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Post by XIII on Jan 25, 2020 20:07:43 GMT -5
I really think that QB kneels should be a penalty if the it’s a one score game, should be some kind of rule where you have to try to advance the ball in that situation, if the game is out of reach by all means let them kill the clock and get out of there but otherwise just play the game.
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fw91
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Post by fw91 on Jan 25, 2020 22:12:57 GMT -5
MLB not having every team play each other during the regular season. Why tho? MLB not having a tiebreaker system for a 162 game season. Here's a way to fix it: Add 2 more teams, similar to the NFL's 32 team format. 8 divisions, 4 teams. Have the playoff format 5-7-7-7. No play-in games. 8 division winners, 4 wild cards. Seeded format based on division winners getting top seeds. World Series has the 2-3-2 format to save on costs and make the games more meaningful. Also, eliminating the All-Star Game homefield advantage rule. So, so, so dumb for a relatively meaningless midseason game to swing a championship series.They stopped that a couple years back.
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Post by Secret Clown on Jan 26, 2020 9:08:56 GMT -5
In football (soccer), teams changing to their 2nd or 3rd kit when there is no clash with their main kit.
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J. Hova
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Post by J. Hova on Jan 26, 2020 10:23:43 GMT -5
There's so much that annoys me....
I pretty much stopped watching the NBA after MJ retired but the whole timeout thing. You are down by 16 points, with 90 seconds to go, I don't think we need to expend all of your timeouts, chief.
NFL and protecting the quarterbacks, especially the elite ones. I'm all for safety where it can be done. I mean I'm old enough and played enough football growing up (2 of the 3 diagnosed concussions in my life were from football) where even in high school, it was if you had a chance to get that QB, you made him feel you. In the NFL, if you sneeze around Rodgers, Brady, etc., you will get a flag. Meanwhile, Trubisky on Thanksgiving of last year got absolutely lit up in front of the ref and the flag stayed in the pocket. I would just like some consistency (I'm a Bears fan, so I'm biased, but good god, that was a brutal hit).
MLB and their pace of play. I'm an absolute baseball junkie and MLB is trying to remedy this a bit and speed up the games, but I don't watch a game or pay money in a stadium to see 7 different pitchers and 11 mound visits. Don't even get me started on replay.
Boxing in general. Boxing was part of the holy trinity in my family growing up. One of my favorite childhood memories was watching George Foreman knock out Michael Moorer and reclaim the World Heavyweight Championship on my parents' living room floor. My Dad, who watched all of the greats (from Louis to Marciano to Ali to Frazier), called it in about the third round that if Moorer kept standing in front of Foreman, Foreman was going to connect and knock him out (keeping in mind George Foreman 20 years earlier was the baddest SOB on the planet and could stop a freight train with his punches). Boxing today is just so boring. There is absolutely no unified marketing of their stars or talent. I can't stand Floyd Mayweather, Jr. but the dude knows how to put asses in seats. Say what you will about Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield and I think both are questionable human beings, but they knew how to market themselves and had crossover appeal. If you held a gun to my head right now, I couldn't name more than five professional boxers that are active right now.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jan 26, 2020 21:32:05 GMT -5
This is more for American sports in general, but teams getting criticised for destroying the opposition.
Like people saying the US womens team should have took it easy on Thailand when they won 13-0.
Why?
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Sam Punk
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Post by Sam Punk on Jan 27, 2020 1:34:46 GMT -5
The infield shift in baseball.
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wankah
Don Corleone
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Post by wankah on Jan 27, 2020 7:01:10 GMT -5
Basketball and timeouts. f*** off with that shit.
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HeyYo
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Post by HeyYo on Jan 27, 2020 15:13:53 GMT -5
The way hockey is portrayed, at least in Canada. Commercials and TV would make it seem like a wholesome, family oriented, pure game that's great for everyone.I get that's what they need to do to sell the game, but it's not realistic.
