35 Burst results for "Vin Scully"
The Lead
"vin scully" Discussed on The Lead
"Before game started. Dave Roberts took the microphone. Then as he's looking down on us right now, hated the spotlight on him. Well, this is going to be very uncomfortable for him because this moment right now he really deserved. Led the entire crowd and it's time for Dodger baseball, which was Vince signature catch phrase before every game. So now 50,000 Dodger fans get on your feet, yell as loud as you can. So mister vin can hear us from blue heaven. One. Two. Three.
The Lead
"vin scully" Discussed on The Lead
"Gain started Dave Roberts took the microphone. Then as he's looking down on us right now, hated the spotlight on him. Well, this is going to be very uncomfortable for him because this moment right now he really deserved. And led the entire crowd and it's time for Dodger baseball, which was Vince signature catch phrase before every game. So now 50,000 Dodger fans get on your feet, yell as loud as you can. So mister vin can hear us from blue heaven. One. Two. Three.
WLS-AM 890
"vin scully" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"Over the last couple of months, President Biden spent so much tougher on Russia than he is on China? I wouldn't agree with the premise of the question, Peter. Well, I think when Russia was getting aggressive around Ukraine, the president was out every couple days, telling Putin, don't do it. And now China is getting aggressive around Taiwan, and we're not hearing anything like that from the president. Oh, big to differ. We've been sending up here for almost a week, Peter, talking about our concerns about what China was preparing to do. We put out a declassified information that we saw. Listen, obviously, that is not true. The rhetoric has been far different directed at Russia than China. Is that of anything to do with the Hunter Biden case? A lot of people are asking questions about that, especially a lot of people in the conservative side. A couple more things I want to get to before I get to your questions. It is a Friday and I'll get to your calls in the next segment. We lost Vin Scully this past week. Vin Scully was probably the greatest broadcaster of his time in sports. I believe he was 94. He lived an incredibly eventful life. He was known around the business for always being impeccably dressed and insisting on looking the part and sounding the part at all times. Vin Scully called some of the most memorable moments in sports history, but one of the moments you probably haven't heard. Jim found this. This is the great Vin Scully, and I do mean great during the Dodger game. Speaking about this is real. This isn't like some thing we do with Jim and the whole dark web stuff. This is actual, this actually happened. This has been Scully on socialism. Check this out. Socialism
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
It's Not Easy Being a Radio Star
"21 minutes after the hour America continue my conversation with the legendary Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully. And sky, how hard is it to get that first gig in broadcast? Well, again, fake play the hand. There was a lovely girl on the campus who was a friend of mine, not a girlfriend, but a friend named McGee, marguerite Clark, and marguerite said, I will type up letters and we'll send them out to radio stations, and I said, okay, let's start from Maine to Florida. And so we had a big book called a broadcast magazine, and it listed all of the stations that you addressed the East Asian managers name, et cetera, and she began typing up the letters, and we came to Washington, D.C., WTO, a.m. and FM, which is a 50,000 watt station. That's the major league. It doesn't get any bigger and brighter than that. So I said to McGee as we called her, McGee, we better skip that. That's too big a station. And to date the story, she said, look, it's only going to cost another three cents stamp. So we put a three cent stamp on this 50,000 watt station letter, mailed it off, and I received a lot of answers from other stations basically saying no job or listen pal. This is a big station and you're coming off a college campus station, which it was not. It was an FM station. But anyway, WTO P said please send an audition disk. So I sent a disk down containing the various bits and pieces of on air broadcast and the next thing I know I received a phone call and the phone call said we would be interested in meeting you, we don't hire anyone site unseen. So I went down to Washington or auditioned again live and got the job. That is
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Remembering Vin Skully, The Voice of the Game
"Then Scotty, who is that voice for you when you were a young boy in New York listening to the baseball? Well, when I was a young boy in New York, we didn't have baseball, but I did have network football on the radio. One of the voices that certainly mesmerized me because of his vocabulary and the richness of the tone was Ted Hughes, I remember Ted Hughes doing a football game and we all know about the secondary, but Ted using would describe the football game and he would talk about the tertiary. And that knocked me for a loop.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Biden Is Wrong About Inflation Bill
"Joe Biden went on in that White House zoom. I mean, I hope the guy recovers quickly. He looks awful. He's in week two of COVID. Cut number two. Let me be clear. Despite what some folks are saying. The inflation reduction act makes sure that no one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay a penny more in federal taxes, notwithstanding all these ads you can't television. But don't take my word for it. Nearly 130 economists, 7 Nobel laureates and economics, former former treasury secretaries, the Federal Reserve vice chair, former director of the congressional budget office. Wrote that this bill will quote fight inflation of lower cost for American families while setting the stage for strong, stable, and broadly shared long-term economic growth. This is absurd, and by the way, remember all those same economists said, we wouldn't have anything. We wouldn't have inflation that it would be transitory than it wouldn't be so long and it would depend upon supply chain.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Sinema's Billion Dollar Gamble
"News of the day is that senator sinema of Arizona has caved, and the Democrats in the Senate will pass. There are 725 pages of $433 billion in new spending and 739 billion in new taxes. It's astonishing. What did senator sinema get for it? She got a protection measure for billionaires. A $14 billion tax increase on some wealthy hedge fund managers and private equity executives. That's what her price was. I'm actually jaw droppingly gap mouth opened astonished at this bill. Again, 725 pages long, it spent another $433 billion, which will be amazingly inflationary on this economy already struggling to keep inflation below 10%.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"vin scully" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"At ESPN who's a honcho on the show. Get up. He's told us he's the head honcho, which means himbo. At some point, is the head honcho of get up, you probably got a chance to run across Vince Scully or maybe secondhand or maybe you just read a lot about him, what are your thoughts about the great Vince Scully? I have actually never had the opportunity to meet Vin Scully greeny did do an interview with Scully on his radio show. I want to say somewhere between two and three years ago, which I did help him with. And he reposted that link. I think sometime in the last couple of days after his passing and I did have the chance to go back and listen. Look, Vin Scully is, look, you now belong to the ages. And there are very few people, I think, in any sport, whether they be a player, an executive, a broadcast, or anybody in any role that impacted more lives than he did. I guess I'd like to just start by reading some of my favorite Vin Scully notes and then just sort of wrap up sort of how I view his place in baseball history from a big picture perspective. These are a bit trivial, but I think they can go a long way in sort of explaining the depth and breadth of his career buster. Jackie Robinson bedded cleanup. First game is a broadcaster. Yasiel Puig did so in his last. I tweeted that a couple days ago, y'all still Puig himself replied to that note saying that he did not know that. And thanked me for posting, which was obviously quite cool. Secondly, buster Vince Scully called games. Started by both preacher roe and Julio Oras. Those two men were born 80 years apart. And lastly, Vin Scully, his first season as a broadcaster, 1950, was Connie Mack's last as a major