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

[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.

[Peter_Spaeth]

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

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

[Peter_Spaeth]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJdli-ONL-8

[Sterling Sports Auctions]

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

[Shoeless Moe]

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!

[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.

[Rickyy]

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

[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.

[the 'stache]

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.

[Cardboard Junkie]

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.

[ecRich]

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.

[Cardboard Junkie]

Originally Posted by ecRich

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.