you're in Manhattan. Obviously I'm a Jet fan.
• 26:43
  And he and he went back and forth with me and I said, he
• 26:46
  says, yeah, I wouldn't want to play for The Jets.
• 26:48
  And I said, who would you rather play for?
• 26:50
  And I said as a joke, I, I don't remember.
• 26:52
  I think it was the Las Vegas or the Jaguars.
• 26:55
  And he looked at me. He's like, they're better than
• 26:56
  The Jets. I turned around and said, don't
• 26:58
  worry, we don't need you. We got Sauce Gardner.
• 27:00
  And I walked around. I walked out of the room and two
• 27:03
  of the reporters, 2 of the beat writers of the Colorado
• 27:05
  Colorado, came up to me and said, I can't believe you did
• 27:09
  that in front of all the media the way you did it.
• 27:11
  I said, I don't give a crap who he thinks he is.
• 27:13
  I mean, we're going to attack The Jets in New York.
• 27:16
  I'm going to attack you. And then I gave him the nickname
• 27:19
  of the Gremlin. So there you go.
• 27:20
  Yes, true story my. Bases are based on that question
• 27:22
  like do you have any like celebrities true story other
• 27:25
  sports or celebrities from even not.
• 27:26
  Even Oh, I got to show you the jersey I got made for him.
• 27:29
  Hold. On that were involved with the
• 27:30
  Savannah Bananas this year and any upcoming like any upcoming
• 27:34
  guys for this year that you guys have guys planned for the 2026
• 27:38
  season? Yeah, no, no plans yet That will
• 27:42
  that's I know Jesse is the maestro behind behind that
• 27:46
  magic. But you know, one of one of the
• 27:48
  epic celebrity non baseball appearances that we we had this
• 27:52
  past year was at Yankee Stadium where we had Eli Manning come
• 27:57
  out and be a undercover umpire. And so in between Indians, I
• 28:02
  don't know if you saw that it was epic, you know, in between
• 28:04
  Indians, all the umpires run in dugout and get a drink of water
• 28:08
  and out runs all the umpires, including Eli Manning.
• 28:13
  And he goes to first base and he botches a call and and you know,
• 28:17
  they they review it, it gets overturned and he gets thrown
• 28:21
  out of the game by by the home plate umpire because he's
• 28:23
  ridiculous. But it was so funny because he
• 28:27
  had no idea what to do out there.
• 28:29
  He had no idea how to call safe or out like it was for a guy
• 28:33
  that is going to be in the Hall of Fame or I don't even know if
• 28:35
  he's on the Hall of Fame yet, but he will be.
• 28:37
  He will be. Yeah.
• 28:39
  He had no idea how to call safer out.
• 28:41
  He had no idea where to stand. But that was that was an epic,
• 28:44
  epic celebrity appearance. We also had some great musical
• 28:48
  guests, man. We had Chance the Rapper was out
• 28:51
  there, which was epic. We had fiddy, fiddy cent, man.
• 28:54
  I got, I got a sign. I got a sign.
• 28:58
  That's right, man. I got a sign champagne bottle
• 29:00
  here from him. But yeah, you know, we keep
• 29:02
  outlading our game on that, that entertainment piece.
• 29:05
  And it's kind of scary because now fans are expecting just
• 29:10
  amazing, you know, celebrity appearances.
• 29:12
  So when we roll into a city and we don't have anybody, people
• 29:15
  are kind of let down that like Fady or, you know, Chance
• 29:18
  doesn't come out and and do a song, but you know, nothing,
• 29:21
  nothing playing next year. But I'm sure there's going to be
• 29:24
  some epic appearances, no doubt. You know what's so funny?
• 29:27
  You brought a 50. As long as he's not throwing out
• 29:29
  a mound, because we've seen what he did at Citi Field, he can't,
• 29:32
  he definitely can't throw. And I, I would love to see $0.50
• 29:37
  and P Diddy play against one another.
• 29:39
  I would love to see that. After watching that documentary
• 29:42
  I I could see 50 throwing at P Diddy, you know?
• 29:48
  So funny and funny story. Funny story.
• 29:50
  When fiddy he he flew in from Milan just just to do like a
• 29:55
  like a 3 minute little, you know, number of like a like a
• 29:59
  montage of all his top songs. It was epic.
• 30:01
  It was unbelievable. His bodyguards got got arms like
• 30:05
  like 30 inch arms. But right after the right after
• 30:09
  he was done, he hopped back in that private jet back over to
• 30:11
  Milan. You know, it's funny and Jabba
• 30:14
  talks about shape and stuff like that.
