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Originally posted by Back In The Saddle
So what is the general feeling about the gray shirt? I like the way it looks.
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It won't make people think we're doing a better job.
I don't have problem with the current shirts. They actually make us stand out. No team I've ever seen has black and white stripes. However, I've seen several with grey shirts. A few times in my career, I've been passed a live ball...usually in a lower level game. Changing to a gray shirt would certainly increase the occurrance of such passes when one of the teams is wearing gray.
Another potential problem (that I read about, perhaps here) will be getting consistent shades of gray from different manufacturers. We'll look pretty bad when a crew has 3 different shades of gray. Black and white are very specific.
Mostly, its a move from the shirt makers to "force" a replacement of existig shirts. Nothing like chaning the rules to
outlaw perfectly good equipment and generate new business. While some people have older shirts that
should be replaced, most will have perfectly good shirts that will be thrown out...if they are adopted.