I Love Vin Scully

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..

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.

“well, the celery stalks at midnight” - 4/5/99, after Dave Hansen hits a single off Armando Reynoso in the bottom of the 9th

I think it has something to do with a bat breaking?