Just for your information, the only reason for this post is because I don’t want a post about child molestation at the top of my page.
That being said; this video is a follow-up to this post, made a couple of months ago, about the plight of the Sumo in Japan:
Konichiwa, bitches!
Okay, I thought my day was finished, but when something this bloggable happens in your own backyard, you’re honor-compelled to post about it. A Loudon County, Tennessee middle school baseball coach has been told to stop making his players don the boxing gloves and duke it out. According to Knoxnews:
Kevin Gentry, a first-year principal at Philadelphia Middle School, said he asked boys baseball coach Brian Curtis, who’s in his second year, to stop the boxing matches after numerous parent complaints.
“I have addressed the issue,” Gentry said. “There will be no more boxing or sparring during baseball practice.”
And here’s the kicker:
Gentry confirmed the “bouts” were conducted without protective equipment other than boxing gloves.
That means that he was letting little kids hammer the shit out of each other to the head with reckless abandon. Um, principle/principal (I never could get those two words straight), I don’t think that just making him stop is enough. I mean he’s hired to turn kids into Derek Jeter; not Floyd Mayweather, or Tito Ortiz. But hey, maybe I’m over-reacting, when you think about it, who hasn’t gone out on a Saturday night, thrown a couple of twelve-year-olds into a pit and bet on which one would survive. I did that shit two weeks ago.
(I don’t know who the kids in the pic are, but they look like they could whoop some serious ass)
Wrestling fans have a lot of votes.
True, most of us don’t use them, but we still have them. At least those of us not convicted felons.
Okay, so half of wrestling fans have a lot of votes. And that’s why the 2 1/2 presidential candidates, chose to ply their promo skills in VKM’s world. Hillary looked uncomfortable (Hill-Rod?), Obama was a natural, and McCain was surprisingly funny. In the actual promos on Raw, they went a little longer, and McCain got off a “that’s the bottom line, because John McCain said so”, blast. I’m not sure that I’d really be pushing myself on WWE after the year that they’ve had, but hey, that’s why I don’t manage political campaigns.
Vote Pedro!
In 1 1/3 innings. Ouch.
According to YahooSports:
The coach of Kawamoto technical high school threw in the towel to spare his pitcher’s arm with his team losing 66-0 with just one batter out in the bottom of the second.
The hapless hurler had already sent down over 250 pitches, allowing 26 runs in the first inning and 40 in the second before Kawamoto asked for mercy.
“At that pace the pitcher would have thrown around 500 pitches in four innings,” Kawamoto’s coach was quoted as saying. “There was a danger he could get injured.”
Like this didn’t already injure him? Good thing he’s Japanese, because the way we coddle our kids here in the States, this guy would be in therapy tomorrow, and pimped out by his parents on Dr. Phil by Thursday.
It was so bad a beating that the score was changed to show a 9-0 victory instead of the slaughter that it was. I do have one question and I believe that it’s a good one. Has the coach ever heard of a freaking reliever? You left this kid out there to get just completely blasted and then act like you did something great by throwing in the towel? It was 66-0!
I have been unable to determine whether or not the kid’s last name is Japanese for Mussina. No, wait, Mussina hasn’t thrown 250 pitches in the last three years combined, no way he’s related to this kid.
Barack Obama on HBO’s Real Sports. Talkin ’bout how important sports were to his life and other stuff. Am I the only one that gets a little uncomfortable that Obama is a black man who is trying to run for president and we’re busy trying to find out about his jump shot? Just seems like a weird conversation to be having. Nobody’s asking Hillary or McCain about their hoop skills. I’m not really saying that this is playing into a stereotype, I’m just wondering why it’s even a conversation, and why Obama is agreeing to give this kind of an interview.
Sir Charles
