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Posted on 09/23/2016 6:28:28 PM PDT by ifinnegan
Today the Dodgers are celebrating Vin Scully before the game in this final weekend of home games he will call.
It is on broadcast TV
KTLA channel 5
Thx for those links, the Gibson homer freezes time for me
We’ve been blessed with some great announcers in the Bay Area in Lon Simmons, Bill King and now Jon Miller, but I always would stop to listen to an inning or two of Dodgers baseball in those late summer nights in my boyhood when the signal from LA would reach up here, just to listen to Vin Scully narrate his way through the game. All-time legendary announcer, and a huge part of baseball history.
I heard that story also.
Vin is great all around.
I grew up in LA and then later in the Bay Area.
I think fondly of Lon Simmons.
Grew up in SoCal in the 50s. After the Dodgers (& Giants) moved west, O’Malley, the Dodger owner decreed that there would be only 9 games a year on TV (the games against the Giants). So we had to listen on radio and Vin made the game more alive to us than if it were on TV. He spoiled me (and no doubt countless others) for announcers. There have been plenty of great ones, but IMHO none can touch Vin. He deserves all of the praise that he gets.
“The last link to Brooklyn...”
Tommy Lasorda and Don Newcombe still work for the Dodgers, although they did not play or work for the Dodgers consecutively like Scully has.
Vin Scully is a gentleman and great sportsman.
Quite a contrast to some of the anouncers now. (Tom Hamilton, I’m looking at you.)
I don’t know who Tom Hamilton is. Maybe I’m lucky.
That's because Vin is humble enough to know the game is more important than him. I love baseball (NL only) & I've listened to pretty much every Dodger game on radio &/or TV since I came out here in 1981. I will truly miss him. He is America/baseball of a time gone by.
Cleveland Indians radio play-by-play man. If an Indian is going well, he’s all rah-rah. But slip up, and he turns on you in a second.
Case in point: Outfielder Abraham Almonte. The Indians star Michael Brantley has been out most of the year with an injury, and a career sub Almonte has been filling in for him, and doing a respectable job for a sub, hitting around .270.
The other night, in a close game in the 7th inning, Almonte came up with two runners on, and looked bad on two quick strikes. So Hamilton says in a disgusted tone of voice, “This is where you really miss Brantley.”
I.e., he slams Almonte for not being as good as Brantley! Not to mention that Almonte is batting eight, and Brantley, who bats third when he plays, wouldn’t even have been up in that situation.
Vin Scully would never say something like that.
There are people born before the end of the American Civil War in 1865, and people that will live beyond the year 2100, that will have heard Vin call a game.
literally 8 generations.
There are some really bad announcers out there.
When I had XM radio, I listened to a lot of them, and the Padres announcers were the worst. Goofy doesn’t begin to describe them.
You are correct about Padres announcer Ted Leitner (sp). Although I live in So CA I grew up in IL & am first a Cardinal fan. I listen to them when they Play the Padres. Plus the Padres tend to play a lot of day games so I listen. Leitner is a real clown and talks in a real annoying staccato, half-sentence cadence. And he says stupid things.
A great piece. It seems like Vin Scully has been around forever. Imagine him seeing Tony Lazzeri, one of the Murderer’s Row of the 27 Yankees, playing. Vin Scully was already an old timer when I lived in LA, and I’ve been gone 25 years.
“I was 10 and in the bleachers and I first realized that I could see the bat hit the ball before I could hear it.”
Little Flash A, who is 11, is studying physics in science. I just mentioned to him last night about how when you’re seated in the outfield you’ll see the bat hit the ball before you hear it.
I’d love to see him do audio for computer baseball. That way, he can still “call games” after he has retired.
And it would only take a few days of his time.
Ditto there
Simply the best.
Close your eyes and see every play.
When we lived in L.A., we loved hearing Vin Scully call the games. Good memories.
By the way, in case you're unaware, Vinny started out as a Giants fan--Mel Ott was his favorite. He fell for the Giants on 10/2/36, at the age of eight, when he noticed the pitiful score of their World Series thumping by the Yankees, 18-4. His final broadcast will be on 10/2/16, eighty years later.
I fell for the Dodgers at the age of seven, living in L.A. and reading in '56 about their first World Series triumph the previous year. Amazingly, they moved here for me! Gil Hodges' house was a block from ours. But the Duke was, and remains, my favorite.
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To quote the late Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope, "Thanks for the memories"--and wow, Scully has created many of them as a broadcaster.
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