​Major League Baseball held its annual All-Star game on Tuesday. While some believe it remains the best All-Star game in sports, ESPN’s Buster Olney said that midsummer classic is “in a fragile state.” So how will baseball fix its annual showcase? Unfortunately, the answer seems all too obviously.The night after the All-Star game ESPN held the ESPYS, a celebration of all the cool stuff that had happened in sports over the last year. If viewers tuned in for the start of the show the first thing they saw was the Savannah Bananas who opened the show with a song and dance.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThis is notable for a couple reasons. First, the Savannah Bananas are everywhere at ESPN. They signed a deal earlier this year to carry 25 games this year and 12 of them will air on ESPN, ESPN2 and Disney+ between now and the end of August. This performance was marketing for upcoming ESPN content.The second thing is that song. It’s an original.While Banana Ball is well known for theatrical lip syncing, this one featured a real singer who joined the team earlier this year. Derek Klena is a former Broadway actor nwho played baseball as a freshman at UCLA.The song was written by the team behind music from Dear Evan Hansen and The Greatest Showman. Forget lip syncing, the Savannah Bananas are now starting to do honest to God musical theater.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementNowhere is the permanence of the Savannah Bananas so apparent than inside my living room. My children have decided that Banana Ball is the only sport worth watching. There is no escaping the Party Animals, Clowns, Firefighters, Tailgaters and especially the Loco Beach Coconuts. It’s just all so wacky.A few weeks ago, I found myself helping out at field day at Elementary School. Some kids were playing kickball and one fouled one off which I caught. “That’s an out,” another volunteering parent said. “Yup, Banana Ball rules,” I added without hesitation.What has my life become?The Bananas have even permeated prestige television. Or at least whatever you want to call high-gloss, big name Apple TV shows like Cape Fear. The third adaptation of the 1957 book “The Executioners,” stars Javier Bardem, Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson. Martin Scorsese (who directed the 1991 movie) and Steven Spielberg are executive producers. This is supposed to be serious Hollywood thriller stuff.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAnd then in the second episode they referenced the Savannah Bananas.Please tell me lawyers in Georgia aren’t really dropping the Savannah Bananas in regular conversation. This man’s son just (SPOILER ALERT) had his toe cut off and he’s making Savannah Bananas jokes? This has to stop.Unfortunately, that song they sang last night makes it sounds like they’re just getting started. Let’s hope by the time the 2027 MLB All-Star game rolls around it’s not the only baseball we’re allowed to watch.