About a year ago, I shared an earnest question on IOK’s Facebook page: Why couldn’t the Knoxville Smokies be more like the Savannah Bananas?
We could be … wait for it … the Knoxville Kudzu.
Readers were quick to educate and adjudicate. First, it’s two totally separate leagues, each with its own objectives. Fair. But from there the online discussion, between baseball purists and people wondering how we too might get a lil slice of that banana pie, got interesting. How do you balance tradition with innovation?…