Vin Scully was a poet. He made every game he called something special. When I was a kid I would sit with my Dad in the backyard and listen to Vin and he always managed to make you feel like you were there with him. He's been a part of my life for so long and I can't believe he is gone. I treasure those LA nights with my Dad and Vin and I hope that some dad out there will drag his kid off their computer, throw a ball around and listen to baseball.
Vin was my favorite since I was ten years old in Brooklyn. He was amazing and was the Dodgers voice. We loved that he was a lip reader and would tell what was being said during screaming matches between umpire vs manager. “Fertilizer!” Instead of “B_____it!”. When the Dodgers retreated to the left coast, the only times I saw Vin afterward was when he did World Series games and I enjoyed his work. Especially when my newer favorites, the Mets, played in 1986 series. He was a gem.
There is no way to describe the talent Vin Scully demonstrated into our ears almost ever night. Perfection is a weak description of him yet it's the highest term our vocabulary allows us to use.
I've always like Al Michaels, but now I like him even more after seeing the high regard he holds Vin Scully. It's always good seeing a great accomplished man in his field give props to a passed giant in the business. Humility is an excellent quality, and is sometimes in short supply in the media business.
Growing up in California I was blessed with the best sports announcers Dick Enberg (Angels) Jerry Coleman (Padres) Vin Scully (Dodgers) Chick Hearn (Lakers) nobody can ever come close to these guys God bless them all
As a kid I had a bedside radio alarm clock. Going to sleep listening to Vin, Bob, or Chick calling the game. I often wish I had kept that radio, but really it’s the dreams of a boy.
As a kid I had a radio on late one night. Over a 50K Clear Channel AM station I got a Cincinnatti Reds broadcast at our home in Upstate New York. I actually thought Vin Scully was doing the game. As Al mentioned he lived both in Brooklyn & California so he would have grown up on Vince. My dad used to tell me there was a lot of Red Barber in Scully, as there would become a lot of Scully in Al Michaels. In the NY area, those of us, of a certain age, can attest that there was a lot of Marty Glickman in Marv Albert, etc.
I think of the same thing when I hear it mentioned that he was there for 67 years. People love to say how he was the best announcer for this huge amount of time and no one else had done at. I think no one has done anything for 67 years. Not just announcing. Who do you know that has done anything for 67 years? There isn’t anyone that has done there job for that long let alone be the best at it. The other part that I think of that really make me sad is that with Vin gone our link to baseball history is gone. Where can you listen to a game where a story might come about jackie robinson, sandy koufax, Henry Aaron, Willie Mays etc? Before all those people from the Brooklyn days were just a quick story away, a first hand account of what really had happened. And now going forward they are just names in a book, ancient history. Their personalities and the things that made them seem human and relatable gone forever.
Listen to Al Michaels on NBC Radio and TV calling the 1972 World Series. There were people that time, like Jon Miller and Jim Palmer, that wondered why Vin Scully called the 72 series. It was a Reds-A’s series. The Dodgers weren’t in it. It was actually Al Michaels, the Reds radio announcer. He sounded a bit like Vin at the time.
My Dad was good friends with Connie Desmond he and his wife Ginny lived on our block in Roslyn LI. He would often drove Connie to Ebbets he was battling alcohol. My Dad met Vinn as a green play by play. Connie eventually lost his job, the rest is history. Vinny going to Cooperstown Connie to the Mudhens.
ok here is my favorite vin scully story (vin telling the story) many stories we’ve heard him tell but this one really hits the mark for this ‘boomer’…😐 its the first day up to the ‘big club’ for one rookie pitcher by the name of don drysdale (no, not mr drysdale the banker on the beverly hillbillies) no this was thee OG…the man…one of the best evah….don drysdale. pitcher extraordinaire… so vin has the assignment of interviewing him practically as he gets off the bus….dont remember if its florida or socal but its his ‘introduction’ to the dodger community… and the first question outta the gate, something i would ask, you would ask, anybody would wanna know…(paraphrased)…so kid, whatdya got for pitches?, what are ya bringing to the dodgers? …”well vin, i have four pitches, a fastball, a curveball, a brushback and a hit batsman.” HUH? WHAT? OMG! my heart SWOONS!!! talk about when america was great!!…. and along comes mr ‘therapy generation’… oh stop it boomer with the borish flag waving bs…what the hell are you even talking about?… dood, THAT’S 👆what im talkin about.
I’ve been talking a lot since Vin Scully died to people that knew who he was I’m living in North Carolina now in group in Los Angeles. I mean that’s when I say this. Vin Scully was the soundtrack to my entire childhood literally my whole childhood I remember his baritone voice and the Dodgers I remember my dad and me driving in his Porsche speedster listening to the dodger games with the incredible unparalleled Vin Scully doing the announcing his voice was my life when Vinny stopped announcing for the Dodgers I just stopped listening to the Dodgers because when a poll was done for the fans of Los Angeles and they said who is the best dodger of all time it wasn’t Sandy Koufax or Fernando Valenzuela or Steve Garvey it was Vin Scully. Without a doubt Vin Scully was the most famous dodger of all time and it wasn’t even close
Vin, Chick and Bob, three icons of SoCal sports and all perfect gentlemen!
Icon, Legend, Dodger, Family Man, Friend. “It’s time for Dodger baseball. Hello everybody & a pleasant good evening to you.” R.I.P. VIN
An absolute legend and a true gentleman. Rest easy, Vinny, we're gonna miss you!
