Vin Scully

[gregr2]

I live in Florida and whenever a Dodger home game comes on at 10:00 PM I always tune in to see if Vin is calling the game. I will sit up way too late listening to him and have no regrets, he is truly one of the greats.

[team-of-rivals]

Saturday afternoon baseball......Vin Scully & Joe Garagiola calling a ballgame brings back many great memories!

[baseball tourist]

Vin has amazing longevity but personally, I can't stand more than 10 mins of his game calling. It is the non-stop worthless info-fest that irks me. "David is a graduate of USC and is 6'2"", 195 lbs. his mother is a nurse at the state hospital and his favorite color is teal". Shut up already!!

[MooseDog]

I can understand that sentiment but some of us (like me) our brains are wired for all that useless info. I know for me it sticks in there, yet someone tells me their name when introduced and I can't remember it 30 seconds later.

I have the exact same reaction to Tim McCarver, who has to explain everything as if you are seeing a baseball game for the first time. "The guy standing at the plate is holding what is called a bat, and he's trying to hit the thing that the guy on the little hill is throwing at him..."

Originally Posted by baseball tourist

Vin has amazing longevity but personally, I can't stand more than 10 mins of his game calling. It is the non-stop worthless info-fest that irks me. "David is a graduate of USC and is 6'2"", 195 lbs. his mother is a nurse at the state hospital and his favorite color is teal". Shut up already!!

[steve_a]

Vin's the best. Harry Kalas was a close second.

[HRBAKER]

.....used to be a fairly automatic autograph c/o the team. He seemed to stop several years ago. I haven't tried in many moons. He's pleasant enough to listen to unlike the previously mentioned Tim "Master of the Obvious" McCarver.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Jack Buck first Vin a very close second!

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by baseball tourist

Vin has amazing longevity but personally, I can't stand more than 10 mins of his game calling. It is the non-stop worthless info-fest that irks me. "David is a graduate of USC and is 6'2"", 195 lbs. his mother is a nurse at the state hospital and his favorite color is teal". Shut up already!!

When he was covering the WS the small world anecdotes used to annoy the heck out of me. "Did you know that back in 1967 his father and Dwight Gooden's great uncle played for the same little league coach in Plano, Texas?"

[pbspelly]

Scully is one of my favorites. Ernie Harwell is up there too, IMO.

[mx14377]

Originally Posted by gregr2

I live in Florida and whenever a Dodger home game comes on at 10:00 PM I always tune in to see if Vin is calling the game. I will sit up way too late listening to him and have no regrets, he is truly one of the greats.

Yeah, I'm in Florida also. Thank goodness for the MLB network. Although staying up till 1am watching a game can be rough.