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Old Fri Jan 18, 2008, 06:19pm
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Originally Posted by DaveASA/FED
I will say the western pockets have their draw backs, hard to get my fat hands into them...but as Irish mentioned those of us with larger anatomy can wear pants without the pocket liner showing! That is one of the biggest complaints I have heard with the "standard" pocket, when us umpires have an early spring game and our pants have shrunk over the fall / winter (damn closet lights... ) they tend to get pulled apart at the pockets revealing the inner liner of our pants which on navy pants is noticable from the entire infield!!
Obviously, we would have to cancel the game if anything that earth-shattering happened.
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