I Love Vin Scully

He is the man! i remember as a kid turning down the sound on the TV for the game just to listen to Vin on the radio.

I wish I'd been a baseball fan the years I lived in southern CA instead of becoming one right after I left.

The Ravine is just a beautiful place to watch a game

Yah, the park doesn't get crowded till the third inning so you can really put your feet up.

Dude,it's called traffic

LOL is that what it's called?

I know I posted his Pat Zachry quote somewhere

x post
no. i confess i was out in the parking lot smoking bowls until the second.

great voice. love this guy

Dodger Stadium is in Chavez Ravine

you are correct,sir

to inject a contrarian note here, he was SOOOOOOOO rooting for the Red Sox in the 86 WS. kinda irked me back in the day.

I've said it here before, and I'll say it again:

Baseball fans are getting ripped off every time he does not call a World Series game.

(The fact that we get Buck and McCarver only compounds the issue.)

I don't recall sensing any '86 rooting, but his call of Game 6 is the one I'll remember.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t12qml7up-o

"Chicken Catcher Torre"

yes, what's the full story there

Vin Scully once joked that after Torre moved to third base the day after a rough home-plate collision, he would be forever known as "Chicken Catcher-Torre." And then said when he told Tommy Lasorda that story, Lasorda ordered two.

I have a tough time watching Dodger games when it's the LA feed ... the guy never shuts up! Just a constant stream of banal trivia. If only Whitey Ashburn were still alive ...

you are high, or you have never been subjected to any of the other sportscasters in the fox universe

boldbury otm, it is a crime

vin scully is undeniably awesome.

Yes, 100%. I hope he never shuts up ever.

Just don't like his style, can't stand the constant babble. Growing up with Kalas/Ashburn makes me appreciate moments of silence punctuated with insight rather than a constant stream of trivia and media guide factoids.

Would I rather have Scully than McCarver/Buck? Certainly! But he's nowhere near my prototypical announcer.

vin's from radio days. you can't be silent on the radio.

zaxxon25 has a moustache?

"Vin Scully talks too much."
— Dodgers second baseman Jeff Kent, on Vin Scully's argument that batting in front of Manny Ramirez was helping Kent.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-simers17-2008aug17,1,1324415.column

Other highlights:

"Scully is making the same point everyone else is making," I said. "He says the stats indicate you are having success hitting behind Ramirez -- tell me that isn't the case."

"See my answer to the first question," said Kent, and sometimes you wonder if he sleeps with his bed against a wall forcing him to always wake up on the wrong side. "Listen, I'm so tired of talking about this stuff. It diminishes my whole career and all the hard work. I take it as an insult."

And:

"I've been here four years and I have never seen Vin Scully down here in the clubhouse," Kent said. "How does Vin Scully know me? How does Vin Scully know Derek Lowe?"

That prompted a whelp from Lowe, loud enough so maybe Scully might hear. "Don't get me in this one," he said. "Make it Brad Penny, or Russell Martin. Not me. I'm just sitting here watching the steeplechase. I'm not in this one."

And:

"Everyone says I'm hitting now because some guy says so on TV?"

And:

Oh well, time to push all his buttons, Kent ranked No. 47 on the all-time RBI list only because they walked Barry Bonds ahead of him so often.

"You write too much," cracked Kent, who can be both funny and deadly serious in the same sentence.

"Where would you be without the opportunity in your career to hit behind Bonds and in front of Manny?"

in JK's defense, you still have to hit. And the effect of "protection" has appeared in studies to be negligible.

Also: it's TJ Simers.

yeah tj simers is probably the worst sportswriter in the world

dude is always coming with some wack ass challops.

LA is blessed to have both TJ and Plaschke working in their fair city.

this man is unmatched

let's get back to this one

have now heard the history of several generations of cc sabathia's family

there was a reference to custer/the little big horn, but i didn't quite get the connection

meanwhile I'm stuck with MMMMMMKay.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/sports/baseball/25scully.html

http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/pulling-up-a-chair-with-the-great-vin-scully/

tonight scully mentioned that travis ishikawa's grandmother was a mail-order bride

"And they lived happily ever after." (!!!)

holy cultural differences, wayyyy different circumstances, it's called "picture bride". there's a great movie with the same name.

this is what happens when tokyo is leveled by firebombs, nagasaki/hiroshima are obliterated and many of japanese men aged 16-40 are killed while dug in the pacific islands.

kinda classless/insensitive way to put it imo. boo on vin.

tonight's vin tidbit: this is the 857th consecutive game without rain at dodger stadium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KjF58a6V_s

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dodgers-vin-scully-20100822,0,4307045.story

By T.J. Simers
August 21, 2010|8:40 p.m.

