Miscellany:
- Thank goodness. Instead of just reducing breaks, let's cut it to only travel days, or even eliminate those as well. Make home field matter.
- Scott Hartnell would be way less annoying with a haircut.
- The Huskies men's basketball team lost to Siena on national TV. They had 8 free throws, Siena had 27. They didn't deserve to win, but they certainly deserved competent referees.
- Belichick's command to go for it on 4th and 2 against the Colts was the right call. The spot was bad. I don' t understand why we have these measuring chains and pretend they mean anything if the spot where the ball is placed after a play is completely arbitrary. Computers, please.
- Basketball is dumb because it's predictable. Whichever team shoots fewer threes and more free throws wins. In hockey, you can get outshot 50-1 and still win, but if another team takes twice as many free throws, you always lose. And reffing basketball is almost impossible, so the refs are always bad.
- I need a vacation.
3 comments:
you need to stop pushing computers onto every sport
I'll stop pushing computers onto sports once bad calls stop determining games.
Hockey doesn't need computers because it has a very clear and robust video review system.
The NFL is almost okay, except their review policy doesn't allow for spot changes, which are the biggest source of error outside in/out of bounds plays.
MLB and the NBA have terrible video review policies combined with very old umpires/referees who are not being adequately replaced with top, young talent. Hell, add a challenge flag to baseball, one per game, and that'd almost be good enough.
Personally over an entire season I just dont see blown calls making a big enough difference to slow sports down even more. Baseball games are already 4 freaking hours long, more replay will just extend that time.
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