p.t. barnumb had and remembered without anything happening nothing happened. >> we wanted to be something that people liked. >> they got thousands of responses but one stood out. >> we had one suggestions from this woman and it was the bananas. my wife and i talked to each other, looked at our president and said we can have fun with this. for the next couple weeks we started thinking about all the ideas but we also said the community could hate it. but we said we have to take chances. if it's normal, do the opposite. there's no team that's a bah na, no team named after fruit. so we went all in. >> toby rice has been coming to baseball games since he was 4 years old. his response was echoed all over sa van na. >> i was not happy. i did not like it at first. i hated it. >> channelling p.t. barum again they pushed through the negative response clinging to the idea there is no such thing as bad pu police cli. >> they've done a tremendous job here. it was not without hurdles and nay sayers. so i comment them on not letting that tear them down. >> with the start of the season the community bega