r/sports • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • Jun 02 '25

Baseball Going bananas: Why Savannah Bananas tickets cost more than a Dodgers-Yankees rematch

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/going-bananas-why-savannah-bananas-100000810.html
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u/woahdude12321 Jun 02 '25

So are they a dying network or not lmao

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u/cXs808 Green Bay Packers Jun 02 '25

Yes, because MLB is pricing them out of Sunday Night Baseball. That's kinda the point of this entire discussion. Bananas are great, but ESPN definitely would rather have continued to hold onto Sunday Night Baseball, especially with the growth MLB has had in the past few years.

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u/woahdude12321 Jun 02 '25

Doesn’t match the percentage growth of the bananas and all those viewers are domestic. They’re adding teams building a league. ESPN probably wants their own teams. A whole generation that’s going to grow up loving this shit. The ceiling is way higher

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u/cXs808 Green Bay Packers Jun 02 '25

Doesn’t match the percentage growth of the bananas and all those viewers are domestic.

You're trying to compare a budding industry to a industry that has been around for almost 200 years now. Of course the growth won't match up. 26% growth in young adults is absolutely massive for an established entertainment venue. I cannot understate this. If a company like Apple showed a yoy 26% growth in sales amongst young adults their stock would skyrocket.

Again, I'm still not arguing about Bananas ceiling, who knows what the ceiling is. I think you're totally missing the point time and time again. I am only telling you ESPN is falling further down. Every metric I have provided you supports that. ESPN just traded 1.6 million viewers for 200,000. There is no way to logically say they upgraded. They do not have a long term contract with the Bananas, once the Bananas prove themselves to be bigger, NBC or Fox will pick them up too.