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2006 Vin Scully appreciation thread (1 Viewer)
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DoctorDetroit
Chocolate Thunder
doctor Gunks
Footballguy
Blabbityblabbityblabbity. 
RedRaiders
Mr. +EV
Watched some of the "Hawk" earlier this evening. 
uke:
Vin
uke:Vin
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Best part about the Extra Innings package.
doctor Gunks
Footballguy
I'm sorry, but I can't stand that doddering old fool.Bill King >>>>>>> Vin Scullyshame on you.Blabbityblabbityblabbity.
Edit: Maddux getting off to an awesome start is great. Can't believe he was a FA in my leeg.
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doctor Gunks
Footballguy
I'm sorry, but I can't stand that doddering old fool.Bill King >>>>>>> Vin Scullyshame on you.Blabbityblabbityblabbity.
SofaKings.
Footballguy
GB Vin and Ernie Harwell!
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
"and the ump is calling for tiiiiime."
Wingnut
Footballguy
Hell, I remember listening to Vin call Dodger games back when I lived in California in the 70's....The Spirit Of 76 was a big sponser at the time, and they used to give out little orange car antenna balls with "76" on them at the games....
To me, he is the ONLY voice of the Dodgers. Even met him once when I was around 10 years old around 1980. He signed my Dodger windbreaker on windbreaker night.
To me, he is the ONLY voice of the Dodgers. Even met him once when I was around 10 years old around 1980. He signed my Dodger windbreaker on windbreaker night.
GiantsRule
Footballguy
All of my aces are waiver wire pickups:Maddux, Glavine, Tim Worrell (thought I was screwed when Gagne AND T. Jones went down). I had Kenny Rogers but dumped him in between his two solid performances.I'm sorry, but I can't stand that doddering old fool.Bill King >>>>>>> Vin Scullyshame on you.Blabbityblabbityblabbity.
Edit: Maddux getting off to an awesome start is great. Can't believe he was a FA in my leeg.
Contreras is looking like a great late round selection and Lackey has put together two great starts in a row. Unfortunately, none of this came make up for the first round BUST known as Johan Santana. VBD is garbage in baseball and should have known better than to think "grab the SP that is head and shoulders above the rest of the league".
Still need a "holds" guy terribly (haven't had one yet this season). Politte was garbage and Alfonseca can't hold games that his team can't win. I just dropped him for Todd Coffey (who has a few chances against Florida).
Sonny Lubick Blowup Doll
Footballguy
Funny you should say that because I listened to "Hawk" just the other day. And I thought to myself, don't get upset at how bad he is, just let it go or laugh, even.After the second "HE GONE", I wanted to cut his tongue out and shove it up his ###. So yeah, I lasted 1 and a third.Watched some of the "Hawk" earlier this evening.
Vin
Sonny Lubick Blowup Doll
Footballguy
My favorite announcer in all of sports...followed by Trevor Denman #2.
Both not only believe that the sport is much bigger than they are, but they try to make it that way.
Both not only believe that the sport is much bigger than they are, but they try to make it that way.
RoarinSonoran
Footballguy
"Hang on to your enchilada! Fernando hit one out!"
"It's a long fly ball, to the track, to the wall, it's...GONE!"
"It's a long fly ball, to the track, to the wall, it's...GONE!"
Nipsey
Footballguy
Scully calling a game on TV is white noise. Perfect for sleeping. Granted, if the Dodgers are in the World Series and hit a game winning homer in game one, he may punch the "gone" in "she is gone". Other than that, he never deviates from the box fan on low setting that he is.
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Sonny Lubick Blowup Doll
Footballguy
Exactly. Which is why I can't stand all the announcers who try to slam my head against a wall about something I have just witnessed myself. They are so consumed by taking part in the moment, they ruin it.
Thanks Vin, for the humility. 
Nipsey
Footballguy
I think there's a middle ground there between Vin and Vitale.Exactly. Which is why I can't stand all the announcers who try to slam my head against a wall about something I have just witnessed myself. They are so consumed by taking part in the moment, they ruin it.
Judge Smails
Footballguy
Probably the worst analysis I've ever read. Scully can paint word pictures unlike any other. Pure gold.
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Sonny Lubick Blowup Doll
Footballguy
Maddux was working late in the game tonight -- just a masterful performance -- and Vin is relaying that to the audience by comparing him to a teacher with a blackboard (can't remember exactly). Anyway, moments later, a younger player at the plate just gets schooled, with Maddux painting the inside corner with his patented tailing fastball. The kid just stared at it...and Maddux strolls off the mound to the dugout. Lesson over.
What I love about that stuff is that Vin's sense of the game is uncanny. It's like he's watching a replay at times. Oh, I realize most of us knew what was happening, but very few could tie it in so well, and time it like that. The other part I can't get enough of is that you would have never known he was the Dodger announcer. He will acknowledge and embrace excellence no matter what the uniform.
Who really wants to hear 162 games of homerism and bias? I want the picture painted as accurately as possible, thank you.
What I love about that stuff is that Vin's sense of the game is uncanny. It's like he's watching a replay at times. Oh, I realize most of us knew what was happening, but very few could tie it in so well, and time it like that. The other part I can't get enough of is that you would have never known he was the Dodger announcer. He will acknowledge and embrace excellence no matter what the uniform.
Who really wants to hear 162 games of homerism and bias? I want the picture painted as accurately as possible, thank you.
Nipsey
Footballguy
The Z Machine
Footballguy
Ah, another Angeleno chimes in.I too grew up this way.
Capella
Footballguy
He's been covering the same team for 50 years, and if you never had heard him before you'd have no idea.Really makes guys like the White Sox announcers look like the goobers that they are.
As someone else said, he's worth the price of the Extra Innings package by himself.
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Mr. Brownstone
Footballguy
I grew up listening to Vin Scully. He's the gold standard as far as I am concerned.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
And away they go...
Sonny Lubick Blowup Doll
Footballguy
"But Bill Shoemaker and Ferdinand are coming like an EXPRESS TRAIN!""The little Snow Chief reaches down deep and finds more!"
"And Alysheba just EXUDING class out here..."
RoarinSonoran
Footballguy
I grew up with him as well, and I lived in Tempe (Phoenix suburb)! Apparently the Phoenix market was considered Far East LA back in the 70's and 80's (perhaps even further back than that), so we got all the Dodger games.
Michael Brown
Footballguy
I never listened to Ernie Harwell on a regular basis like I did with Scully (WS games as a kid + now at work), but when a couple of networks had him on for guest commentary, he seemed like he hadn't missed a beat. Only a small sample size, but he may have been my favorite had I heard him more often.
Scully very close to that.
Josh Lewin, Hawk, well...pretty much most announcers around MLB =
Scully very close to that.
Josh Lewin, Hawk, well...pretty much most announcers around MLB =
John Bender
Footballguy
One more year, imo