league manager. Connie Mack was born buster during the Civil War. Vin Scully did it for 67 years. He had an incomparable career. And if I had ever had the chance to talk to Vince Scully, I would have said vin. You were the soundtrack of my summer. And I think any number of baseball friends would have said the same thing. I woke up the morning after he died to a text from a friend of mine. A lifelong Dodger fan who said, I yelled when they broke the news during the game, watched as many tributes as I could going to bed around two 30 in the morning. I cried and it hurts like I know it would. Probably the hardest death of someone I never met because he seemed like a part of my life. I don't think that my buddy had a unique experience. That's how many lives then Scully impacted rest in peace man. You were a freaking legend. Yeah, I think it was oral hershiser who noted that when Dodger fans voted on their Mount Rushmore, they had Jackie Robinson, of course, Sandy Koufax, it feels like, say, of course, I think Kershaw was another and Vince Scully. Wow. And it feels like, you know, that in the moment you might feel like hyperbole, that you're reaching your bending over backwards. No, I think that if you're a Dodger fan, you're a fan of baseball, you can understand why they would vote it that way. That is an extraordinary tidbit. I mean, there are very few things in the world that can endure as long as he did in that role. Think how much society has changed since he began broadcasting games for the Dodgers. In 1950, they had never won a championship at that point. They were still playing baseball games in Brooklyn and then did for the next 7 or 8 years. And yet Vince Scully's voice, I would describe it perhaps best as timeless. Vin Scully, a hundred years from now, will still sound exactly as he did from the day that he started. And that's sort of the charm of baseball, the timelessness, his tempo, his temperament, his storytelling, his demeanor. It all just naturally fit. Baseball's natural habitat was the radio. I don't think there's anything ever in the history of baseball more pure than Vince Scully's voice on the radio. I hope that at some point you get some deep dive into statistics and are able to prove what a lot of broadcasters believe in that Scully had a direct pipeline to the baseball gods because they always felt like whenever vin needed one more foul ball to finish his story, he always got it. The baseball bus always worked that out for him. So if you get that information for me, just please bring in on board, okay? My only my only pushback would be this. I don't think he had a pipeline to the baseball guns vest there. I think that Vin Scully was a baseball God. At two. That's for sure. All right. It's just so happens that this Sunday, coincidentally, we're going to be in Dodger Stadium. We've got the Padres against the Dodgers, Padres were of course one of the most active teams leading up the trade deadline. Give me your top three trade deadline takeaways. Okay, my first is that I don't think any team has ever improved more midseason than the Padres have and will continue to. Let's contextualize everything that happened here. It happened so fast. Let's unpack it. In consecutive days, they added the best relief pitcher in the sport and Josh hater. The best young hitter in the sport in Juan Soto. Josh bell, who was seemingly a throw in in that trade was the apple of many teams I and Brandon drury for the added as well was the best position player on the reds, and let's not forget Fernando tatis has not played a single game this season on any given day. He can be the best player in baseball and has been on many days. Now, I'm fascinated to see where this goes in the short term because it has long been my belief buster that you build a great baseball team, not by adding a few great baseball players, but by having a bunch of good ones. And I think what the Padres are done and sort of sacrificing depth for high end talent. That's much closer to an NBA approach. So I am like, this team I'm viewing as a science experiment with AJ preller as they are nutty professor. I say it's worth the risk, given the fact that, look, the Dodgers have won more playoff games in the previous two years. And the Padres have in their 54 year history. I appreciate a small hashtag small market team going for the Gusto, but look, to pretend that it's not a risky proposition is obviously foolish. This is absolutely a risky proposition. And I know you wanted to talk about the new postseason format and the impact it had on the trade market. I think it really drove the market. I didn't think the aggression with which so many teams operated over the last two weeks stems directly from the fact that a, all playoff teams are now guaranteed at least a three game series and B 6 teams now qualify in each leak. Phillies are ten games back in the NL east. They made a flurry of moves, essentially, to try and nail down that 6th spot in the playoffs. Sort of going head to head against the Cardinals. The Mariners are 11 games back in their division. They traded for the best pitcher on the market. You just mentioned the Padres 11 and a half games back right now in the national league west. And AJ preller turned in a Tasmanian bevel for my money. Look, you can look at other teams like the Red Sox maybe the Orioles, a few others that were sort of quiet and scratch your head. But I think most of I think a lot of the action that we saw here leading up to the deadline is a direct result of Major League Baseball's new postseason format working. Right. And just a moment, we're going to be talking with Todd ratum, who is noted Red Sox fan, what do you see in the future for Red Sox fans like Todd? Well, look, Lester, it's not obvious to me that hind womb their general manager has any earthly idea what he's doing. Now I obviously say that facetiously because I do recognize his background and this is an executive who's reputation was beyond reproach and he was with Tampa. I also recognize that there was unique pressure from ownership in Boston. But let's just sort of unpack what we've seen here lately, and I'm not sure it yields a good result for the future. A team that was two wins away from the World Series last year, okay? So in the last week, we've seen them trade away the heart and soul of their team at Christian Vasquez to an American League rival. We saw them acquire two months of Tommy Pham three years and two months of a relatively useless Eric Hosmer who now is going to block their best prospects in Tristan Costas. He seems months away from the big leagues. And let's go back to a couple not foreseeable mistakes. A couple foreseen
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"vin scully" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Is an analyst for ESPN and Jess, what a week to be working as a Dodger broadcaster. You know, the news about Vince Scully. So tell me about that experience. I mean, it was we knew he was sick. But we had no idea that he was that close. So it was the middle of the game. Hear from your producer, you know, Vin Scully is passed in, you know, where the Dodgers broadcast and we're going to be covering this and you know, I immediately started to think of all the memories and just all the things and feeling blessed that I had grown up a Dodger fan and listened to his voice every single day pretty much of my life. At least during baseball season, it was always on, whether it was the radio, the television, and sitting next to Joe Davis, who ultimately was the man to replacement Scully and the way that he was able to weave through that broadcast and, you know, feeling a ton of emotion about it too, and wanting to do it right, but not having any preparation. But in some ways, that can be the best thing because it was very, very raw. And I felt like sometimes that can be the best thing versus something that's super prepared. So was this something that you have been on those with a headset on and the producer talks to you and say, look, here's the news. This is what's coming on. How much from the time that that was said to you to when you actually went on air with it and what were you processing emotionally? Yeah, it was probably, might have been like, so he came on with one out and I forget, and then it was probably within another so that that inning ended, and we went through another half inning. And then in that break, they're like, okay, or we're going to do this. They're going to mount it on social. And then we're going to talk about it. And it was like, oh my gosh. And you know, I felt bad for our truck because they're going through clips, trying to like, you know, covering a game and you're trying to we're in San Francisco, so you're not at home, you don't have all