Minor hockey in Canada brings out the absolute worst in people, but on the bright side it doesn't mask true colours. I mean this more on the parents end, and not the kids playing the game itself. It's nothing but politics, back stabbing, bullying, ruthlessness. I could give countless horror stories.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Jan 27, 2020 15:38:08 GMT -5
There's so much that annoys me.... I pretty much stopped watching the NBA after MJ retired but the whole timeout thing. You are down by 16 points, with 90 seconds to go, I don't think we need to expend all of your timeouts, chief. NFL and protecting the quarterbacks, especially the elite ones. I'm all for safety where it can be done. I mean I'm old enough and played enough football growing up (2 of the 3 diagnosed concussions in my life were from football) where even in high school, it was if you had a chance to get that QB, you made him feel you. In the NFL, if you sneeze around Rodgers, Brady, etc., you will get a flag. Meanwhile, Trubisky on Thanksgiving of last year got absolutely lit up in front of the ref and the flag stayed in the pocket. I would just like some consistency (I'm a Bears fan, so I'm biased, but good god, that was a brutal hit). MLB and their pace of play. I'm an absolute baseball junkie and MLB is trying to remedy this a bit and speed up the games, but I don't watch a game or pay money in a stadium to see 7 different pitchers and 11 mound visits. Don't even get me started on replay. Boxing in general. Boxing was part of the holy trinity in my family growing up. One of my favorite childhood memories was watching George Foreman knock out Michael Moorer and reclaim the World Heavyweight Championship on my parents' living room floor. My Dad, who watched all of the greats (from Louis to Marciano to Ali to Frazier), called it in about the third round that if Moorer kept standing in front of Foreman, Foreman was going to connect and knock him out (keeping in mind my George Foreman 20 years earlier was the baddest SOB on the planet and could stop a freight train with his punches). Boxing today is just so boring. There is absolutely no unified marketing of their stars or talent. I can't stand Floyd Mayweather, Jr. but the dude knows how to put asses in seats. Say what you will about Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield and I think both are questionable human beings, but they knew how to market themselves and had crossover appeal. If you held a gun to my head right now, I couldn't name more than five professional boxers that are active right now. Aw, man. Michael Moorer is from my town, went to my high school, and bought the cops new cars, and set up our high school weight room. He bought the cop cars after he drunkenly knocked one of them out. Haha. He was always around, and we had a parade for him when he beat Holyfield, and I have a few autographs, one on a pair of mini boxing gloves. But that Foreman fight, I still think it's fishy. Mike was a smart fighter, and while he may have not taken Foreman seriously, he should have won. When he got dropped, and he just looked up at Foreman, it looked like Moorer was saying, "This sucks, but I guess I gotta stay down for this old man's feel good story."
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J. Hova
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Post by J. Hova on Jan 27, 2020 20:52:59 GMT -5
There's so much that annoys me.... I pretty much stopped watching the NBA after MJ retired but the whole timeout thing. You are down by 16 points, with 90 seconds to go, I don't think we need to expend all of your timeouts, chief. NFL and protecting the quarterbacks, especially the elite ones. I'm all for safety where it can be done. I mean I'm old enough and played enough football growing up (2 of the 3 diagnosed concussions in my life were from football) where even in high school, it was if you had a chance to get that QB, you made him feel you. In the NFL, if you sneeze around Rodgers, Brady, etc., you will get a flag. Meanwhile, Trubisky on Thanksgiving of last year got absolutely lit up in front of the ref and the flag stayed in the pocket. I would just like some consistency (I'm a Bears fan, so I'm biased, but good god, that was a brutal hit). MLB and their pace of play. I'm an absolute baseball junkie and MLB is trying to remedy this a bit and speed up the games, but I don't watch a game or pay money in a stadium to see 7 different pitchers and 11 mound visits. Don't even get me started on replay. Boxing in general. Boxing was part of the holy trinity in my family growing up. One of my favorite childhood memories was watching George Foreman knock out Michael Moorer and reclaim the World Heavyweight Championship on my parents' living room floor. My Dad, who watched all of the greats (from Louis to Marciano to Ali to Frazier), called it in about the third round that if Moorer kept standing in front of Foreman, Foreman was going to connect and knock him out (keeping in mind my George Foreman 20 years earlier was the baddest SOB on the planet and could stop a freight train with his punches). Boxing today is just so boring. There is absolutely no unified marketing of their stars or talent. I can't stand Floyd Mayweather, Jr. but the dude knows how to put asses in seats. Say what you will about Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield and I think both are questionable human beings, but they knew how to market themselves and had crossover appeal. If you held a gun to my head right now, I couldn't name more than five professional boxers that are active right now. Aw, man. Michael Moorer is from my town, went to my high school, and bought the cops new cars, and set up our high school weight room. He bought the cop cars after he drunkenly knocked one of them out. Haha. He was always around, and we had a parade for him when he beat Holyfield, and I have a few autographs, one on a pair of mini boxing gloves. But that Foreman fight, I still think it's fishy. Mike was a smart fighter, and while he may have not taken Foreman seriously, he should have won. When he got dropped, and he just looked up at Foreman, it looked like Moorer was saying, "This sucks, but I guess I gotta stay down for this old man's feel good story." I love a good sports conspiracy theory, but I just don't buy it. Teddy Atlas was so over Moorer that entire fight for standing in front of Foreman. Foreman probably still to this day has a punch that could stop a freight train.
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Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻 on Jan 29, 2020 16:47:15 GMT -5
NHL
- The shoot out. - Coaches challenge, video review in general. It swallows up too much time and half time they get the call wrong anyway.
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Post by sfvega on Jan 29, 2020 17:41:09 GMT -5
NHL - The shoot out. - Coaches challenge, video review in general. It swallows up too much time and half time they get the call wrong anyway. Hockey is the one sport that I think should be the easiest to review outside of tennis with the HawkEye system which is almost instantaneous review. Ten seconds later and it's over. But of all the objects to put a little chip in, you'd think a big hunk of rubber would be the top of the list. The shootout is like a necessary evil. Nobody wants ties and 3-on-3 is just as much of a bastardized version of NHL hockey, and it would take more time for a winner generally than the SO and/or be more exhausting on players if they just kept going at 3-on-3.