Vin Scully, in the homes of fans here since 1958, said he will announce Sunday his future plans as they relate to the Dodgers.

He offered no hints on what they might be before sitting behind the microphone for Saturday night's game.

"I know what I am going to do and I would imagine the Dodgers will arrange things so an announcement can be made before [Sunday's] game,'' said Scully, who will be 83 before the start of next season. "I'd like to do that so everyone hears it at the same time. It's the proper way to do it.''

Give him the World Series this year FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST

Joe Buck will mention Scully's retirement during one of the WS games, just after he plugs some football, while those jumping football robots are on the screen.

http://espn.go.com/blog/los-angeles/dodger-thoughts/post/_/id/7639/whew-hoo-vins-coming-back

yay, hope i get to sit in Dodger Stadium w/ radio on next summer.

Baseball is better off having Vin in the game:

http://www.bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4646:vin-scully-announces-he-will-return-for-63rd-season-with-dodgers&catid=57:television&Itemid=122

vin has gone off on an awesome tangent about batting gloves brought on by a pinch hit appearance by nate schierholtz

yeah!

can't believe i've never heard that rizzuto rat story before

lol he went on for over 5 mins, so awesome

have been listening to Vin with my dad tonight and have been talking about it, pretty special!

really weird hearing him plug the mlb ipad app

Dodgers had a great promo awhile back that was a mini radio tuned to their am station so you could take it to games.. Sadly you only get Vinny for 3 innings then it switches to Charlie Steiner and Rick Monday :(

just called kuroda inscrutable

i'ma let this slide

"Last night the American flag was blowing left to right. The state flag was blowing right to left. That was enough to confuse anybody."

see: they were showing a picture of the flags which are around the center field area in Dodgers Stadium. they were both blowing in the same direction tonight.

"paul janish has no idea why the j in his name is pronounced like a y"

scully sounded a bit crotchety today, tho probably with good reason

pissed on various boneheaded nationals plays

"hitters in years past -- even as recently as twenty years ago -- hated to strike out. to them it was a humbling experience. (pause) not anymore."

he did rhapsodize on what an interesting man davey johnson is, though, and i believed him

Vin is very anti strikeout. Mostly because they break up the opportunities for calling plays like hit and runs. He loves that stuff.

I wonder how many active Dodger jerseys outsell SCULLY 62?

Dodgers are surveying fans about their announcers including Scully.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-simers-20110824,0,6043015,full.column

some good news:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dodgers/2011/08/vin-scully-return-2012-season.html

loved vin's incessant complaining about the LA heat in the early innings today - it was 90 degrees!

dodger stadium is always hotter than the temps outside. it was probably a comfy 100 in the stands..

Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working. Players, writers, people who work at the ballpark and front office, when I quit I know I'll never see them again. I've never been the type to come to the ballpark and hang out; I've gone to one game in the last 60 years that I wasn't working. I keep working because I don't want to lose my friends.

--scully, on not retiring ever

And this quip about having bad teeth through the years: "if I were to write my autobiography—which I will never do, by the way—I would title it, 'My Life in Dentistry.'"

100+ games this year

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/3/17/2880383/vin-scully-dodgers-broadcasts-2012

will not be going to denver tho

he'll be fine w/ that

I keep waiting for the announcement that he'll only do home games from now on. And thats cool with me.

Confession time: I kind of agree with zaxxon25 upthread. I'd rather listen to a good 2-man booth than solo Vin.

i would like solo vin for one game of each series. some of his stories (where does he get them?) get repetitive over three or four games.

all games on all networks should be required to show vin's mid-game monologue, tho. then they can get back to this one.

"here's yonder alonso. you might wonder about the name 'yonder' and what kind of name it is. well, believe it or not, his parents made it up. but he's 6'2" and 240 pounds and no one's going to make fun of him about it."

now I got Charley Steiner on the radio... Vin doesn't do the ends of games?

steiner does radio, vin does tv iirc

I listened to Scully plenty last season on Gameday Audio, though, and I thought they just used radio feeds.

ah never mind... the TV I've got is the Padres'

out with a cold for the dodgers' home opener

first missed opening day since 1977

that's when i was born! O_o

charley steiner looks like hell, although i didn't realize that he's 62

back in the day i remember being impressed that tom landry was the only coach the cowboys ever had, but dude had nothing on our vin

Vin Scully was spitting heat today

vin has been going hammer tonight

- told a nice yarn about freddie freeman and his father

- gave the swedish translation for "uggla"

- after a chipper homer: "chipper jones has played with 363 different teammates as a brave. of course, in atlanta, 363 is known as the number of wins for the great warren spahn"

watching this game on local TV, Scully and a tie game.

