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Old Sat Jun 20, 2015, 09:32am
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PONY 12U... I know the pitcher can't wear anything distracting, but wow these things are day-glo, any coach could credibly complain that they are distracting...
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Old Sat Jun 20, 2015, 12:41pm
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PONY 12U... I know the pitcher can't wear anything distracting, but wow these things are day-glo, any coach could credibly complain that they are distracting...
Nothing at all credible about such a whine
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Old Sun Jun 21, 2015, 07:40pm
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[QUOTE=jmkupka;963973]PONY 12U...
Currently, no PONY rule, A/R, or POE prohibiting such helmets...thus nothing to support to coach's complaint.
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PONY 12U... I know the pitcher can't wear anything distracting, but wow these things are day-glo, any coach could credibly complain that they are distracting...
Help me understand this. The rules I can refer to in the associations that I call relate to the umpire judgment that some equipment be distracting, but I just cannot conceive why an umpire would be distracted by batting helmets, or would believe the opposing defense would be. The mirror-finish; sure. A color similar to the ball?? Would that disqualify white helmets in baseball?

Kind of reminds me of the uniforms a Louisiana youth fastpitch organization (Deja Vu??) wore with all the day-glo colors; orange, green, pink, yellow. Opposing coaches wanted them to be called illegal (solely to get in their heads, I believe), but no UIC I ever called with would buy that argument.
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Kind of reminds me of the uniforms a Louisiana youth fastpitch organization (Deja Vu??) wore with all the day-glo colors; orange, green, pink, yellow. Opposing coaches wanted them to be called illegal (solely to get in their heads, I believe), but no UIC I ever called with would buy that argument.
Sorta reminds me of a state tournament I was once working where PITA coach complained that the pitcher was wearing mirrored sunglasses and the umpire wouldn't tell her to remove them.

I asked him why he thought that was a problem. He told me it was distracting his batters and making it difficult to hit off her.

My response was, maybe they would hit better if they were looking for the ball down by the hip and not the pitcher's face.

Certainly wasn't what he wanted to hear, but there wasn't anymore complaints from him or his team the rest of the tournament.
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