• 30:17
  I I'm a pretty big dude. OK.
• 30:19
  And he sits on. Yeah, I'm this and I'm that and
• 30:22
  I, I, I made a joke. Have you ever seen the movie
• 30:25
  Flubber? I'm, I'm going to get myself
• 30:32
  into trouble, so I'm going to stop anyways.
• 30:36
  Did you guys see my Gremlin jersey over here?
• 30:39
  This is this is nice, man. Look at this.
• 30:41
  Look at that. Oh, look how beautiful it looks.
• 30:43
  Oh, yeah, That's sweet. Yeah, I the, the truth is I I
• 30:48
  got AI got it to Shawn Watson jersey coming in the mail.
• 30:52
  I got on the back of it. It's got rub and tug.
• 30:58
  I'm never missing a beat arrow. I, I, you know what it is, is
• 31:01
  you have to have fun. And when I go to these events,
• 31:04
  and especially I'll be at the Heisman Trophy on Saturday,
• 31:07
  everybody that doesn't know me knows me because I'm loud, you
• 31:13
  know, crazy, and I've got my own takes to everything.
• 31:16
  I'm not going to sit here and beat around a Bush when I ask a
• 31:18
  question. I'm going to make sure that the
• 31:20
  athlete knows who I am and understands that I'm not one of
• 31:24
  those normal interviews that is boring, lame and stupid.
• 31:28
  And you're going to ask the same damn question every single time.
• 31:31
  I want to make sure that, hey, that's a pretty good question.
• 31:33
  Oh, man, that guy's out of his effing mind.
• 31:36
  You know, that's when you get remembered.
• 31:38
  I don't care. Jabba came on this show as a
• 31:40
  guest, probably came on this show as a guest, and when he
• 31:45
  came on the show, I tell the story all the time.
• 31:47
  I'm only coming off for 20 minutes.
• 31:49
  That's what my producers told me.
• 31:50
  He winded up taking over the show for an hour and a half, OK,
• 31:54
  and now he's now me and him are business partners and we do a
• 31:57
  show together and I love working with Jabba Chamber.
• 31:59
  I'm not going to take anything as much as we go back and forth
• 32:03
  and we undermine each other on the show in many different ways
• 32:08
  on and making fun of each other. I've got a tremendous amount of
• 32:11
  respect for him and he's got a tremendous amount of respect for
• 32:13
  me. He understands what I'm good at.
• 32:15
  I understand what he's good at and that's what makes us a good
• 32:20
  combination. Speedy gives us that little, you
• 32:22
  know, that little edge and then there's fish and all the guys
• 32:25
  that work with us. And I think that's that has to
• 32:27
  do with the team and you guys, the Savannah Bananas is a team
• 32:31
  the way you guys have built your organization.
• 32:34
  And I don't think anybody can copycat what you've guys done
• 32:36
  and how you elevated your sport to the next level.
• 32:39
  And it's changed baseball. It's made baseball more even
• 32:43
  more interesting to watch and it brings in new fans that might
• 32:46
  not be interested in the sport, just want are interested in the
• 32:50
  entertainment end of it. I think it's incredible what you
• 32:53
  guys have done. It really is.
• 32:54
  And I, every time I get a chance to see it on, on the Internet,
• 32:58
  on TikTok and Instagram, you guys are some of the most
• 33:02
  watched frames on those on those channels and all those different
• 33:06
  platforms. It's, it's fantastic what you
• 33:09
  guys do and how athletically gifted some of you guys are and,
• 33:14
  and, and by the way, some of you guys can actually dance.
• 33:16
  I'm very, I'm very shocked that some of you guys actually have
• 33:19
  some kind of dancing ability. I, I mean, because I've met a
• 33:23
  lot of athletes that have told me, oh, I could dance.
• 33:25
  I went to the NHL draft. What was it?
• 33:28
  It had to be about 6 years ago. And I went to a club after the
• 33:32
  draft, after the, after the second day.
• 33:35
  And I was with a bunch of draftees, guys that got drafted
• 33:39
  and they were telling me, Oh yeah, I'm a, I'm a fly dancer.
• 33:41
  I can, I can, I can break. I can do all this other stuff.
• 33:44
  I was like, OK, let's see what you got.
• 33:46
  I tell the DJ to give me some break music.
• 33:48
  And this guy, I don't know what you call it.