your things, and they're trying to get different sound, they're trying to get photos, trying to weave it in. And then for Joe. Joe got really quiet, and I could tell he was trying to figure out how and what he was going to say. And again, you're also live on television covering the baseball game. So it was so different from anything. I could have imagined, yet, you know, honestly, Joe Davis, the way he handled it. I could not have imagined anyone doing it better. There were stories he told, which was so perfect for Vin Scully in that moment. That I had never heard that Joe just knew having studied and having known and again, like not having prepared, so just the things that came to mind to him. So even in this game, was so well done. He had me emotional to be honest. And it was honestly perfect. Tell me about your interaction with Vince Scully. You know, talk to before earlier in the week about how I was just scared of him because I was just in awe that person is someone who grew up a huge Dodger fan. What about you? What was your interaction with him? Well, it wasn't until, you know, honestly, the interesting part. You know this is, you know, my first game really ultimately was Sunday Night baseball at Dodger Stadium. Covering a Major League Baseball game, just the way that everything had worked out in 2015. And my first realization of so many that day of like, oh my gosh, is this really happening not only am I doing my first major league game, major game is walking into the vin schoolly press box. And I remember very vividly looking up and then walking into that booth and that was my first thought. Was like, oh my gosh, this is where Vince sets. And, you know, he was still currently working. It wasn't until the next year that he retired. But it wasn't, I hadn't met him yet. Obviously he wasn't there that day. There were a couple interactions where we were, you know, I was there on a Saturday and, you know, I was able to meet him. But you know at the end of his career, he didn't come out much. He was getting so many people that were constantly coming through. So my interaction like so many felt like, you know, it was him coming over for dinner every night because his voice was on every dinner. Joining us in the way he would talk to you made it feel like a friend, you know? So it wasn't even my personal interaction. It was more of just the interaction I have had since I was born of listening to him in our home. Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, I mean, you grew up listening to him and he was a constant presence in your dad when you were little little and your dad was the one I'm assuming who was deciding what was on TV at night was that Dodger game always on? Always. It was always on. And this was even when he was a football coach and we had his tapes running on a separate TV so that he could watch the offensive line and whatever team they were going to play over and over and over again. So we had been on football on the visually watching football O lineman in reverse like over and over again and been Scully on in the backdrop and his voice telling us about that night's Dodger game. I'm guessing, you know, you have such a great relationship with your folks. Tell me about relating all the time, you know, where you got to be around Vince Scully or, you know, you got to meet him or some sort of feedback from him. Your conversations with your dad, because I'm guessing your dad was probably thrilled. Yeah, I think, you know, yes, his biggest thing was always in our relationship. My mom too. I think, you know, as much as my dad was the baseball guy. And this is where vin, and I think for any announcer. And for me, and I think about this, I actually all the women that he reached. In a time when growing up generationally, well before me, you know, men watched baseball and sports and some women did, but then and my mom tells me this and it reminds me all the time about the storytelling. And how she wasn't a baseball fan, but she was a fan of the humans that were playing the game because of Vin Scully. And it's a reminder I've taken with me forever because, you know, as you know, want to reach as many women
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"vin scully" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Yeah, I mean, his ability to land the plane, his ability to weave in and out like I think he had after years and years. He's as well read a person, you know. If we pull the curtain back, we have a mutual friend named John Walsh, who for years basically led ESPN, he was the guy that was involved with SportsCenter, ESPN radio, brilliant man, incredibly well spoken buster. The other day, John and I were on the phone together and I just asked him, we were talking about Bill Russell and then we talked about Vin Scully. And I said, so what were your interactions like? And John Walsh, again, was the lead man for ESPN for what felt like forever. I'm guessing it was, it was three decades. It may have been a little short may have been a little longer than that. The point is, he said, he said, Ravi, my number one experience at ESPN. Number one, and he did everything. My number one experience was when ESPN got the national radio contract. He wanted to bring big Vin Scully aboard. He spent four hours within at a hotel restaurant in Los Angeles. And they spoke about things from Shakespeare to baseball to growing up in Brooklyn and moving to LA, et cetera, et cetera he said that was the number one experience I've had in my years at ESPN. That type of ability to get to somebody who's had it. He's had more experiences than Vince Scully, not just baseball related. Shows you the type of impact he had on everybody. I think John is a reflection of everybody. And vin's worldly ability to talk about subjects, we've been in and out and have an edit button. To know, I'm gonna, I have a 5 minute story, but I got 50 seconds. I got 30 seconds. What are the highlights? And what's the important part that people are going to take away? I think he had that unique edit in his head to realize I got baseball. I got a strike. I got one out. Oh, now I got two outs, I'm gonna have to move this along. What are the parts that need to get in? I think that's what I, you know, that was always an incredible ability. How do you know which details that you need to get in to make this story a story? That's what he did so well. Yeah, and I didn't know that about John, that's great. You know, he's someone as you know, he met everybody. He knew everybody. Everybody. John, you know, he has experienced speaking with everybody. And so for him to feel that way, that's pretty cool. All right, Padres Dodgers, you mentioned we landed in it this weekend. I'm excited to see the Padres with Juan Soto, they're going to ask me a question on the show, get up today about, you know, who I think is a bigger threat to win the World Series. Padres or Dodgers and, you know, that question, I think we have to put some context into it because what I'm going to say is Dodgers, but the Dodgers are vulnerable with walker Bueller still coming back from an injury with Clayton Kershaw walking off the mound yesterday. A lot of uncertainty about what he's going to contribute to, you know, going forward in this season. These two teams are a lot closer than 11 and a half games that are in separate in the standings right now. To me, the two teams are even. And fan graphs projections for the rest of the way. I think have the Dodgers and the Padres. I think the Padres that are have a 8 O two winning percentage and the Dodger 7 98 or 7 O two and 6 98 point is after the moves, the Padres, if all else were equal, if we started a new season today, the Padres projection wise would end up with a better record. So, and it's so close, I would say that they're even, I think the Padres and Dodgers is one of the ways to look at it. I still think the matching braves have to be in that conversation because the Dodgers I don't think are going to get caught in the west. But again, you get into the playoffs and to your point, if they don't get caught, they avoid a wildcard round. We'll see, but it feels like avoiding the wildcard round against a good team is going to be what's really important here for these teams. And if you can't avoid that, we'll see if any of the wildcard teams are able to squeak through when the NLCS or ALCS and then get to the World Series. Well, I will see. I think winning the division is a huge deal this year and time will tell. Well, I don't use any doubt that the best series that we're going to see in that first round of the wild card round is going to be the series between what appears to be destined to be the number two team in the national yeast versus the number two team in the national league west. You