"chipper jones has played with 363 different teammates as a brave. of course, in atlanta, 363 is known as the number of wins for the great warren spahn"

<3 <3 <3

till than we wish you all a very pleasant Good Evening.

the man!!!!!!

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4t0bjnDyM1qzniimo1_500.png

http://deadspin.com/5932382/vin-scullys-bowdlerized-translation-of-jim-tracys-meltdown-tonight-is-one-of-broadcastings-great-moments

Blinkin' fertilizer

^^^^ that's when I lost it

back for 2013

:D

I fear for a future w/o classic scully types and only joe buck types.

might go on Bronx roadtrip

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/8/26/3270112/vin-scully-los-angeles-dodgers-return

the flip side of this vin scully trip is he'd only get to call the friday night game because fox and espn will inflict joe buck and friends on us for the national games saturday and sunday

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9e4vbE9JT1qk9es5o1_500.jpg

vin scully is the best. growing up in LA, him and chick hearn were like gods to me. like gods!

‏@MLB_PR
According to @Dodgers, Vin Scully will throw out the first pitch tomorrow night for Vin Scully Bobblehead Night

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9l81hiM0a1qzxulzo1_500.jpg

vin scully's first communion

[As Kotsay fans, following talk of his past as a six-year-old BMX champ] "He is a far cry from the Kotsay of years ago. I can tell you that."

I understand he was talkin' BABIP last night.

he also said 'buttocks' twice on sunday

no one narrates a brawl like scully

how long has he been citing Fangraphs?

Scully set to return for 65th season

that is amazing, he must be having a blast with this years team.

"I have thoroughly enjoyed the excitement of this season, and there is no way I could leave this truly remarkable team and our great fans," Scully said. "With my wife Sandi's blessing, I've decided I'd like to come back and do it again next season. I love what the new ownership has brought to the team, and the energy provided by the fans, who have packed renovated Dodger Stadium. It reminds me that other than being home with my family, there is no place else I'd rather be."

on radio for 6 innings of every Dodger playoff game

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2013/9/23/4764380/vin-scully-los-angeles-dodgers-mlb-playoffs-2013

watching the Dodger Giants game.

9/25/2013

they play a song up here, it's a very catchy son "Bye-Bye, Baby!" which was the home run call by Russ Hodges who was the voice of the New York Giants who broadcast the Bobby Thomson home run and went almost hysterical when Booby's home run beat the Dodgers in the Playoff and then, of course. Russ came out and was a tremendous favorite here and while they were playing that song i couldn't help but think...i remember standing in Russ Hodges kitchen with Ernie Harwell and the three of us were singing "Harmony". Never thought about it really until just right now listening to "Bye-Bye, Baby!" and of course Russ will never be forgotten up here or in New York as well.

the best

of any sport

came across thie tonight:
http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/2013/09/29/q-and-a-scully-on-mccain-champange-and-really-how-can-you-complain-about-wanting-to-come-back/

Q: Speaking of more nonsense, what about the reaction to the Dodgers players who jumped into the pool in Arizona?
A: I’ll be honest: I sat in the booth and watched after they won. I had no knowledge about it until people told me, and I didn’t give it a thought. The park was empty. What’s the difference?
The thing that really concerned me was when Senator McCain made his remarks about it. With all the troubles going on in this world, where we are relying on his judgment and ability to maintain relationships, staying calm . . . the only thing I could think of was as a politician forever trying to please his constituents, perhaps he responded so he could say, ‘See, I’m one of you. I’m mad too.’ It still concerned me that a man of such high authority and overwhelming responsibilities in this mad-house world could possibly make the statement he made. It was shocking. If that’s his best judgment, to say that (via Twitter), then I’m really scared.

I hafta say McCain has scared me more previously.

"Puig is always thinking about the next base, the way the horse is thinking about the next bucket of oats."

omg that vin quote about mccain. pretty positive vin voted for him too. dude is an every sunday church attending catholic.

which equals crazy right-winger, huh
*smash my head against the punk rock*

vin scully pumpkin stencil

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bc_I75LCYAAJZ1k.jpg

http://cdn2.sbnation.com/assets/3792671/vinscully2014dwi.gif

if not for the golden dye job Scully would be a dead ringer for the middle lemonparty.org guy.

scully will go to australia for the dodgers' opener!

thats amazing considering houston is too far for him to travel during the regular season

sydney > houston

midseason form: 'he who hesitates, strikes out. so, tuiasosopo and all his syllables go back to the dugout.'