• 33:52
  He was hipping and he was top anybody he should have hit and
• 33:54
  hopped out of the damn dance club because he didn't know what
• 33:57
  the hell he was doing. So I, I think it's pretty, I
• 34:00
  think it's pretty incredible. You guys have some rhythm and
• 34:03
  you guys, you guys are entertaining, man.
• 34:04
  I, I really, I, I, I want to go and experience just being as
• 34:09
  dugout and hanging out with you guys while you guys are doing
• 34:12
  it. I think it, or maybe even be
• 34:13
  involved with it. I would love to see Jabba get
• 34:16
  involved in the comedy end event.
• 34:18
  Oh my God, If Jabba actually had any rhythm, and I don't know if
• 34:22
  he does, I would absolutely love to see Jabba Chamberlain try to
• 34:27
  do the moonwalk or the, yeah, you know, the Rodger rabbit or
• 34:30
  something like that. I would love it.
• 34:33
  I would pay to see Jabba Chamberlain try to get it.
• 34:35
  I would. OK, Java does have his high
• 34:37
  school theatre. Background I would oh, that's
• 34:39
  another thing he was telling us he was at Radio City and he was
• 34:46
  doing Broadway shows. So that would be fun to watch
• 34:49
  Java Chamberlain in a in a Broadway show.
• 34:51
  But you guys are amazing and and Connor, I this is the first time
• 34:56
  you've been on our show and there it is that's that's that's
• 34:59
  that's a great background. By the way, our executive
• 35:01
  producer Fish puts a lot of time into these graphics and, and I
• 35:05
  think he does a tremendous job. And I've never met you, Connor,
• 35:10
  but you look like you have a great personality.
• 35:13
  You're young and up and coming. And we know Adam, Adam, you
• 35:16
  know, we love you Every time you come on this show, you, you
• 35:18
  brighten up our show and, and you're just a unique individual.
• 35:22
  And, and what you and your partner's done with the banana,
• 35:26
  you know, the banana product and Savannah bananas is, is
• 35:29
  remarkable. You guys got to me.
• 35:31
  I would love to do a live show at 1:00 of your events to
• 35:35
  entertain the fans while you're doing a live show.
• 35:37
  I would love to do it. If you guys would let us do it,
• 35:39
  I think we'd have you guys laughing.
• 35:41
  We'd have your fans laughing. We'll bring Jabba and maybe
• 35:44
  we'll hang them up on, you know, a tree and we'll use them as,
• 35:47
  you know, a pinata or something, you know.
• 35:50
  Let's get you out to a game. You know, we talked about this
• 35:53
  last time, getting out to a game.
• 35:54
  It didn't happen. We're coming back to Yankee
• 35:56
  Stadium for, I think we're playing three games at Yankee
• 35:59
  Stadium this year. So let's do it.
• 36:01
  Let's get Jabba back out there to the the old stomping grounds,
• 36:04
  get you guys out there. Let's do it.
• 36:05
  I don't know if Speedy PD is allowed in Yankee Stadium, but
• 36:09
  we'll put a mask on him and let him in.
• 36:11
  He better wear. Yeah, let's get you out there,
• 36:13
  guys. He better wear his underwear.
• 36:14
  You know, I think one of your guys need to teach Speedy how to
• 36:17
  shave. I mean, this man needs some
• 36:19
  shaving, you know, training. I, I mean, I bought him a
• 36:22
  manscape. He doesn't want to take it home
• 36:24
  with him. I need to give it to Josh.
• 36:26
  I no, you told me to give it to Josh.
• 36:28
  I wanted to give it to you. I mean, you need to do some
• 36:31
  cleaning in many different areas, if you know what I mean,
• 36:33
  But nevertheless, we would love to come out.
• 36:36
  We would love to come out and hang out with you guys.
• 36:39
  I like I said, I'm a big fan of your product and what you guys
• 36:41
  have been doing. And let's talk, Adam, I, I, you
• 36:45
  guys are coming out to New York. Let's do it.
• 36:46
  Let's let's figure out how we can we can do something together
• 36:50
  and job will come out 100%. He come out and do it and maybe,
• 36:54
  well, maybe we'll get him to do this bet.
• 36:56
  I doubt it. You know, I don't think he I
• 36:58
  don't think he has it in him to to embarrass himself.
• 37:01
  But if he does, I'm I'm here for him, you know, but I'm just
• 37:05
  kidding job. But calm down.
• 37:07
  You're going on. But I would love to do the bet.
