What Sports have you lost interest in?

[May Day 10]

38 minutes ago, Gregg said:

What does everyone think about baseball proposing a "Golden at Bat" rule. I think it is one of the dumbest rules that I have ever heard of. For example, if the Yankees have the bases loaded and the #9 hitter up. Boone could announce he wants to use the "Golden at Bat" rule in this spot and just substitute Judge to hit for the #9 hitter. WTF kind of BS rule would this be if it passes.

 

I think it is awful.  I consume a lot of baseball, and actually like all the new rules.  I think this would kill the sport for me.

[Gregg]

Just now, May Day 10 said:

 

I think it is awful.  I consume a lot of baseball, and actually like all the new rules.  I think this would kill the sport for me.

 

Same here. I like that pitchers are on time clock to pitch but this rule if it passes is beyond dumb.

[Irv]

NASCAR has totally lost my interest.  Boring!

[Rico]

Hockey jumped the shark when they broke up the French Connection.

[Irv]

Oh!  I forgot cat juggling.  Sport not like it used to be.    

[DrBob806]

NCAA football & the playoff committee.

 

While most games are entertaining, the rankings system is flawed. Alabama will make the playoffs with 3 losses- that alone is a joke. Penn St. at #4, wow & how?

 

Money has destroyed CFB slowly over the past 20 years. 

[BillsPride12]

1 hour ago, Rico said:

Hockey jumped the shark when they broke up the French Connection.

Nah the NHL was still awesome well into the 90s and early 2000s

[Ned Flanders]

19 hours ago, Irv said:

NASCAR has totally lost my interest.  Boring!

If NASCAR is a sport, so is driving to work.

17 hours ago, BillsPride12 said:

Nah the NHL was still awesome well into the 90s and early 2000s

The NHL is nearly unwatchable...ads on the boards, ice, helmets, jerseys...and it will only get worse.  Look at a game from the 70s and 80s on YouTube...a clean, fast game.

 

Plus, the Sabres look to define "suck" on a near nightly basis.

 

I also miss Coaches Corner on CBC.

 

[Golden*Wheels]

I used to watch/listen to full seasons (every game) of Red Sox baseball, *****, I would leave WORK to go home during day game no-hitters to watch them (usually jinxing them). Argue all over forums, wear the gear, etc etc etc. I'm in CT, it's like the Mason Dixon line of Sox/Yanks and I was not shy.

 

After 2004, I slowed way down,but still watched any time I could easily. After 07, when they won again, and I had my first kid....yo my baseball days were OVER. Ain't nobody got time for all that. And I have to say....winning two really took the edge off around here.

 

I sometimes wonder if the Bills win the bi gone, if I would feel the same way...then I remembered football is awesome.

[TheCockSportif]

Honestly?  The Sabres.

 

I'm also kinda done with the Buffalo Stallions.

 

[PastaJoe]

I was into the Yankees and baseball back in the Reggie Jackson and Billy Martin days, in part because there was nothing else during the summer. But then I got turned off by how the big money markets got such an advantage by signing the best free agents and just paying the luxury tax. I could care less about baseball now.

 

i also was a Buffalo Braves fan, but once the owners and league screwed over the fans and broke up and then moved the team, it’s another league I could care less about. 

[Steve O]

On 12/5/2024 at 8:37 AM, Gregg said:

What does everyone think about baseball proposing a "Golden at Bat" rule. I think it is one of the dumbest rules that I have ever heard of. For example, if the Yankees have the bases loaded and the #9 hitter up. Boone could announce he wants to use the "Golden at Bat" rule in this spot and just substitute Judge to hit for the #9 hitter. WTF kind of BS rule would this be if it passes.

I agree, dumb rule. Know what other rule I think is every bit as dumb? The designated hitter rule. Used to enjoy a manager having to make a decision about leaving a pitcher in or pinch hitting for him during a tight game. It was actually first proposed in 1891. Rejected every time it was brought up between then and 1973, when it was given a 3 year trial. Today it is an accepted part of the game. Hope it takes as long to implement the "Golden Bat" as it did to implement the DH rule.