Vin Scully Calls Last Night's Dodger 9th Inning

Worth watching and listening to for one of the all-time greats announcing.

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I love how Vin didn't mince and words about WHERE the ball hit Holliday.

“I hope he’s wearing a cup.”

"Pain don't hurt you none" - Sparky Anderson (1987)

Obviously Sparky was never a Cubs fan...

by Zeke on Oct 9, 2009 9:48 AM CDT reply actions

As much as I want to believe it hit him in the nards...

…it didn’t. No way he gets up and chases that ball if it did.

"Pounding sand since 1982...."

by cubswynn on Oct 9, 2009 12:53 PM CDT up reply actions

No it didn't

It hit him in the lower part of his stomach, as he said after the game.

by azjazzman on Oct 9, 2009 2:10 PM CDT up reply actions

Well of course he's going to say it didn't it him in the nards.

That’s not what convinced me, it was the replay that did.

"Pounding sand since 1982...."

by cubswynn on Oct 9, 2009 4:14 PM CDT up reply actions

what an absolute

choke job by the redbirds

by brian custer on Oct 9, 2009 9:51 AM CDT reply actions

I usually don't like Scully because he never really gets excited

But after the Chip Caray experience the past few days I’ll take this.

Just say no to players named Aaron on the Cubs.

by nji232 on Oct 9, 2009 10:01 AM CDT reply actions

…but I know I can still feel his enthusiasm in his choice of words and in the subtle tonal changes in his voice. The man is always professional, but his love for baseball (especially in situations like that inning) does shine through brightly. I’d love to have him call games for another 30 years or so, though we probably will have to settle for just one more season. Thanks for the link Al, especially since I barely saw the ending last night.

by Qixotl on Oct 9, 2009 10:37 AM CDT up reply actions

SWUNG ON AND BELTED......as a rountine fly ball comes to rest 10 feet in front of the warning track.

by JB 23 on Oct 9, 2009 10:53 AM CDT up reply actions

Thanks Al...

I occasionally have the pleasure to listening to Vin Scully on MLB Network, and I enjoy every second of it. Heck, I could listen to him read a legal disclaimer and I would find it entertaining.

by cubfanwill on Oct 9, 2009 10:13 AM CDT reply actions

Is there a set process for how the Dodger announcers split up the radio/tv coverage?

specifically does Scully start off on radio and shift over to TV and then come back to radio? Or does he just take an inning off from radio a la Pat Hughes?

I was listening to yesterday’s game on and off and I definitely heard Scully to begin with, but when I checked back later, I coulda sworn it was someone else.

Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."

by ballhawk on Oct 9, 2009 10:40 AM CDT reply actions

For the playoffs

Vin is doing the first three innings and the last three. Charley Steiner and Rick Monday handle the middle three.

by azjazzman on Oct 9, 2009 11:14 AM CDT up reply actions

thanks for the info

Doesn’t seem fair though. Dodgers get Steiner & Monday – we get Sirott…

Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."

by ballhawk on Oct 9, 2009 11:50 AM CDT up reply actions

Well, I'm not a big Steiner fan

but agree about Sirott. He seems like a kid auditioning for a job to me. Maybe he is and he will get better, but that should be done in Wichita and not Chicago.

by azjazzman on Oct 9, 2009 2:12 PM CDT up reply actions

Sirott...

… is clearly there for cost reasons. He was already on WGN’s payroll (doing hockey pregame shows) so they didn’t need to hire anyone else.

They probably could have found a college broadcasting major willing to do it for free who would have been 100 times better.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al Yellon on Oct 9, 2009 2:28 PM CDT up reply actions

"Talk about a painful error," said Scully.

Master of the pun.

by chilango2 on Oct 9, 2009 11:09 AM CDT reply actions

My favorite line in this clip

is when Scully says Franklin vs Blake is “beard against beard”. Scully has always had a fascination for ball players with beards. I remember when he used to say that Gene Garber looked like he had come from the House Of David baseball team. (Wonder how many people now would even get this reference?).

by azjazzman on Oct 9, 2009 2:16 PM CDT up reply actions

Well, I did.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al Yellon on Oct 9, 2009 2:29 PM CDT up reply actions

A bit dull, no?

First, there is a reason why broadcasts are done with more than 1 announcer, it gets boring after awhile when there is just one person talking.

I know he is a well respected announcer and all but I just didn’t get excited at all from his commentary. And we are talking about a come from behind win in a playoff game in the last of the 9th.

Not my cup of tea I guess.

by Luis on Oct 9, 2009 3:15 PM CDT reply actions

If you can't discern

why any game called by Vin Scully is head and shoulders above a game with a traditional play by play/color man combo, then I feel sorry for you.

And it you think this call is “a bit dull”, it says more about you than it does about Vin Scully.

by azjazzman on Oct 9, 2009 3:35 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

My response

Marv Albert, Al Michaels, Bob Costas… these are what I call great broadcasters. I don’t think Scully is anywhere near this group, at least not as a play by play man.

by Luis on Oct 9, 2009 3:50 PM CDT up reply actions

Well, to each his own.

But I think your opinion is in the very small minority.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al Yellon on Oct 9, 2009 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions

Marv Albert and Al Michaels?

LOLOLOLOL

That is too funny. I love Bob Costas, but even HE would tell you he is not in Vin Scully’s class. Or even close.

by azjazzman on Oct 9, 2009 4:31 PM CDT up reply actions

Now I understand

I think Marv Albert and Mike Fratello were the best team of broadcasters there’s ever been. So I am just as baffled by you as you are by me :P

by Luis on Oct 9, 2009 4:35 PM CDT up reply actions

Beyond Baffled

Marv Albert and Mike Fratello were a broadcast team calling Basketball games. To compare that to Vin Scully is like comparing a glass of fine wine to gatorade.

by azjazzman on Oct 9, 2009 4:41 PM CDT up reply actions

If you say so...

by Luis on Oct 9, 2009 4:43 PM CDT up reply actions

+1

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Oct 9, 2009 4:09 PM CDT up reply actions

To find Vin Scully boring is beyond my comprehension

Seriously. I have no reason to watch any Dodgers games if he’s not working. I watch Dodgers game just to hear him.

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Oct 9, 2009 4:10 PM CDT up reply actions

The people who say they don't care for Scully

don’t understand the subtlety and nuances of baseball, and the myriad story lines that are a part of every game, every inning and every pitch. In short, they don’t get the true beauty of the game.

by azjazzman on Oct 9, 2009 4:36 PM CDT up reply actions

Boy o boy

Ever hear that taste in anything is subjective? I’m not sure if you grasp that concept from your comments…

by Luis on Oct 9, 2009 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions

Well

since you have now made the comparison to Marv Albert and Mike Fratello, we pretty much know where you are coming from. Hey, some people like to go to a really nice restaurant and order a burger and fries. Nothing wrong with that, but it seems like a rather pedestrian way to go thru life.

by azjazzman on Oct 9, 2009 4:43 PM CDT up reply actions