What is the worst rule in all of sports, in your opinion?

[Demonpenz]

Handballs and fouls inside the box in soccer that are not called for PK's drive me batty. In general the officials that don't make correct calls because they want the "players to decide the game" make me batty. Call the game correct or make the rules state "In the event of a close fought game a ref shall not get involved the game even if there are rules violations".

Speed up baseball games. A Shot clock (pitch clock) for pitchers. I hate that relievers have warm up tosses when they come to the mound they should have the warmed up in the pen and be ready to go when they come in.

There are tons of them in football but I am not going into that. I think hockey fights and hockey goons are lame as well.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

Handballs and fouls inside the box in soccer that are not called for PK's drive me batty. In general the officials that don't make correct calls because they want the "players to decide the game" make me batty. Call the game correct or make the rules state "In the event of a close fought game a ref shall not get involved the game even if there are rules violations".

Yeah, that's the same argument that I have with basketball. WTF?! A foul is a foul!

[milkman]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

Speed up baseball games. A Shot clock (pitch clock) for pitchers. I hate that relievers have warm up tosses when they come to the mound they should have the warmed up in the pen and be ready to go when they come in.

I don't know about the most stupid rules, but I agree with this.

Which brings me to another couple of rules that need to be addressed.

Intentional walks.

Just tell the ump you intend to walk the batter and let the ump simply award him the base rather than waste the time to toss the 4 pitches.

And don't give me the old, "Well the pitcher might throw a wild pitch" argument.
How many times has anyone ever seen that?

In football, defensive holding should not be an automatic first down.