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God Bless Vin Scully

Edgy MD Jun 29 2012 08:05 PM

Still not able to get the stream working tonight, and it's killing me, because how many more chances am I gonna get? How does he do it? Ninety-six years old, seventy-nine years in the game and he calls play-by-play and color at the same time. And I mean the most colorful color on earth, and yet he misses none of the action. [list]Pedro de Soto digging in here. Pedro was born in the slums of Rio de Janie... That's a curve for ball one. He was raised, if you can call it that, by his grandmother, but she was sickly. And that's strike one --- a fastball up at the letters. She was unwell, and he took care of her and his three younger siblings. Worked in a factory from the time he was seven --- fouls the fastball back, up and in --- working in a lamp factory, and playing baseball for quarters after work. His grandmother Rosa is an absolute sweetheart. I met her and she's 114 years old and she's here at the park and OH SHE'LL BE CHEERING THAT. A double into the gap by de Soto. How do you like that? Couldn't have happened to a nicer man. Wonderful. They're ALL wonderful. Mankind is so blessed by these two teams of wonderful men and whoever wins, you know it's for the betterment of us all. And now Scott Evans is stepping in. Marvelous sculptor, Scottie. Abstract and representational, Evans does it all. With real meaning, too. I remember one time during spring training I was talking to Jiddu Krishnamurti...[/list:u] He's one of the very best things about baseball.

Swan Swan H Jun 29 2012 08:10 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

[url]http://youtu.be/PFB8Gd_9o-I

Fman99 Jun 29 2012 08:12 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

He's my favorite undead sports personality.

Ceetar Jun 29 2012 08:27 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

he does the radio too right? surely the mlb.tv at bat feed isn't too taxing for your computer right?

DocTee Jun 29 2012 08:31 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIHaSvPM554 [youtube:2r1cxssi]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIHaSvPM554[/youtube:2r1cxssi]

Edgy MD Jun 29 2012 08:32 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

No, some other guys on the radio feed.

Ashie62 Jun 29 2012 08:34 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Still not able to get the stream working tonight, and it's killing me, because how many more chances am I gonna get? How does he do it? Ninety-six years old, seventy-nine years in the game and he calls play-by-play and color at the same time. And I mean the most colorful color on earth, and yet he misses none of the action. [list]Pedro de Soto digging in here. Pedro was born in the slums of Rio de Janie... That's a curve for ball one. He was raised, if you can call it that, by his grandmother, but she was sickly. And that's strike one --- a fastball up at the letters. She was unwell, and he took care of her and his three younger siblings. Worked in a factory from the time he was seven --- fouls the fastball back, up and in --- working in a lamp factory, and playing baseball for quarters after work. His grandmother Rosa is an absolute sweetheart. I met her and she's 114 years old and she's here at the park and OH SHE'LL BE CHEERING THAT. A double into the gap by de Soto. How do you like that? Couldn't have happened to a nicer man. Wonderful. They're ALL wonderful. Mankind is so blessed by these two teams of wonderful men and whoever wins, you know it's for the betterment of us all. And now Scott Evans is stepping in. Marvelous sculptor, Scottie. Abstract and representational, Evans does it all. With real meaning, too. I remember one time during spring training I was talking to Jiddu Krishnamurti...[/list:u] He's one of the very best things about baseball. Actually he is 85

Swan Swan H Jun 29 2012 08:39 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

They just played his classic call of the last out of Koufax's perfect game. Like butter.

Ceetar Jun 29 2012 08:44 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Edgy DC wrote: No, some other guys on the radio feed. bah. I'm out of ideas. SNY tells me this VErizon Fios Quantum thing will CHANGE THE INTERNET.

Ashie62 Jun 29 2012 08:46 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Vin Scully reminds me of Les Paul; getting better with age.

DocTee Jun 29 2012 08:53 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

That eulogy of Wooden is perfect-- short, heartfelt, and sincere.

metirish Jun 29 2012 09:50 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

I love listening to him, usually the week before or after the ASG MLB direct is free and you can watch out of town games.....he's a joy.

