OT: Things in sports that need to disappear
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Wishful thinking , but I'll second your thought
ESPN will have him on for the next 5 years with an outrageous ( like he is) salary
Stephen A. Smith agrees to new $100 million deal with ESPN, per report
Stephen A. Smith and ESPN have reached agreement on a new five-year contract worth at least $100 million, according to The Athletic.
www.usatoday.com
now something to keep you up at night 😇
Add Pat Macaffe to the list of sportscasters who irritate me. Just give us the scores/results without all of the fluff.
Relative to more action in baseball: Lower the mound, again.
Would moving the rubber back 6 inches have a bigger impact? I have no idea. Just thinking out loud.
Get rid of the elbow guard on batters.
Enough of diving into every pitch, then flopping on the ground like a Duke hoops player on any pitch on the inner half of the plate.
Enough of diving into every pitch, then flopping on the ground like a Duke hoops player on any pitch on the inner half of the plate.
Multi-year contracts. Your salary for the next year should be based on your performance of the prior year, just like the majority of us.
I think the first one comes from the days of player-managers. (Don Kessinger of the 1979 Chicago White Sox is the last one I recall.)
The second one is kind of circular. Baseball players and basketball players expect to be yelled at and so they know how to tune it out. Tennis players and golfers don't expect it. A tradition of fans being noisy or quiet perpetuates itself.
To take a non-sports example, it is considered horrible to applaud between movements of a symphony. Audience members are expected to wait until the conductor drops his baton at the end. (This can be kind of embarrassing in modern music when there's often no dramatic end.) There is no reason for this custom.
In Basketball Flopping and allowing BS travels while calling every ticky tack finger touch as a foul
In Football Having replay but not allowing replay to be requested on certain calls or on egregious missed calls aka pro wrestling style, not having a sensor in football when you have every technology covering every angle in tv production, every tech covering every fraction of a pound during the combine, stupid ass new kickoff format
In Football Having replay but not allowing replay to be requested on certain calls or on egregious missed calls aka pro wrestling style, not having a sensor in football when you have every technology covering every angle in tv production, every tech covering every fraction of a pound during the combine, stupid ass new kickoff format
After an interception or fumble recovery the WHOLE defensive team runs to the end zone to pose, preen, and just plain look silly.
All of the end zone celebrations have gotten out of hand, along with all of the preening after making a simple tackle. It's all about ME now.
Don't know if this was mentioned already
"Stay ahead of the chains."
When you think about it what the heck does that mean?????
"Stay ahead of the chains."
When you think about it what the heck does that mean?????
The "Euro step" in basketball. Watched a guy run to the basket from the foul line with a Euro step.
It's former name was "a walk".
It's former name was "a walk".
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Bowling with string pins especially when it’s used for a sanctioned league. I’ve seen pins fall down a couple times during the course of the evening without any effort with the help of the strings. While it hasn’t impacted the outcome of the matches so far, I can see some disputes occur as the season is finishing up.
Also think pass interference calls should be spot fouls at the college level (still thinking how Cincy beat RU the week after Louisville) and for HS/Youth it should be an automatic 1st down. It’s punishing the teams that can pass well.
Also think pass interference calls should be spot fouls at the college level (still thinking how Cincy beat RU the week after Louisville) and for HS/Youth it should be an automatic 1st down. It’s punishing the teams that can pass well.
I absolutely love when they do that and there team is down by 28 or 35 points. Really? You're getting your ass kicked on the field.
I can’t get enough of this video
I really enjoy the game thread on Rutgers men's baseball. I can sign on hours after a game and read each at bat for the entire game in 10 or 15 minutes total. There is no way I could sit through an entire baseball game from LL to MLB.
Let me add, I have not watched 1 inning of MLB this century. (Sorry Zappa !!)
The delay of game in football.
Why delay the game?
Let the play run then assess the penalty at the spot at the end of the play.
On an interception or fumble recovery by the defense add the 5 yards to the yardage or set it to first and 5 for the recovering team. If the results of the play is a touchdown, assess the 5 yard penalty to the receiving team after the kickoff, first and 15.
Why delay the game?
Let the play run then assess the penalty at the spot at the end of the play.
On an interception or fumble recovery by the defense add the 5 yards to the yardage or set it to first and 5 for the recovering team. If the results of the play is a touchdown, assess the 5 yard penalty to the receiving team after the kickoff, first and 15.
No way, These pitchers throw 100 with a fraction of the control the guys of 25 years ago had. It's gotta be terrifying in the box against some of these guys. Let the batters protect themselves.
The spot of a football is not dependent on the location of the ball alone. How do you determine when the player is down?
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