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Well,
"Although when it comes to tight plays or squeeze plays I generally remove it out of habit and also so some twip, e.g a coach, does not bellow about poor vision."
And IF you do not remove the mask at the EXACT same times you would a mask then you are one that is an advertisment for NOT WEARING a helmet.
No one argues that the field of vision for balls/strikes appears to be greater . . . the real issue is two fold:
1) There are umpires that do not take off the mask where normally it is taken off (ex: on ground balls to the infield when you are coming out from behind the dish or a can of corn fly ball),
2) When the helmet is removed the umpire is not wearing a hat (ex: in Alabma you are considered "out of uniform" if after you take off the helmet you do not have a hat).
These two issues can be over come. Non-professional umpires just don't seem to get it.
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