Thursday, August 6th, marks the 70th anniversary of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing over 60,000 people. So, what would it look like if that bomb was dropped on Bismarck-Mandan?
The full-blown Kiss concert experience is big enough to require the occasional use of pre-recorded backing tracks, but that doesn't mean the group has forgotten how to deliver an old-fashioned, stripped-down acoustic set.
If you're not familiar with an eephus pitch, it's basically a junk pitch thrown by a pitcher that is super slow and has a high-arcing trajectory.
This pitcher, Kazuhito Tadano, of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of the Japanese Pacific League, has the eephus pitch mastered.
Scoring on seven of eight tries for a soccer goal with only a robotic goalie that can sway side to side to block the ball should be easy, right?
All you need to do is kick the ball anywhere but the center of the goal.
However, on this crazy Japanese game show, this player, Argentina great Lionel Messi, shows that it is much more difficult than it seems.