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Sorry. Vin Scully is a terrible announcer, at least if you want to know what is going on at the ballgame. I don't know how many times I've been sitting at a game and watched a foul ball go WAY back into the seats behind the third base dugout only to hear Vin on the radio say something like, "Oh My! He hit that one! Oh! It's going . . . foul."

Here's another Vin classic: Man on second, one out, Vin announces the next hit, "It's up the middle, and he will have to stop af first. [long pause] And here's the next batter..." Hey Vin, maybe some of us would like to know if the man on second scored or if he stopped at third. Unfortunately we won't know that until the end of the inning when the score is giving and we can figure it out ourselves.

But on top of these are Vin's admission that he intentionally does not tell the radio audience what he sees. He was interviewed by Lon Simmons once during a pregame show and Lon asked him how he would announce a situation in which a runner was called out at second, but it was clear that the second baseman dropped the ball and that the umpire missed it. Vin said that he would only tell the audience that the runner was called out and that he would never mewntion the dropped ball.

Sorry, Vin may have a folksy and memorable delivery, but when it comes to imparting the information the audience wants to hear, accurately, he's the worst.