PiggiesTomatoes Jun 29 2012 10:04 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

63 years calling Dodgers games and he's the only one in the booth. Just amazing.

Frayed Knot Jun 29 2012 10:22 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Edgy DC wrote: No, some other guys on the radio feed. While listening to Scully you can tell that they're not simulcasting him on the radio because he'll often go several pitches at a time without really describing what's going on. You can't do that on radio obviously but, on TV, the pictures take care of that quite nicely to the point where saying "that's fouled back" is kind of over-kill when everyone can see that it's just been fouled back. That's what gives him the time to tell his mini-stories uninterrupted while of course staying ready to go back into play-by-play mode whenever some action crops up.

Mets – Willets Point Jun 30 2012 06:08 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

He's the Voice of Summer. I'd love to hear him call the World Series again.

Met Hunter Jun 30 2012 06:22 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Mets – Willets Point wrote: He's the Voice of Summer. I'd love to hear him call the World Series again. It's funny, because back in 86, all my nervous Met fan friends could say was that they hated him and he was anti Met. I disagreed. With apologies to Murph, any memory of that Series includes Vin's voice in my head.

Edgy MD Jun 30 2012 06:39 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Ashie62 wrote: Actually he is 85 Yeah, and there's no Pedro DeSoto and Krishnamurti isn't known to have ever showed up at Dodgertown. I guess it's a tribute to Scully that I can absolutely fabricate distorted facts about him and it's close enough to the realm of possibility that Ashcroft felt he'd needed to correct me, but yes, I knew that.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 30 2012 07:25 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Met Hunter wrote: With apologies to Murph, any memory of that Series includes Vin's voice in my head. Me too. "The Mets are not only alive; they are well."

Mets – Willets Point Jun 30 2012 08:13 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

What's great about Scully is that he knows when to NOT say anything. In Game 6, after Knight scored, Scully was silent for two minutes while the camera showed the Mets and fans celebrating and the Red Sox dejected. Finally Scully said "If a picture says a thousand words you've just seen a million of them." Can you imagine Buck and McCarver being silent for two minutes? Can you imagine Fox or ESPN allowing 2 minutes of celebration without cutting to a commercial or an instanalysis?

Swan Swan H Jun 30 2012 08:14 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Yup. "Here comes Knight, and the Mets win it." I have used variations on the acronym based on that phrase as passwords ever since I started to use passwords.

themetfairy Jun 30 2012 08:29 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Ken Levine wrote a nice piece about Vin today

seawolf17 Jun 30 2012 06:48 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

I include Scully in my Mets autograph collection because of that Game 6 call; his voice is very much part of that game for me.

Edgy MD Jul 03 2012 06:51 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Vin Scully observed.

MFS62 Jul 03 2012 07:34 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Mets – Willets Point wrote: He's the Voice of Summer. I'd love to hear him call the World Series again. He is like an old shoe - always comfortable. Later

G-Fafif Jul 20 2012 01:21 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

The passing of Robert Creamer brought to light this 1964 Sports Illustrated profile of Vin. In the six years that he has been in California, Scully has become as much a part of the Los Angeles scene as the freeways and the smog. His voice reporting the play-by-play action of the 162 games the Dodgers play during the regular season, plus the few dozen extra in spring training, plus playoff games (the Dodgers have been in two postseason playoffs in six years), plus World Series games, floods southern California from March until October. He is seen as well as heard on television a few times a year (the Dodgers usually telecast only the nine games the team plays against the Giants in San Francisco). "Everybody" probably is not a mathematically precise description of the number of people who listen to Scully's broadcasts, but it is close enough. When a game is on the air the physical presence of his voice is overwhelming. His pleasantly nasal baritone comes out of radios on the back counters of orange juice stands, from transistors held by people sitting under trees, in barber shops and bars, and from cars everywhere—parked cars, cars waiting for red lights to turn green, cars passing you at 65 on the freeways, cars edging along next to you in rush-hour traffic jams.

