Exposed Chest Protector

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

How does he nail down a strike zone floating like that? He's almost never locked.

He does look great, though.

Yeah, he looks great. Except for that annoying putting his hand on the catcher thing. What's up with that? I have heard that most catchers hate that and wish the umpire would kindly remove his hand from their backs.

Originally Posted by GoodwillRef

I wear my plate coat as much as possible...the coaches think you actually can umpire when they see one.

Remember the oafish plate umpire from Major League in the final championship game (the one who pulled the chain on swinging strikes)? He wore a plate coat and managed to set movie-actor umpiring back 100 years at the same time. Most coaches I know around here would consider a plate coat pretentious on anything but a big game.