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Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻 on Jan 29, 2020 17:55:06 GMT -5
NHL - The shoot out. - Coaches challenge, video review in general. It swallows up too much time and half time they get the call wrong anyway. Hockey is the one sport that I think should be the easiest to review outside of tennis with the HawkEye system which is almost instantaneous review. Ten seconds later and it's over. But of all the objects to put a little chip in, you'd think a big hunk of rubber would be the top of the list. The shootout is like a necessary evil. Nobody wants ties and 3-on-3 is just as much of a bastardized version of NHL hockey, and it would take more time for a winner generally than the SO and/or be more exhausting on players if they just kept going at 3-on-3. Makes the pucks too expensive. They had to go chasing down the FoxTrax puck if it ever went over the glass. People expect to keep the puck. It would be a bitch to have to train people the opposite.
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Post by sfvega on Jan 29, 2020 19:20:43 GMT -5
Hockey is the one sport that I think should be the easiest to review outside of tennis with the HawkEye system which is almost instantaneous review. Ten seconds later and it's over. But of all the objects to put a little chip in, you'd think a big hunk of rubber would be the top of the list. The shootout is like a necessary evil. Nobody wants ties and 3-on-3 is just as much of a bastardized version of NHL hockey, and it would take more time for a winner generally than the SO and/or be more exhausting on players if they just kept going at 3-on-3. Makes the pucks too expensive. They had to go chasing down the FoxTrax puck if it ever went over the glass. People expect to keep the puck. It would be a bitch to have to train people the opposite. True. HawkEye would solve a lot of their problems, but it's so much harder to track a puck between all the bodies and the goalie pads. It's just not feasible. But the pucks would be less of an issue if the nets were attatched to the glass. 90% of them out of play land in the front row. But again, as you've alluded to, that's another cost. The league is much happier with long, inaccurate reviews than they are investing into making the game streamlined. And hell, the refs get easy, plain as day calls wrong anyway, no need to waste time and tech investing into helping their regardlessly bad judgement.
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Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻 on Jan 29, 2020 19:22:01 GMT -5
Makes the pucks too expensive. They had to go chasing down the FoxTrax puck if it ever went over the glass. People expect to keep the puck. It would be a bitch to have to train people the opposite. True. HawkEye would solve a lot of their problems, but it's so much harder to track a puck between all the bodies and the goalie pads. It's just not feasible. But the pucks would be less of an issue if the nets were attatched to the glass. 90% of them out of play land in the front row. But again, as you've alluded to, that's another cost. The league is much happier with long, inaccurate reviews than they are investing into making the game streamlined. And hell, the refs get easy, plain as day calls wrong anyway, no need to waste time and tech investing into helping their regardlessly bad judgement. Pucks still get through with 360 coverage with the netting.
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 29, 2020 21:11:35 GMT -5
Hockey Overtime should be full contact pro wrestling street fight rules first score wins. And each team gets 1 steel chair and a table.
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Post by zero744 on Jan 29, 2020 21:20:53 GMT -5
Hockey Overtime should be full contact pro wrestling street fight rules first score wins. And each team gets 1 steel chair and a table. If Lucha underground took place in Canada
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Post by MrElijah on Jan 30, 2020 15:25:12 GMT -5
The NHL playoff format. It wasn't broken. The MLB wild card game. Make it a two out of three series. Those stupid gimmick jerseys in the NBA. Some of the City Jerseys are better than the regular jerseys, IMHO but man there is some hot garbage ones. My Personal Peeves: -NBA: Go back to East vs. West in the All-Star Game. The Playoffs are too long. Best of 5 is all that needed in the 1st Round. -MLB: The Wild Card Playoff needs to go. Yes we all say that insane race like 8 years ago but now it's a low key double elimination tournament. Either in or out.
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Sam Punk
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Post by Sam Punk on Jan 30, 2020 23:27:32 GMT -5
What's so bad about ties? American football has ties. There's just more of them in hockey because it's harder to score. Really, if you can't beat the other team in 65 minutes of play then you don't deserve to win.
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Post by sfvega on Jan 31, 2020 3:59:39 GMT -5
What's so bad about ties? American football has ties. There's just more of them in hockey because it's harder to score. Really, if you can't beat the other team in 65 minutes of play then you don't deserve to win. There's no closure on ties and most major NA sports try to regulate a winner be determined. Baseball has played into all hours of the night and ruined bullpens for weeks in trying to make sure a winner is called. NFL has ties very rarely, and also have tried to regulate a winner, within reason. College football also plays until a winner is called as well. Maybe it's a culture thing, as soccer has constant ties and nobody cares.
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