Friday, July 08, 2005

You're Out!

It seems the International Olympic Commitee has decided to rid the world of 2 sports at the 2012 games. Now the last time a sport was removed from the Olympics was polo in 1936. So what could be more uninteresting than polo? Ping-pong? Nope. Curling? No way. Shooting? Not with the good chances the Middle East has this year. Canoeing? Be serious. How about Women's Beach Volleyball? Not unless they put clothes on. So what sport could be lower than curling?
Baseball and it's evil step-sister, Softball.
That's right America's past-time and it beer-guzzling cousin have been cut. I started thinking though, couldn't you just combine it with some of the lesser known sports to make it a little more interesting?
You could play softball on the curling ice.
Combine shooting with Baseball, with the outfielders allowed to shoot fly balls out of the air.
How about all the softball players being required to wear bikinis?
Baseball with ping-pong balls?
Or combine them all: A basball game, played on ice, with women in bikinis, armed with rifles, being pushed in canoes, and played with ping-pong balls. We could call it "Mega-Boredom".
I bet with a $20 bribe to the right IOC member we could make this happen.

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