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

[HRBAKER]

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!

[deadballfreaK]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

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.

[Shoeless Moe]

Exactly!

[Iron Horse]

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

[Fred]

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

[Sean]

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.

[Jlighter]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

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!

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".

[deadballfreaK]

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

[t213]

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

[MVSNYC]

Voice is like velvet.

[byrone]

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."

[7nohitter]

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.

[Jlighter]

Originally Posted by byrone

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."

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.

[Section103]

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.

[hangman62]

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 ??

[botn]

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.

[the 'stache]

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.

[MooseDog]

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.

[dodgerfanjohn]

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.

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by t213

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

+ 1001

[Sean]

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

[Rob L]

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

[Jlighter]

Originally Posted by deadballfreaK

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

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

[Hot Springs Bathers]

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!

[Sean]

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."

[auggiedoggy]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

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!

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