on the topic of wearing a jacket

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Originally posted by kylejt
What's more "unprofessional", taking off a jacket, or sweating like a pig with a jacket on when it's 80 degrees? I'll suffer the indignation of removing the jacket.

I work games right on the coast line. The temperature changes very quickly, in both directions. It makes no sense to suffer. If you're that worried about how others will think about how it looks(really, how cares? coaches?) you might be a tad paraniod. No one, other an other umpire nerds, care if you're taking off a jacket between innings.

Honest.

I can not envision a situation where I start with a jacket and the temperature rises to 80 by the end of the game. If it happened I could not remove my jacket because my SS shirt is in my car and I would be working with just a tee shirt on, so I would tough it out.