How Far Can You Throw a Paper Airplane?

First it was flight simulators, now it's paper airplane simulators. Good luck!

PS2 Video Game Injures Key Tigers' Pitcher

During the baseball playoffs, the Detroit Tigers lost one of the most important members of their bullpen, Joel Zumaya, to injury. The Detroit Free Press reports that this injury was caused by Zumaya playing the Playstation 2 video game Guitar Hero. Will contracts need to have a video game playing clause?

What's up with Kansas City baseball teams?

First the Royals suck, now the Northern League's Kansas City T-Bones are resorting to video games. The T-Bones have teamed with CompUSA to offer the CompUSA Ultimate Baseball Challenge: two video game players will play the first two innings of a game between the T-Bones and the Schaumberg (Ill.) Flyers using a Microsoft XBox on the electronic scoreboard, and then, regardless of the score, the real teams will play the rest of the game. Maybe the Royals should try this promotion- their video game team has to be better than their real team!

A Royal Disgrace

The Kansas City Royals are a really bad team. As of today, they've won a mere 10 games and have lost 13 in a row, and they're already 22 games out of first place. So how do you drum up fan support? A group of Royals fans (yes, they really do exist) have an idea. They've created Royales With Cheese, a blog listing new promotions that the Royals could use to attract more fans to their games. Some of the promotions include replacing the basepaths with Crocodile Mile, a Matt Stairs and Runelvys Hernandez pie eating contest, and celebrity guest manager. The site also spotlights the Doug Mientkiewicz Fan Club, and Royals' highlights using Nintendo's RBI Baseball.

Video Games Simulating Reality

Some guy with way too much time on his hands simulated the bottom of the 10th inning of Game Six of the 1986 World Series using scenes from the Nintendo Game RBI Baseball. Vin Scully's classic play-by-play of the Mets' comeback against the Red Sox (helped by Bill Buckner's famous goof) is spliced together with video from the famed Nintendo game.