know, let's say we hold standings today. You're going to have the mets in the mets and the Dodgers will have first round buys. And that means that the Padres and the braves would face each other in that first round in a three game series. Carl, that would be unbelievable. Like you have defending champions, the Atlanta Braves trying to become the first team to go back to back since those 98 to 2000 Yankees. And then on the flip side, you have the Padres who've gone all in on this season. That would be an amazing series, but if you were to, let's say the braves catch the mets this year. And the mets were in that series. The same dynamic would be in place. With de Grom and shares are assuming health. Look, that's the point about that when you're asked about that. The Dodgers have a better chance because they're very likely going to avoid that series. That's a brutal series. And it's not, it's not the brewers who are really good, but it's those two change and those two teams, the braves and mentor involved in a series right now that obviously is a is a nasty series. So that's why I think the Dodgers have the advantage. They don't have to deal with those two teams. Yep. And I want to ask you about mattson braves in the second to first about Kershaw. I think going forward, he's just at the age and he's at the, you know, he's got the injury history that you assume nothing. That's the way I feel about it in terms of what he's going to bring. And you remember last year he made 15 starts, he went out on July 3rd. He came back for four adding since September, October 1st, and he didn't pitch in the postseason. Like he broke down last season. Last night was his 15th start. And you know, we'll see how he is going forward. What's your perspective? Red flag. There's nothing worse than seeing an older veteran guy an older veteran guy walk off the field and it's not necessarily an elbow or shoulder, but it's something that you generally associate with age, a bad back. That's what you associate with age. And they're just things that don't necessarily heal very quickly, but we saw Max Scherzer be unable to get out of bed a few years ago and then he pitched two nights later in the World Series. So I just, it's a red flag. I'm real worried and I'm sure he is and I'm sure the Dodgers are because this is something we've seen and you're absolutely right. You don't know how somebody responds for all Dodger fans and baseball fans. Let's hope he bounces and he's good, but that was, that was disconcerting.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"vin scully" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"The brewers star was asked about the impact of the hater trade and speaking with reporters after the brewers loss on Thursday. You rely on it, they said, you know, if you said it didn't have any effect, but at the same time, it's like we're pros. You know, you got to, you got to do what you got to do to perform at your best to get the job done. And what we weren't able to do that these last three days. Sarah, what else you got? All right, buster. So ESPN and partnership with Peyton Manning's Omaha productions presents soup with coop, Cooper Manning invites players and coaches from across sports to share laughs while enjoying a bowl of his guests favorite soup. When the soup is finished, the conversation ends, that's soup with coop listen wherever you get your podcast. Next, he was the face of the New York Yankees of 5 time World Series champion and the most popular and admired player in baseball and one of the greatest sports superstars of any age. The captain tells the story of Derek Jeter's life and Hall of Fame career anchored by exclusive extensive, unprecedentedly candid interviews, catch episodes of 5 and 6 out now and we kind of discussed it a little bit, but man, you got flames there. You got playing there at the end of the day. It's something about that I said and we're going to talk about that coming up. All aboard. It's the Ravi train, we're called rabbits. On baseball tonight. The Ravi train
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"vin scully" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Here's Dodgers manager Dave Roberts talking about Kershaw's injury. You know, as he was going through a start in that 5th inning, the bottom of the 5th inning, he just got checked up on a throw and said his back tightened up on him. So we didn't want to push it anymore, and obviously Clayton didn't fight to stay in. Which is somewhat telling, but certainly smart. So we're going to get back to Los Angeles, get some tests and see where we're at going forward. Any time pitchers got to come out of a game, there's somewhat concern level. And again, given his back, which is been problematic at times. So we just won't know more until we get some tests. Some other news and notes, newly acquired what merrifield says he's received the COVID-19 vaccination and he'll be able to play in Toronto for the Blue Jays moving forward. Of course, you remember a series recently when merrifield was with the royals. He wasn't vaccinated, so he wasn't available to play. And that led to a lot of the a lot of issues between merrifield and the royals because of comments and merrifield made. The Red Sox released outfielder Jackie Bradley junior, Jackie Bradley, one of the best outfielders that we've ever seen, 32 years old. This was his second stint with the Red Sox, the team that drafted him. Last night, a great game between the mets and the braves, the mets jumped all over brave starter Kyle Wright in the bottom of the third inning. One one. Alonzo
The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"vin scully" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
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The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"vin scully" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"No, you weren't the only one that has a similar love story to hearing Vin Scully. Bob Costas former NBC sportscaster. I worked alongside the industry then he remembers him from his childhood. Although I grew up around New York, virtually my entire childhood and adolescence for a year and a half in 1960 and 61, my family lived in Southern California. And as a huge baseball fan, I was always listening to Vin Scully. The Dodgers were always on the car radio or on the radio at home. And at that time, only a tiny number of games were on television. So radio was the way that baseball fans received the games. And Vin Scully was quite possibly the greatest radio baseball announcer of all time and you could tell even then how special he was. One strike away. Sandy into his wind up. Here's the pitch. Swung on and missed a perfect game. His voice is very distinctive, but it's also very pleasing. There are people who have excellent broadcasting voices, voices that project voices that have some authority, but then is so distinctive and his style and pacing was so well suited to the pace of baseball. It was almost as if he gave a broadcast a melody. So Bill bob calls it kind of like a melody. In your words, how would you describe Vince voice his play calling? What was so unique about it? Well, because he didn't call just the game. He called the sport. He called, he called our lives. So he would tell stories during games. He would spin into yarns about, there'd be a picture on the man who would remind him of something 30 years ago. Or something in World War II or something in the Greek tragedies, and he'd start telling a story, and his stories would spin. He said, okay, now the Hershey's are with the wine and the pitch is two balls and two strikes. So anyway, back in the 13th century, you know, Prometheus did this and he tells these wonderful stories that relate to the game. So it was really interesting when Vince Scully would tell the story and there'd be two outs in the inning, so you know in the end the three outs, they go to commercial break. So Vince only announced her in baseball history where people would listen to his games, and hope for cheer for foul balls. Cheer for long at bats. Cheer for the play to be stretched out so he could finish his story. So we each have the strike one and strike one and back in World War II, the general Patton once did this and once played baseball with the troops and he's telling these stories are Jackie Robinson once stole home and he's telling these stories. Ball three, foul ball, ball forward, strike three, and what's the end of the story would end? So you want me to keep talking forever. So it was the ability to mix life and baseball. It was such a connection. He had such a connection with the people because he talked about life. He talked about us. It was about the Dodgers, but no, no, no, it was really about us.
