Little League Wii

Last night the phone rings. It's Brandon.

"Hey man, what are you doing?" he asks.

And this is a true story. When he called, I was currently icing my right shoulder. All thanks to the Wii.

On Saturday I got a new Wii game. Little League World Series.

You pitch, you throw, you hit, you run bases, you catch. You do it all. With moving around.

I hadn't got a chance to play until last night. I opted for the World Series right away.

I formed my all-star player and then had the option of which team I wanted to play with. I decided that I would be Canada. Go Canada.

My first game, against Japan, went into extra innings. And despite the fact that I switched pitchers in the top of seventh, I (as in me) was still the one throwing the pitches with the Wii remote. I finally won in the 8th, (as 6 is a normal game) with a score of 7-2. I put up 5 runs that inning.

Then, being so gleeful about my win. I decided to play a second game. This time I took on Asia Pacific and again the game went into extra innings. I won 9-8 on a home run by non-other than my look-a-like character.

But I had thrown probably over 200 pitches and my arm was aching. I grabbed the ice packs and had the trainer tape them on my throwing shoulder.

Oh well. Team Canada is currently sitting atop their international bracket with a 2-0 record. And I'll have to make sure I'm ready for tomorrow's game against Europe.

Fat pitcher loses weight with Wii Fit

No, it's not Carlos Silva, but San Diego closer Heath Bell reportedly lost 25 pounds during the off-season by playing Wii-Fit.

...the hard-throwing Bell credits his Nintendo Wii Fit game for helping him lose 25 pounds. He reported to camp at a svelte 245 pounds.

"It said I was obese," said Bell, who weighed 270 pounds when he began playing the video game in the offseason. "I was disappointed that I was that big. I literally took the game to heart. I did the work but I kind of credit the Wii Fit."

Now I'll admit the first time I played Wii Sports with some friends I had some soreness the next day. However, that's a computer-bound, journalist, who had a beer gut and the metabolism of Jabba the Hutt.

When you're a professional athlete, shouldn't you have to do more than play a video game to lose 25 pounds? I mean what was he doing before that in the offseason that couldn't work off the fat? Seeing who could down the most steaks at the Outback Steakhouse?

Thanks Bell, for making baseball players look like overweight World of Warcraft Players...

Oh wait, that's my favorite baseball player - Curt Schilling.