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Does anyone own this jacket?
Is it standard? (I don't remember any side stripes on the MLB ones with the piping across the chest.) http://www.theofficialschoice.com/im...play/OF6.5.jpg It says the sleeves zip off (to make it like a batting practice pullover). I saw it at our old friends at Official's Choice: CONVERTIBLE BLACK - '2 IN-ONE Jacket' Long Sleeve Baseball Umpire Jacket - 2 Are you ready? ... $27.50 |
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I have always thought this type of jacket looked goofy on umpires. They look like barber or dentist smocks. |
Here is another real winner of a product from Official's Choice, that pilar of umpire gear sales worldwide:
http://www.theofficialschoice.com/Pr...te%20Large.jpg Gee, hmmmm.....I wonder what all the fans and bench jockeys will compare the umpires wearing this shirt to......... |
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I was raised well, and among the things I was taught never to do is to wear a brown shirt or coat with gray slacks. So, out of respect for my upbringing, I guess I won't get to wear the brown umpire shirt.
DAMN! |
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Hey, be careful there Pensaump...
I bought two of the white with black collars too. I already wore them this fall. I knew my partner for a scorching DH in September wouldn't have that color so I let him wear mine.
When I want to wear something I won't let a cheap *** partner hold me back. A hint for wearing this white shirt though. A black undershirt or an undershirt with writing on it shows through, a lot. It is very cool (weather-wise) though. I did both plates so we could get it over sooner (middle school fall ball-a terrible idea). I thought we looked pretty good in them. No other umpires saw us to give a fair and balanced critique though. |
I did the same (ordered two of the white and shared them on a hot day), and the major gripe is with the black undershirt bleeding through. I will be wearing a white tee (I know, not contrasting) under it next time.
It is a good-looking shirt. |
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Yep, we started right away....
The games had 1.5 hour time limits. The second game's teams were there, warmed up and ready. I am still in pretty decent shape for a 46 year old.
I regularly work as many as three to four plates in a day (six or seven games total per day on Thursday thru Sunday) in the summer during tourneys. I know it sounds crazy but it still isn't as hard as the duty I pulled when I was in the Army at Fort Bragg. Plus, I love umpiring and it was middle school level fall ball. I cannot get better working that level. Sad thing or crazier thing (depending upon your point of view) is that the day before this middle school madness I worked 8 innings behind the plate at a D1 college fall ball intrasquad at the University of Louisville. You want to talk about adjusting. Call me crazy. It's okay, I used to jump out of perfectly good airplanes. I'm used to it. |
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They know, however, never to wear these in any games I assign. |
New fed approved uni
But you can only wear it with charcoal pants and chain mail behind the plate:
http://www.officialsports.com/8079.jpg |
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Regards, Mr. Blackwell Jr. |
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If you recall, MLB guys wore the sage gray shirts a few years ago when those ugly sage gray pants were introduced. Needless to say, the gray shirt experiment didn't last too long, and the pants followed a year or so later.
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When I spent the 2006 season with Smitties R Us umpire group (not the real name of the group, for those of you in Rio Linda), the head honcho was shirt crazy and expected us to buy whatever color shirt he felt like featuring for certain tournaments he had booked. I was just about to buy the +POS silver shirts when I was forced into retirement. Lucky for me. The big problem with this is we were required to have the association name embroidered on the shirts, which essentially ruined them for using in any other group. |
I am a big fan of those guys who require you to wear a blank shirt, and they give you a cap with their patch or initials.
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I never did like those cream or white shirts. I feel like an ice cream vendor. The grays look better, IMHO.
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