The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"vin scully" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"Out onto the air. I'm Gustav Ariana. You're listening to the times, essential news from the LA times. It Thursday, August 4th, 2022. Today, the life and legacy
The Officer Tatum Show
Nancy Pelosi's Husband, Paul, Pleads Not Guilty Over DUI Crash
"I want to talk more about Nancy Pelosi's husband because that was very intriguing and as a former police officer I get very interested in stuff like this. So I have the case report here at least not the case report. I have the text from the complaint that was made against mister Pelosi and I'm going to go through some generalizations or summaries from this particular complaint. So according to the complaint that was made against mister Pelosi that the vehicles that were in a collision at ten 15 p.m. had major collision damage. When a police arrived on the scene, mister Pelosi was still bucketing the seat belt in his Porsche. And when the police officer walked up to him and asked him for his identification, he ended over his driver license along with a card that says 1199 foundation. According to the 1199 foundation website, it provides emergency assistance to California highway patrol employees and scholarships to their children. Donation levels show that the membership card is provided for a minimum gift between 3000 to a $100,000.
The Officer Tatum Show
Vin Skully Blasts Socialism
"You know, he spoke about socialism on one of the clips I was listening to so he became my favorite. Listen to this clip before I go. Socialism failing to work as it always does. This time and then as well. You talk about giving everybody something free and all of a sudden there's no food to eat. And who do you think is the richest person in Venezuela? The daughter of Hugo Chavez. Hello. Anyway, OMG. That tells me all I need to know. I love him already.
The Officer Tatum Show
More on the Legacy of Vin Skully
"But until then I want to play a Montage that continues to speak of the legacy of Vince Scully. Hi everybody in a very pleasant opening day. It's goosebump time. Here in Dodger Stadium. Vin Scully was the greatest broadcaster in baseball that there ever was. Maybe the greatest sports broadcaster. There ever was. One strike away. Sandy into his wind up. I've been around a lot of professional athletes and a lot of broadcasters over the years. One guy who I was in awe of has Vince Scully. In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened. There was just something to the tone of Vince voice. That, you know, it was exciting. Behind the back. Here comes 9 in the match winning. Exciting and yet soothing. Perhaps the most beautiful and dramatic moment in the history of sports. Let there be a prayer for every life. And wherever you are, maybe you in silent tribute to camp and I can also say a prayer for his well-being.
The Officer Tatum Show
Vin Scully's Voice Will Live On
"I want to speak about a man who just in a short period of time that I've been researching him is, in my opinion, one of the greatest voices of sports entertainment, one of the great, greatest voices, period. Someone who has a parent integrity, people love him. I can tell you what, when I was growing up, I didn't hear about him because I never watched baseball, but listening to Larry elder and people on the staff who are from Los Angeles, they tell me that Vince Scully was such an incredible man and has an incredible legacy and for those of you who may not know Vince Scully Vin Scully passed away, I believe he passed away last night. And I'm going to read a little bit of information about him and it's just that he was a Hall of Fame broadcaster. Whose voice provided the soundtrack to the summer while entertained, entertaining and informing Dodger fans and in Brooklyn in Los Angeles for 67 years. And he says he died Tuesday night as the team said, he passed away at the age of 94. So I want to play a couple clips just in memorial of Vince Scully and just to show my respect to him and a lot of my listeners that live in California that probably are familiar with him. Also, all around the country, I want to show my respect. So we'll play a couple clips from Vince Scully so you can get the normal little better if you don't already know. Wrote a clip. The only thing that helps me go in 67 years, as I said last night, is the grace of God. Let's face it. And that's out of my hand. The lord has blessed me. He gave me this job at such a youthful age, and allowed me to live and do it 67 years. What am I going to say? Darn it, why didn't I get number 68 or anything like that? No. I am totally at ease, I am so thankful, grateful. I've enjoyed every minute of it, believe me. Every minute.
The Officer Tatum Show
Early Voting Is Key to Success in Arizona Race
"I'm going to be honest with you guys. I have no idea how Karen is even anywhere near carry. One reason is because I heard she put $20 million into a. Race that, you know, she had no business being there if you asked me. I mean, somebody, I guess, had to challenge the Trump Republican Kerry Lake. But Karen, in a primary, put an end to any $1 million is out of control. I never seen her anywhere on the campaign trail. She has no social media, and I say anywhere on the campaign trail, she's not in the circles that I'm in. Her people have never reached out to me for anything. Even before I supported Kerry, her team is never reached out to do anything with me or anybody else I know. I guess if you got enough money, you can be competitive. You don't even have to really have a good platform. You can jump in and raise late. You put 20 million in, you can be competitive and get 200,000 people to vote for you. But I was at Carrie Lake's party last night and the initial count care was down by like ten points. And I know a lot of people initially gave up on it. Which is weird to me, but they initially gave up on it. Some people thought the care is going to lose. But what people are not considering in this election in the primary and it's probably going to happen in the general. You're going to have people that do what we call early voting in the state of Arizona. A lot of people do early voting. Our participating early voting. And then the Trump lichens, I called him Trump against the Trump Republicans, believe that you should not vote early, meaning that you shouldn't send you vote through the mail. If you vote early, you take the early ballot, you fill it out, then you turn it in in person on election day, and that's what a lot of Republicans believe in, at least the trumps, because there's been so many issues with ballots being lost in the mail and all of the above, people literally physically need to go in, drop their ballot off.
