Sublime

Since 2016, the Savannah Bananas—an independent-league baseball team playing out of Savannah, Georgia—have operated by a single mission: Fans First, Entertain Always. Every decision we make, we ask if it’s Fans First. If it’s not, we don’t do it.

a 6’5” Dutchman who wears a tiny white billed hat in the sun and rushes the net like it owes him money and in general plays like a rabid crane.

When the Savannah Bananas play games as part of the independent Coastal Plain League, we play by the traditional rules of baseball. But when we play exhibitions in the spring and fall as a premier, paid professional team, it’s a whole new ballgame. We call it Banana Ball.

anarchy.

The two-way twit-twoo of tawny owls.

anthropomorphically.”

Fundamentally, I was not only concerned about whether we in the Western world could still run like those East Africans but whether, in two generations’ time, East Africans would be running like us! What we had fallen for, they were falling for.