MLB: Can Banana Ball change baseball for good?

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I got on their waiting list and today they were announcing for people getting tickets for the game in Des Moines and my name was drawn. I can get up to 4 tickets. Any central Iowa cfer's interested?
Damn it. I’m not able to make the date or I would have paid a premium for these. Little JM literally just asked me about this yesterday.
 

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I would also be interested if anyone has extras. I'll pay up to double face value. No idea what face is or if double is enough, but that's my offer.
 

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Have heard from a good friend there's a lot of scams going around with buying and selling theses tickets for the DSM. Be careful if you're buying.
 
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Scamming for a pretend baseball game? That’s bananas.
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Curious to those hear that got tickets for either game thought.

I went tonight, the offense wasn't there tonight and some of things I have seen in other videos of theirs didn't happen like guy pitching or batting on stilts or using a flaming bat.

It was still a good time though. Tonight during 1 inning they played the ISU fight song and in another EIU fight song. Sadly to reactions of the fans more hawk fans were in attendance but I went balls out for ISU.
 
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Stilts guy had COVID so he missed this weekend. I thought it was entertaining. Party animals left field has range and could catch everything.
 
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Curious to those hear that got tickets for either game thought.

I went tonight, the offense wasn't there tonight and some of things I have seen in other videos of theirs didn't happen like guy pitching or batting on stilts or using a flaming bat.

It was still a good time though. Tonight during 1 inning they played the ISU fight song and in another EIU fight song. Sadly to reactions of the fans more hawk fans were in attendance but I went balls out for ISU.
It was entertaining. I'm not sure I liked the GA seating though. We got there really early and still ended up with seats way down the left field line.

My 4 year old daughter had enough by around 8 though so we had to cut it a little short. Overall it was a fun time.
 

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It was entertaining. I'm not sure I liked the GA seating though. We got there really early and still ended up with seats way down the left field line.

My 4 year old daughter had enough by around 8 though so we had to cut it a little short. Overall it was a fun time.

I was is same spot there as far as getting there and seating location. They were funneling GA through one location which made no sense since GA was 90% of the crowd. I think more gates did get opened because we went from being in the middle of the crowd to being at end.
 

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I was is same spot there as far as getting there and seating location. They were funneling GA through one location which made no sense since GA was 90% of the crowd. I think more gates did get opened because we went from being in the middle of the crowd to being at end.
I didn't understand the only gate thing. Just open all gates like normal and let them flow in, instead of the cattle chute.
 
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This is cool Harlem Gloabtrotters style entertainment but no. No bunting, F that I think I had 10 bunt singles my senior year of high school. No mound visits, sure. I had to cover my face with my glove and yell at our catcher to go back while I was getting cremed by Iowa City West at Valleys field during a tri header. The MLB is doing good things like the pitch clock.
 

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We had an absolute blast. There wasn't a second of down time during the entire 4 hours or so we were in the stadium.
 
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Went Friday night and had an absolute blast. Ton of fun, lots going on, very interactive. Great entertainment. Making serious sports fun, silly and engaging.
 
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My daughter gave it a rating of 12 when I asked her how she liked it. The scale was 1 - 5 with 5 being the best. Yes, she liked it that much. As others have mentioned it would be nice if they had assigned seats.

@CycloneRulzzz is amazing (We all know this). He sold me his extra 2 tickets at cost.

Glad she had a great time.
 

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