Hawai'i Fridays/Fan Culture

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The remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.

Vibes

Newspaper clipping of some Season 2 Hawai'i Fridays players chilling together.

The Fridays are blessed/cursed by Our Lady of Perpetual Friday. For the Fridays, it is always island time. Players cannot feel the passing of the hours for it is always late afternoon on Friday, a time to stop worrying about the trials of the week and instead a time to hang out with family and friends. No matter the temperature, the Fridays experience the weather as a cool 70-something degrees with a pleasant ocean breeze. The smell of pit oven smoke lingers around them. They are fun at parties.

The Fridays are a workers' cooperative where each player owns an equal stake in the team. Departing players give their shares to transfers. There are no coaches, managers, or non-player owners. Everyone on the team fills these roles simultaneously.

The Fridays never go home from a game before celebrating with the opposing team.

Officially recognized as the most chill team, they frequently arrive late to games as they are always on island time.

Season 3 team members relaxing between games.

Uniform

There is no official Fridays uniform. Players wear whatever they want, sometimes in team colors, sometimes not, although 'aloha print' patterns seemed to be historically preferred among players. Despite not having a uniform, the Fridays do have a dress code: if wearing a shirt, at least one button must be unbuttoned to feel the ocean breeze. It is unclear if any player has read the dress code.

Blaseball players of various teams having fun at a Fridays beach cookout.

Rivals

None.

Friends

The Dallas Steaks, Chicago Firefighters, LA Unlimited Tacos, Kansas City Breath Mints, San Francisco Lovers, Boston Flowers, Charleston Shoe Thieves, Yellowstone Magic, New York Millennials, Hades Tigers, Philly Pies, Baltimore Crabs, Mexico City Wild Wings, Moab Hellmouth Sunbeams, Canada Moist Talkers, Breckenridge Jazz Hands, Seattle Garages, Miami Dale, Tokyo Lift, Core Mechanics, Atlantis Georgias, Ohio Worms and Houston Spies are always invited to post-game celebrations.

Mascots

Juice Collins, Don Mitchell, Evelton McBlase, Stevenson Heat, and Beck Whitney going to the Blellagio after a game. By @ch00beh

There is no official team mascot. At various times, the Fridays mascot has been: any bird in the vicinity of the game currently going on (often Hawaiian honeycreepers, such as Fletcher Yamamoto himself), a fan dressed up as a volcano, Our Lady of Perpetual Friday, C O C O N U T, or literally anything silly that shows up to the game. During his time on the team, Gabriel Griffith has been known to take it upon himself to act as a mascot when not pitching.

Sponsorships

While the team was historically open to sponsorships, with the departure of York Silk and companies unable to sponsor Jacob Winner (despite their best efforts), the team has stopped accepting sponsorship offers.

Hawai'i Fridays Skate Gang

The Hawai’i Fridays Skate Gang, or just Skate Gang, is a splort association and network for Fridays, fans, and Hawaiians who like skateboarding. For many years, it existed in a loose, more casual form, but it was officially established and incorporated into the larger Fridays organization by Mordecai Kingbird after his transfer and move to Hawai’i in the β16 Postseason.

In one interview, a fellow skateboarding down Interstate H-2 while being chased after by a reporter said, “The #SkateGang was originally started by a bunch of us Fridays fans who would skateboard to games and bang our boards against the bleachers to celebrate. Then Mordecai came and made it an official part of the Fridays. That’s when they got the Fletcher Yamamoto Memorial Grind Rail (He's not dead, it's fine).” The Skate Gang tend to know the spots with the best vibes and are often the first to relocate when the vibes shift. Known for their love for all things groovy and radical, the group commonly heralds their unofficial slogan: “Skate or die”. When asked what this meant, avid skateboarder and cousin Annick Throgmorten commented, “You either skate, or you die.”

Despite it’s informal manner, the Skate Gang has played an important role for and by the Fridays in-game. In Season β17, they played a hand in the effort to recover previous Fridays player Alyssa Harrell after her Redaction. The team managed to bring her back, bring her home, and give her a skateboard all in one go. Similarly, upon the opening of the Hall of Flame and the melting of the Coin in Season β24, the newly revived Hawai’i Fridays navigated full speed directly from the Hall and towards the Horizon to complete one last skateboard trick before all of Baseball was nullified. This was due to the efforts of the Skate Gang, excited to be back in the game (though they were not back in the games), allowing the team to finish out the era in proper Fridays’ style.

The Skate Gang is open to any and all folks who want to join. While there is no official list of membership, notable members of the Skate Gang include: Kingbird, Throgmorten, Harrell, Fletcher Berger II, Yasslyn Statter Jr., and community members such as local teen rascals and an actual bunny.

Chants

Team-Wide

• It's Island Time!
• TGIF
• Friday is inevitable
• It's Friday!
• trans gender its friday

For Other Teams

• Friday Night Magic! (with the Yellowstone Magic)
• OFWAFC (On Friday, We Are From Chicago) (with the Chicago Firefighters)

Current Players

Player	Cheer
Annick Throgmorten	That's our cousin! Throgchamp!
Haruta Byrd	Byrd up!
Justice Spoon	Spoon scoops it! 🥄
Oxen Seo	Holy cow!
Sexton Wheerer	I trust Sexton Wheerer. No L in his name no L in his game. Scuttle scuttle. Wheerer, Wheerer, he's our man, if he can't do it no one can! Wheerer, Wheerer, he's our horse, if he can't do it, no remorse!.

Former Players

Player	Cheer
Alyssa Harrell	Harrell Check!
Basilio Fig	Fig hits big!
Beck Whitney	H*cks for Beck!
Fenry Marlow	(when they pitch a home run) HOMER, GO FETCH!
Gabriel Griffith	GG!
Jacob Winner	Winner Winner!
Juice Collins	Blame it on the Juice! The juice is loose!
Melton Campbell	WHATSOUP!
Mordecai Kingbird	That's our skatebird!
Nagomi Mcdaniel	GO MI
Spears Taylor	Cheers for Spears! / Fears for Spears!
Sutton Dreamy	Dream on! / Dreamy Dreamy hot and steamy!
Thomas England	(whenever he is mentioned at all in the discord) who? (using discord reacts) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Valentine Games	Val, Val, he's our gal, if they can't do it no one shall! (or "she's our pal")
York Silk	York's Our Dork!

Short Circuits Players

Player	Cheer
Moth Frosting	(whenever they do anything at all or are mentioned in any way) Moth Frosting
Squid Broom	🦑🧹

Memorabilia

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  Team cap.

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  Fridays blaseball plogs (or Tlopps brand Ploggs), Season 4.

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  Fridays clock purchasable in the beachside gift shop.

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  Tlopps blaseball cards for the Season 3 team.

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  Out on the Beach Blaseball 21 for the Nintendo Switch.

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  Beanball for the Game Boy Color, first in a series of games featuring Fridays mainstay Karato Bean.

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