• 37:10
  I would love to do the bet. If he if he's willing to do it
• 37:12
  in front of the fans, I will do it.
• 37:14
  I have no. Problem see here here's the
• 37:15
  thing here's the thing really quick on that it it has to do
• 37:18
  with the catcher so much right like a lot on the hold time and
• 37:23
  and and the break time of the pitcher, but so much is on the
• 37:26
  catcher right and so you know that's.
• 37:28
  Not my problem. I think he can pick his catcher
• 37:31
  and he can throw to his catcher. He could.
• 37:33
  I get to pick the hitter. There's got to be something I
• 37:35
  can hit in the box because he can't, you know, if he's
• 37:39
  pitching strikes and nobody can hit the ball, it's like it's
• 37:42
  pretty much, it's easy for the catcher to just throw it to
• 37:44
  second base. So I have to, I have to guess
• 37:47
  right And, and I got to play, you know, it's a guessing game.
• 37:50
  You know, it's, it's a mind game when you're on, you're on first
• 37:53
  base and you're trying to steal from, you know, steal the
• 37:55
  second. I know it is I, when I did it,
• 37:58
  it's, it's an art. It's an art to do that.
• 38:01
  So if he thinks that I don't have the art work to do that,
• 38:05
  well, then let's make the bet and let's do it, baby.
• 38:08
  He's going to take all of us out to a nice steak dinner after I
• 38:11
  beat him in his bed. I get five chances to do it.
• 38:14
  So I, I one out of five. I'm, I'm on.
• 38:17
  I, I think I could get 3 out of five.
• 38:19
  How's that so? Love you, Jabba, love you.
• 38:30
  But let's do it. Let's figure it out.
• 38:32
  I, I, I'd love to have some fun. And I know my boys, all these
• 38:36
  guys would love it. They'd be videoing.
• 38:38
  Everybody would be videoing. I don't know if Jabba is going
• 38:40
  to love it, but I love it and it'll be fun to watch.
• 38:43
  And, and, and a competition. I love competition.
• 38:46
  We love competition. You know, I think we are the, I
• 38:49
  don't care what anybody says, competition or not, I think we
• 38:51
  have the best show in America. I don't think there's anybody
• 38:53
  that comes close to what we do. So and I, I put us against
• 38:57
  anybody. I put us against anybody on any
• 39:00
  network. And, and I think our knowledge
• 39:03
  and our, you know, our entertainment and the product
• 39:06
  that we put out there is as good as anybody's.
• 39:08
  And I'm willing to bet anybody on that.
• 39:10
  I'd put anything on it. So if I'm so confident in that,
• 39:13
  I'm confident about anything. So why not be confident about
• 39:16
  stealing a base on Jabba Chamber?
• 39:18
  So that's it anyways, I, I wanted to add that to you guys,
• 39:24
  but Adam, I, I love everything that you guys do and keep up the
• 39:29
  good work and, and we will talk off air and, and it's very nice
• 39:33
  to meet you, Connor. I think it's sensational.
• 39:35
  I found out that, you know, Nathan told me you were a Jabba
• 39:38
  Chamberlain fan. I, it's funny because Jabba was
• 39:42
  one of my favorite players in the mid 2000s.
• 39:46
  I I was always, I was in AI, never wore jerseys besides my
• 39:51
  own name on the back of the jersey.
• 39:53
  And there's only four Yankee jerseys I've ever bought.
• 39:57
  And Yogi Berra is one of them. Don Mattingly is another.
• 40:01
  Bernie Williams is another, and now and, and Jabba Chamberlain.
• 40:06
  So when Jabba came on the show, I was wearing a Jabba
• 40:08
  Chamberlain 2009 jersey and he was like, yeah, rock that baby,
• 40:12
  rock that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 40:14
  And and. And over the years that won't
• 40:17
  over the years, over the last two years since we've been back
• 40:20
  and forth doing, you know, the stuff that we've been doing.
• 40:22
  I I say to myself, I love the jersey.
• 40:25
  Maybe I should send it to Jabba so he can wear it, because every
• 40:28
  time I wear it, it, it it might not smell very good after the
• 40:32
  show. So, yeah.
• 40:34
  So anyways, that's it. I, I don't want to get too deep
• 40:37
  into any more of my craziness on this show because I don't want
• 40:40
  to get myself into trouble. Anyways, you guys are
• 40:43
  sensational. Before we let you go, do you
• 40:46
  guys have any particular shows that are coming up in the the
• 40:51
  near future that fans could know about or they can find buying
• 40:55
  tickets for the near future for the Savannah Bananas?
