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OK I was thinking about the intentional walk being the dumbest thing in baseball... why take the bat out of the hands of the most exciting players? But then i thought about how baseball has one division with six teams and one with 4 and the rest have five.... that seems really stupid.
Anyone else got any really dumb things in sports?
Extra point field goal kick in football? It is such a time waster and they never miss anyway.
Good one! And the fact that you can still drop kick it for a point like Doug Flutie did last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nattik Frostreaver
Because strategy is a part of baseball. Putting a guy on base is risky by nature. The only player that has a real problem with this is Bonds, because the Giants STILL haven't put a legit cleanup man behind him, ever. Pujols doesn't get the same treatment because he has 80 HR/220 RBI per year hitting in the two slots after him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dmitry the Wizzy
Necessary until they expand or contract. If you have an odd number of teams in a league, then you have a team off from each league every single day. 15/15 leagues only work if they ditch the series-based, limited-interleague format, to which I say "no thank you."Quote:
But then i thought about how baseball has one division with six teams and one with 4 and the rest have five.... that seems really stupid.
The fact that the Blue Jays, which are owned by a telecomm company that owns 4 sports networks (+ one HD) are going to have six of their next seven games on the Rogers Preview channel. Not a Rogers Digital cable subscriber? Screw you. Part of the 99% of people that completely ignore the Preview channel so won't know the games are on? Screw you too.Quote:
Anyone else got any really dumb things in sports?
Really, a team running under a major budget deficit doesn't need the exposure of widescale TV broadcasts! Brilliant!
Intentional fouls at the end of close basketball games. Combined with the seemingly endless supply of timeouts it sucks the life out of the games.
Compare the last two minutes of a close playoff hockey game to that of a close playoff basketball game. The first is exciting and full of frenetic action, the second is constantly interrupted and drags on forever.
The days when video replay and the crease violations in the late 90's were part of the rules in the NHL were absolutly horrendous. The NHL had started this video review of all goals which were in contention which isn't bad in itself, but the NHL had also placed a new rule where there can be no opposing player in the goaltender's crease at the time of a goal, nulling it. It was meant to protect the goaltender from interference, but in in the it became a major reason for the decline in NHL viewership. It made for every other goal being reviewed during games, and a ton of legitimate goals would be nullified when a player crossed a section of the crease on the other side of the play, when the player was not a factor at all. The size of the crease was also ridiculous the first year this went into place. The worst possible outcome happened for the NHL, where the Game 7 OT winner by Dallas's Brett Hull against Buffalo was a clear violation of the crease rule, but because of the pandemonium in the building and all the cameras rushing to the ice, the goal could not be reviewed. "NO GOAL" was the Buffalo Sabres motto for the summer.
It was game 6, and No Goal has been Sabres fans' motto since I think. (That could be changing this year.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Turonyen
Sports.
You mean besides Rickey Henderson?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dmitry the Wizzy
The Denver BroncosQuote:
Originally Posted by Dmitry the Wizzy
(Is the vein throbbing in Az's forehead yet?)
I would also add picking David Glass as Royals owner but then again I'm biased
Terrell Owens saying he can't feed his family on $7 Mill.
Paying rookie NFL players $20 mill signing bonuses before they ever do anything in the league.
Players taking steroids.
Major league players who throw away their careers for drugs and parties.
If you count WWF as a sport, then there you go!
Edit: And if you don't count it as a sport it's still DUMB!
People getting pissed because Lance Armstrong got wicked bad cancer and almost died to apparently enhance his performance.
That's not what people are pissed about with him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ralan
WTF is up with that sloping outfield? That thing is designed to break an ankle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baelan Shadowbane
Hey, KC's gotta do something to equalize things so that every team can have Triple-A level talent as starters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dmitry the Wizzy
Monday morning quarterbacks.
There wouldn't be organized sports without Monday morning QBs. That's what fans do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Axxl 01
I only WISH we had Triple-A level talent...Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
No clue - but I'll ask Allard Baird before I send his soul screaming to hellQuote:
Originally Posted by Pointy Hat Zealot
Explain please.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
1) Many Euro fans hate Armstrong because he was an American who won too much for their tastes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ralan
2) Antidrug Nazis hate Armstrong because they think he cheated.
