Please ditch the blue pants
 

Blue pants with a light blue shirt looks HORRIBLE. Its even worse when worn with a navy jacket since the colors never sync. I know this is ASA, but the conference supervisors need to speak up on this one on you guys' behalf.

In Texas, the softball guys wear gray slacks with the light blue shirt. I personally think the black shirt/hat is the best looking combo, but the pale blue is fine. Any of you other high school guys forced to wear the blue pants?

Why is softball taking so darn long to get out of the 1970s?

TOTALLY disagree.... the WORST combination is the grey pants/light blue shirt.....softball umps wear BLUE! The ONLY time (IF EVER) those ugly grey pants should be worn is with the NAVY shirt.

The Blue looks GREAT. Keep it.

On Saturday in Knoxville, North Carolina wore light blue jerseys with navy pants. They looked just like the umpires.

That, in and of itself, is reason enough to ditch the navy pants. Umpires in general, whether it be baseball or softball, should wear grey. I don't know why softball thinks it has to try to be different in every aspect of the game.

Where did you guys come from? They don't call umpires "blue" for nothing.

The grey is unforgiving, and I really don't care what they do in Republic of Texas. The powder over navy is a good combination.

The powder over grey looks like something a group of nuns put together for a parochial school uniform.

And BTW, baseball is another game, why should softball even associate themselves with it?

BTW, the UNC blue is not the same color as the powder blue.

Hey, the uniform is better than what it was 7 years ago. Polyester shirts with big collars... Looked straight out of the 70s!

I think it's better than the USSSA uniforms. Black slacks with a red shirt? I did a USSSA tourney years ago in the middle of July, and I darn near passed out! Hot, hot, HOT!

Mike's right, Carolina blue is not the same as powder blue. It's *very* close, but I'm wearing a Carolina blue shirt today (I'm not sure why - maybe I need to do laundry more often). Definitely not the same.

Since when did anyone start caring for umpire comfort? I didnt get that memo! and heck they cant even standardize baseball umpire uniforms. but if we are voting im with y'all on the grey slacks and powder blue shirts. navy is so 80's. <lol>

If I were to vote on a switch, I'd vote for the heather grey slacks with the new navy pro-style shirts. Our organization prefers that we show up in the navy/powder blue combination. However, if both umpires on the field agree to it beforehand, they've been willing to let us use the heather grey/navy shirt combo. Don't know if this is still the case, but I wouldn't mind switching to that. Sure, I'll spring another $100 for 4 more shirts out of my pocket for that.

I don't care what color we wear, yellow shirts over green pants :rolleyes: would work, as long as we stop wasting money on changes just to be pretty and every sanction having to be different. :mad:
You fashion dilettantes should give up, it's a job not a fashion show.
As far as heat, fabric means more than color and yes the old, old shirts could be uncomfortable for wimps. Although I agree the new fabric is more practical, less sweat damage, no ironing, etc.
There is no ball game anywhere that can not be umpired in the same uniform as any other game, regardless of what color that is, including powder blue over navy.

I don't have a problem with any of the color combinations. Powder over heather is fine, but navy shows up less dirt. I can get 3 0r more games from a navy vs the powder.

Anything but STRIPES!

we could just wear orange jumpsuits with numbers stenciled on them... maybe carry some shanks... that might help with crowd control.

Count me among those who prefer the navy pants.
I've got all sorts of uniforms and nothing covers my sweat better than the navy pants.

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I have always preferred the heather grey to the navy for pants.

My opinion is that we should decide on one shirt color, and one pants color, both plain with no logos

If a certain sanctioning body then wants umpires to display a logo during games...we switch hats....

As a former basketball official, I know that I could go anywhere in the country with my stripes, black pants, and black shoes and call a game with my matching partner.

And mine is the opposite... let umpires decide what to wear, within the accepted norms, as long as they match.