• 40:58
  Man, good luck buying tickets, man.
• 41:00
  We, we, we're really fortunate that the four and a half million
• 41:03
  people on the wait list to get tickets.
• 41:05
  But we open up down in Tallahassee at Florida State
• 41:08
  University. We're taking all six of our
• 41:10
  teams down there. We're going to play two games at
• 41:13
  Dick Hauser Stadium where Florida State baseball plays.
• 41:16
  And then we're going to go right across the street and play in
• 41:18
  the football stadium. And so that's, that's where we
• 41:21
  open up. But you know, we're coming.
• 41:22
  We're coming to New York, we're coming to Lincoln, NE, you know,
• 41:27
  home a job in the Chamberlain there and all across the country
• 41:30
  we're we're hitting 44 states, I believe.
• 41:32
  So we're coming to a, you know, we're coming to a ballpark near
• 41:35
  you. You just do your best to get in.
• 41:38
  You know, it's it's we're fortunate enough to to have this
• 41:41
  moment in time where we're selling out.
• 41:43
  But, you know, we're in the offseason right now.
• 41:45
  Connor Connor's working his butt off.
• 41:47
  So when they come and watch him play, he's going to continue to
• 41:49
  fill up that strike zone. But yeah, you know, come on out,
• 41:54
  we're not hard to find. Well, we're going to come out.
• 41:56
  When are you? When are you guys going to be in
• 41:58
  New York? Yeah, it's sometime.
• 42:00
  That's all right. You know what well, I'll be in
• 42:03
  contact with you guys. We're we're absolutely up for
• 42:07
  going to a Savannah banana game. I never never I've never been to
• 42:11
  1. I watch it every time on TikTok
• 42:13
  and on on the social medias, instagrams.
• 42:16
  And like I said, you guys are rocking it right now.
• 42:18
  Everybody I've seen you guys, I've seen people talk about it
• 42:22
  on Jimmy Fallon show. I've seen on the Jamie Campbell
• 42:24
  show, I've seen it on ESPN. Everybody talks about what you
• 42:27
  guys are doing right now. It's it's against the party
• 42:30
  animals. April 25th and 26th.
• 42:33
  How crazy is that? My birthday is the 29th.
• 42:36
  So you guys are going to be in New York around my birthday.
• 42:40
  Torresville, I'm going to come absolutely for my birthday.
• 42:44
  That would be so fun. I don't want you guys singing
• 42:46
  Happy Birthday to me. That's pretty embarrassing.
• 42:48
  But hey, you know what, if Jabba comes and I, you know, if Jabba
• 42:52
  is willing to sing happy birthday than me, then you guys
• 42:54
  could do that too. I don't know if Jabba has the I
• 42:56
  don't think Jabba will ever do that.
• 42:58
  But hey, you know, maybe he will.
• 42:59
  So anyways, Adam, thank you for joining us.
• 43:04
  Thank you to Connor. You guys are sensational.
• 43:07
  Keep up the good work and we'll see you soon, buddies.
• 43:10
  Beautiful. Thank you very much.
• 43:13
  I love the jerseys. I love the jerseys on you guys.
• 43:16
  You're both wearing Jabba jerseys and one for the Royals.
• 43:19
  And by the way, Jabba won two World Series, one with the
• 43:22
  Royals and one with the Yankees, and he had a chance to win.
• 43:26
  He had a chance to win it with the Guardians, but he fell
• 43:28
  short. Yeah, 3-1 lead.
• 43:30
  Yeah, he fell short, but would he have been the first player in
• 43:36
  baseball history to win three World Series with three
• 43:38
  different teams? I think he would be.
• 43:40
  In other words, some that did back-to-back.
• 43:42
  Yeah, I'm not sure about 3. Like especially that sort of a
• 43:44
  fan. I think I think he would be.
• 43:47
  I think Terrence Gore, that base Runny that that's right,
• 43:50
  Specialist kind of kind of like you, Errol.
• 43:52
  Yeah. Has won three with three
• 43:54
  different teams. Adam I love.
• 43:55
  That's right. No, you're right, I do.
• 43:57
  Remember that now. Good stuff.
• 44:00
  Yeah, I had a little, I had a little funny story to say about
• 44:03
  good Java with the number 62. When I was younger, I was so
• 44:07
  infatuated with wearing #62 that the Little League jerseys, which
• 44:11
  obviously only went up to like 22, I really want to wear 62.
