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I prefer old time announcers who work alone it the booth, like Scully. They talk to us.
Now this may be a moot point, since it looks like Scully will be back next year. However, let's discuss this writer's premise: How about it folks, is Scully over the hill? Has he lost his touch? Is it time for him to retire?
Oh, the agony of the feet!
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blasphemy. what an a$$hat.
Vin Scully is one of the main reasons I enjoy watching the Dodgers on my MLB.TV subscription.
I love Scully. I don’t think it’s time for him to go. He’s been the best part of the Dodgers for the past few years.
Let him stay until he wants to leave.
Not really as far as I can tell. I have the MLBTV and I enjoy listening to Vin Scully whenever I can.
Scully talks too much.
You’d never know there was a game going on, listening to him babble.
I tune into the Dodgers for that very reason. Vin!!!!
I’ve been in the media business for nearly thirty years and have called baseball and a myriad of other sports. Scully is just fine.
Dodgers fans, or the intelligent ones at any rate, know exactly what kind of treasure they’ve got.
“Is it time for him to retire?”
Listening to Vin Scully tell the story of a baseball game is a treasure as was Red Barbor.
Retire? why? Haven’t heard ANYONE do a game better and if he loves doing it I hope GOD takes him while doing a game.
WOW what a jerk for this ass to say something so horrible. Vince Scully is a legend here in LA, he is the Chick Hearn of baseball. He can retire when he damn well pleases
-PJ
Scully is an American icon. Red Barber, Ernie Harwell, Harry Caray, Jack Buck, Mel Allen. Scully is the last of a vanishing breed. May Scully broadcast for fifteen more years.
I hate to listen to the current batch of announcers because they appear bored with the game and spend too much time talking about where they ate last night or their favorite color, since most of the relevant information is on the TV screen they just babble on about everything except the game.
Vin still truly seems to enjoy watching and sharing the game and his knowledge with the fans.
No not that one...(pffft....I'm a Tiger's fan)
Gibson off of Gossage in '84...
"...and there it gooooes!"
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Because Vin has been in the booth since the booth was at Ebbets Field. Because almost no living Dodger fan today remembers a time when he wasn’t in the booth. Because multiple generations of Dodger fans have grown up listening to him call the game. Because multiple generations of Dodger fans like him and think the world of him. Because he was and is one of the best in the game. Most importantly, because Dodger fans would lynch the owners if they ever even tried to fire him.
Trust me, God will call Vinny up to The Show soon enough as it is. Dodger fans know that. Dodger fans know they’ll eventually have to get used to somebody else. It already happened with Chick Hearn over at the Lakers. No need to rush it.
We sat around the hotel lobby enjoying a couple of adult beverages after a long day--and invited the famed announcer to join us.
He was a very regular guy with a great sense of humor...
Polite and classy...
And when our impromptu group of baseball fans began to disperse-- we asked the waiter for the tab....
Only to find it had been already been quietly "taken care of..."
.... by Vin Scully.
Hey, isn’t this hate speech against the aging?
Why not consider his experience?