Biggest pet peeve in sports today?

Zooming in and reading the scoreboard, it’s Game 5 of the 1961 World Series. Wally Post just hit a three-run shot for the Reds. Yankees won 13-5 and won the Series. If you look at the lineups, you see Maris playing in center field because Mantle sat out most of the Series with some sort of abscess in his hip that was caused by a quack doctor putting a bad injection in there.

1961 World Series Game 5, New York Yankees at Cincinnati Reds, October 9, 1961 | Baseball-Reference.com

 

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If the coach takes one step out of the designated box or takes one step onto the field, the timeout gets voided or there's a 10-second runoff. That will put an end to that horseshit.

But really, by now there should just be an electronic means to signify a timeout.

 

Shouldn’t there be a sensor in a football that sets off a signal if the ball crosses the plane of the goal line or makes a 1st down. Is ball placement the most arbitrary action in sports?

 

I've never understood why there isn't. There is no excuse - simply none - for a bad spot in football, either.

Why the chain gang is even used anymore - who the fuck knows. Some odd nod to quaintness.

 

I grew up in the era at Dodger Stadium where there were only a couple small signs for Union 76 gas stations.

 

March Madness not starting today - Thursday - as it should.

 

Too many studio shows, too many talking heads, too much analysis.

 

I have no problem with the chain gang - but that chain has no reason to exist any more. Sensor on the sticks, sensor in the ball. If it's a first down, the CHAIN LIGHTS UP Green, if not a big fat red X and the fans GO CRAZY. The biggest problem is where they say the ball was down, when they are really just guessing because of knees and elbows.

 

Same reason tennis wants to keep around line judges, despite great success with technology in some of the bubble events.

Roland Garros was still inspecting ball marks after the world got creamed by pandemic.

 

The NFL and every shitty thing it does.