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Originally posted by SanDiegoSteve
Garth, since the post was not adressed to anybody in particular, why did you take it so personally? I could wear a mask or a helmet, without getting mad either way. I don't think anybody is trying to force helmets down your throat here, Garth. Like I said before, my helmet gives me such great vision that I can see Uranus! And I may switch back to a mask, because believe it or not folks, helmets make you sweat more!
Even with Coolmax, 3appleshigh. I work in 80 to 100 degree heat all season, and the sweat just pours off my head with the helmet. A hat does a better job of absorbing sweat. With a regular mask, I never had to towel off between innings.
Garth, while you are very fortunate not to have to work with overhead fencing, here we cover over 80 high schools, and there are many that have such fences. Many have them because their ballfields butt up against neighborhoods, and they were insisted on by the residents. Others play their home games at municipal recreation centers, where overhead screens are standard fare. Most youth ball fields use these type of fences come to think of it.
I wouldn't worry too much about the availability of regular masks in the future. Companies like +POS, Gerry Davis, and Honigs won't let the mask become extinct.
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I didn't take the post personally. I was responding to two years worth of never ending proselytizing, constant chirping and false accusations regarding my experience with helmets and the wrongly assumed reasons why I don't wear one.
I was responding to two years worth of Johnny One-Notes and outright fabrications about helmets. (I'll put my mask on the balance scale opposite any umpire helmet on the market and it will be my mask riding high.)
It is tiresome. I don't worry about not having a mask. I'll be in this business for about ten more years. I'll have my masks.
I knew and admitted to all a couple of years ago that one day just as the inside protector replaced the raft, the helmet would replace the mask. Just because I prefer not to wear one, I'm blind to reality.
I do not do youth ball and those are the only fields I know that have overhanging screens. I know how to take a foul ball. I have the protection and comfort I like.