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Still not able to get the stream working tonight, and it's killing me, because how many more chances am I gonna get? How does he do it? Ninety-six years old, seventy-nine years in the game and he calls play-by-play and color at the same time. And I mean the most colorful color on earth, and yet he misses none of the action.

    Pedro de Soto digging in here. Pedro was born in the slums of Rio de Janie... That's a curve for ball one. He was raised, if you can call it that, by his grandmother, but she was sickly. And that's strike one --- a fastball up at the letters. She was unwell, and he took care of her and his three younger siblings. Worked in a factory from the time he was seven --- fouls the fastball back, up and in --- working in a lamp factory, and playing baseball for quarters after work.

    His grandmother Rosa is an absolute sweetheart. I met her and she's 114 years old and she's here at the park and OH SHE'LL BE CHEERING THAT. A double into the gap by de Soto. How do you like that? Couldn't have happened to a nicer man. Wonderful. They're ALL wonderful. Mankind is so blessed by these two teams of wonderful men and whoever wins, you know it's for the betterment of us all.

    And now Scott Evans is stepping in. Marvelous sculptor, Scottie. Abstract and representational, Evans does it all. With real meaning, too. I remember one time during spring training I was talking to Jiddu Krishnamurti...



He's one of the very best things about baseball.



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  • Pedro de Soto digging in here. Pedro was born in the slums of Rio de Janie... That's a curve for ball one. He was raised, if you can call it that, by his grandmother, but she was sickly. And that's strike one --- a fastball up at the letters. She was unwell, and he took care of her and his three younger siblings. Worked in a factory from the time he was seven --- fouls the fastball back, up and in --- working in a lamp factory, and playing baseball for quarters after work.

    His grandmother Rosa is an absolute sweetheart. I met her and she's 114 years old and she's here at the park and OH SHE'LL BE CHEERING THAT. A double into the gap by de Soto. How do you like that? Couldn't have happened to a nicer man. Wonderful. They're ALL wonderful. Mankind is so blessed by these two teams of wonderful men and whoever wins, you know it's for the betterment of us all.

    And now Scott Evans is stepping in. Marvelous sculptor, Scottie. Abstract and representational, Evans does it all. With real meaning, too. I remember one time during spring training I was talking to Jiddu Krishnamurti...


He's one of the very best things about baseball.

Still not able to get the stream working tonight, and it's killing me, because how many more chances am I gonna get? How does he do it? Ninety-six years old, seventy-nine years in the game and he calls play-by-play and color at the same time. And I mean the most colorful color on earth, and yet he misses none of the action.





Actually he is 85


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They just played his classic call of the last out of Koufax's perfect game. Like butter.


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Edgy DC wrote:
No, some other guys on the radio feed.


bah. I'm out of ideas.

SNY tells me this VErizon Fios Quantum thing will CHANGE THE INTERNET.


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I love listening to him, usually the week before or after the ASG MLB direct is free and you can watch out of town games.....he's a joy.


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Edgy DC wrote:
No, some other guys on the radio feed.


While listening to Scully you can tell that they're not simulcasting him on the radio because he'll often go several pitches at a time without really describing what's going on. You can't do that on radio obviously but, on TV, the pictures take care of that quite nicely to the point where saying "that's fouled back" is kind of over-kill when everyone can see that it's just been fouled back. That's what gives him the time to tell his mini-stories uninterrupted while of course staying ready to go back into play-by-play mode whenever some action crops up.


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He's the Voice of Summer. I'd love to hear him call the World Series again.


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Mets � Willets Point wrote:
He's the Voice of Summer. I'd love to hear him call the World Series again.



It's funny, because back in 86, all my nervous Met fan friends could say was that they hated him and he was anti Met. I disagreed. With apologies to Murph, any memory of that Series includes Vin's voice in my head.


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Ashie62 wrote:
Actually he is 85

Yeah, and there's no Pedro DeSoto and Krishnamurti isn't known to have ever showed up at Dodgertown.

I guess it's a tribute to Scully that I can absolutely fabricate distorted facts about him and it's close enough to the realm of possibility that Ashcroft felt he'd needed to correct me, but yes, I knew that.


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What's great about Scully is that he knows when to NOT say anything. In Game 6, after Knight scored, Scully was silent for two minutes while the camera showed the Mets and fans celebrating and the Red Sox dejected. Finally Scully said "If a picture says a thousand words you've just seen a million of them." Can you imagine Buck and McCarver being silent for two minutes? Can you imagine Fox or ESPN allowing 2 minutes of celebration without cutting to a commercial or an instanalysis?


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Yup.

"Here comes Knight, and the Mets win it." I have used variations on the acronym based on that phrase as passwords ever since I started to use passwords.


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Mets � Willets Point wrote:
He's the Voice of Summer. I'd love to hear him call the World Series again.

He is like an old shoe - always comfortable.

Later


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The passing of Robert Creamer brought to light this 1964 Sports Illustrated profile of Vin.

In the six years that he has been in California, Scully has become as much a part of the Los Angeles scene as the freeways and the smog. His voice reporting the play-by-play action of the 162 games the Dodgers play during the regular season, plus the few dozen extra in spring training, plus playoff games (the Dodgers have been in two postseason playoffs in six years), plus World Series games, floods southern California from March until October. He is seen as well as heard on television a few times a year (the Dodgers usually telecast only the nine games the team plays against the Giants in San Francisco). "Everybody" probably is not a mathematically precise description of the number of people who listen to Scully's broadcasts, but it is close enough. When a game is on the air the physical presence of his voice is overwhelming. His pleasantly nasal baritone comes out of radios on the back counters of orange juice stands, from transistors held by people sitting under trees, in barber shops and bars, and from cars everywhere�parked cars, cars waiting for red lights to turn green, cars passing you at 65 on the freeways, cars edging along next to you in rush-hour traffic jams.


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HahnSolo wrote:
I am totally stealing "that's blinkin' fertilizer."



brilliant , listened to the whole 6:52.....

"he blinking caught it,.....doing my best to translate here, he bloody caught it, Jim's gone so he's spending house money now".......


and you know what?, he's point about available video is well taken.


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