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RIP Vin Scully

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by UPChip, Aug 2, 2022.

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  1. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    If it's the same that I saw in the e-edition: It was 12 broadsheet pages with one ad, on the back page from Peter and Terry O'Malley.
     
    MileHigh, Aug 6, 2022
    #109
  2. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    Ads would diminish the tribute section, though. Best to keep it classy all the way through.
     
    Slacker, Aug 6, 2022
    #110
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  3. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Am I crazy to think that 12 pages sounds a little small for this?
     
    playthrough, Aug 6, 2022
    #111
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  4. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Basically zero new content. Looks like a rehash from when he retired in 2016. Nothing really special about it.

    I think I still have the "special edition" they put out of the Staples Center debacle that might have been just as large. Can't recall what they did when Chick and Buss died. I know they did specials for those, but don't think I have them.

    Anyway ....

    Front page: Portrait of Vin with quote.
    Page 2: Story republished from 2016. Story republished from July 22 of this year
    Page 3: Plaschke column republished from the day after his death
    Pages 4-5: Obit republished from the day after his death
    Pages 6-7: Story republished from 2016
    Page 8: Story republished from 2022. Story republished from 2014
    Page 9: Story republished from 2016
    Page 10: Commissioned four artists for renderings
    Page 11: Vin's final words on-air. Plaschke republished column from 2016
    Page 12: O'Malley ad
     
    MileHigh, Aug 6, 2022
    #112
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  5. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    The Dodgers had won 73 games in each of the previous two seasons and had been dominated by the Mets during the ‘88 regular season. But they upset the Mets in the NLCS, and weren’t expected to do much against the A’s.
     
    Baron Scicluna, Aug 6, 2022
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  6. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    It was a weird transformative time for New York sports fans. The Dodgers and Giants went west, but the football Giants became huge right around then to fill a bit of the sports void.

    And some Dodger and baseball Giants fans could not bring themselves to root for the Yankees, so they either rooted for their transplanted teams out west; a few adopted the Phillies as their team, and the rest just floated about until the Mets arrived.
     
    Baron Scicluna, Aug 6, 2022
    #114
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  7. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Shoot, I might have ordered one if it included a Jim Murray column or one of the other LAT legends on Vin. I would have invited fans to send brief personal tributes - especially celebrities - that could have been six pages right there.
     
    DanOregon, Aug 7, 2022
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  8. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Still might be but t wasn't what was in the e-edition that I saw. Lots of things they could have done.
     
    MileHigh, Aug 7, 2022
    #116
  9. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    At one of my last stops I was working news side, and, the first night on the job, I heard Vin Scully in the room. I look over that way, but it's not Vin Scully. It's one of the longtime copy editors there. But he's got Scully's voice. He totally has that voice. He even looks like Scully at around age 60. Got the reddish-gray hair and a similar face, too.

    After a few weeks I knew the guy well enough to bring it up:

    "You know, you sound just like Vin Scully. You've got the same voice.
    You even look like Scully. I guess you hear that all the time, right?"

    "No, not at all. Vin Scully, huh?"

    "Oh, come on, you've got that same great voice. You must get that a lot!"

    "No, not at all. I'm sure I'd remember it if it had ever come up."

    I couldn't believe it. But he was a serious guy, so he wasn't playing around with me.
    To this day, though, I'm still stunned. I always heard Vin Scully whenever he said anything.
     
    Slacker, Aug 7, 2022
    #117
  10. Jake from State Farm

    Jake from State Farm Well-Known Member

    That’s what we did with Ernie
    Had a double truck of fan and celebrity tributes w/pix
     
    Jake from State Farm, Aug 7, 2022
    #118
  11. ChrisLong

    ChrisLong Well-Known Member

    Keep the fans out of it. They're all going to be the same: grew up with Mr. Scully, voice of our youth, transistor radio under the pillow.
     
    ChrisLong, Aug 7, 2022
    #119
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  12. MTM

    MTM Well-Known Member

    LAT ran a double truck of fan letters this morning, 35 if I counted correctly.
     
    Last edited: Aug 7, 2022
    MTM, Aug 7, 2022
    #120
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