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Old Fri Apr 04, 2008, 01:51am
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Old Fri Apr 04, 2008, 03:20am
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nice glasses imo.
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Old Fri Apr 04, 2008, 07:33am
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it starts with looking professional.

Now I dont know if you have some condition that requires you to wear ski goggles when working... they look so bad, I almost think you must.

But those things look atrocious and unprofessional.

And they should be off when talking to a coach.
It's not a real good look.

I had a game day before yesterday. I had the bases with a partner I had never previously worked this. I was shocked to see him conduct the plate conference while wearing mirrored sunglasses.
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Old Fri Apr 04, 2008, 08:22am
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I don't wear mirrored sunglasses (ever), but I have been known to conduct the plate meeting and/or have discussions with coaches while wearing sunglasses... Falls into the category of Sr Moment... (I forget they are there...)
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Old Fri Apr 04, 2008, 08:31am
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Well...since my glasses are transitions lenses, I really have no choice on a sunny day. Either I conduct the conference with "sunglasses" on, or I can't read the line-up cards and see who I am talking to.
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Old Fri Apr 04, 2008, 09:28am
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Thanks Wade, but they're not ski goggles. I wear the Rec Speecs because if I didn't I would not be able to see. I used to were contacts, but a nasty infection in my eyes made me re-examine contacts. I will not wear them on the ball field again. My normal glasses cost $300. After being hit in the snot bucket with a ball I will not wear glasses on the field. The Rec Speecs cost $100 are practically indestructible and don't come off when I take my mask off. They do sometime fog up, but a treatment of shaving cream will clear that up. I have a pair with a clear frame and these with the blue frame. Since on the ball field they call us blue I wear the blue.
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Old Fri Apr 04, 2008, 10:18am
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As far as the looks is concerned, it is a matter of taste, I suppose. I will (sometimes) wear prescription glasses on the field, and I have had a pair or two end up damaged (scratched) from being knocked into the dirt and stepped on, that kind of thing.

I did look into rec specs and similar sports glasses last year, but decided they were not for me (again, taste).

I was poking fun in my brief post on the glasses, earlier.

But on a serious comment, it is the wide strap going around the ears and over the hat that bothers me more than the goggle-look itself. But, to each his own.
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Old Fri Apr 04, 2008, 12:03pm
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i'll definitely stick up for Bob on this one. I love Bob, have worked with him several times...have great memories of that 18A regional we worked in 2006, which was almost my last game ever. I was assistant TD for the 16A National after that, then day after the tournament had the gorilla step on my chest and discovered I had 99% blockage in one of my arteries.

Bob had the dish on that final and did a tremendous job. The UIC, Dan Duffy, wouldn't have put him back there if he couldn't do the job. I've worked with him other times and it's always been a great experience.

Anyway, Bob wears those because he has to wear them. His name on here, BuggBob, is in honor of those specs.

Besides, he lives up north of here where it REALLY rains all the time. Heck, if I lived up there I'd probably wear goggles too...and a snorkel, and special shoes to cover my webbed feet.
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Old Fri Apr 04, 2008, 06:46pm
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For whatever it's worth (well, either $0.02, or the universal "opinions are like a$$holes, everyone has one, and most of them stink), I agree with Tom on this one. No disrespect intended to BuggBob or John (in supporting him).

The specs make sense, and are probably very functional, so Wade is over the line (but, hey, that doesn't shock any of us regulars, does it?). But, the strap is also over the line, IMO; too wide, too commercial (hey, we are expected to black out the gold "W" on our masks and mask straps, aren't we?), and the over the hat look just doesn't seem right to me. Surely a plain black strap worn below the hat would look more appropriate to traditionalists (or NUS members)??
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Old Fri Apr 04, 2008, 06:50pm
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Let's lay off him, guys. He's just happy that he made the paper. He wasn't asking for fashion tips.
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Old Fri Apr 04, 2008, 07:55pm
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Let's lay off him, guys. He's just happy that he made the paper. He wasn't asking for fashion tips.
Fine!


Congrats on making the paper.

Hey its not as bad of a look as those slobs who wear light purple dirty wrinkled faded hats, pink blue shirts, and ragged walmart clothes on the field.. at least the ski goggles do actually have a purpose and its not intentionally filthy. Trademark I suppose.. Who knows, maybe hes a trend setter.
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