Head Protection

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

The latest from the MLB GM's is that base coaches will be required to wear some kind of head protection next year.

http://www.boston.com/sports/basebal...n_next_season/

Soooooooo........using the same logic, would that mean that base umpires might also be required to wear head protection too?

No. There's no way.

[fitump56]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
The latest from the MLB GM's is that base coaches will be required to wear some kind of head protection next year.

http://www.boston.com/sports/basebal...n_next_season/

Soooooooo........using the same logic, would that mean that base umpires might also be required to wear head protection too?

Originally Posted by RichMSN

No. There's no way.

Really?

You were one of the ones who said coaches would never be required to either, Rich.

The dynamics of the death of one coach, spread nationally as a tragedy (it waas), failed to land on anyone's head here.

ZZZZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, LOW FLYING JET and no one noticed.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by fitump56

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
The latest from the MLB GM's is that base coaches will be required to wear some kind of head protection next year.

http://www.boston.com/sports/basebal...n_next_season/

Soooooooo........using the same logic, would that mean that base umpires might also be required to wear head protection too?

Really?

You were one of the ones who said coaches would never be required to either, Rich.

The dynamics of the death of one coach, spread nationally as a tragedy (it waas), failed to land on anyone's head here.

ZZZZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, LOW FLYING JET and no one noticed.

OK, *I* will never wear one. Better?

[greymule]

When I played college baseball in New England in the late 1960s, our team wore batting helmets in the field my senior year. No caps that season. I seem to remember that some other teams did that, too.

Frankly, I preferred the helmet to the cap regardless of the safety issue, even while pitching. That was almost 40 years ago, but as I remember there was some noise that helmets were soon going to take over for caps entirely. (In those days, the helmets had no ear guards.)

Of course, the conventional wisdom then was also that because a few large companies had become so big and powerful, they would soon run everything. Therefore, a graduate had no chance trying to start his own business and so should accept the fact that he would be working for GM, Exxon, IBM, AT&T, US Steel, etc.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Fit, I don't know where you get your misinformation, but I have played every position on the baseball field at one time or other, including catcher and shortstop. I mainly specialized in playing first base because of my great stretch and my talent for picking errant throws out of the dirt.

I was quite the athlete as a younger man. I played in youth baseball programs in high school because I could only play one Spring varsity sport and that was golf, where I carried a 3 handicap.

My post questioned your misuse of the positions on the field. It had nothing to do with any lack of baseball knowledge on my part. You certainly don't exhibit any great knowledge of the game, as has been pointed out time and time again.

[fitump56]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

OK, *I* will never wear one. Better?

Works for me. Best move on to softball then.