Morning Brew: Five sports pet peeves
24.08.11
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Whether we like to admit it or not, we all have our own little pet peeves that can drive us silly. Here are my top five pet peeves in sports:
5. Only using instant replay in baseball for domestic run calls.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about preserving the human element of the adventurous, but if you’re going to implement the use of instant replay, why are we only using it to scrutinize home runs? Ultimately, I just want to see the fairly call being made on the field. There have been so many inexcusable calls made by umpires even with the use of instant replay. If we utilized it on everything but balls and strikes, fans and players would be much happier. No one wants to see a encore of the Armando Galarraga perfect game that wasn’t, above all Jim Joyce.
4. Networks only airing certain games based on tracking down.
Come Saturday, I always look forward to the FOX baseball gutsy of the week. Throughout the week I see reoccurring commercials for the Yankees-Red Sox game, so I employ that’s the game that they will air that weekend. However, on game day, after all the pregame shenanigans, they cut to the Cubs-Cardinals sport. Come on, really? Just because I live in the Midwest doesn’t cheap I should be deprived from watching the best rivalry in sports. Worst of all, even if you have the baseball channels, the design is blacked out because it is assumed you can watch it on FOX.
Source: University Daily Kansan