Big Time Baseball
"vin scully" Discussed on Big Time Baseball
"He just kept, he just kept rewinding and rewinding this one particular play. And because he rewound it so much, Vince's voice is in my head. It went something like, there's a line drive up the middle tingling another hit for Gwen. And that just like has just been burned in my head since I was maybe ten or 11 years old, but they'll never will be another Vince Scully. He's the greatest to ever do it and it was definitely a sad day. As he's citing as it was here in San Diego, I'm not going to lie. For me personally, that took a little bit of the air out of the day when we found out that vin had passed away. It absolutely did and here I've only had the luxury of meeting Vin Scully one time. And I will tell you, when I got my major league debut, I was so excited because I was making my major league starting debut in Los Angeles. And I'll tell you both right away. The thing I was looking most forward to, not just having my major league debut in Los Angeles being a kid that went to Santa Monica high school and then UCLA. But more importantly, Vin Scully was about to announce me. And it was so jazzed that I was gonna get in the box, watch it later on like DVR and rewind and listen to my bats because I wanted to find out information about me, but I didn't know about it. But you learn. Yeah. Here's the problem. I picked the worst day humanly possible to make my debut 'cause Vin Scully had a cold that night and Charlie Steiner announced the game. Great announcer himself, but listen, nothing against you, Charlie Steiner, but I wanted Vince Scully to announce my name and tell me something about me being born and born in St. John's hospital at 5 15 a.m.. He weighs exactly 47 and a half kilos or whatever it is. I don't know the metric system. But he would have just been perfect and I would have loved to have had that, but Vince Scully just a legend. I mean, every legendary moment in baseball history has the soundtrack of Vince Scully, the 1988 home run. The 1986 Buckner error behind the bag behind the bag. I mean, he would take a paintbrush to a canvas of a baseball game and make it something different. And something special and he will be missed forever and I will only think of baseball games and only every broadcaster will always be compared to the great Vin Scully no matter what. So let's go ahead and get away from the somber tone and let's talk about yesterday's trade deadline ladies and gentlemen. It was, would you guys say the greatest that has ever happened? Because I'm gonna say it's the greatest that's ever happened. Maybe the biggest trade of our lifetimes Juan Soto to the San Diego Padres, Tony Gwynn junior, I'm assuming you have just been showered with nothing but joy and happiness in San Diego for the past 24 hours. I'm excited for him, but John Heyman, I gotta ask you, how quickly did this come together? AJ pillar gave an interview yesterday saying it was right around the trade dead, not the trade deadline. The all star break, they thought this was a possibility. How did this all come together in such a quick amount of time? I mean, this is not blockbuster. This is biblical. Well, we know AG pro always had its own in one sort of scouring them as an amateur, loved a man, tried to get him. I think at some point kind of pulled back one Montgomery became available and looked at moncada, I think he always had that regret that he didn't continue on with Soto and follow through and sign him. And you know, when you have a regret, you like to try to undo it. And that's why when Kim Rosenthal wrote that story that Soto was now available at the All-Star Game just before the game, I was able to write the Padres are the favorite basically that the Padres are going to go for it and they have a good chance because I knew that prowler wanted him badly and brother let's face it. Don't he know this as well as anybody. He gets what he wants. He was hell back. I mean, the other guys were trying. He was hell bent on this. He was not going to let this go without him being the one to get Soto, particularly with the Dodgers in the mix. But even if it wasn't, even if it was the royals or whomever, AJ prowler was going to make sure that this happened for the San Diego Padres. Well, Tony, we know what happened last year at the trade deadline. In fact, last week on big time baseball, you and I discussed this exact trade. And you and I just completely thought this was going to happen. And it was going to happen for multiple reasons. Not just the AJ preller wanting Juan Soto aspect, but we can not have a Max Scherzer 2021 situation happening again. So you knew AJ preller was going to throw everything possible and looking at the trade that he made, he threw everything possible. Let's be real clear. The Nats got a king's ransom in this. They did. They did. And you can't really talk about this deadline without setting the context of last deadline. And how it went for the Padres. I remember talking to AJ shortly after, who was always pretty low key, but I just got the sense in talking to him that that didn't sit well with him. It not going the way that he wanted to. I think that didn't sit well with him. So that was the context going in. And obviously, it is not often that a generational player, at the age of 23, becomes available. And for the Padres, at least from my perspective, there's clearly a window that they have. Right now. Between now and the next couple of seasons, they got to figure out a way to get as deep as they can. And what better way to do that than bring in one solo independent.
