Ditto, except when I got mine in before I had shopped it, someone had already done this.
I'm not totally sure if that red post is what was supposed to be there but I left it in when I rebuilt my game after a topside teardown. I just stretched the rubber over the two normal posts and then the red post in addition. Haven't had a ball stuck yet.
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