When I think of sportscasters with integrity, Al Michaels is the only one that comes even close to Vin Scully
Vin Scully was a poet. He made every game he called something special. When I was a kid I would sit with my Dad in the backyard and listen to Vin and he always managed to make you feel like you were there with him. He's been a part of my life for so long and I can't believe he is gone. I treasure those LA nights with my Dad and Vin and I hope that some dad out there will drag his kid off their computer, throw a ball around and listen to baseball.
Vin Scully is Mr baseball of radio⚾️
Vin was my favorite since I was ten years old in Brooklyn. He was amazing and was the Dodgers voice. We loved that he was a lip reader and would tell what was being said during screaming matches between umpire vs manager. “Fertilizer!” Instead of “B_____it!”. When the Dodgers retreated to the left coast, the only times I saw Vin afterward was when he did World Series games and I enjoyed his work. Especially when my newer favorites, the Mets, played in 1986 series. He was a gem.
Some other famous Vin lines “he’s out from me to you” and “The count is 2 & 2, 2 on and 2 out. Deuces are wild.”
There is no way to describe the talent Vin Scully demonstrated into our ears almost ever night. Perfection is a weak description of him yet it's the highest term our vocabulary allows us to use.
Thanks to Vin,for three hours during Dodgers games ,Brooklyn seemed like a small tightly knit community
I've always like Al Michaels, but now I like him even more after seeing the high regard he holds Vin Scully. It's always good seeing a great accomplished man in his field give props to a passed giant in the business. Humility is an excellent quality, and is sometimes in short supply in the media business.
Growing up in California I was blessed with the best sports announcers Dick Enberg (Angels) Jerry Coleman (Padres) Vin Scully (Dodgers) Chick Hearn (Lakers) nobody can ever come close to these guys God bless them all
I loved Vinny more than some of my own uncles
As a kid I had a bedside radio alarm clock. Going to sleep listening to Vin, Bob, or Chick calling the game. I often wish I had kept that radio, but really it’s the dreams of a boy.
As a kid I had a radio on late one night. Over a 50K Clear Channel AM station I got a Cincinnatti Reds broadcast at our home in Upstate New York. I actually thought Vin Scully was doing the game. As Al mentioned he lived both in Brooklyn & California so he would have grown up on Vince.
My dad used to tell me there was a lot of Red Barber in Scully, as there would become a lot of Scully in Al Michaels.
In the NY area, those of us, of a certain age, can attest that there was a lot of Marty Glickman in Marv Albert, etc.
Their won’t be another Vin Scully. Was the voice for the Dodgers for many years.
This is amazing
Miss you Vin
I think of the same thing when I hear it mentioned that he was there for 67 years. People love to say how he was the best announcer for this huge amount of time and no one else had done at. I think no one has done anything for 67 years. Not just announcing. Who do you know that has done anything for 67 years? There isn’t anyone that has done there job for that long let alone be the best at it.
The other part that I think of that really make me sad is that with Vin gone our link to baseball history is gone. Where can you listen to a game where a story might come about jackie robinson, sandy koufax, Henry Aaron, Willie Mays etc? Before all those people from the Brooklyn days were just a quick story away, a first hand account of what really had happened. And now going forward they are just names in a book, ancient history. Their personalities and the things that made them seem human and relatable gone forever.
Listen to Al Michaels on NBC Radio and TV calling the 1972 World Series.
There were people that time, like Jon Miller and Jim Palmer, that wondered why Vin Scully called the 72 series. It was a Reds-A’s series. The Dodgers weren’t in it.
It was actually Al Michaels, the Reds radio announcer. He sounded a bit like Vin at the time.
My Dad was good friends with Connie Desmond he and his wife Ginny lived on our block in Roslyn LI. He would often drove Connie to Ebbets he was battling alcohol. My Dad met Vinn as a green play by play. Connie eventually lost his job, the rest is history. Vinny going to Cooperstown Connie to the Mudhens.
Greatness
ok here is my favorite vin scully story (vin telling the story) many stories we’ve heard him tell but this one really hits the mark for this ‘boomer’…😐
its the first day up to the ‘big club’ for one rookie pitcher by the name of don drysdale (no, not mr drysdale the banker on the beverly hillbillies) no this was thee OG…the man…one of the best evah….don drysdale. pitcher extraordinaire… so vin has the assignment of interviewing him practically as he gets off the bus….dont remember if its florida or socal but its his ‘introduction’ to the dodger community…
and the first question outta the gate, something i would ask, you would ask, anybody would wanna know…(paraphrased)…so kid, whatdya got for pitches?, what are ya bringing to the dodgers?
…”well vin, i have four pitches, a fastball, a curveball, a brushback and a hit batsman.”
HUH? WHAT? OMG! my heart SWOONS!!!
talk about when america was great!!….
and along comes mr ‘therapy generation’…
oh stop it boomer with the borish flag waving bs…what the hell are you even talking about?…
dood, THAT’S 👆what im talkin about.
I’ve been talking a lot since Vin Scully died to people that knew who he was I’m living in North Carolina now in group in Los Angeles. I mean that’s when I say this. Vin Scully was the soundtrack to my entire childhood literally my whole childhood I remember his baritone voice and the Dodgers I remember my dad and me driving in his Porsche speedster listening to the dodger games with the incredible unparalleled Vin Scully doing the announcing his voice was my life when Vinny stopped announcing for the Dodgers I just stopped listening to the Dodgers because when a poll was done for the fans of Los Angeles and they said who is the best dodger of all time it wasn’t Sandy Koufax or Fernando Valenzuela or Steve Garvey it was Vin Scully. Without a doubt Vin Scully was the most famous dodger of all time and it wasn’t even close
AM boring like Patrick
Why are u here then lol
This dude needs elocution classes obviously can’t memorize poetry can’t speak multiple languages