Big Time Baseball
"vin scully" Discussed on Big Time Baseball
"Not just one of the co hosts. Oh my goodness, we got a three man show ladies and gentlemen, we got Tony Gwynn junior and the great John Heyman all in the same building, well, not technically, but technically, because our voices are all in the same building, we have made it. Guys, welcome to big time baseball. Tony gwyn junior, John haman, Cody decker. We got a lot to discuss, but before we get to the trade deadline, maybe the most epic trade deadline of all time, we have to start on a somber note last night during the Dodgers giants game, it was announced that the legendary, the greatest broadcaster who ever lived, and me being a guy from Los Angeles, he was the voice of my childhood. It was the voice of my father's childhood. In fact, I found out he passed away because my father actually called me in tears. That's how much Vin Scully truly means, not just the Los Angeles community, but the baseball world itself. As much as I want to pretend that I have the right words to say that how much Vince Scully means to me and baseball in general, I'm afraid it would take somebody with the voice wit and tact of Vin Scully to pull it off. And I'm simply am not that. But John, you've been in this game for a long, long time. Tell me what your takeaway about Vince Scully to Major League Baseball. Do you have any stories of Vin Scully and obviously the legacy that he leaves behind? Yeah, I certainly don't know if the voice nor do I have to wear or the tech to do it either. I mean, it just humbles you to even try to discuss the legend of Vince Scully, probably the most famous Dodger of them all. I mean, obviously it's an historic story franchise Jackie Robinson, Sandy Koufax, so many great Dodgers, but I mean, he was the voice of the Dodgers and the face of the Dodgers 67 years broadcasting unbelievable, and I'm with you. He is the greatest baseball broadcaster of all time. Nobody could match him. I think there are probably two arguments you can't have. It's who is the greatest closer of all time, Rivera. Obviously, and it was the greatest baseball broadcaster of all time. Obviously Vin Scully. I don't know how he did it. He had a story or an interesting nugget on everyone who ever came up to bat whoever went to the mound, whoever fielded a ball, it was incredible. I was just a sheer joy to listen to him, and that carried all the way till the end a few years ago, certainly retired. He was amazing even then. I mean, and what a true gentleman. I happen to, I met him a couple of times. The last time I saw him, I was out having a breakfast with Dennis Gilbert, who happened to be his agent and isn't a longtime baseball agent and my daughter was with me who is a baseball fan in his next appointment was with Vince Scully and we ran late. He was on time and we met him and it was just something else. I mean, he is a joy. I mean, he was great to everybody, you know, whether you're a writer or broadcaster, whether you're just a fan and just a terrific gentleman, my daughter was probably about ten years old at the time. Remembers that to this day and talks about Vince Scully like she knows him like he's our friend and just a great guy and an unbelievable broadcaster. And Tony, I mean, what can we say? I'm looking very forward to getting your perspective on this because not only were you a San Diego padre. And of course your father, the great Tony Gwynn, the greatest sandy padre of all time, but you are also a Dodger for a few years as well, so you have maybe the most unique perspective on this than maybe anyone in the world. Yeah, no, he is, he's a gentleman. I think John described it. I think that word describes him to a T he had the ability as you guys have mentioned to tell a story about every player that was on the roster. He had a little nugget about him. And in the broadcast world, you know, there's a saying that you don't ever start a story or a thing with two strikes. It was crazy. It seemed like he could start a story with two with two strikes, two outs, and all of a sudden the inning would lengthen form. He'd finished a story in like almost to a T, like he'd finished his story the last out would be made. He'd be able to send it to commercial. I mean, he just had that kind of magic and having gotten a chance to sit down and talk with him on a couple of occasions, man. It blows my mind that he was around to see the integration of baseball Jackie Robinson. He watched Jackie Robinson and Matt Kemp play in his career. And from beginning to end. And there will never be another rook. I'll share a quick story with you. One of the things everybody knows my pops used to do was watch a video. And so as a kid, I became familiar with every team's Lee voice. And obviously for the Dodgers, it was Vin Scully. And there was there was one there was one night, my dad had like three hits. It was in LA.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"vin scully" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"I think I can say with great confidence that this guy was the absolute greatest of all time. And more than that, Vin Scully was woven into the fabric of the USA. Once again, a standing ovation for Henry Aaron. Though the confrontation for the second time, Aaron walked in the second inning. He means the tying run at the plate now, though we'll see what downing does. Alice about delivers and his low ball one. And that just adds to the pressure. The crowd going, downing has to ignore the sound effect. And stay a professional in pitches game. One ball and no strikes, and waiting out for your deep and straight away, fast forward is a high 5 in the deep left center field, but they're both back to the city. That was Vin Scully, calling Hank aarons milestone milestone home run. When he passed Babe Ruth for the most career home runs with his 715th Homer, Vin Scully, the beloved voice of the Dodgers for 67 years. Passed away at the age of 94.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Vin Scully Was Woven in the Fabric of the U.S.A.
"I think I can say with great confidence that this guy was the absolute greatest of all time. And more than that, Vin Scully was woven into the fabric of the USA. Once again, a standing ovation for Henry Aaron. Though the confrontation for the second time, Aaron walked in the second inning. He means the tying run at the plate now, though we'll see what downing does. Alice about delivers and his low ball one. And that just adds to the pressure. The crowd going, downing has to ignore the sound effect. And stay a professional in pitches game. One ball and no strikes, and waiting out for your deep and straight away, fast forward is a high 5 in the deep left center field, but they're both back to the city. That was Vin Scully, calling Hank aarons milestone milestone home run. When he passed Babe Ruth for the most career home runs with his 715th Homer, Vin Scully, the beloved voice of the Dodgers for 67 years. Passed away at the age of 94.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Circle of Hope Provides Great Alternatives to Abortion
"I am so grateful to God every day that more lives are being saved. I was listening driving in. To a wonderful organization in here in the Tampa Bay Area. I think it's called circle of hope. There all about presenting women with an alternative to abortion, they're all about taking the baby after the baby is born if the woman is going through a tough chapter in her life, they care for the baby until the mother is back on her feet and able to care for the baby and then they lovingly return the baby. To the mom, to the mother. And if the mother doesn't want the baby, which is sadly a reality, they are going to proceed with adoption. Methods at a very affordable rate. You know, for a lot of people, adoption is a nonstarter because they can't afford it. So that's all good. We've got some good things happening. That are coming down the pike. I just and again, I'm not putting politics ahead of these of this lifesaving decision by the Supreme Court. But politically, this really could give Democrats a lot of momentum.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Mark Davis: The Left Likes to Marginalize Human Life
"Mark Davis made a great comparison this morning in Dallas. He said, the left likes to marginalize human life when it comes to the abortion debate, just like they did, just like Democrats did and, well, everybody did with slavery, but mostly Democrats. I mean, it has a lot of history points out, Jim Crow, slavery, the Democrat party construct. Republican president freed the slaves. But America dehumanized slaves. They were less than human. That's what they do with abortion. These babies are less than human. They don't really have the full rights of the baby's mother. And I, you know, I'm really surprised by this. I didn't realize that this was even going to be a close call in Kansas. It's been called a shocker, and here's the tough part about it. When you are sort of pitting political fortune against the preservation of human life, against the saving the rescuing of thousands, if not millions of unborn babies.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Kansas Voters Reject Anti-Abortion Measure
"Now, let me talk about a little bit of the bad news. Kansas voters pretty well overwhelmingly voted to protect the right to get an abortion in Kansas. The voters rejected a measure that would have allowed tighter, abortion restrictions in conservative, red state, Kansas, and I can't really emphasize this enough, it is a conservative state. Now, that doesn't mean the conservatives voted this amendment down, which was largely supported and funded by the Catholic Church in Kansas because the Catholic Church is a torch bearer in the sanctity of life battle that we have in this country. But it means that a lot of angry voters and a lot of maybe women independents decided to show up yesterday and tell the Kansas legislature, you're not going to get this amendment passed. We're going to protect the right of a woman to get an abortion up to 22 weeks of pregnancy. Now, you know, it's such a weird thing to have this crossroads of politics and the preservation of life the saving literally the saving of lives.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Trump's Endorsement Continues to Sway Voters in State Primaries
"Notably, I mean, there were a few big ones. Here's the weird part, and this is not necessarily bad news yet. In the Republican primary for governor of Arizona, Carrie Lake has a tiny lead over Karen Taylor robeson, 79% of the vote counted at last count and as a friend of mine wondered, how could they still not know the outcome of that election? How long could it take to count the votes in Arizona? We ever going to get this right. Are we ever going to count votes in a reasonable amount of time? There certainly should be an outcome by now. Tudor Dixon won in the Michigan Republican nomination for governor. Prompting a showdown with Gretchen Whitmer, that's going to be fun to watch. So, you know, axios acknowledges the power of the Trump endorsement continues suggesting that Donald Trump still has a lot of sway and influence with the voters.
