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What is the worst rule in all of sports, in your opinion?
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What is the worst rule in all of sports, in your opinion?
Let's hear em?
I'll post mine in my next post as to not sway this thread one way or another in the OP. |
Defensive Pass Interference is getting there, but for me it's the DH.
I can't stand it, I know it makes for more exciting baseball, but I feel like baseball should be, you want to bat, you need to field a position. |
That NFL games actually have to be played in Qualcomm Stadium a minimum of 8 times a year.
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I already know we're irrelevant and that we suck balls. |
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Still bummed about the lowering the head rule.
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I think Baseball needs a MLB to rush the pitcher
maybe the shortstop can pass block what do you think? it would make baseball fun |
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The DH is a horrific rule. It gives the AL a massive advantage.
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The entire BCS.
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Right now the ice hockey delay of game penalty. If a player sends the puck directly off of the ice it is 2 minutes. It has been called many times. I have yet to see it be the correct call.
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Outside the tackles.
I don't hate the rule, I hate the way they call it. Defensive holding. It's a bailout call. |
The DH. Just goes against the spirit of the game. There might be screwier rules out there for other sports, but none are as far-reaching and game-changing.
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Here's something that's been bothering me lately. When a baserunner steals a base but because the catcher doesn't attempt a throw then it's indifference and not a stolen base. Just give the guy a stolen base for crying out loud! It's not like it matters!
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Only idiots walk the 8th hitter to get to the pitcher, BTW. Rolling the lineup over is a moronic tactical decision.
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Over the back call in basketball.
DH is one of my favorites. |
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No more chairshots to the head in WWE. Seriously weak rule.
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The dumbest rule in baseball is without a doubt being able to run to first on a strikeout if the catcher doesn't catch the ball. I mean seriously. That rule still boggles the mind.
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DH in baseball
Instigator penalty in hockey Defenseless receiver rule, and the new overtime rules, in football Almost every new rule or adjusted rule in the NBA post-80's era I could probably think of some others that are right up there at the top of the suck pile. |
If the tuck rule wasn't so rare it would be high on the list.
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I'm sorry, but when you recruit a basketball center, you factor in how they will defend vs. score vs. rebound, etc.... When you recruit a pitcher, their ability to hit is 0% of what they are asked to do, nor should it ever be more than 0%. It is the one position in all of sports where you ask a player to do something entirely outside of what they are recruited to do. It is like asking a kicker to play linebacker or a goalie to play offense. The result is that you have complete doofuses sitting in the batter's box and the best you can do is to teach them to bunt. You might as well just throw the at bat away. |
Possession arrow in college basketball.
Seriously? Is it that ****ing difficult to do a jump ball? |
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I also hate sudden death NFL overtime and can't wait for playoff overtime rules to become regular season rules. It drives me nuts that one team can lose a game so often without ever once holding the ball on offense. |
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Edit: wait, isn't that already how it is? |
Most people who dislike the DH are NL fans.
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Most of baseballs
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I hate knee-downs in football. I think they should be required to advance the ball and if they don't make positive yardage, the clock run-down doesn't start for that play. I want to see 60 minutes of football, not 57. I guess I'm okay if the team on offense is up by 2 touchdowns but if we're talking about a 21-18 game, nobody should be kneeling. Play the game.
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Another rule I despise is college rules for the restricted area under the basket.
To get called for the charge, you should be at least in the way of the basket, not standing underneath it |
Also lowering the mound was dumb.
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Let's face it. The dumbest rule of any sport (don't know why it just came to me) is the stupid-ass soccer rule to not have a clock for stoppage time.
How ****ing hard is it to show you exactly how much time is left in a game. |
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Why don't you ask the 2006 Detroit Tigers how important fielding their position is to pitchers? If Kyle Lohse doesn't get a bunt down in the 10th inning of Game 6, the Cardinals don't eventually win that game and the World Series. Paying some beer swilling **** like Jim Thome to sit in the video room for 3.5 hours a night and then look at 20 pitches while at bat four times is a hell of a sight farther away from "baseball" than a hitting pitcher. |
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I don't like the instigator rule in the NHL, but pass interference that can be marked as a 40 yard penalty is just ridiculous. Roughing the passer is getting a bit out of hand as well.