Swan Swan H Aug 07 2012 12:47 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Skip to about 2:20 if you're short on time, but the setup is that Victorino lines to center, the umps call it a catch then overturn the call. Listen for Scully's translation of Jim Tracy's argument. I'm dying here. [url]http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=23686371

Zvon Aug 07 2012 01:54 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Ha. Classic :)

Lefty Specialist Aug 07 2012 02:05 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

That was great. Always catch Scully whenever possible. He's the most soothing baseball announcer there is.

HahnSolo Aug 07 2012 02:52 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

I am totally stealing "that's blinkin' fertilizer."

metirish Aug 07 2012 04:24 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

HahnSolo wrote: I am totally stealing "that's blinkin' fertilizer." brilliant , listened to the whole 6:52..... "he blinking caught it,.....doing my best to translate here, he bloody caught it, Jim's gone so he's spending house money now"....... and you know what?, he's point about available video is well taken.

Frayed Knot Aug 26 2012 05:20 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Scully agrees to return for at least one more year. It's been several years since he cut out traveling east of Denver to do games, but that still allows him to do all the home games, all NL West road games, the 'Freeway' series games in Anaheim, plus the occasional road games in Seattle or Oakland -- so that's got to be close to 3/4 of them.

Fman99 Aug 26 2012 08:59 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Charlie Steiner has to spend one more season changing Vin and applying lots of talcum. Good deal, all the way around.

MFS62 Aug 27 2012 09:52 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Colin Cowherd (ESPN Radio) doesn't say many smart things. But he just played that Scully tape as well as Vin's call of whatsizname's (brain fart) walkoff Series homer. He then said "He's no Suzyn Waldmann". Later

Frayed Knot Aug 27 2012 11:45 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

I'm surprised that Cowherd didn't simply follow this news with his usual 'go-to' move: opining that the Dodgers re-hiring the 84 y/o Scully is simply more proof that the only people that care about baseball are nearly dead senior citizens anyway.

Ceetar Aug 27 2012 11:53 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Frayed Knot wrote: I'm surprised that Cowherd didn't simply follow this news with his usual 'go-to' move: opining that the Dodgers re-hiring the 84 y/o Scully is simply more proof that the only people that care about baseball are nearly dead senior citizens anyway. I kinda want to organize a day in November where a ton of people start calling into ESPN Radio and other of these types of shows and asking baseball questions all day. Particularly on a "Football Friday/Monday/everyday" "Good win by the Bears. yeah, so about the Cubs, who do you think plays Right Field next year? When is Theo going to address this?"

Lefty Specialist Aug 27 2012 01:11 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

And you can get past the call screeners by saying you want to talk about the Giants or Cardinals. "And here's Bob from Weehawken, NJ who wants to talk about the Giants....." "Yeah, do you think Lincecum can have a bounce-back year in 2013?"

Ceetar Aug 27 2012 01:44 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Lefty Specialist wrote: And you can get past the call screeners by saying you want to talk about the Giants or Cardinals. "And here's Bob from Weehawken, NJ who wants to talk about the Giants....." "Yeah, do you think Lincecum can have a bounce-back year in 2013?" perfect.

Frayed Knot Aug 27 2012 03:05 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

At this point ESPN has so "segregated" baseball to the point where it's treated like a specialized department within your company that's run by those few oddballs down at one end of the hall who no one really understands or socializes with, that it would be fine with me if the rest of their staff wold decide to just abandon covering the sport entirely. Because, aside from the BB2N crew plus the handful of baseball-only journalists they've got on the payroll (Olney, Kurkjian, Stark), the rest of the enterprise is so geared towards football & basketball that the bulk of the staff essentially falls into (or comes across like they do) one of two camps: the one where they're simply not all that knowledgeable or interested in baseball, or the one where they hold the sport in utter contempt -- and I don't particularly want to hear the uninformed or derisive opinions from either one. So while that whole 'bait-and-switch' tactic might get you on the air with some of the local hosts on the NYC affiliate of ESPN, I can't see it working with any of the national crew and I couldn't imagine why I'd want to talk baseball with any of them anyway even if it did.

