Poesy, Purpose, Meaning
(I never would have really appreciated Vin without following Manny west and subscribing to any media way to follow what happened in L.A.)

Part of the reason I get Extra Innings is to watch Dodgers home games, even though I'm not a Dodgers fan. I'm a Vin Scully fan. (But then, who isn't?)

Part of the reason I get Extra Innings is to watch Dodgers home games, even though I'm not a Dodgers fan. I'm a Vin Scully fan. (But then, who isn't?)


Most of the reason for me.

Subscribing to EI, It's like claiming you read Playboy for the articles.

Vin Scully.

The End.

Living in the Eastern time zone, there is nothing like putting the Dodger game on Extra Innings and falling asleep to Scully. Worth every dime.

I know it would be difficult to even try but it's curious to me that there really aren't any other announcers who seem to try to copy the way Scully does a game. Maybe I haven't heard some announcer. But I can't remember watching a broadcast and saying to myself, "That guy's trying to copy Scully!" They all seem to do the same generic thing. With the exception of Harrelson, of whom the less said the better.

I know it would be difficult to even try but it's curious to me that there really aren't any other announcers who seem to try to copy the way Scully does a game. Maybe I haven't heard some announcer. But I can't remember watching a broadcast and saying to myself, "That guy's trying to copy Scully!"

Jon Miller literally does impressions of Scully, but I don't think he imitates Scully in his usual work. I like when he does impressions of a Japanese or Spanish language broadcaster imitating Scully. It just his Scully impression using Japanese or Spanish words, but I find it funny.

The Hall of Fame broadcaster proceeded to tell a story about a Native American who wanted to test the manhood of his tribesmen by making them run up the side of the mountain. The room turned silent.

Did anybody else prepare himself to wince at what might follow this sentence? I do not want Vin to go out looking bad and was hugely relieved at what followed.

Jon Miller does Scully in Japanese and Spanish. WAV file.

I know it would be difficult to even try but it's curious to me that there really aren't any other announcers who seem to try to copy the way Scully does a game. Maybe I haven't heard some announcer. But I can't remember watching a broadcast and saying to myself, "That guy's trying to copy Scully!" They all seem to do the same generic thing.

I think it's much the same reason we don't see people doing things that Greg Maddux or Pedro Martinez did. If they tried, they'd just fail miserably. Scully's style, while wonderful, would be God awful boring in the hands of most announcers. Scully has a wealth of knowledge and a knack for storytelling that very few people are going to have. The former is in part due to his longevity but the latter is just a natural gift that I think is rare. The other thing about Scully is he has the timing of a baseball game down pat. For example Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy can be very funny on a Red Sox broadcast but sometimes they lapse into their schtick in the 8th inning of a tie game...not now guys. Scully just is able to seemlessly tie the broadcast and the game together.

I don't remember the specific story he told but during the 2008 exhibition game played at the LA Colosseum Scully began by saying "my favorite story about a chicken, actually isn't about a chicken at all." Anyone else would have sounded ridiculous but Scully told the story, it fit the moment and then he moved on.

Long story short, I think the problem isn't people trying to copy Scully, it's that Scully is just so much better at it than everyone else that it's impossible to copy.

Did anybody else prepare himself to wince at what might follow this sentence?

Yup.

I know it would be difficult to even try but it's curious to me that there really aren't any other announcers who seem to try to copy the way Scully does a game.

Probably the closest I've heard would be Al Michaels, although it's been many years since he's done baseball. Which makes a certain amount of sense, since he was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and his family moved to LA the same year the Dodgers did, so he must have listened to Scully his whole childhood.

Vin Scully is the only broadcaster I enjoy listening to.

that audio clip in 10 is a gas.

I could never stand Vin Scully; I just hated listening to him on the Game of the Week on NBC. I think I was spoiled growing up listening to Ernie Harwell and Paul Carey.