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@JoHart10 — You know, Joe, they _do_ sell pads and harnesses as separate items. You don't have to buy complete rigs to get the pads you want... ;)

@th3 — Here's my post to GreyhoundAggie the other day regarding mask design...

" @GreyhoundAggie – As a former catcher, my take is that double-wire is for catchers, single-wire for umpires. Because the catcher is _that_ much closer to the batter than the umpire (and typically has his face in the strike zone), the double-wire is added reinforcement against repeated impacts. More modern masks, though, have been abandoning double-wire altogether – Nike (Steel and Titanium), Rawlings (Titanium only), Wilson (Steel and Titanium), Easton (Steel) and All-Star (Steel). Oddly, the vaunted Diamond iX3 for catchers is still double-wire (Umpire version is single-wire with extended crown guard), and the All-Star Titanium is double-wire (the only titanium to do so). "

And guys reading this post — _Any_ of the 4 of these masks are better than that wretched, beat up, pathetic Rawlings PWMX, LWMX, or LWMX-LP you have been hanging off your face.


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