Hey everyone, you're listening to Code Switch from NPR. I'm B.A. Parker. And I'm Gene Demby. Okay, Parker, I think you especially will appreciate this episode because you are a baseball girl. You grew up going to Orioles games all the time. You still do when you're back in Baltimore. That's true. I am a baseball girl. We love the Orioles. They're doing, they're doing okay. I don't know if people know this, but you're back in Baltimore. That's true. I am a baseball girl league. We love the Orioles.

They're doing, they're doing okay.

I don't know if people know this, but you threw out the first pitch at an Orioles game last year, which is bananas.

Birdland, please join us in giving a warm Oriole Park welcome to Baltimore's own B.A. Parker.

I did. It was, okay, the greatest moment of my life next to being born. But also, like, the female is terrifying to, like, stand. Of course. I mean, to stand in front of a stadium and living your dream. And, like, I can't even talk about how happy I was. I made it a cross home plate. That's all that matters.

That's all that matters. Okay. So have you heard of the Savannah bananas?

Yes, I have. I see them on my Instagram all the time. They're the baseball team that wears yellow, right?

Yeah, yes, yes. They're so fun. They do these dances. They're twerking and breaking out into

choreograph dances in the middle of an inning. They're also singing. I mean, they're putting on,

like, a whole show. Yeah, they're doing like backflip catches, you know, wearing stilts when they

throw pitches, you know what I'm saying? Stuff like that. So kind of like the baseball version

of the Harlem Globetrotters.

Yeah, like traveling, silly, barnstorming kind of entertainment.

To be clear, there's a lot of lip syncing and dancing.

Like what you're hearing right now, right?

This is a social media clip featuring some of the Savannah Banana's players

into twos and princess shoes dancing with a little girl on second base.

Gene, I know these videos well. They're very popular.

It's a sort of remarkable and quick rise that they've had from being this team that was legitimately the Savannah

minor league small-time baseball team and then is now just a full-time traveling circus.

I know that voice.

Yes, because that is Josh Levine.

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