What's better than professional wrestling?

Pantomimed professional wrestling, of course! Before you watch, I'll give you three guesses as to what country in which this amazing acting display took place.



Damn, you know you suck when you lose to an invisible wrestler.

Asian Persuasion - Waka Inoue

Well, it's been a while (just moved cities), but I'm back - & I must say: DAMN, the girls in Fukuoka are hot!

So... speaking of hot Japanese chicks - Waka Inoue:

Second best ceremonial pitch evar

Marisa Miller. First pitch. Wrigley Field. Yeah...



Oh yeah, what was the Best Ceremonial Pitch Evar? This was...



UPDATE: Found some pics of Marisa at the game. You're welcome...


And if you're into SI swimsuit models (go figure), you might like THIS.

H/T: FanIQ

Top 10: Baseball Oddities

Gepetto here.

With baseball season right around the corner, I thought it would be good to take a look at some of the stranger moments in the game. We're all used to seeing the Cubs choke, the Devil Rays lose, or the Toronto Blue Jays cry about their division placement. Let's look at some of the unexpected, shall we?

#10

Pay attention!

#9

Bunting for a triple? Only the Cubs.

#8.

If you're going to charge the mound, you had better make sure the catcher can't stop you.

#7.

People still care in AA, and apparently also smoke crack. Bonus points for the rosin grenade.

#6.

Who uses an eephus pitch? Bonus: He gets the K.

#5.

Being outside of America only means the Red Sox will overpay for this guy.

#4.

Throwing the ball back at the batters' head? OK.

#3.

I'm not much of a physics guy, but I'm pretty sure rounded objects don't do that.

#2.

Losing in a college game? Try this!

#1.

Randy Johnson winds up, and detonates a bird with his fastball. Easily the strangest thing...ever.

The Chicago Cubs have no problem offending people

Below you see the new marketing campaign the Cubs came up with to introduce their latest hopeful, Japanese import Kosuke Fukudome.



Cool looking, huh?

One problem though. The Rising Sun Flag image that they used... yeah it's offensive to millions of people. Nice job. Team President and marketing wiz John McDonough's been gone, what, two months and the Cubbies marketing is already effing things up. Glad to see things are getting back to normal on Clark and Addision.

The Rising Sun Flag is the military flag of Japan. It had been used as the ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the war flag of the Imperial Japanese Army until the end of World War II. It is also presently the ensign of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the war flag of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.

This flag is often considered offensive in countries which were victims of Japanese hostility, particularly China, Australia, United States and the Koreas, where it is seen as alarming, nationalistic and hostile. (Wikipedia)

Well, as long as it's only small countries they are offending I guess it's ok.

UPDATE: My man, Don, in Japan, gives us his take on this.