• 44:16
  And my dad was a coach. So my dad got the number 12
• 44:19
  jersey, got the number six jersey, took the six off that
• 44:23
  jersey and put it over the 1. So I was #62 when I was nine
• 44:27
  years old. Wow, you're you're he's a die
• 44:30
  hard Jabba Chamberlain fan. We got to get.
• 44:32
  Oh yeah, I wore the flat rim just just like you did.
• 44:35
  I'd wear it just for recess. We're at the school.
• 44:37
  They'd be like, Connor, why are you wearing a hat?
• 44:39
  You can't even wear it in collect in class.
• 44:41
  Like for recess, I got to be like Jabba.
• 44:43
  That's crazy. We definitely I'm going to work
• 44:46
  on it. We will come out Yankee Stadium
• 44:48
  with Jabba Chamberlain and and Connor will get a chance to meet
• 44:51
  Jabba Chamberlain. That would be great.
• 44:53
  That's that's awesome when you get to meet your hero and a
• 44:56
  person that you looked up to when you were a kid.
• 44:57
  I met my hero growing up, a John Van Beesbrook was my hero.
• 45:01
  And funny, quick, funny story for everybody to understand.
• 45:05
  I had. I did a hockey show, and Ashley
• 45:06
  Sargeant was my birthday and I was doing a hockey show.
• 45:08
  Speedy, you remember this? Yeah.
• 45:10
  I wasn't there, but I think I listened to it later.
• 45:11
  And I was I was sitting there and Ashley said, I have a
• 45:14
  special guest that wanted to call the show and come on for an
• 45:18
  interview. And I he gave me some like Tim
• 45:20
  Hardway. And I said, who the hell is Tim
• 45:22
  Hardway? And then he called the show and
• 45:25
  I said, hello, who you? Who you speaking?
• 45:26
  Who we speaking with? And he says this is John Van
• 45:30
  Beesbrook. And I said, what?
• 45:31
  And he says this is John Van Beesbrook.
• 45:34
  Hello Errol. Happy birthday, birthday.
• 45:35
  And I'll never forget I did my first interview with a guy that
• 45:38
  I looked up to since I was a little boy and I he called me
• 45:42
  for my birthday. Now he runs United States hockey
• 45:45
  and the first time I ever met him, it was at the NHL draft in
• 45:48
  Dallas. He knew exactly who I was when I
• 45:50
  was walking down working with the GMs and the coaches over
• 45:55
  there on the on the bottom of the ice before the draft
• 45:59
  started. So I took a picture and he was,
• 46:01
  he interviewed with me. He, he, I was the only media guy
• 46:05
  he did an interview with for United States and for the United
• 46:08
  States hockey at that event. So it was a pretty cool
• 46:12
  opportunity. And I think I would love to let
• 46:14
  you, you know, be a part of watching you meet the guy that
• 46:17
  you looked up to. So definitely would love to do
• 46:19
  that. Yeah, that'd be great.
• 46:21
  That'd be awesome. When I when they reached out
• 46:23
  about doing the podcast, then they just casually name dropped
• 46:26
  Jabba Chamberlain. I was like, what?
• 46:28
  I was like, they know that. They know I was wearing 62
• 46:31
  growing. Well, I, I definitely, as, as
• 46:36
  far as I'm concerned, I want to, I want to give you your
• 46:39
  opportunity to meet your hero and, and Jabba's such a gracious
• 46:42
  person. He he would love to meet you
• 46:43
  guys. So I would love, I would love to
• 46:45
  be a part of that. And Adam, you know, I'm a big
• 46:47
  fan of yours. So yeah, I, I might have to take
• 46:50
  a couple of pictures with you and we'd, we'd love to be a part
• 46:54
  of the great event that you guys put on.
• 46:56
  So count us in in April. I I definitely would do that.
• 47:01
  You got it. You got it.
• 47:02
  Thanks guys. Absolutely.
• 47:04
  Thank you for having us on. Connor Harris and Adam Virant, 2
• 47:10
  fantastic personalities, great, great guys and and just happy to
• 47:15
  have him on the show. And I was, I wasn't taking
• 47:18
  shots. I would would you guys say I was
• 47:19
  taking shots at Jabba? I don't think.
• 47:21
  I was as much as you normally do with a competitiveness.
• 47:25
  Well, he's always competitive with me.
• 47:27
  And, and you know, what's crazy about Jabba is, is that he will
• 47:32
  not do that in front of a crowd. He will not do that.