<3

February!

http://i.imgur.com/rGGAQYK.jpg

god damn you mookie beating me to the trigger all the time

Vin had no idea where Trumbo's misjudged ball was, I hope his eyes are OK.

"A little tremor in the ball park," Vin Scully said. "I am not sure if the folks felt it, but we certainly felt it here." The quake occurred during the 6th inning.

i love how when i read vin scully quotes i can hear his marvellous voice in my ear.

video

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/29/vin-scully-earthquake-la_n_5053652.html

i love how when i read vin scully quotes i can hear his marvellous voice in my ear.

― estela, Saturday, March 29, 2014 12:05 AM (21 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ otm.

"He who hesitates, strikes out. So, Tuiasosopo and all his syllables go back to the dugout" has been stuck in my head like a melody this month, just from reading it here.

@VinScullyTweet
Vin Scully on A.J. Burnett: "He's a very colorful character, apparently. When he was with the Marlins, they put a nickname on him: Satan."

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/4/22/5641490/vin-scully-hot-spit-take-adolf-hitler

http://wapc.mlb.com/cutfour/2014/05/09/74877964/vin-scully-calls-little-girls-dance-moves

http://www.truebluela.com/2014/5/13/5714196/vin-scully-mike-redmond-nude-batting-practice

"While he was playing for the Marlins in 2003, the team was in Cincinnati, a long and losing road trip," Scully explained. "The Marlins had just fired their manager and after a team meeting, in a rather somber and sleepy clubhouse the morning of an early game, Redmond headed to the indoor batting cages wearing nothing but his shoes, socks and batting gloves. That's all."

http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2014/6/2/5764256/vin-scully-career-retrospective-dodgers-broadcaster-profile

great profile.. the part about vin being a bridge to the past is great. during the dodgers 50th anniversary in LA in 08 they broadcast a game when after every inning they would update the production value of the broadcast.. basically the first inning was the 50s - black and white, one camera, no graphics, etc etc and throughout the game he'd comment on the evolution of the broadcast and would gradually integrate more cameras and angles, zoom, color and eventually graphics. it was a real treat.

Heaven Is Vin Scully Narrating a No-Hitter

m.mlb.com/video/v33858345/listen-back-at-scullys-best-calls-in-kershaws-nono

♥

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v34578965/mlb-productions-vin-scully-opens-the-1985-asg

featuring bonus willie mcgee content

Did a double-take at Fisk leading the league in HR, but he actually hit 37 that year.

top 3 in the AL that season were darrell evans, fisk, and balboni

Old, older, and bye-bye.

will return for a 66th season!

http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/dodgersnow/la-sp-dn-dodgers-vin-scully-return-20140729-story.html

tonight:

'do you remember that fourth of july game in atlanta in 1985? the new york mets were in town, and like many clubs, the braves had scheduled fireworks following the game. but the game went 19 innings and didn't end until nearly four in the morning. true to their word, and even though there were only about a hundred people left in the stands, the braves set off their fireworks anyway, which didn't make their neighbors too happy.

'lost in all the hubbub was the fact that keith hernandez had hit for the cycle in the game. and that was the last time anyone hit for the cycle against the braves.

'the last dodger to do it was orlando hudson -- the o-dog.

'now here's puig, who is 4-for-4 with a triple, a double and a pair of singles tonight . . .'

A friend just posted this on his page: the starting lineup for Scully's first game (April 18, 1950):

1. Pee Wee Reese, ss
2. George Shuba, lf
3. Duke Snider, cf
4. Jackie Robinson, 2b
5. Carl Furillo, rf
6. Gil Hodges, 1b
7. Bobby Morgan, 3b
8. Roy Campanella, c
9. Don Newcombe, p

(Surprised seeing Robinson at clean-up--my assumption would have been Snider, Campanella, or Hodges.)

Robinson had been third in slugging in the league in '49, behind Kiner and Musial.

Wasn't an occasional thing, either, it turns out. Looking at this Baseball Reference page, he had about 3,000 PA batting clean-up, 1,200 hitting second, 800 in the #3 spot, and only 100 leading off. How many teams have ever had their best base stealer hitting clean-up?

You could win a lot of bets on that. Believe me, I'm not saying he shouldn't have been there, I just assumed either third (best hitter) or lead-off.

https://www.change.org/petitions/mlb-have-vin-scully-announce-the-all-star-game-and-world-series-in-2015

i would sign that but this is a FOX decision and not MLB's.

