Wednesday, October 03, 2007 |
New Blog: SportsHubLA, And Meditations On The Necessity Of Vin Scully's Retirement
The team he’s been loyal to for six decades has had a busload of Hall of Fame players going all the way back to Brooklyn, and Vin Scully is better at what he does than any of them ever were, including Jackie, Duke, Pee Wee and even Sandy.I dunno. Maybe I just don't see it. Anybody who actively lobbied to get the players names back on their backs just can't be too bad.But bless his heart, less than two months from his 80th birthday, Vinnie is losing it.
I know, I know. No one wants to hear it. No one wants to believe it. In the name of the Dodger Hammond organ, Nancy Bea and Farmer John himself, he’s Vinnie, for pete’s sake. The baritone voice, the poetic phrasing, the encyclopedic knowledge, the impeccable timing, the humor, the insight, the anecdotes, the wonderful stories woven seamlessly into the palette the artist paints. The Vinnie that Los Angeles loves like he’s family should call Dodger games for 57 more years and 57 more after that if he wants to. Heck, we’ll send a limo to pick him up.
Except I’m sitting here tonight, watching a meaningless Dodger-Giant game that Vinnie can still make meaningful, or at least watchable, and this star of all microphone stars is making so many mistakes on the air, I’m actually embarassed FOR him.
Omar Vizquel is Omar Valdez. The 1-0 pitch from David Wells is taken for strike three! A fastball is called a curve, a curve is a slider, a changeup is a fastball…it’s obvious that as 80 approaches, Vin can no longer call pitches because he’s having trouble simply seeing them.
And if the guy is going to nit-pick on Vin for getting a player's name wrong, he should be equally taken to task for not knowing that Dodger Stadium has a Baldwin organ, not a Hammond, and that's been the case for at least a decade, I'm sure.
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