Jim Wolf's Black Shirt

[kylejt]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

But then again, I live in San Diego. If it's chilly or rainy, we use regular umpire jackets or windshirts.

Speak for yourself! I roll with the plate coat at least three times a year up here in Vista. Sure it's overkill, but the kids dig it.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by kylejt

Speak for yourself! I roll with the plate coat at least three times a year up here in Vista. Sure it's overkill, but the kids dig it.

The one time I really needed a jacket, and didn't have one with me (read: idiot), was when I had a Julian game one May afternoon. In the morning and early afternoon I was at the beach, frolicking in the 75 degree sun-bathed sand, hitting on chicks, etc. At 1:00 PM, I left the beach, went home and cleaned up, and headed for Julian, which is about an hour's drive northeast from San Diego.

When I got there, it was 27°F , with a wind chill of 9°. It was snowing/sleeting with winds gusting to 50 MPH blowing straight in from center-field. Carl, Julian's head coach, after he got finished laughing at me for not having a jacket, loaned me one of his team jackets (a fuschia/gold combo), and I went to work behind the plate.

Carl continued to remind me of that day for the next 15 years whenever I worked any of his games.

You really can surf in the morning and snow ski in the afternoon here in southern California.

[UMP25]

Hell, you can do that HERE in Chicago without having to travel!

FYI, July 2009: the coldest July ever in Chicago history.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by UMP25

Hell, you can do that HERE in Chicago without having to travel!

FYI, July 2009: the coldest July ever in Chicago history.

If you call those puny little swells rolling in off the lake "waves," okay.