How great is it to listen to Vin Scully calling a game
 

while your drinking beer, eatin' homemade nachos....(livin' the dream)?


Its not hypothetical.......I need an answer guys?



In his 64th season! "whaaaaaaaaat?" What is he 112?


My grandpa who's been dead now nearly 30 years was like 25 when he started. It's insane.

Nice job Vin! I raise a glass!

Vin is so good that I'll watch a game btw two teams I actually care nothinig about. Like right now with the LA and Philly!

+1.

Exactly!

The best of all time. Love the stories he shares with us the viewers. Hope he never retires.
Thank you Mr. Scully

He's just absolutely incredible, even after all these years.

I lived in Phoenix in the early '70s. We had no D-Backs then, just the Giants AAA team. But we could get Dodger games with Vin on the radio. I can't count how many games I listened to, even though I don't like the Dodgers.

Amazing to think that he was one of the broadcasters wnen Bobby Thomson hit his home run, and he's still going. Best ever by far. :)

Another +1. I always make sure to start watching a few minutes early so I can hear him say, "it's time for Dodger Baseball".

If he ever does retire, I hope he spends his final years making a 20 CD set of his baseball stories and memories.

As a kid in the 70s I went to bed 1,000 times listening to him call the Dodgers on my clock-radio. Simply the best.

Andy

Voice is like velvet.

I hope he records every word and known name in the English language, so we can have Vin for eternity.:)

I stayed up too late last night watching MLB Network showing the Dodgers and the Phillies just to listen to Vin.

I love those moments when he breaks into "You know Andre Eithier's uncle played softball with Duke Snider's grandson in 1974, they won their league title by 7 games." I just made that up but those are wonderful moments!

My favorite moment was back in the early '90s when Vin mentioned that some player had a "mullet". Vin said he didn't know what kind of hairstyle that was, so the camera followed this player into the dugout, where he took off his batting helmet. There was a pause, then Vin said " Oh, it's just a lot of hair." :D

You know you've "made it" when you're immortalized on The Simpsons

For this episode, Homer gave up drinking beer, so he attends a ballgame in a complete state of sobriety...



Baseball announcer (sounds a lot like Vin Scully): "Wait a minute! The batter is calling for time. Looks like he's going and getting himself a new bat. And now there's a beach ball on the field. And the ball boys are discussing which one of them is gonna go get it."

Homer: "I never realized how boring this game is."

As others have said, I will stay up late to listen to Vin call a game...no matter who it's against...we are lucky to get to hear a legend.

He has actually been immortalized twice. During the introduction to the Gabo show, Gabo says he can imitate Vin Scully, then breaks out the impression.

A connection with the past
 

Same here! I've watched the Dodger/Philly series, mostly because of who is calling the action.

Last night Vin wished a happy birthday to former Dodger Pedro Guerrero, who turned 57. I thought about it for a second and realized that by the time Pedro was born in 1956, Vin was in his seventh year of broadcasting Dodgers games! And by the time Guerrero made his big-league debut with the Dodgers in 1978, Vin had been doing games for 29 seasons. Amazing.

A set of facts to help illustrate how great Vin is:

I'm a Giants fan

My parents hate listening to Scully.

I've considered disassociating with my parents because of that.

Vin
 

Vin is an all time classic ...HOF, and everything else...and at his age..look at that head of hair...Im assuming that's his real hair...but the more I look at it..I say it might be a wig ??

He is the Dodgers and the only reason I follow the team. When he is not calling the game there is no reason to watch or listen. He is timeless and his contribution to the game cannot be measured. As mentioned, his stories are nothing short of captivating. Something about his voice and the innocent manner in which he delivers the stories that soothe the soul.

A CD set of his stories or broadcasts would be awesome. I just went looking for some online last weekend and could not come up with anything. Dodgers should release them so they can pay for Ethier's and Kemp's salaries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvfYg_kNtTk

His two minutes of silence to let the crowd noise speak for itself was pure genius.

Any time the MLB network has a game with him announcing there is no changing the channel. He is pure magic in the booth. I hope we have him for many more years to come.

Lee

and not to take the spotlight of Vin.....
 

but, Marty Brennaman is another great announcer we have going today that's been doing it a long time as well. Of course he was like 10 when Vin started and is like 70 now, so you do the math, it's nuts!

Vin Scully is the best! I grew up with him calling games in the '70's when he was already a veteran.
JimB

....and he's got a lot of hair too!

yup
 

+ 1001

It's amazing how many of us seem to have had the same childhood. :D

I hate the Dodgers more than anything but will stop and listen to him anytime. A true legend!!

I have MLB tv and watch many hours of baseball a week. Vin Scully is the only announcer that other announcers often quote or bring up in some other way. Every time they do, they speak in a tone of reverence. I hope he lives forever. A lot of baseball knowledge and experience will go when he leaves us.

OK, I'll be the contrarian and say that I don't particularly care for Vin's work. He's not objectionable like Hawk Harrelson but definitely not one of my favorites. I am a fan of straightforward, no frills, guys like Vin, but he's just a bit TOO understated for my taste.

