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Old Wed May 21, 2008, 02:18pm
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The book states that the throat protector be black though those sold by officialgear.com (ASA's vendor) all seem to have a trademark logo.
But money is more important!

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Don't know the size of the MLB logo, but some may think that is a bit pretentious for an umpire to wear it.
Hmmm
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Old Wed May 21, 2008, 09:02pm
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Mines black with a white W on it and has saved my life at least twice.

I recommend highly recommend wearing one. My throat is shorter which is just fine with the extended mask.
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Old Thu May 22, 2008, 10:00am
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I know that Lester's used to sell plain black, no logo throat protectors. Might want to check them out.
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Old Thu May 22, 2008, 02:25pm
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Mines black with a white W on it and has saved my life at least twice.

I recommend highly recommend wearing one. My throat is shorter which is just fine with the extended mask.
agree - gotta have one ....... with or w/o a logo and good lord, who cares if a throat protector has a logo? geez, enuf already
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Old Thu May 22, 2008, 11:42pm
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I was just asking to make sure about the logo. Hell I took a sharpie to the logo on my jock.
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Old Fri May 23, 2008, 11:18am
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I was just asking to make sure about the logo. Hell I took a sharpie to the logo on my jock.
Uhhh, you are supposed to wear THAT inside your pants.
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Old Fri May 23, 2008, 01:55pm
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pants!!! I knew I was forgetting something.
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Old Fri May 23, 2008, 02:03pm
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Uhhh, you are supposed to wear THAT inside your pants.
Maybe there's a niche market for exotic male dancers dressed as umpires.

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