My pet peeve

I learned that football uprights have to be at least 20 feet high, whereas there is no prescribed length in baseball for foul poles.

In both sports, the poles are considered "infinite" in length, extending to heaven, no matter what their actual physical dimensions.

This means refs in both leagues have to imagine a plane that extends from the pole to the clouds, that intersects with the outfield wall in baseball, and the back of the end zone in football. Baseball has at least recognized, partly, of the difficulty of this task, by at least lining most poles with an additional netting, usually on the fair side, to make fair hits more obvious.

So why not extend the poles another 20-30 feet in both sports, and put the netting on the football uprights as well? If umpires can't get simple balls, strikes or outs at first base straight, I don't know how they are supposed to judge a fly ball over the top of the foul pole. Same for FG attempts in football. Just make the fucking poles higher. I mean we are spending billions on stadiums now, and we scrimp on the foul poles and uprights?