• 47:35
  I, I don't believe if I stole a base against him in front of the
• 47:39
  fans, he will absolutely want to RIP my head off.
• 47:43
  I'm telling you right now that would that would be so
• 47:46
  embarrassing for him right in front of 40 or 30,000 people.
• 47:50
  Me steal a base against Joppa Chamberlain at Yankee Stadium, I
• 47:56
  mean. I don't know if the bananas are
• 48:01
  going to accommodate this this. No, I.
• 48:04
  I would say this, I think that to get those conditions where I
• 48:10
  mean you seem to be hoping for like.
• 48:13
  Not hoping to. Pitch in the dirt.
• 48:15
  I'm not hoping. That he dirts 1 and you can get
• 48:18
  that base. If somebody.
• 48:19
  Get him on a fastball if he needs to be a breaking ball.
• 48:23
  If somebody is up at the plate and swinging at the balls, he's
• 48:28
  going to have to pitch around him.
• 48:29
  He's not going to want the guy to hit against him.
• 48:31
  I mean, if somebody's hitting against.
• 48:33
  Them. Yeah, but like, why would he
• 48:34
  care unless there were stakes on the at bat?
• 48:37
  Like he's going to throw up and away fastballs.
• 48:39
  Well, if you're, if you're, if you're getting a chance to swing
• 48:42
  against Jabba Chamberlain, hit against Jabba Chamberlain, I, I
• 48:45
  think that's, that's enough stakes to me.
• 48:48
  And unless Jabba bet, unless Jabba's paying off, the hitter
• 48:52
  is not to swing at it. I don't know what Jabba's plan
• 48:55
  is, but to me it should be fair both ways.
• 48:58
  If I'm trying to steal against a professional baseball player,
• 49:01
  there has to be a professional catcher and a professional
• 49:04
  hitter at the plate ready and willing to swing.
• 49:07
  So if, if that's the case, I'm in.
• 49:10
  If if that's not the case, then I'm not in.
• 49:12
  It's not fair to me. So why?
• 49:14
  Why is it work one way and not work the other?
• 49:16
  That wouldn't be fair to me. It's just very hard to get those
• 49:19
  conditions to actually. I don't think it's hard at all.
• 49:22
  Get a real guy that's going to go into the box and get a real
• 49:25
  catcher and Jabba pitch and me steal what conditions if?
• 49:31
  Jabba were to give up a stolen base.
• 49:34
  He may cry about it, but in this game, Errol, you're not allowed
• 49:37
  to. My pinky is bigger than yours.
• 49:40
  All right, Mom, what's one thing?
• 49:44
  That you can't talk. To my sexual fantasies.
• 49:50
  It's not ideal, but if it's what, it's not ideal.
• 49:53
  But if it's just not ideal, but if it is, what?
• 49:56
  You can't treble stamp a double stamp.
• 49:57
  You can't treble stamp a double stamp.
• 49:59
  Lord, you can't dribble stamp a double stamp, you guys.
• 50:04
  Now it's time for save your tears.
• 50:09
  Oh yes, it is indeed. Once again time for save your
• 50:12
  tears, everyone's favorite tier based fantasy game.
• 50:17
  This is based on the NFL Week 14 stats.
• 50:22
  Did you have a season long standing speedy?
• 50:24
  Did you make his standings yet? Growbar.
• 50:26
  Yes, I do have a standing. Growbar.
• 50:28
  I don't don't lie to me. I do.
• 50:30
  Didn't make a standing because I made his standings because I
• 50:34
  know. You my rear end is burden.
• 50:36
  Standings. I wonder if your standings are
• 50:37
  similar to mine. Because that is.
• 50:40
  Going to lead for a whole another debate but we'll go over
• 50:42
  that a little later let's. Reveal.
• 50:45
  Who won this? Oh guys, here's the the bar
• 50:50
  right here as it'll be a Josh. Back.
• 50:53
  Week he took Daniel Jones. Not good news.
• 50:56
  I love Lisa Ann. Who else had not great games?
• 50:59
  Jonathan Taylor, not so much. I took Daniel Jones, so I
• 51:03
  screwed myself so. Yeah, Roma Dunze didn't play.
• 51:07
  No one took him anyway either. Did.
• 51:08
  Dantavian Wicks or. Roma ball bags.
• 51:11
  Had no catches, so there were a couple of real bagels out there.
• 51:14
  Let's see who won. Carl plays with himself.
• 51:17
  And it was Java Chamberlain. We won.