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The new rule about head lowering should be annoying.
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Name another position in any sport where a player is asked to do something so instrumental in a part of the game that had 0% bearing on why he was brought on to play. I would rather watch Jim Thome square off against a #1 pitcher than watch a grown man flail at a pitch like a little girl. |
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Most NL fans are bleeding vaginas. :) |
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In the NBA, you get free throws, which means you still have to earn your way to 2 or 3 points if you don't make the shot. In the NFL, you don't have to earn your way to those 40 yards. It might be a little different if holding rules weren't so damn strict. It would also be easier to take, except that really difficult catches with interference get 40 yards too. |
I have never liked the spot foul for pass interference but I also hate that CBs are called for such bogus penalties anymore.
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Ties in any sport. You win or you lose. If some team can't manage to win in OT then both teams deserve to lose.
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The Possession arrow in any basketball contest above the 5th grade level.
Defensive pass interference as a spot foul. Offensive holding that is 100% subjective to referee interpretation. NFHS/NCAA rules prohibiting a "down" lineman reporting as eligible. The prohibition against using instant replay in top level soccer to determine penalties or goals. |
Roughing The Passer, because it's called differently for every QB depending on what team they play for, their salary, public perception, likability and (most disturbing) their marketing power.
What's roughing the passer for Pey Pey is not what's roughing the passer for any random Chiefs or Browns QB. Pey Pey gets a hand graze on the shoulder pad the same instant the ball leaves his hand it's 15 yards and automatic first. Random Chiefs or Browns QB can get hit 3 seconds after the play helmet to helmet and have to leave for a series and it's a great defensive play. Alright I'm exaggerating a bit but I'm not that far off either. |
PI should be a 10 yard penalty.
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sorry in troll mode tonight listened to my bosses son tell me how great the Dbags are when I have less ****s to give about baseball than the wnba |
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The rules that protect QB's in the pocket. It's ridiculous. They've taken the fear out of pass rushers destroying a QB.
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The one where if a team takes a lead top of an inning, and the game is called because of rain, and the teams aren't scheduled to play again this season, the score reverts to the previous full inning where a team held a lead, thereby possibly giving a win to the team that is losing at the time the game is called.
(see tonight's currently delayed Royals-Cardinals game where KC is leading in the 9th 4-2 with bases loaded and no outs, but could lose the game if it is called.) |
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And PI should have two tiers. Incidental PI should be a 10 yard penalty or spot foul, whichever is shorter. Egregious PI should be a spot foul. It's clear that the refs need something between illegal contact and spot fouls
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The shady bounty shit in New Orleans is exactly why QB protections are in place. The Saints cheated by taking cheap shots at QBs. They succeeded in knocking Kurt Warner and Brett Favre out of critical playoff games. Quite possible they won the Minnesota game by cheating, because Favre didn't return for the critical last series of the game. It's the Tonya Harding effect. QBs are critical to a game, and the last thing you want is for a team to be incentivized to cheat by taking cheap shots that knock a QB out of a game. Most defensive players will take a fine and a 15 yard penalty if it means knocking a QB out of a game. |
No knees to the head of a grounded opponent is by far the one I detest the most.
I understand not allowing stomps/soccer kicks within a cage for obvious reasons, but knees to the head need to come back. |
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Speaking of college, I hate their 1 foot inbounds for receptions. |
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I hate that offensive holding is a 10-yard penalty.
Just negating the play is good enough. |
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If I were a conspiracy nut, this call would be what I would concentrate on. It can be called any time and it's absolutely devastating. |
Offside in pro hockey.
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DH is terrible strictly from a throwing at batters standpoint. That shit doesn't happen in the NL where you have to step into the box as well.
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In interleague play the NL pitchers wither get the status quo and bat like usual or they send a backup to the plate as a DH. AL pitchers aren't used to hitting at all. So when interleague play comes around they are out of their element and a team that is used to having a DH spot is now leaning on a pitcher. I guess what I am saying is it is much easier for a man on your bench to come in and bat than it is for you pitcher to quickly adapt to batting/bunting and pitching when he isn't used to it. |
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I'd bet that if there were any change to the DH rule, it would be the NL using a DH.
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