Los Angeles Dodgers: Vin Scully Must Retire Now!

Bleacher Report ^ | September 2, 2012 | Marko Realmonte

[Eaker]

MILO BIRTHDAY CAKE – During a tearful birthday celebration at Minute Maid Park today… Hall of Famer Milo Hamilton was honored and congratulated on his 85th birthday.

[Misterioso]

Bleacher Report pulled the article!

[ArmstedFragg]

One of Scully’s gifts has always been knowing when to shut up. Vin calls Henry AAron’s 715th home run.

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

[Marathoner]

He is a fantastic part of Baseball....just a joy to listen to.

Indeed he is. You guys will miss him when he does go, like those of us in the Midwest miss Jack Buck.

I'll just say that if the Dodgers are dumb enough to let him go, please send him over to Fox Sports Midwest.

[MestaMachine]

Vin Scully is to the Dodgers what Myron Cope was to the Pittsburgh Steelers and Bob Prince was to the Pittsburgh Pirates...a TREASURE.

[oldbill]

Baseball announcing reached its glory days in the 1950’s World Series with the Yankees/Dodgers and Mel Allen and Vince Scully.

They actually called the games, not the endless babble that these ex-jocks like McCarver do.

And for a while the Yankees in season play had Allen and Red Barber, who reported about the games, not themselves.

How about that! He’s sitting in the catbird seat!
Sigh.

[ex-snook]

"Baseball announcing reached its glory days in the 1950’s World Series with the Yankees/Dodgers and Mel Allen and Vince Scully. They actually called the games, not the endless babble that these ex-jocks like McCarver do."

You nailed it. EWTN is the worst.

[ArmstedFragg]

In the early 70’s, I worked for one of the TV networks. Satellites weren't in use in those days, and we got the west coast network feed by telephone company microwave. At 3 every afternoon, we'd record the incoming network news as it was aired from New York. A runner would be standing by, and he'd grab the tape and hotfoot it for LAX, where it'd be handed to the pilot of a United flight headed for Honolulu. That's how you got your 11pm network news every night.

[Repulican Donkey]

Vin Scully is an artist. He comes from the radio era when the announcer had to make the game real and alive to listeners. The washdup jock and gas bags on MLB and ESPN should be locked in a room and made to watch his broadcasts. The game is the thing, not the jabberwockeys.

[ColdOne]

Mom and I loved it during the end of the season, since we lived in CA we got the Dodger broadcast and Vin was the reason we tuned in. He would do the Dodger play by play and every other team that was in the race updates.

[ArmstedFragg]

Jeeze, 49 posts and no mention of Harry Caray.

[ExNewsExSpook]

Same thing with his call of Kirk Gibson’s famous homer in the 1988 World Series...Scully didn’t say a thing for about a minute; let the crowd reaction summarize the moment.

[Gil4]

I rarely get the chance to hear Scully, so I can’t comment on whether or not he is losing it. I do fairly regularly find myself clicking on link to a Bleacher Report article, and the only thing worse than the format of their site is their content.

The one thing they do well is come up with ideas for articles. If someone would actually do some research and write some decent articles based on the titles of their articles, it would be and interesting site.

[Surrounded_too]

Dirty trick to get hits on his site.

Not Dodgers fan. Love Vin Scully.

Missed so much of him because of LA move.

Now catch him as much as possible on MLB.

And mistakes (Koufax for Kershaw) are not a problem.

[gusty]

Anyone who thinks that Vin Scully should retire should be condemned for eternity to listen to John Sterling and Susan Waldmyn only.