3) a) Greg LeMond hates Armstrong supposedly because Armstrong threatened to strongarm him for daring to suggest that he takes performance enhancing drugs; b) others think LeMond hates Armstrong out of jealousy.
4) Filippo Simeoni hates Armstrong because Armstrong called him a liar and subsequently brought down patron muscle on him in Stage 18 of the 2004 Tour De France.
5) a) The late Marco Pantani hated Armstrong because he felt Armstrong insulted him during the 2000 Tour De France; b) Pantani also suggested that Armstrong whored his cancer survival as a form of self-promotion.
I tend to sympathize with 3a, 4 and 5b.
The oversaturation of sports talk radio serving up hosts who go on endless tirades on completely insignificant points that maybe 4 people in the world actually care about just to have something different to discuss for 12 minutes.
In this vein, I'd say the dumbest thing in sports is Colin Cowherd. Although Dwight Gooden ranks right up there too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Faustus
Darryl Strawberry...STUPIDEST person to set foot on a diamond.
In this vein, I'd completely agree. How he's still on the air is beyond me. Not that I've listened to him much since about a week after Kornheiser left.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grindel
Hard to argue with that one. Off the top of my head, can't think of a bigger disconnect between potential and self-destruction, although Steve Howe ain't that far off.Quote:
Originally Posted by MLB13
Len Bias mayhaps?Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
We don't really know what Bias could have done -- any number of college stars come up short in the big leagues -- but Daryl displayed fearsome ability in the pros.Quote:
Originally Posted by Faustus
He self-destructed to a far greater degree though.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
For what it's worth, I think he'd have given Jordan a true rival had he lived to play for the Celtics. In collge he often seemed godlike even among other highly talented players who themselves went on to have very good NBA careers.
well, Mike Tyson fits in with those folks I'd say.
Interesting how naturally we think of Strawberry when we think about Gooden and vice-versa. Strawberry is who I thought about first but I didn't want to mis-spell Daryl :)
I think Tommy Morrison is an even bigger idiotQuote:
Originally Posted by Ralan
When Michael Jordan decided to play for the Wizards, that was dumb. But it was even dumber when he took Kwame Brown.
Even dumber when he tried to play for the Sox.
As far as I know, he did drugs once and died. That's not self-destruction, that's bad luck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Faustus
Sports talk radio. My best example is, during the call-in show after a Canucks game, a caller asked what had happened to the Grizzlies. This was several years after they'd left town.
I was thinking Strawberry and Gooden, but it's good to see that people beat me to it. Obvious ones. I'm surpised Ricky Williams hasn't gotten his tokin mention yet.
I'll have to say the "extra time" clock in soccer. Never understood the sense in that one.
Fucking Bill Walton. "That was a teeerible call. He's teeerible. That was teeerible."
It's kind of funny, sometimes you get the sense that the other commentators would put their fist down his throat if they had the chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daxil Solshok
People who talk like their tounge is covered in shag carpet should never go into radio or tv sports coverage.
Ricky deserves being mentioned more than once for his seemingly endless stupidity. His choice of agents, signing with the 'Aints, his drug use, his drug use, his drug use ...Quote:
I'm surpised Ricky Williams hasn't gotten his tokin mention yet.
How about 60 year old rockers doing Halftime entertainment, or 30 year old teen bands playing after game?
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Originally Posted by Diallu
Damn, I'm flashing back to opening night at the Duck's game when Eddie Money "entertained" the crowd. Thank you for that. /rude
Ricky's drug violations might put him in except that he's way behind guys like Michael Ray Richardson, Doc Gooden, Strawberry and the all-time sports cokehead, the late Steve "Eight-time-violator and still not out" Howe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wandor
If the NFL lets him stay in the league, I am sure he will not disappoint. Of course his agent/rookie contract are more than enough to propel him to near the top of the heap.
Speaking of drugs, what about L.T? And lest we forget... O.J. Simpson. But enough about the players. Let's talk about the NFL half-time shows and the lack of female breast exposure lately.
