I Love Vin Scully

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

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?