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Posted on 07/22/2011 1:31:33 PM PDT by EveningStar
...Vin Scully has broadcast baseball games since 1950 when he joined Red Barber in the Brooklyn Dodgers' broadcast booth. He is the antithesis of most of today's broadcasters. For Vin Scully, the game is the attraction...
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Ken Harrelson is some kinda irritating to listen to. Scully is pure class.
Especially Ken Harrelson (of the White Sox), who announces a game like a little kid screaming for his team. lol...the most unprofessional broadcaster ever.
There've been a lot of great ones, but Vinny is the best ever. ...with Mel Allen a close second.
Vin Scully is the Dodger all time MVP. Bar none. He is the Dodgers.
Scully is class. I’m partial to Bob Prince, aka The Gunner.
I love watching Dodgers v Angels games...can support my team (The Angels) and hear Vin doing the commentary.
When I was a little kid, I remember hearing the Brooklyn Dodgers on the radio. Hard to believe it was Scully I was listening to and he’s still there 60 years later.
I first heard him call a game in 1956 at the age of four.
Gotta say, Prince was very good. And I was never a Pirate fan. I was a Giants fan who discovered I could listen to some Giants' games out of WWVA when the Giants played the Pirates. I liked that Prince was a "homer" but not an actor. But in this regard, Prince was supplanted by Phil Rizzuto. (And BTW I'm a Yankee hater.)
Of course Russ Hodges made the best call of all time! (It's really sad to contrast this with all the phony "See ya's," the fake celebrations when some team wins a close game to move into fifth place sometime in July, and everything else today.
ML/NJ
"Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen."
Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons were the gold standard.
Vin was no slouch at announcing football either, he was the announcer for Dwight Clark’s “The Catch” in the 1981 NFC Championship Game.
Vin Scully is the one and only good thing about that organization. For the best broadcast team in the business though , you must go north a few hundred miles. John Miller, Dave Fleming, Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper are GREAT! Go Giants! And that’s my (totally unbiased)2cents.
When I in Alaska for 3 1/2 years one thing I miss about not being in Los Angeles anymore at the time
Missing listen to Vin Scully broadcasting it sucks ES
That one thing I miss about living in SO CAL Chick Hearns on Lakers game and Vin Scully for Dodgers game
Vin is a gift from God. That said, as a Jim Rome fan, I enjoyed the time Grace went on the radio show and explained what “slumpbusters” were.
I don’t know anything about Grace as an announcer but, as a Cub, he has my admiration. According to an acquaintance of mine who used to work for the Cubs’ organization, whenever Sammy Sosa would saunter into the clubhouse with his boom box booming his crappy music, Mark Grace would shout at him, “Turn that sh!t off!” And this was when all the fans still loved Sammy.
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