Sports rules changes you would like to see changed

[IndieMatty]

A lead off the base is "deception", does the pitcher know for certain if he is going to try and steal? Sounds like "deception" to me.

[ThaSaltCracka]

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A lead off the base is "deception", does the pitcher know for certain if he is going to try and steal? Sounds like "deception" to me.

[/ QUOTE ]well lets see, suppose you have Frank Thomas at first base, he takes a lead off, he must be thinking about stealing right???/ At least the pitcher is thinking that right? I mean, how couldn't he think that, he is leading off!?!?!?!?!?!

[Richard Tanner]

Duh, for semetry (sp?) duh. Honestly I don't know, just go to halftime. The only real explaination is that they want the halves to mirror one another.

Cody

[IndieMatty]

Specific players..."meh".

Tell me why it's ok for a baserunner to do anything they can, deception or otherwise (i've seen steal fakes plenty) and the pitcher is not allowed to trick the person trying to advance on him? It's the most illogical rule in sports.

On a side note theres lightning in New York in December..this is weird.

[daryn]

ok, i'll answer.

because say you allowed the pitcher to go into his windup, like he's gonna throw, but he just doesn't let go of the ball. fakes the batter out and everything.

there would never again be another stolen base in MLB history.

[DeucesUp]

One that's never talked about but is obvious to me:

Do away with the extra point. Make a TD an automatic 7 points. A 2pt conversion would become a +1 or -1 point conversion (make it for +1, miss it for -1).

Extra points are ridiculously automatic in the NFL, there have only been 7 misses out of almost 900 attempts this year. Why waste everyone's time on a formality?

[jstnrgrs]

The dumbest rule in all of American sports is that if a player fumbles foward and the ball goes out of bounds, his team keeps the ball . . . unless it rolls through the end-zone. Please be consistant

[youtalkfunny]

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A lineman can "flench" all he wants and there's no penelty, it's when he enters the neutral zone that it is illegal.

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I'm sorry, but you're 100% wrong.

I think.

But don't feel badly. This is a league that has changed a dozen rules per year, in the last dozen years. How can anybody be expected to know the rules?

It is my understanding that Neil Smith, DT for the Chiefs back in the day, was really, really good at getting sacks, and his "flinches" were drawing off-sides calls. He never came NEAR the neutral zone. He'd be in a 3-point stance, and he'd suddenly raise his free hand like he was a coiled spring ready to come flying at you. But his free arm was the only part of his body that moved.j

The league outlawed the practice.

Maybe they changed it back. Who knows? This is the league with no rules. Did anybody, I mean ANYBODY, ever hear of the tuck rule before that snowy night in Foxboro? I was working in a sportsbook at the time. I worked with a dozen guys, each of whom had been watching pro football for 30 years, and none of us knew that rule.

IOW, anyone who states with any certainty that he knows the rules of professional football, is a fool.