Comments on: Vin Scully will call Dodgers games next season

By: 2jarno

2jarno — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:24:03 +0000

Mr. BORING!!!!!!!!!

By: lanflfan

lanflfan — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:19:17 +0000

I think if Vin read this, he would simply say everyone is entitled to their opinion and that natslady and acdc84 have expressed theirs. Probably smile and rattle off a story or three about other people who have expressed their dissatisfaction with him.

I think they are extremely wrong and poisoned by the craptastic crop of announcers churned out now, but I’m not as much of a gentlemen as Vin is.

By: lanflfan

lanflfan — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:16:20 +0000

Do it Fox, you have nothing to lose. Just make sure its ONLY Vin in the booth. Don’t need any other white noise in there with him.

By: lanflfan

lanflfan — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:14:09 +0000

Trade was not official and Vin’s been at this a LONG time. It could have fallen apart. It’s something like not talking about a no-hitter or perfect game, one of those things that some announcers, at least the good ones, still believe in.

By: lanflfan

lanflfan — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:12:27 +0000

Sad you two are so poisoned by the craptastic crop of announcers that speak so they can hear their own voice, and forget that the game is played by people. I mute pretty much every other broadcaster, and will turn on the radio when the Dodgers are on TV on ESPN or Fox, rather than listen to the denizens they have “calling” games.

Vin is as old school as you get, and that old school attitude is very absent from other announcers. Except when they simulcast, you’ll notice Vin doesn’t have a partner to provide unnecessary white noise. He calls the game naturally, like he was talking with you NOT at you.

Vin will tell a story about a player, and frequently NOT a Dodger, providing some insight into the human on the field. Most other announcers prattle on endlessly about some innane stat or play, like the human doesn’t exist.

At 84, yes Vin misses things. Wrong names every so often, misses a ball or strike here and there. He has always defended umpires too much in my opinion, but I understand his point that slow motion is not available to them, they have one look, blink and you miss it, while we can yell for minutes at our tv/pc while the reply is repeated. I hope I live to 84, and my mind is that sharp.

And, as of this post, your both 3 up and 37 down.

By: lanflfan

lanflfan — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:02:01 +0000

He misses things from time to time, but Vin is still better than 98% of the other announcers out there. I hope my mind is that sharp at 84.

By: shawndc04

shawndc04 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:04:53 +0000

I usually agree with you, but the Yankees radio announcers, Suzyn Waldman and John Sterling are about the worst that I have heard.

By: natslady

natslady — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:10:26 +0000

The Detroit guys are the best I’ve heard, and the Yanks people are excellent (they have a lady on there, I listened very close to see if she was a “token” but she seems to know her stuff). Our radio guys are great, though they have worked together for so long they get the giggles sometimes. Our TV guys are not great, Carpenter is professional but no more than average. FP Santangelo is better this year than he was last year, so there’s hope. The Astros guys are good, and I was impressed with the Cards announcers in spring training when I heard them, they seemed even-handed and smart.

By: natslady

natslady — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:05:10 +0000

I will take everyone’s word for it that Scully is a great broadcaster with a distinguished career. I find his voice impossible to listen to (as a musician) and always have. Apparently, that’s just me.

By: stercuilus65

stercuilus65 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:11:05 +0000

What makes Vin the best announcer ever?

He never takes sides. He never plays the homer. If anything he is harder on the Dodgers than the other team whom he always respects, he will never badmouth anyone and that includes the opposition.

Never complains about bad calls. Never takes a shot at the umpires even when the Dodgers get royally screwed over Vin stays above it. He knows his baseball, he knows how call tend to even out.

He never editorializes. He knows it’s about the Dodgers’ game not about him. He loves and respects the game.

I think he genuinely doesn’t comprehend just how good he has been. He doesn’t have a fake bone in his body.

The most interesting man in the world listens to Vin!

Stay thirsty my friends…

By: stercuilus65

stercuilus65 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:00:21 +0000

Yeah god forbid Vin actually talk about the game being played !

