Baseball Officially Peaked After The Center Fielder From The Savannah Bananas Did An Insane Back Flip Catch During A Game The Other Night
Welp that's it, folks. Baseball has officially peaked. On a hot weekend in New York in the lord's year 2023. In a contest between the Savannah Bananas and The Party Animals. In a packed stadium of full of people shoving pig intestine tubes down their gullet and yearning to be entertained, baseball has finally peaked.
I get the whole Savannah Bananas schtick and I love it. Whether purists want to admit it or not videos likes this (and in turn blogs like this) are helping baseball reach a younger fan base. One driven by social media clips and youtube videos and not by trying to figure out how to fucking log in to Apple TV is so I can watch my team play on a Friday night.
My question is how the hell do you do this? You not only have to be a pretty damn good center fielder but also able to do a back flip. Then you need to time that ball perfectly. And every time the ball is hit off the bat it's different. How many times did this dude get blasted in the taint with baseballs training for this move? His gooch is probably more purple than those damn McDonalds Grimace shakes from practicing and missing.
I mean this is the moment the ball goes into the mitt...
That's Looney Tunes stuff. No seriously that's some shit out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
Better yet that's some shit out of a Dave Chapelle sketch. The And1 Baseball sketch to be exact. And I am excited as hell it's finally coming true. Because that's all the Savannah Bananas really are. It's And1 Mixtape Tour combined with the Harlem Globetrotters and sprinkled with all the insanity of a midwestern minor league baseball game.
The next logical step is for one of these guys to make it to MLB like Rafer Alston did. Originally known as Skip To My Lou in And1, Alston went on to have a pretty damn good 11-year NBA career. He had a two year span in Houston where he averaged 12.5 points and 6 assists as the Rockets point guard.
Now we just need one of the Bananas to break into MLB so we can get back flip catches when the game is way out of reach. Or instead of a bat flip after a home run they can flip the guy who came over from the Bananas. Or when Angel Hernandez makes another atrocious call he can bust out his purple, swollen taint and point it in Angel's direction. Oh you want to toss him, do you?
Any of those things would be better than the Mets vs Pirates game I watched on TV the other night. The Bananas are turning into must-see baseball and MLB should be thanking them for the free publicity to their sport.
Anyway, here is the best of Skip to my Lou from the And1 days…
