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Because of The Blackening, the Santa Cruz Bananas are required to occasionally replace the entire bunch of bananas with new bananas. This led to the nickname "Ship of Theseus" for the Bananas early on in the Pseudo Cup.

As the Pseudo Cup progressed, the Bananas continued to fail to reach the Pseudo Cup series. At the end of Pseudo/Season 9, when the Bananas were swept for a third time in the Egalitarian Eight series (and by the Seaside Swashbucklers , of all teams, who would be incinerated for poor performance 11 seasons later), they (along with the San Jose Avionics in the San Francisco Bay League) began to be referred to as Choke Artists. Their lack of success was attributed to The Blackening, so the subsequent curse was called the Curse of Theseus.