{"id":514,"date":"2018-10-05T05:30:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T10:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=514"},"modified":"2018-10-05T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T10:30:21","slug":"3-dumb-sports-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2018\/10\/05\/3-dumb-sports-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Dumb Sports Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-519 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/umpire-jokes-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/umpire-jokes-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/umpire-jokes-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/umpire-jokes.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Sports, like anything else, evolves over time.\u00a0 Usually for the better, though not always&#8230; NFL I&#8217;m lookin&#8217; at you with your anal retentive nanny rules that have virtually ruined the game.\u00a0 But there are some rules that simply defy rational explanation, and that need to be changed.\u00a0 What are they you ask?\u00a0 Well, I&#8217;m glad you asked, because here they are..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Baseball<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Batters are allowed to &#8220;steal&#8221; first base if they strike out and the catcher drops the ball.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 You either let a good pitch sail by, or you swung at a bad pitch, you don&#8217;t deserve a second chance.\u00a0 You struck out, go sit the eff down!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Football<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ground can&#8217;t cause a fumble.\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 We have here some of the strongest and most gifted athletes imaginable, and we can&#8217;t hold onto the ball?\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 Seriously?\u00a0 You&#8217;re a man, football&#8217;s supposed to be a man&#8217;s game, hold onto the damn ball.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Soccer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Offside.\u00a0 This one can&#8217;t even be explained by commentary.\u00a0 An official explanation is required.\u00a0 According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandocitysc.com\/post\/2016\/01\/01\/soccer-101-explaining-offside-rule\">Orlando City Soccer Club<\/a>, offside is explained thusly&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the FIFA rulebook, a player is in an offside position if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is nearer to his opponents\u2019 goal line than both the ball and the second last opponent.<\/li>\n<li>A violation will occur when he is in an offside position (previous bullet point) at the same time the ball is being passed forward to him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A player is <strong>NOT<\/strong> in an offside position if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is in his own half of the field of play.<\/li>\n<li>No part of the attacking player (head, body, or feet) is closer to the opponents goal than the final defender (not including the goalkeeper) .<\/li>\n<li>He is receiving the ball from a throw-in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Got all that?\u00a0 Simple.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude10\u00a0 No, it&#8217;s not, and contrary to the link it&#8217;s not easier to see than read.\u00a0 A casual fan has no clue what or when offside is happening, and there&#8217;s a good reason for that&#8230; it&#8217;s dumb.<\/p>\n<p>My solution is really quite simple:\u00a0 Teach the defense to play defense.\u00a0 If they don&#8217;t defend properly, they deserve to have a goal scored against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports, like anything else, evolves over time.\u00a0 Usually for the better, though not always&#8230; NFL I&#8217;m lookin&#8217; at you with your anal retentive nanny rules that have virtually ruined the game.\u00a0 But there are some rules that simply defy rational explanation, and that need to be changed.\u00a0 What are they you ask?\u00a0 Well, I&#8217;m glad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoyances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}