Posted on 11/28/2015 12:10:35 PM PST by EveningStar
It is not what anyone in the Los Angeles area wants to believe. When Vin Scully first said in August that next season would realistically be his last broadcasting the Dodgers, willful thinking became rampart ...
Scully [turns] 88 Sunday and has reached the point where he cannot envision a scenario where he returns beyond the 2016 season.
"I really can't see that I would come back," Scully said. "Sooner or later, you have to be realistic. I've done it for a long, long time. I've done reasonably well at it. But I don't want to stay on any longer than I feel I should ...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I’m a die-hard San Francisco Giants fan, but Vin Scully is the greatest. How lucky the Dodgers and their fans have been to have this national treasure as their radio voice.
I remember Vin Scully's call of the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's perfect game on September 9, 1965. You can listen to it here. Remember, this was a live unscripted description of an on-going event.
Vin Scully is a national treasure.
I’d love for him to do a game with Hawk Harrelson
In these days and times, it is hard to imagine a greater topic of discussion, than this thread. Well done! You benevolent bastards, got the situation right! Let’s play ball. FTW.
He is. That would be cool.
I listened to that game live as well. It’s only after hearing it again, after all these years that I appreciate how good Vin is—as you say, an unscripted description of what was happening as it happened. That is how he has spoiled those of us lucky enough to have grown up listening to him.
I don’t know if you grew up in the L.A. area, but in the early days at the Colosseum people would bring transistor radios to the game so they could hear Vin’s broadcast. Easterners thought it was because West Coast Dodger fans were just unsophisticated as far as major league baseball was concerned and needed help following the game. The fact is, the game is better when you hear Vin.
When Scully retires after the end of the 2016 season, the Baseball of Fame needs to honor him in a special way--after all, he won the Ford C. Frick Award from the HoF way back in 1982.
Have you been to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown?
They have a broadcasting exhibit where you can hear all the famous calls. Russ Hodges' supercharged exhilaration in "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" from 1951 tops them all, in my opinion.
Vin Scully is there, too. Plus Ernie Harwell, my personal favorite play-by-play guy. Curt Gowdy, Red Barber, all the great ones.
The broadcasting exhibit alone is worth the price of admission.
Vinny and the ultimate of “homers”, yeah a match made in heaven. He gone!
For, lo, the winter is past,Classic.
The rain is over and gone
The flowers appear on the Earth
The time of the singing of birds is come
And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
Yo. Classic!
“Vin Scully is a national treasure.
I’d love for him to do a game with Hawk Harrelson”
I ran into Scully a couple of times at our local supermarket. People flocked to him like a magnet.
As for The Hawk, I’m glad to have the memories of the “Summer of 67” Most of us kids went to as many games as we could, as the year was indeed “The Impossible Dream”. A box seat was $12.00. Now it buys a beer : )
I’d most likely throw my undies at him and scream: “VIIIIIIIINNNNNNNN’l
David Price to Boston.
Makes them severely low balling Jon Lester back in 2014 look even worse.
Oh well. It’s not my $$$.
“The Braves have agreed to a one-year contract with Gordon Beckham that will guarantee the longtime White Sox infielder $1.25MM”, reports Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports (via Twitter).
So much for getting a Gordon Beckham next season in CHI...
The Angels announced that they have non-tendered left-handed reliever Cesar Ramos.
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