"The initials are A.J. Pollock. His name is Allen Lorenz IV. How they get the J is ... well, only he would know." -- Scully

awful

http://www.dodgersblueheaven.com/2014/02/vin-scully-told-story-of-day-he-wore.html?m=1

@Dodgers
While Christmas shopping today, Vin Scully lost his 1988 World Series ring. If you find it, please contact the Dodgers at (323) 224-1500.
5:24pm · 18 Dec 2014

@Dodgers
Great news! Vin Scully's 1988 World Series ring has been found. (This was not a drill -- Vin thanks everyone for their concern.)
5:33pm · 18 Dec 2014

whew

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lze56lzf221r69w3a.gif

lol

glad they found vin's ring though.

vin scully's all-time NL team:

1B • Musial

2B • Joe Morgan

SS • Ernie Banks

3B • Mike Schmidt

OF • Aaron, Mays, Robinson, Clemente

C • Johnny Bench

SP • Gibson, Juan Marichal, Tom Seaver, Greg Maddux.

RP • Sutter, Hoyt Wilhelm

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/hummel-musial-gibson-sutter-on-scully-s-all-time-team/article_7dd430ed-c95d-5878-90e3-0a6207c194ed.html

(note that this is his "all opponent" team, so no dodgers)

not about Vin but felt it went in this thread, going to link the whole story as it ends good.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/la-sp-dodgers-organist-plaschke-20150612-column.html

Her music had been marginalized, her volume diminished, her Dodgers career slowly muted into irrelevance.

So Thursday morning, in responding to a question from a friend on her Facebook page about whether she was returning next season, a frustrated Nancy Bea Hefley answered simply, " No ... I don't fit in."

The longest-tenured stadium musician in Los Angeles sports history confirmed that at the end of her 27th year as Dodgers organist, she would be unhappily walking away, a decision she later repeated after being contacted by The Times.

"I am retiring at the end of this season," Hefley told The Times. "It's finally gotten to me."

Even her richest show tune wouldn't be proper accompaniment for what happened next.

Three hours after the original post appeared, one of those officials called Hefley and, soon thereafter, the woman who had been reduced to playing five minutes a day was suddenly un-retired after being promised a lifetime deal.

Anybody know the chords for, "Ya Got Trouble?" Or maybe it should just be, "Hallelujah."

"I'm going to be staying with the Dodgers," Hefley said in an interview after her phone call with team officials. "We talked things over, they told me I'm important to them."

Indeed, despite slowly removing her from the game experience such that it seemed obvious she would not be re-signed after her three-year contract expired this fall, Dodgers management suddenly thought she was so important they gave her a job for life.

"They said I had a job as long as I want the job, the job would not be open for anybody else," Hefley said. "I will be signing a new contract at the end of the year."

They suddenly thought she was so important, they even asked her to immediately return to Facebook and post the good news, and so she did, writing, "To all my faithful fans, I WILL be coming back next year. Thank you for your support. The Dodgers have stated I have a job as long as I want.''

Lon Rosen, the Dodgers' marketing boss, confirmed the contract promise and the lifetime offer, which will come with a pay raise for next season.

"She's always been a valuable part of the Dodgers," said Rosen. Her retirement "was news to us, we spoke to her, we told her she was a valuable part of the Dodgers organization and the fan experience."

Until now, their actions had not supported a belief in that value. In fact, Hefley has spent most of this season as a Dodgers afterthought, creating the frustration that led to her Facebook exchange.

"I'm not going to be badmouthing anybody, but I'm just tired of it. You get to the point where it's just not worth it anymore," she initially said Thursday morning.

Hefley said the final straw occurred during the last homestand when management stopped allowing her to play during the visiting team's introductions, then ended the regular practice of showing her image on the big screen during her playing of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." Those changes, while small, are symbolic of the slow silencing that has occurred since Guggenheim Baseball Management purchased the team three seasons ago.

Hefley, whose Dodgers career began during the team's last World Series championship season in 1988, estimated she once played 45 to 50 songs a night. Now she plays, at most, snippets of three or four songs. She once played virtually the entire game. Now she estimates she plays a total of five minutes.

During the Dodgers' glory days, she became famous for serenading Orel Hershiser's appearances with the song, "Master of the House," from the musical "Les Miserables." Today, she is not allowed to play when the pitchers come into the game.

During the Dodgers' most glorious moment, she serenaded Kirk Gibson's first-pumping home run trot with "Happy Days Are Here Again." Today, when a Dodgers hit leaves the park, she keeps quiet.

"They don't like my music, that's what it comes down to," she initially said. "I think it's the style … they want more of the new stuff."

After she un-retired, Hefley said more playing time was discussed, but not promised, something Rosen confirmed.

