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@bananaball for the @thetexastailgaters 🌭 #85
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The Texas Tailgaters use all of their Coach Franchises to bring back 17 members of their championship-winning squad 🏆
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A lot of people don’t know this about me but I’ve never won a championship. In pro ball I got a few rings but I was never there for the big moment. 

In 14 years of competitive baseball here is my road to glory: 

High School Era: 

2013: freshman b!tch boy on varsity. Didn’t play a lick all season 
2014: missed playoffs and blew out my elbow mid season and couldn’t play (I was 15 at the time) 
2015: missed playoffs
2016: lost first playoff game

College Era: 

2017: missed playoffs 
2018: missed playoffs 
2019: missed playoffs

Pro Ball Era: 

2019: missed playoffs 
2020: …yup
2021: torn hip labrum. Missed half of season. Came back and missed playoffs
2022: high A south bend cubs win championship. I wasn’t there. I was in Tennessee where we made it all the way to the championship and lost. I got us there in the semi playoffs but never played in the championship series. 
2023: AAA missed playoffs (very hard to win a AAA championship because one league has 10 teams and the other has twenty. Not to mention turnover is nuts)
2024: AAA missed playoffs 

I actually started thinking that maybe we’re not winning because I was the problem. Whether it’s true or not, at this point I was just in it for myself. 

2025: played at all levels except the Big Leagues and every team I was on lost in the playoffs. 

Banana Ball Era: 

2026: BANANA BOWL CHAMPION!!!

There’s a reason I collapsed to my knees when we won. I couldn’t believe it. All that work had finally paid off. 

To everyone that I’ve ever played with, worked with, or had the pleasure of meeting through this game… Thank you ❤️

Some of you aren’t here anymore. But in one way or another, you were all right there with me. 💙🧡
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A year I will always hold dearly to me. A team I will always be there for. And the first Banana Bowl Championship that will always belong to the Texas Tailgaters. Gater up. 
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#fyp #bananaball #bananabowl #baseballboys  #
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Hard to put this into words. We showed up for each other all season, through the chaos and the grind, and it turned into something historic. Proud doesn’t even cover it. 

Thank you to this team, this organization , and every fan who made this season feel like family. Champions #TYJ
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Gater’d Up.

Spawned into @bananaball and won a 💍 with a group I now call family. 

Countless memories made, lives impacted, and hacky sacks ripped. 

Wouldn’t have written it any other way. 

TYJ. 
JKS.
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