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Old Mon Mar 31, 2014, 08:36am
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Originally Posted by tmagan View Post
We have seen orange-sleeves in football for many years signaling commercial breaks, when the commercials are done, etc. I was watching the Dodger preseason game the other day and I saw a guy in the dugout with a headset and multiple colored cards and wondered if this was MLB's version of orange-sleeves. Sure enough, reading MLB's web site tonight, this person is known as the 'Field Timing Coordinator' and now indicates to the umpires when the commercials are done.
Usually in football, it is a guy wearing a red hat.
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