In some ways, the Dodgers are in a tough spot with Hefley. Like all teams in a sport with an aging fan base, they are trying to attract a younger demographic, and thus are filling most of the game's dead space with popular music ranging from rap to hip-hop to dance. As even Hefley would admit, there are times her classic favorites would slow the vibe, and she can't easily change her tune. She acknowledged that a couple of years ago, officials requested she learn 20 newer songs, but she said they weren't her style. The Dodgers' taste seem to lean more toward the thump of Dieter Ruehle, the celebrated Kings organist, who was given more playing time when he filled in for Hefley last weekend.

Yet in another way, this should have been easy for the Dodgers. She's Nancy Bea, for Pete's sake. She's beloved, she's respected, she's adored by Vin Scully, she still plays the heck out of Rodgers and Hammerstein, and why can't you throw her a few more songs, a couple of more innings? There are few more trendy parks in baseball than the new Yankee Stadium, and yet organ music still fills the Bronx. There is still a small but valuable place in the modern baseball experience for "The Surrey With the Fringe on Top.'' Why can't the Dodgers find that place for Hefley and the many traditional fans who still love her?

And, just wondering, if Hefley is so important to them, shouldn't the Dodgers have been in closer communication with her? At least close enough her frustration would never reach a level that she would publicly retire without telling them?

"I'm so humbled by all this," said Hefley. "So overwhelmed."

The Dodgers' marketing people now know the feeling. Or at least they should.

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yeah

otoh josh kantor played ornette at fenway tonight. like everything else, things evolve

"Lucas is very important to the Mets. He's their butter-and-egg man."

i have caught at least 3 factual mistakes in the last 10 minutes, however.

http://m.mlb.com/video/v231491183/nymlad-scully-talks-about-the-future-of-redheads

yeah i heard that too!

sonned by vin scully

https://twitter.com/vinscullytweet/status/626245511784239104

"that's a great western name, kole calhoun, you can just see him walking through those swingin' doors."

er, rather, "that's a great name for a western star."

https://i.imgur.com/la0QbBf.png

here's an article.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/dodgersnow/la-sp-dn-dodgers-vin-scully-to-return-in-2016-20150828-story.html

Scully turns 88 in November.

I would think that the mound at Dodger Stadium right now is the loneliest place in the world.

http://www.salon.com/1999/10/12/scully_koufax

best part about playing the dodgers is listening to his call

did Vin just say it was Pacifier Night? "something that should be passed out to a lot of adults when it comes to the Dodgers and Giants"

@stephenjnesbitt
Vin Scully came over earlier to ask @Tom_Singer, “How do you pronounce that shortstop’s name? The guy who got hurt?” Ghang. “Ooooh, Ghang!"

"resting comfortably" after a medical procedure, won't be doing postseason radio

http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/dodgersnow/la-sp-dn-dodgers-vin-scully-will-miss-postseason-20151008-story.html

:( hopefully he'll be back next year for the farewell tour

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgDcg-gW4AELe6H.jpg

i love vin scully

#GOAT

Some of his games belongs to the National Recording Registry.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgLFWl4WIAAMdpR.jpg

"Back to my bladder..."

http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb-news/4702216-vin-scully-madison-bumgarner-story-snake-rabbit-dodgers-giants

was shocked that this revive wasn't about this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgqG6G1WgAA-Vkx.jpg

Jesus

that cannot be real. right?

i made a cursory exploration but chose not to inspect too deeply

at any rate, the twins did beat the mariners 14-4 on 8/15/87 and hrbek did hit his sixth homer in eight games

the reference to "new power generation" seems suspicious since NPG didn't exist til later.

unless......... prince named it after this call!!!?!?!?!?!?!11111!1111eleven!!!11

Apparently Vin went on a brief rant against Venezuelan socialism last night (so I guess he's voting for Clinton).

coot

www.truebluela.com/2016/6/17/11967984/vin-scully-gets-political-not-a-fan-of-socialism

yesterday's BP podcast dug through Vin's career, largely as chronicled by SI profiles from 1964 on.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=29598

tampa's visit to dodger stadium is providing an opportunity for scully to offer fun facts about giant manta rays

♥

I think they're finally gonna put Vin in the field!

http://www.dodgersnation.com/vin-scully-retirement-game-tickets-pulled-for-additional-promotions/2016/08/30/

http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/la-sp-dodgers-vin-scully-20160913-snap-story.html

If the Dodgers win the World Series in Vin Scully’s final year, the voice announcing the championship will not belong to Scully.

Scully said Tuesday he would not call any Dodgers playoff games on radio, meaning his career will end Oct. 2 in San Francisco.