I miss the XFL =(.
the stupidest thing in my mind is having the nhl playoffs and having a majority of the games not being broadcast in HD.
on top of that, half the games of the first and second round werent broadcast at all, because only one channel has the rights. espn did a much better job, not only because they have more experiance and more exposure, but becuase they had 2 channels to utilize.
i dont care how much money spike offered, no hd, and limited airings should have been enough to nullify those contract negotiations before they started. espn would have taken them back if they'd have asked for less money. it will now take them much longer to recover from the lock out, if ever.
they made so many other positive changes this year, it's hard to believe they fucked up this bad to negate any positive momentum they could have achieved.
You don't want to bring him up in this case. A conclusion based solely on his experience might weigh in favor of drug use for athletic achievement -- he played 12 years, never missed games for drug suspensions and is almost universally considered the greatest outside linebacker in NFL history.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daxil Solshok
You enjoy the solitary life, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by Turonyen
Ugh, that sucks. Up here in Canada two networks got broadcast rights to ensure that all the games would be televised. The network that normally does all the games (CBC) realized they couldn't cover them all, so they passed off the rights to anything they wouldn't be covering.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solesk
What about in baseball where someone pinch hits while another person runs the bases?
Well, there's actually a lot of strategy involved in that move.
Baseball.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dmitry the Wizzy
FUCKING THANK YOU, where were you on the "most hated person in sports" thread?Quote:
Originally Posted by Daxil Solshok
Yes Bill Walton is the dumbest/worst thing to happen to sports in a long time. Currently the dumb fuck is messing up the Mavs/spurs game.
Pitchers hitting in the National League but not the American League.
Sports without team salary caps.
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Originally Posted by The Rooster
I'm just glad I'm not the only one that absolutely despises Captain Overstatement.
His web site sucks!
http://www.billwalton.com/
That can't be his?
John Madden. You see, when a Sportscaster says stuff that isn't smart, he's saying stuff thats dumb.
I like John Madden.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nadiar
Havn't seen much of you as of late, where have you been hiding?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mihoko Ishii
How dare you post this utter FILTH on the boards, you should get some sort of punishment for subjecting us to anything directly related to waltonQuote:
Originally Posted by camrael
/slides in late ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Destructis
That was Lattrel Spreewell and it was $21 Mill.
Dumbest thing in sports? I'd say NASCAR, but really, its not a sport. Unless they add manditory 6-packs of beer to be slammed by the drivers just before the race starts, then I'm all over watching that stuff.
After that, I'd have to say World Series of Poker.
Yea... I'm inclined to agree. The dumbest thing about sports, is sports themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maledict
The dumbest things in sports are people that go into a thread called "Dumbest thing in sports" and answer "sports" or a particular sport as a whole.
Years of bitterness over being picked on in school has to boil over somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Azamien
While it does require some amount of reaction and planning, I simply can not stand a 'sport' where all you do is turn left for a couple hours. Monoco or any of the F1 road races that also include right turns are definately much better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Azamien
World Series of Poker still is just plain stupid. The only thing interesting about watching poker it is not knowing what anyone has, which someone decided doesn't make good TV.
Edit: Oh yeah ... I also want to add all the pre-event Olympic introspectives that NBC (it was NBC right?) just 'happened' to do on the gold medal winner.
The WSOP is a sports game for intelligent people. It was FUCKING BORING watching it before you knew what cards they had, since you couldn't say if someone had a good hand, or a bad hand, thus analyzing their play was retarded. At the level a WSOP player should be at to compete, you might as well compress the entire tournement down to dry comentary printed out by a machine.
Athletes staying in school to finish their degree when they are guaranteed millions if they go pro.
Can finish a degree later. Chancing a career ending injury for another season in college seems not too bright for me.
The dumbest thing is spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to build sports stadiums, so a group of millionaires won't have to.
That is dumb on the part of politicians and the taxpayers who vote for them, but it's smart for the teams and leagues. And is that sports or politics? Then again, for some people politics is a sport.Quote:
Originally Posted by Istari
In my opinion, it's certainly about sports, but it's definately an intersection with politics. I nonetheless find it disgusting that a bunch of millionaires will ride taxpayer dollars to cover their expenses.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
I see it as the opposite. A good athelete can do a lot more as a PRODUCTIVE member of society than as someone whose sole job is just to play a game for millions of dollars.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gariel Halliwell
Being productive and being smart aren't the same thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Istari