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In the men's fastpitch league where I play, there are a couple of umpires that do not wear chest protectors. They compensate by getting really low (too low) right behind the catcher. As a result, there is no possible way that they can see the bottom half of the zone, or the outside corner, and their zones are really inconsistent in those areas.
Perhaps even dumber, there are several catchers that wear only a mask- no chest protector or shin guards. I'm out there just waiting to see a broken collar bone or cracked rib! One such catcher took one near the collar bone area and had to leave the game, but by the luck-of-the-draw nothing was broken.
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