“Otherwise, I’d be saying goodbye like in grand opera, where you say goodbye 12 different times,” Scully told The Times.

Although national broadcasters have exclusive television rights to playoff games, Scully has called the Dodgers’ postseason games on radio in recent years. The team had hoped he would do so again this year, but Scully said two farewells would be enough: Sept. 25, when the Dodgers play the Colorado Rockies in the final regular season home game, and Oct. 2, when the Dodgers finish the regular season at AT&T Park.

Said Scully: “I’m going to say goodbye at Dodger Stadium the last game with Colorado. I will say goodbye in San Francisco. And then that will be it.”

In his 67th and final season as voice of the Dodgers, Scully has called three road games: Opening day in San Diego, and two games in Anaheim. He said he would work all three games of the weekend series in San Francisco.

“And then I will go home,” he said.

For Scully, 88, the most poetic sports broadcaster of all time, his career will have a poetic ending.

He grew up in New York. As he walked home from school one afternoon, at age 8, he passed a laundry that displayed the score of that day’s World Series game: New York Yankees 18, New York Giants 4.

“As a little kid, my first thought was, ‘Oh, those poor Giants,’“ Scully said. “From that little kernel, I developed a desire and a love for baseball. Since the Giants were 20 city blocks from my school and I could get there thanks to the Catholic Youth Organization and the Police Athletic League, I could go to games free, Monday through Friday. So I became a very big Giants fan.

“As things turn out, the last game of the season, and my last broadcast, will be against the Giants, in San Francisco, Oct. 2, 2016 — exactly 80 years to the day that I saw that Giant-Yankee scorecard.

“That is a fitting conclusion, I think, to my career.”

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exactly 80 years to the day

damn

Lou Gehrig played in that game.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NY1/NY1193610020.shtml

well yes, as he played in every game til he got sick.

Vin is committed to Trump fundraisers the rest of October (j/k)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cs5rWR_UAAATsAJ.jpg

I'm going to his last home game this Sunday - I believe its 'Grown Men Cry' day at the park.

Vin said recently he was gonna have a surprise for the fans on Sunday which Im kind of geeked about. Vin usually doesnt disappoint.

tonight ESPN is playing tribute to Vin during the Giants vs. Dodger game. they are also letting Vin call the 4th inning tonight.

also for people of Los Angeles who don't get Time Warner cable. They are playing the last three home games on KTLA channel 5 vs the Rockies. they are also going to play the last games he will ever call next weekend in San Francisco again vs the Giants and again on KTLA channel 5.

great for me as i'm blacked out.

ESPN

anyone else going to watch this inning?

got it on here.

honestly i've never really understood the love for vin's style but the persistence and longevity deserves respect and then some. no one will ever have a career like this again.

incredible

and it's coming to a close, so very sad but age is a part of life...

just learned that jaime jarrin has been the dodgers' spanish-language broadcaster for 58 years. wonder if there's anyone else even close to the two of them

http://www.gq.com/story/vin-scully-is-a-legend-but-not-a-saint

@VinScullyTweet
"For those of you who wonder what I will do. Put it this way, I'm looking for a much smaller house, and a much larger medicine cabinet."

it appears this hasn't ever been posted -- 1964 SI profile by Robert Creamer

Before his graduation from Fordham in 1949 he wrote dozens of letters to radio stations up and down the East Coast, applying for a job. He did not really expect any results from the letters, but to his surprise he landed a summer spot as an announcer with a station in Washington, and there he picked up his first professional experience. That position ended when the summer did, and Scully returned to New York. One day he walked into the Columbia Broadcasting System office and asked to speak to Red Barber, who at that time was also sports director of the CBS network. Scully managed to see Barber and they had a pleasant, if brief, chat, but there was no job available and, in fact, Scully did not even fill out an application.

That fall CBS had a Saturday afternoon college football program, which Barber ran, that utilized a roundup broadcast of several games from around the country. Barber, on the air, would contact the announcer at one of the games, get a quick report from him and perhaps a few minutes of play-by-play and then switch to another game. One week the announcer who was supposed to handle the Notre Dame-North Carolina game in Yankee Stadium fell ill at the last minute. Ernie Harwell, who had broadcast Dodger games with Barber, was scheduled to do the Boston University-Maryland game in Boston, but Barber switched him to New York for the Notre Dame-North Carolina game, which was supposed to be the big game of the week. Then Red looked around for someone to take over the game in Boston. No one was available. Every experienced announcer was busy. Barber thought for a while and then said, "Who was that redheaded kid who came in here that day looking for a job? Anybody remember his name? Where was he from? Fordham, wasn't it?"

