Sports Pet Peeves
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Softball rule guy! I live in a town of 3000. We have 7 co rec softball teams and there is one guy who religiously reads the ASA softball rule book and complains about something at least once a game.
1. Sitting in the nosebleeds in a crowded JTS by that fan who has to yell things at the players and coach, as if they can hear them. You are just annoying the rest of us.
2. Batters in Little League games who have to go big league every single pitch and step out of the box, hold their yield sign hand up, dig in the dirt, adjust their pants, repeat cycle.
3. NBA players who hammer some guy, grab their arms, shorts, etc., and then act like the ref is insane when he finally calls a foul.
2. Batters in Little League games who have to go big league every single pitch and step out of the box, hold their yield sign hand up, dig in the dirt, adjust their pants, repeat cycle.
3. NBA players who hammer some guy, grab their arms, shorts, etc., and then act like the ref is insane when he finally calls a foul.
You forgot Jim Rome's link:
[video=youtube;uMfqbR8Ujlk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMfqbR8Ujlk[/video]
That is one of my biggest gripes about football players, especially wide receivers. Roy Williams would have a 7 yard reception for a first down in the 4th quarter when the Cowboys would be down like 31-10. You thought he had just made the play of the game with his first down celebration.
Late game timeouts in the NBA that result in a ball being inbounded at half court. WTF? You get to advance the ball...without actually advancing the ball, and burning no time off the clock? Stupid, stupid, stupid. One of many reasons I don't watch the NBA.
I've never understood why merely touching the pylon constitutes a touchdown, when the pylon itself is out of bounds.
And at the same time, why touching it with the ball is a touchdown, but in the infamous case of Lockett with KSU a few years back - touching it with his knee meant he was out of bounds?
And at the same time, why touching it with the ball is a touchdown, but in the infamous case of Lockett with KSU a few years back - touching it with his knee meant he was out of bounds?
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The other night we were playing a team that had awful pitching. They tried 4 different guys, all were walking people all over the place. I was the 3rd player in a row on my team to take a walk (after giving a sympathy swing to get to a full count on a ball outside the opposite batters box), and got yelled at for walking by their LCF. Two of the balls he tossed were behind me. He kept complaining about every single thing like courtesy runners, base path right of way (slide or gtfo the way), illegal pitches, etc. In the 4th inning, his 1st baseman and team captain ejected him. His OWN Captain ejected him in a moment of sweet justice.
When a basketball game is tied and the team with the final shot has more than enough time to get a good shot but someone dribbles the ball near halfcourt until there is 5 seconds left and all they get off is a long three or an off balanced contested jump shot.
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Even better than that, the d-back that celebrates like he made a great play after the receiver hits the ground and drops the ball.
I've never understood why merely touching the pylon constitutes a touchdown, when the pylon itself is out of bounds.
I may be wrong but I believe that the rule is if you touch the front of the pylon you are out of bounds but if you touch the inside of the pylon it is a touchdown since you had to cross the plane of the goal line to get to the inside of edge of the pylon.
(b) a ball in possession of an airborne runner is on, above, or behind the plane of the goal line, and some part of the ball passed over or inside the pylon; or
Might be totally wrong, but I'm not reading it that way.
and this is really confusing (but it doesn't really mention inside or over)...
(c) a ball in player possession touches the pylon, provided that, after contact by an opponent, no part of the player’s body, except his hands or feet, struck the ground before the ball touched the pylon;
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