Baseball has gotten so slow, you know, and the world has gotten less attentive. And those are not good trends. Some of these games are four and a half hours and they switch pitchers 18 times. Not a great thing to encourage people to bring their little kids to advance. So we started testing this game and literally the two hour time limit with batters can't start out of the batter's box and you can win every inning. 98% of our fans would stay till the end of the game. At that point, we said, this is the future.
Jesse Cole lives life by being different. He is the founder of Fans First Entertainment, which owns and operates the baseball team the Savannah Bananas. The Bananas have welcomed more than 1 million fans to their ballpark and have been featured on MSNBC, CBS Sunday Morning, HBO and ESPN. Jesse is an in-demand speaker and bestselling author of two books, Find Your Yellow Tux and his newest Fans First.
Jesse joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss how he and his wife built the Savannah Bananas from a bankrupt organization to a leading entertainment brand, and much more.
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