• 51:20
  Was the winner this week, Speedy PD finishing in second place
• 51:25
  with the Big Nith Mania in. 3rd I came in last because of the
• 51:30
  old Daniel Jones. Yeah, Errol, not such great
• 51:33
  moves here with the Daniel Jones, kind of solid across the
• 51:38
  board, but the the quarterback position kills you.
• 51:40
  Josh Allen, Monster game, 37 point.
• 51:44
  Blowjob. Burrow, though, obviously solid,
• 51:46
  most people went with him, probably correctly.
• 51:49
  Pitman Junior had a good game. Colston Loveland pretty good for
• 51:52
  tight end. Josh Jacobs was the running back
• 51:54
  you wanted in this one as well. Jabba talked to me, I told him
• 51:59
  he won. He said save those compliments
• 52:02
  for next time. So I have the updated standing
• 52:05
  Speedy and again, the standings are real simple.
• 52:08
  If you get gold, you get 5 points, if you get silver you
• 52:10
  get 3 points and if you get bronze you get one point.
• 52:13
  And after 14 weeks of the NFL season and Save Your tears in
• 52:18
  first place with 31 points is Speedy PD in second place with
• 52:23
  25 points is the NIT in 3rd place with an even with 10
• 52:31
  deuces. Tommy scoops at 20 points at in
• 52:37
  fourth arrow marks. No my 15.
• 52:40
  Jabba Chamberlain moves ahead of me gets to 5th in 12 points.
• 52:45
  I'm with 10. Jared has nine.
• 52:48
  Jared, by the way, is sick with the flu.
• 52:50
  I want to hit it. Goody Goody got a .1 time that
• 52:54
  he played I. Think he got?
• 52:55
  Thursday I got the old man. And those are the standings.
• 52:59
  We got four more weeks to see if anyone can catch up to speed.
• 53:06
  Another tow job you. Got some work to do.
• 53:08
  Thank you to all the fans out there following us on all the
• 53:11
  social medias from Apple to you know, Spotify, Spotify and Apple
• 53:17
  Video, Spotify and Apple Audio X jop in the mouth and mine at
• 53:22
  Errol Marks 34. Thank you to all the fans tuning
• 53:25
  in and checking us out Instagram, all the Instagram jop
• 53:28
  in the mouth fans on there. Thank you to all the fans out on
• 53:31
  their TikTok jop in the mouth, YouTube jabba in the mouth
• 53:35
  worldwide sports radio network, worldwide sports radio network
• 53:39
  on Instagram, mine Rolo the THA mouth MO TH34 all the fans
• 53:46
  following us on all our social medias.
• 53:48
  We really appreciate you guys, Speedy.
• 53:50
  Thursday, it won't be a show on Wednesday.
• 53:53
  We're moving it to Thursday and, and, and by the way, in a new
• 53:56
  year, we are going to be moving our show Mondays and Thursdays.
• 54:01
  So for all the fans out there that expect it Monday and
• 54:04
  Wednesday, we're spreading it out because the content will be
• 54:06
  better for Thursday. So Mondays and Thursdays,
• 54:10
  Speedy, who do we have on on Thursday?
• 54:13
  All right, joining the show for the first time on Thursday is
• 54:15
  Matt Gage at 9:00. He is a relief pitcher currently
• 54:18
  with the San Francisco Giants. He's played four years in Major
• 54:21
  League Baseball, played with the Tigers and the Giants last year,
• 54:23
  also played with the Blue Jays and the Astros in the past.
• 54:25
  In 2024. He was also briefly in the
• 54:27
  Yankees farm system as well, as well as the Dodgers.
• 54:29
  So he'll be joining us at 9:00. There you go, ladies and
• 54:32
  gentlemen, if you're a baseball fan.
• 54:34
  If you're not, well, TuneIn to Matt Gage, we'll go back and
• 54:38
  forth. We'll banter a little bit about
• 54:40
  baseball, his thoughts about San Francisco.
• 54:42
  Do they land a big time free agent this offseason, maybe a
• 54:46
  Pete Alonzo, who knows? Winter meetings are about to
• 54:50
  begin, so I'm sure we're going to hear a lot from Brian Hoke
• 54:54
  when he comes on the show as well.
• 54:55
  So again, thank you to all the fans, TuneIn on Thursday we will
• 55:00
  be back. Until then I'm saying goodnight
• 55:03
  and we'll talk to you then. Goodnight.
• 55:05
  It's the worldwide sports radio network.