RIP Vin Scully

Voice of America.

 

I did a double-take when I saw it’d been six years since he retired. That felt like a year or two ago.

 

Same here. On the East Coast, seeing Vin do the NBC Game of the Week is a part of my childhood.

And I still can hear him pronounce Daryl Sconiers’ name.

 

And an appearance from future SJ.com poster Dick Whitman!

 

I can still recite the Buckner call because I'm a masochist.

I asked this when Betty White died, too: Are there any other people who could die anymore and receive total adulation? I know old age softens a lot of someone's sharp edges, but I can't think of many more still out there.

The only person I ever saw/heard say/speak a bad word of Vin Scully was a former poster here... who is a former poster here. Take that for what it's worth.

RIP.

 

Out of respect for Vin's career, Jose Madrigas said he would not slap any hookers today.

 

I came here to see if Jose had posted a tribute. Poor Angie.

 

Reading all of this, I’m sorry I didn’t get to hear Vin regularly when I was younger. At least I wish I appreciated announcers when I was younger. By the time I could hear Scully on the regular around 2009/2010, it was clear his retirement was coming and might have come for a lesser man.

 

Dick Van Dyke. Still relatively healthy at 96.

 

Which would be his last NBC broadcast with ABC taking the World Series assignment and that God awful contract with CBS kicking in the following year. I’ll go to my grave save that deal with CBS did as much as the strike in 1994 to decrease interest in baseball. They didn’t start airing regular season games until I think June. At a time when there was no internet and the not every house had cable the game was completely off the radar.

 

The most emotional moment in my sports mad life. Fucking cocksucker Clark.