Germans like racing kitchen appliances

I had no idea about this, but apparently over in Germany wok-racing is a real sport. Yeah, woks. They modify Chinese woks and race them down an Olympic bobsled track in real competitions. Sounds incredibly safe to me. I'm going to see what I can get out of my cheese grater this winter.

HT: Neatorama

-WCK

The Xtreme Baseball League refuses to die

Every so often we check in on the Xtreme Baseball League, and we almost always expect it to have folded every time we visit the official web site. But for some reason, that hasn't happened yet. And, as we found out recently, it's actually expanding. Yes, you read that right. The league that may be the worst idea in sports history, has actually added two more teams.

Originally there were only two teams, now they've got four. Luckily if you live outside Florida, you won't see any of these teams play.

But we find the growth of this league disturbing beyond belief. After all, we mentioned in the past that this league has plans to expand to 32 teams by 2009. Perhaps the best line from a commenter about the expansion plan was: "This crap will last about 2 weeks once they expand. A very horrible idea indeed."

We naturally agreed. But it seems the league doesn't give a damn, despite having no fans and no support. Somebody really needs to put this league out of its misery, or get more YouTube clips of it up on the web. That would work too.

Anyway, as is stipulated in our contract here at the blog, whenever the league manages to put stuff up about itself, we're required to make fun of it. Here are some pics from the most recent thrilling game played about 2 weeks ago featuring the new Tampa Bay Black Sox against the old fart Orlando Pythons. We really don't care who won. In fact, no one won. Everyone lost for being a part of this travesty.

On to the pics.

Ah yes. The stands are packed with fans cheering on our semi-employed heroes.


Apparently you can sag your pants like a wannabe gangbanger in this league. Sag Master definitely looks professional, doesn't he? And by "looks professional" we mean "looks like a complete tool."


No matter how many times we see it, a guy rounding first to get to home never gets any easier - because it's not supposed to happen, ever. Also good to see they have an orange cone on the field of play out there. Excellent work.


We'd like to think he's getting hit by pitch, because that stance is horrible. We'd also like to think he's getting hit by a pitch because we're assholes.


This may or may not have been a close play, since there are two homes. Whatever, we don't care.

-100%

Today's filler

As I explained on Friday's links, I'm at a wedding this weekend. And I said I would barely be posting. Well, I have lived up to that billing. I'm not going to do any links today because it's real slow. But fear not, I still have an interesting clip for you. It's glacier surfing from Alaska, which is honestly pretty damn extreme. And I know what you're thinking, this is fake. Well, it's not. It was on the news in San Diego and a few other places as well. I also know for a fact that people do surf in Alaska - I've seen it before - which when you stop and think about it is also pretty damn extreme. So anyway, this is real and it's definitely going to cause major shrinkage.


-WCK

An interesting way to potentially kill yourself

I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with Frenchman Jean Yves Blondeau. He's basically a guy who got a little too caught up in the rollerblade fad years back and has since turned himself into a human version of said fad. He's like the love child of the guy from Tron and a skateboard.

He rolls down hills now, HEAD FIRST, at ridiculous speeds. This is a video of him on some Korean game show competeing against a 600cc motorcycle to see who could get down some mountain faster.

All I can say is, the guy's got balls, even though he clearly has no brain whatsoever.

-WCK

Ride the log

This is an out of left field post. What we've got here is video of the Onbashira Festival that is held once every six years in Nagano, Japan.

Why are we showing this to you? Because it's from Japan, and everything from Japan is awesome. It also may be the craziest "sport" I've seen in well, pretty much forever. Essentially, you get on a log with 30 other guys, hang on tight, and try not to get killed as the log barrels down a hill at 25 mph. Only residents of Suwa city in Nagano are allowed to ride the log, so don't worry, you can't do this.

This sport has a track record of horrific injuries and deaths, which is what happens when you try and ride a multi-ton log. Don't worry, everyone in the video from 2004 was ok. Maybe if we work hard we can bring this sport to America. Or maybe not.

-WCK

From the "Sports that shouldn't exist" file, we bring you extreme wheelbarrowing

And all this time I thought the only thing wheelbarrows were good for was hauling chicken feed to the barn and wheeling home drunk friends. Think of all the fun I could have been having instead with my wheelbarrow, like grinding cows and hurdling manure patches. The possibilities are limitless, until someone beats the shit out of me for doing this.

And in case you're wondering, this is a real sport, and it comes from England. It was shockingly begun by two bored guys at a construction site. What are the odds?! Perhaps the best quote comes from one of the inventors. "Who knows, one day kids might ask their parents for wheelbarrows for Christmas." You said it man, I can't wait to get mine.

And just in case you didn't get enough extreme wheelbarrowing from the first video, how about some synchronized extreme wheelbarrowing set to "Come on Eileen." It's like experiencing hell before you even get there.



-WCK

More crap from the Xtreme Baseball League

I gave up a career at McDonald's for this? What was I thinking?

As you all know, we have a special place in our hearts for Xtreme Baseball - the league that manages to make baseball even more confusing than it already is. We won't refresh you with the insane details of the sport, since you already know them. If not, just click the link in the last sentence.

Anyway, there are now some pictures of the fourth exhibition game up and we'd like to bring you some of the best.

It wouldn't be Xtreme Baseball without an opening pitch by a fat old guy.

The stands were packed with loyal fans.

There's nothing quite like stealing first base. Except maybe puking in your mouth.

The real home plate is a bit back and to your left, big guy.

Sweet merciful crap. What the hell is going on in this picture?

After the game I'm going back to cleaning toilets. It's preferable to this.

If you'd like to see all the pictures, and who doesn't, you can see them here. You might also like to know that players get $100 for each game played.

Personally I'd rather slang crack on a street corner than be seen playing Xtreme Baseball, but that's just me.

-WCK

Everything has gone extreme, including wheelchairs

We're, uh, just going to throw this out there for you. It's the extreme sport none of us ever saw coming. Extreme wheelchairing, complete with grinds, air, horrific wipeouts and backflips. We're not responsible for your comments.

-WCK

I'd watch ice skating if it were like this

[We just learned this appeared on With Leather a long time ago, but enjoy it anyway, it's been a while]

Ice skating has a problem in the US. It doesn't reach a broad enough market. Unless you're female or gay you don't watch it. So how can we improve it to bring it to the sports-watching masses?

Well, what if instead of being on the ice, we were on the highway. And instead of doing a double salchow, we slid on pavement at 40 mph. And just for fun, we switched skates with sandals.

Wait, this sport already exists?

Yes, yes it does. It's called sandal surfing. You get on the highway, open your car door, hang on to the door, and skid on your sandals at 40+ mph. Yes, that's right, I said SANDALS.

There's certainly a lot more riding on each trick, like someone's life. That'd get me watching.

By the way, this underground sport comes to us courtesy of Saudi Arabia. Makes me sleep well at night knowing we get oil from these guys.

-WCK