{"id":30810,"date":"2026-05-29T14:47:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30810"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:47:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:47:31","slug":"banana-ball-craze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30810","title":{"rendered":"Banana Ball Craze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Banana Ball - May 9, 2026\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QU8DBcAzpHU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We ended up getting sucked into the Banana Ball craze earlier this month. This event is so hyped up but, after having attended, I don&#8217;t get it. I heard about it for the first time last year from a couple of friends. Because I&#8217;m such an easy target, I ended up entering the lottery. I think back in December-January time frame, I got information that I was picked in the lottery. You feel kind a special because not everyone gets picked so, of course, I went for it and purchase my allotment of five tickets. I didn&#8217;t really know what to expect. I was mostly just along for the ride.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to Banana Ball weekend. Amazingly enough, they managed to fill Equity Bank Park. I have never seen the ballpark packed with so many people. We were in the outfield standing room only area and even that was packed. It was wild! <\/p>\n<p>Supposedly, what makes Banana Ball such a huge draw is that it&#8217;s way more fun than regular baseball games. And it&#8217;s true, there&#8217;s dancing and tricks and crazy rules. I think we would have had way more fun if we had actual seats and weren&#8217;t in the outfield SRO section, though. I mean, we didn&#8217;t really know what was going on most of the time. The regular baseball rules are confusing enough for me. The modified rules made it even more confusing. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, glad we got to experience it but probably won&#8217;t do this again. Baseball, even if it&#8217;s fun like Banana Ball, just isn&#8217;t for us I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We ended up getting sucked into the Banana Ball craze earlier this month. This event is so hyped up but, after having attended, I don&#8217;t get it. I heard about it for the first time last year from a couple of friends. Because I&#8217;m such an easy target, I ended up entering the lottery. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[262],"tags":[3867,510,3798],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30810"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30820,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30810\/revisions\/30820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}