..."That winter Ernie Harwell shifted from the Dodgers to the Giants. Ernie had come up to the Dodgers in the first place when Red had gotten ill suddenly in Pittsburgh during a road trip, and when Red got better there were three of them broadcasting, Red, Ernie and Connie Desmond, who had been with Red for years. When Red came back, Ernie more or less made a job for himself, but when he got the chance to go over to the Giants he took it. Now the Dodgers needed someone to take his place. But they didn't want anyone with a great deal of experience. They wanted someone who could handle commercials and fill in for an inning or two now and then. Red suggested me. The agency that handled the advertising had some doubts, but Red got the ball club to let me go to spring training on a trial basis. Then Red called me and asked me if I'd be interested. Oh, boy! Here I was, 22, single, just out of college, and I'm asked if I'd like to go to spring training with the Dodgers!

"I had to go over and be interviewed by Branch Rickey, who was president of the Dodgers then. I spent three hours with him; I remember that because he had lunch brought in. He did most of the talking. He talked about the pitfalls a young man faced. He asked me, 'You married?' I said, 'No, sir.' He said, 'Engaged?' I said, 'No, sir.' He said, 'Go steady?' I said, 'No, sir.' He said, 'Got a girl?' I said, 'Well, no.' He chewed that cigar of his for a minute and then he snapped, 'Get a girl, go steady, get engaged, get married. Best thing in the world for a young man.' "

http://www.si.com/vault/1964/05/04/606816/the-transistor-kid

http://i.imgur.com/nAGR58P.png

omg

adieu

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/204697686/vin-scully-wraps-up-career-in-vintage-form/

http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2016/10/01/204521626/vin-scully-told-willie-mays-you-were-always-my-favorite-player

awww

how much of Vin's last game do i need to watch?

i didn't catch it :(

one of today's announced recipients of the Presidential Medal Of Freedom.

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/801170791173758976

https://i.imgur.com/ExGmx8p.jpg

90 today

big man ting

We know you all missed Opening Day as much as we did. In the meantime until we see you again soon, here’s a special message from someone who always makes us feel better. pic.twitter.com/Na3ea1bjMh

— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) March 27, 2020

He's all in for Twitter

Hello everyone! This is Vin Scully here. Delighted to join you on twitter. Have a great day! #VinScully pic.twitter.com/RKbSzCiWwq

— Vin Scully (@TheVinScully) September 2, 2020

pic.twitter.com/FloR9dBhZj

— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 3, 2022

Rest well. Put him in the hall of fame.

http://www.sonsofstevegarvey.com/p/the-sosg-vin-scully-repository.html

RIP, the best ever.

Ironically, Dodgers are playing the Dodgers tonight and these stories tonight have been nice.

*Giants

RIP to a big one

Vin Scully, during the third inning of last night's telecast:

Time called. The dreaded beach ball has shown up on the track in right field.
So Jeff Mathis will use the time and go out to talk to Jered Weaver.

Jered Weaver, as a kid — Mike Butcher, the pitching coach, watching. Remember three years ago, Jered opened up his major league career and went nine-and-oh, tying the American League rookie record for a starting pitcher set by the great Whitey Ford of the Yankees back in 1950.

All right, Jered bends at the knees and — wait, that's a joke. There's two, three beach balls.

I've always been amazed — I remember we were so thrilled just to go to a ballgame — but how people can make plans.

"Let's go to the ballgame."

"Yeah, do you have your beach ball?"

Well, they do.

All right, now we're ready, two balls and no strikes the count....

And from the fifth inning:

Time. And Mathis going out to the mound. Interesting now, every time the plate umpire orders time, I look for a beach ball. I mean, it's automatic. It's crazy.

loool, vin scully otm

RIP. "What a career" doesn't come close to covering it.

thread

https://t.co/y2xOmNMWmE

— Daniel Brim (@DanielBrim) August 3, 2022

This 2014 profile is worth reading.

https://www.sbnation.com/longform/2014/6/2/5764256/vin-scully-career-retrospective-dodgers-broadcaster-profile

From a biography of Philip Johnson I'm reading, talking about his Wiley House:

"'A small, contained temple in the landscape,' wrote Yale architectural historian Vincent Scully, then a rising star, in an influential essay that appeared in Art and America."

A small, contained temple in the landscape--you've got to say that in the voice.

<3

I don't see an embedded link on the thread...Never knew about this!

https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=COJakiUimwA

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=COJakiUimwA

No idea why that won't embed...anyway, Vin's CBS talk show w/Carroll O'Connor.