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Message: [QUOTE="JeffCuse, post: 4646771, member: 1151"] I find myself often watching sports and the same couple of rules bug me to no end. If you could change one rule in each of the 4 major US sports, which would you change? Note, I'm talking actual gameplay. I'd absolutely love a hard cap and floor in baseball salaries, along with a complete resutrcturing of salaries broadly to ensure teams cant manipulate them payrolls..but thats not this discussion, Here's mine...feel free to disagree, some are likely not shared widely :) Basketball (college)- Timeouts after a made basket. I can't stand that a team can make a basket, thus forfeiting possession, and still call a timeout. Hockey- If a team pulls its goalie, thus creating an offensive zone advantage, icing should be allowed, just as if there is a Power Play and the same offensive zone advantage. Hockey purists will hate this one. But the exact same dynamic that exists within the offensive zone on a power play...5 on 4 plus a goalie...exists in that zone when the goalie is pulled...6 on 5 plus a goalie. Frankly, I'm tired of seeing teams pull their goalie with 4 or 5 minutes remaining because they know the risk is so limited. Football (pro)- One foot in should be a catch. Baseball- Computers calls balls and strikes. We are almost there with this one. Banning the shift was here. And one global rule change I would like to see across ALL sports... A change in the instant replay overturn threshold- It's ridiculous we will delay games by often 5+ minutes to review in super slow motion a play...see that it is probably...60-70% likely to have been called wrong in split second real time...and refuse to change it because it's not "conclusive". Are we so frail as humans that we can't concede the fact we are fallible? If something looks 51% or more likely to have been called wrong initially CHANGE it. If all the circumstantial evidence points to something being wrong CHANGE it. [/QUOTE]

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