By: christos99

christos99 — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:11:24 +0000

Tim. McCarver… No fan base has had it as bad as the Mets…

By: yahmule

yahmule — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 05:34:26 +0000

That was a fine tribute as well, Brian.

By: Brian Donohue

Brian Donohue — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:56:07 +0000

His tribute to Armstrong was emblematic of his style: perfect timing, emotion, delivery, wonder. Listening to Scully is like hearing a Bach Partita or a Chopin Nocturne. His art cannot be replicated — in that respect, comparisons with others are somewhat unfair. There are a few good voices in baseball: I can think of Martinez in Toronto; the Astro guys are okay; and even those two fellows who do the Dodger road games. It’s just that nobody else alive has raised broadcasting to an art as Scully has. He is among the few who have solved Picasso’s famous dilemma: ‘Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.’

By: yahmule

yahmule — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:28:10 +0000

Vin knows how beloved he is (while remaining totally humble) and I believe he’s aware of the incredible sense of loss that baseball fans will feel when he retires. I am so grateful to know he’s returning for another year.

By: cur68

cur68 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:15:39 +0000

Ron, that was GREAT. I had no idea Miller did impressions of Vin. And in 3 languages yet!

By: jayquintana

jayquintana — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:35:50 +0000

Ah… all is right with the world.

By: alexandercartwright

alexandercartwright — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:32:59 +0000

The day Vin Scully decides to retire it indeed will be a sad not only for a distinguished career will have come to an end but the death of a one man booth in MLB as well

By: ron05342

ron05342 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:01:51 +0000

Pathetic reply. Get a life. Everyone is allowed an opinion, even if it is ill-informed and against the grain.

By: ron05342

ron05342 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:00:34 +0000

Yeah, good thing you can’t.

You know what they say about opinions and a-holes….everyone has got one, and even a-holes have one too.

By: ron05342

ron05342 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:56:58 +0000

Jon Miller, an outstanding announcer in his own right (Giants), also does a great Vin Scully impression…not only in English, but in Japanese and Spanish as well…check this out.

By: acdc84

acdc84 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:51:37 +0000

LOL I knew I was going to get killed, but that’s OK.

I was talking about FRIDAY’s broadcast (when in my post did I mention Saturday??). I know the trade wasn’t quite finalized but it seemed relevant enough to be discussed during the three hour broadcast. I just miss the insightful commentary that most broadcast teams offer. That’s all I’m saying.

By: ron05342

ron05342 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:51:21 +0000

Enberg was outstanding when he was with the Rams here. He is missed as well.

By: ron05342

ron05342 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:50:36 +0000

Yes indeed, we have been blessed with outstanding pro sports broadcasters. It won’t be the same when Scully and Miller finally retire.

By: ron05342

ron05342 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:49:26 +0000

Bob Miller is an HOFer too…and now he has a well-deserved ring, just like Vinny and Chicky-baby.

By: ugglasforearms

ugglasforearms — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:33:41 +0000

Die??? Really???
WTF dude? I usually agree with natslady’s posts. Today I didn’t. I was going to reply to her and say so, and “to each his/her own though”.
Then I saw your comment. I should have known by the “barroom” in your name that you’d say something stupid.

By: barroomhero80

barroomhero80 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:42:04 +0000

natslady….DIE

By: Matt S

Matt S — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:41:25 +0000

He isn’t. I have listened to Scully broadcast games over a period of about 25 years, and he’s certainly lost a step (so to speak). That said, he’s still better than just about anybody else and there’s no reason for him to step away before he wants. The fact that an 84 year old man isn’t as sharp as a 64 year old man doesn’t diminish Vin in any way- it’s simply an inescapable fact of human nature.

By: Matt S

Matt S — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:35:52 +0000

It amazes me that people would vote down a comment like that. Well said, sincitybonobo! I’m a Giants fan who admires Vin as a national treasure, and as others have said it’ll be a sad day when he officially retires from the booth.

By: chumthumper

chumthumper — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:26:01 +0000

Vin Scully didn’t set the bar high. He IS the bar.