Ceetar Aug 27 2012 08:18 PM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Frayed Knot wrote: So while that whole 'bait-and-switch' tactic might get you on the air with some of the local hosts on the NYC affiliate of ESPN, I can't see it working with any of the national crew and I couldn't imagine why I'd want to talk baseball with any of them anyway even if it did. True. It's fruitless. I'm just tired of seeing people (And I generally avoid the ESPN sycophants and what not) talk down to baseball and bash it. They pump up Football's popularity based on their own criteria. It's like only looking at an RBI list to decide who's the best baseball player. It's way more nuanced. But chasing away the people that want to talk about baseball does not mean that no one wants to talk about baseball. Of course, these same people bitch about having to talk about this Tebow guy and then keep talking about him.

Swan Swan H Aug 29 2012 07:49 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Those oddballs down the hall at ESPN are going to be pretty busy for the next nine years. Their bosses just paid several gazillion bucks to extend their agreement with MLB through 2021. [url]http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8310763/espn-major-league-baseball-reach-new-8-year-broadcast-deal

Frayed Knot Aug 29 2012 08:01 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Yeah, the big thing in that is that they're going to get one of the WC games each year - and I can't tell you how I look forward to seeing one-and-out playoff games with that annoying and constant crawl across the bottom telling me all sorts of important stuff like what Tebow had for lunch that day, whether or not Jerry Jones tweeted anyway recently, or to remind me about the all-important Toledo vs Western Kentucky college game which is now just three days away (on ESPN of course). This is all assuming that the WC game doesn't conflict with the Toledo vs Western Kentucky clash in which case the baseball will be bumped to ESPN-6 Other than that it seems like mostly just an extension to the package they've had all along. They'll also get an additional couple a regular season games, will no longer have to observe black-out rules for their Monday & Wednesday games, and a few other assorted details.

Ceetar Aug 29 2012 08:06 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Frayed Knot wrote: Other than that it seems like mostly just an extension to the package they've had all along. They'll also get an additional couple a regular season games, will no longer have to observe black-out rules for their Monday & Wednesday games, and a few other assorted details. I wasn't sure of that, so that means I can watch the ESPN feed when it's the Mets? (not that I would) That's the only thing that I don't like. I'm all for the desire to push MLB to be more national, but not at the expense of the local. Although I guess this means if I want to flip to watch the Yankees on a monday off day I don't have to watch YES..

Frayed Knot Aug 29 2012 08:41 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

I'm assuming that this means the ESPN feed would be available [u:25jzv9ay]in addition to[/u:25jzv9ay] the SNY feed for Met games, not instead of. IOW, their Monday & Wednesday games are NOT going to become like their Sunday game where they DO have the exclusive right to have no local competition.

Ceetar Aug 29 2012 08:46 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Frayed Knot wrote: I'm assuming that this means the ESPN feed would be available in addition to the SNY feed for Met games, not instead of. IOW, their Monday & Wednesday games are NOT going to become like their Sunday game where they DO have the exclusive right to have no local competition. well right, but previously that wasn't an option. I guess the logic was ESPN doesn't want to be blacked out and local fans probably prefer their local broadcast, but I don't know if that's true or not. Will people prefer to watch on ESPN?

Swan Swan H Aug 29 2012 08:53 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Ceetar wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I'm assuming that this means the ESPN feed would be available in addition to the SNY feed for Met games, not instead of. IOW, their Monday & Wednesday games are NOT going to become like their Sunday game where they DO have the exclusive right to have no local competition. well right, but previously that wasn't an option. I guess the logic was ESPN doesn't want to be blacked out and local fans probably prefer their local broadcast, but I don't know if that's true or not. Will people prefer to watch on ESPN? On my system SNY is on a higher tier than ESPN. Many folks who do not have SNY will be able to see the game on ESPN.

bmfc1 Aug 29 2012 08:59 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Something else in the new ESPN deal (in effect 2014): the number of times a team can play on Sunday Night is increased from 5 to 6.

Frayed Knot Aug 29 2012 10:01 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

Something else in the new ESPN deal (in effect 2014): the number of times [crossout]a team can[/crossout] the Yankees WILL play on Sunday Night is increased from 5 to 6. Fixed it for you.

bmfc1 Aug 29 2012 10:23 AM Re: God Bless Vin Scully

And more Red Sox.