Vin Scully, the 89 year-old Irish Catholic New Yorker, turned Southern California's uncontested favorite son, will next week begin the last laps of a 67 consecutive year broadcasting career in major league Baseball--all of them with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers. It will be a bitter pill for me to swallow. I grew up sitting or crawling around the floor by our family's huge Philco console radio listening to Dodger games broadcast by Red Barber and Vin Scully on New York City's WMGM radio. Forgedaboutit, whippersnappers. Not making it up as I go. No matter how "manufactured" those statements seem, we could, in fact, pick up New York AM transmissions in tiny Spencer, NC quite well in the late afternoon and at night. By the time I was six years old, I knew about as much about the game as my Dad, who played some semi-pro ball until he blew out a knee. Everything I knew, I learned from my Dad and from listening to Vin.

By the time I reached North Rowan High School, the Dodgers had moved to LA, but they left behind a Class A league "farm" team and a long-term contract for AM WSTP-Salisbury to broadcast all of the games of the Minor leaguers and of the parent Dodgers in LA. Many a night I'd hide under the covers on my bed with my trusty Western Auto six transistor radio to listen to Scully and the Bums.

Now, I'm fortunate to be able to get 90%+ of their games on DirecTV--even with the standoff between Time-Warner, Charter and DirecTV over the cost of adding the new Dodger-owned SportsNet-LA (aka Dodger Baseball Network). I'll consider myself to be fortunate to catch Scully's final season; but I have a sense of dread about it. Next year will be hard to swallow with some newbie in the booth. Rick Monday, I can handle, but not Charley Steiner and Rudy Newbie.

Meanwhile, ML Baseball's back; Scully's back; and all's well--at this moment. I'll enjoy it as long as it lasts. Hopefully, the Dodgers finally win another NL crown and Vin can celebrate his 90th birthday behind the mike/fronting the cameras while calling the Dodgers' 2016 World Series win in November. Sweet icing to Vin's career!

Read on here about Vin's last season... http://m.dodgers.mlb.com/news/article/1 ... retirement

I'be never really liked the Dodgers, and I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating. Vin Scully could read from the phone book for three hours and I'd tune in.

Hey Chuck I admire your devotion to the Dodgers, but I must say "Go Braves".

asu66 wrote:Vin Scully, the 89 year-old Irish Catholic New Yorker, turned Southern California's uncontested favorite son, will next week begin the last laps of a 67 consecutive year broadcasting career in major league Baseball--all of them with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers. It will be a bitter pill for me to swallow. I grew up sitting or crawling around the floor by our family's huge Philco console radio listening to Dodger games broadcast by Red Barber and Vin Scully on New York City's WMGM radio. Forgedaboutit, whippersnappers. Not making it up as I go. No matter how "manufactured" those statements seem, we could, in fact, pick up New York AM transmissions in tiny Spencer, NC quite well in the late afternoon and at night. By the time I was six years old, I knew about as much about the game as my Dad, who played some semi-pro ball until he blew out a knee. Everything I knew, I learned from my Dad and from listening to Vin.

By the time I reached North Rowan High School, the Dodgers had moved to LA, but they left behind a Class A league "farm" team and a long-term contract for AM WSTP-Salisbury to broadcast all of the games of the Minor leaguers and of the parent Dodgers in LA. Many a night I'd hide under the covers on my bed with my trusty Western Auto six transistor radio to listen to Scully and the Bums.

Now, I'm fortunate to be able to get 90%+ of their games on DirecTV--even with the standoff between Time-Warner, Charter and DirecTV over the cost of adding the new Dodger-owned SportsNet-LA (aka Dodger Baseball Network). I'll consider myself to be fortunate to catch Scully's final season; but I have a sense of dread about it. Next year will be hard to swallow with some newbie in the booth. Rick Monday, I can handle, but not Charley Steiner and Rudy Newbie.

Meanwhile, ML Baseball's back; Scully's back; and all's well--at this moment. I'll enjoy it as long as it lasts. Hopefully, the Dodgers finally win another NL crown and Vin can celebrate his 90th birthday behind the mike/fronting the cameras while calling the Dodgers' 2016 World Series win in November. Sweet icing to Vin's career!

Read on here about Vin's last season... http://m.dodgers.mlb.com/news/article/1 ... retirement

All of the good radio announcers could literally put you at the ballpark with their descriptions of the game. Vin Scully, Bob Prince, Red Barber, Mel Allen, Jack Buck.......