Objectionable like Hawk Harrelson better be sarcastic, as there is no bigger homer than Hawk dagnabit!

Do you mean subjective?

Love ya Vin, but..
 

I got to say the solo broadcasting just doesn't do it for me. I admire his stamina because talking to yourself for 3 plus hours is a damn hard thing to do. But what I love so much about baseball broadcasters is they let the game flow. The sounds of the game coming thru. The silence. It is nice not to be bombarded constantly with strategy and filler talk. God Bless him. Just ain't my cup of tea.

I agree. Don't like Vin's approach. Talk's too much about the same points, over and over. It's like nails scratching on a chalkboard. Enough about the hitter's height and weight already Vin. I heard you the last time you told us that the batter grew up in Peoria! Shut up and breathe a little. Can't take more than. 5 mins and have to turn the sound off.

Blasphemy.

I know I miss Scully and Garigiola calling the World Series

Scully doesnt cover a game anymore, he just reads endless meaningless stats placed in front of him by his handlers. His current silence while letting the "sounds of the game come thru" is more often just dozing off. Realistically it seems rather difficult to love him for what he does now, just nostalgically love him for what he once was. It is somewhat like seeing Lauren Bacall now, I prefer her in 'The Big Sleep'. Vin is in his own Big Sleep now.

I'm not sure what you're referring to.

I'm sorry, was reading the board late at night and thought you wrote Hawk was Objective and Vin was not. My mistake.

Still don't agree with your assessment though.:)

I think I've led a pretty good life, and I hope that when they stick me in the ground, I'll be able to knock on the pearly gates, and Saint Peter will let me inside. However, if I'm not that fortunate, I already know what my purgatory will be.

I'll be placed in front of two radios, and forced to choose one. The first radio will be a live broadcast of Vin Scully calling a Dodgers game. The second radio will be a live broadcast of Bob Uecker calling a Brewers game.

How the hell do I choose between them?

I love Vin Scully. When he starts talking about Jackie, or Duke, or Sandy Koufax...or Fernando mania...I just stop whatever I'm doing, and listen. I never get tired of his recollections, or insights into the game. The man is a national treasure.

It's ironic...as Candlestick Park is being torn down after this 49ers season...they are replaying on our local SF bay area stations, Vin Scully's call on CBS when Dwight Clark made "The Catch" against the Cowboys in the epic NFC title game... A guy synonymous with the Dodgers calling a play in one of the greatest if not the greatest sports moment in SF history in the Giants home field...

Ricky Y

I think I was spoiled growing up in the 1970s. First the A's win 3 straight World Series - I thought this was going to normal...

One night playing around with my radio I find I can pick up KFI, the station that broadcasts the Dodger games, so on some nights I was able to listen to Vin and Jerry Doggett. And on a REALLY good night I could pick up the Cardinals and Jack Buck and Mike Shannon but that was pretty rare.

Although the A's broadcast team of Monty Moore and Al Helfer (later Jim Woods) was OK, Monty was such a homer. Vin and Jerry were not only better overall, but those stories Vin would tell I'm sure had a lot to do with my love of baseball history.

Over on the other side of the bay the Giants had Lon Simmons and Bill King, both Bay Area legends. They also had Lindsay Nelson and later Jon Miller.

But have to agree. Vin is by far the best.

6 years old in July 1978 and my grandparents got me my first radio...an AM transistor. Even though my bedtime was 830 pm, I don't think there were too many summer days I fell asleep before 10.

By 1980, Steve Garvey and Dusty Baker were my favorite players, I had a dodger pennant hanging on my wall, and a shoe box full of 1979 and 1980 topps baseball cards.

All of it started listening to Vin.

The Rays-Dodgers game was the final one to finish up last night. So, I flipped over to the game on my Roku, selected the home broadcast, and caught the last two innings.

The Dodgers were down 6-3 heading into the bottom of the ninth. Then, they just went nuts, and Vin Scully was in fine form. Skip Schumaker sent a soft fly ball to left center field. After Dee Gordon struck out, Mark Ellis tripled on a lazy fly ball to left that Ben Zobrist laid out for, and could not come up for, scoring Schumaker. Nick Punto then golfed a seeing eye double just inside the left field line, scoring Ellis to make it 6-5. Adrian Gonzalez then doubled to right, sending Punto home, tying it up. After Yasiel Puig was intentionally walked, Jerry Harriston, Jr hit a fielder's choice to first. Gonzalez scored on a throwing error to second by Ray closer Fernando Rodney.

Vin summed it up, as only he can. "the magic is here, even at home", a nod to the recent 17 game winning streak the Dodgers have had on the road.

Wow for the first 30 or so posts in this thread it was all Scully Scully Scully....then the tide turned a little. How refreshing to hear that I am not the only one that doesn't care for his work. Less is more.

Scully
 

Scully has slowed a bit, but is the greatest that has ever lived. It's like watching Babe Ruth play, the best ever. Only an idiot would say he is not good, sorry dumb observations hit a raw nerve. I have had Vin in my life longer than almost anyone else, a real treasure.

Cobb was the best ever, not Ruth. What? I'm an idiot because my opinion isn't the same as yours?......makes YOU the idiot.:p