AP News Radio
Vin Scully, Dodgers broadcaster for 67 years, dies at 94
"Hi everybody and a very pleasure good evening to you It was the familiar opening to Scully smooth summer soundtrack I don't know how you feel about it at the other end For 67 years from Brooklyn to Los Angeles Jackie Robinson and Sandy Koufax Sandy into his wind up Here's the pitch Swung on and missed a perfect game To Fernando mania and Clayton Kershaw Scully was the beloved voice of the Dodgers a consummate storyteller All I have ever really accomplished is to talk about the accomplishments of others He's in the baseball Hall of Fame on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and 6 years ago received the nation's highest civilian honor I love this game I'm Sagar Meghani
Awards Chatter
"vin scully" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"And then out of the blue, I get another call from red. And Ernie Harwell switched from the Dodgers to the Giants. It was an opening in Brooklyn. Red thought about who should fill it. And as he told me later, he thought, I don't want to get a thoroughly experienced professional sports announcer who might get his nose out of joint because he's only going to do anything here or what about that redheaded kid. Maybe I could meld him and mold him and shape him and so they took me to Florida and on a one month option. And that's 65 years. And as far as the association was read, was like a father in two ways. Number one, he was my severest critic, but two, because he wanted me to succeed like a father with a son. And many, many years later, maybe also because I had red hair, he wrote that I might have been the son. He might have had. So you had a daughter, but no sign. So those are complicated answers to your question. No, it's great. And so that first season, you arrive at and I wonder for you, do you remember if you can take yourself back to that maybe even the first day? What was going through your well, first of all, I had never been to Abbott's field, and I was living up near the George Washington bridge in Washington heights. So I had to really get directions to find myself out of its field. And I was completely overwhelmed. I mean, I'm looking around. Here's this kid who played stick ball in the streets besides baseball and fordham, but I was always playing ball. And now, here I am with Gil Hodges, Jackie Robinson, peewee Reese, Roy campanella, duke Schneider. I mean, it was overwhelming. So all I tried to do is stay out of the way, not say anything. Unless somebody asked me, and when I went on the air, it was like, I didn't try to broadcast what I tried to do is not make a mistake. So that's a different way. But I had two wonderful people, and the relationship in the booth was truly remarkable. I don't think they'll ever be anything quite like that. Because you have the father image that was read, the older brother, or son, was a fellow named Connie Desmond, who was a wonderful announcer in his own right. And then the kid. And that's the way apparently it came out on the air. And criticized me after the game, and then Connie would be the older brother saying, hey, that's okay. You know, you were fine, you know, they'll get better and exercise. Tomorrow. You know, that kind of stuff. So it was a great relationship. And that's how it started off. Out of curiosity, when along the line, did you begin using your famous greeting that you opened your shows with? You know. First of all, when you start broadcasting and we're in New York now. So you have the great Mel Allen, the great Red Barber, the great Russ Hodges. You had also Kurt gowdy. We had a whole bunch of fine announcements, and red gave me a bit of advice. And here I am, wide eyed, 22 years old. And red said to me, young man, remember what you bring into the broadcasting booth. Something that no one else in the world can bring.
Awards Chatter
"vin scully" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"In victory and in defeat, his colorful accounts reverberated through the bleachers across the airwaves and into our homes and imaginations. He is an American treasure and a beloved storyteller, and our country's gratitude for Vin Scully is as profound as is his love for the game. And as I wrote in 2014, quote, getting to meet Vin Scully is like getting to meet The Wizard of Oz. He's got a mighty voice. He seems to be all knowing, and he sits in a booth high above us mere mortals. The biggest difference, though, as this reporter discovered in the course of working on this story, is that Scully is actually as impressive as advertised. And so without further ado, let's go to that conversation.
Awards Chatter
"vin scully" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"I wish they applied to this evening, but in fact it's actually a very sad evening, as news just broke that mister Scully as beloved a figure as any in the city of Los Angeles, died tonight at the age of 94. Thank you for tuning in to the 455th episode of awards Cheddar. The Hollywood Reporter's awards podcast. I'm the host Scott feinberg, and I've decided to share on this episode. The audio of an interview that I was privileged to conduct with mister Scully in the Dodgers press box back in the summer of 2014 for a profile which then ran in The Hollywood Reporter. At the time Scully was 86 and in his 65th season as the voice of the Dodgers. He would occupy that role for two more seasons before retiring. Scully, who grew up a fan of the now defunct New York Giants baseball team, began calling Dodgers games in 1950 at the age of just 22, while the team still played in Brooklyn at ebbets field. He moved with them to Los Angeles in 1958 and was instrumental in helping the team find a following in its new city. Initially, at the cavernous Los Angeles memorial coliseum to which fans would bring transistor radios in order to hear Scully describe the faraway action, and then from 1962 until 2016, at Dodger Stadium in Chavez ravine. His run of 67 seasons with the Dodgers organization made him the broadcaster with the longest tenure with a single team in the history of professional sports. Scully, who called games for not only the Dodgers, but also in some years for other teams during the postseason, covered players spanning from Jackie Robinson to Clayton Kershaw. He was behind the mic for 18 no hitters and three of the 23 perfect games in the history of Major League Baseball, including Don Larsen's in 1956, which was the only one to occur during a World Series game. He broadcast 12 all star games and 25 World Series, not World Series games, but World Series series. His was the voice that millions heard when Hank Aaron hit his record breaking 715th home run in 1974, when a ground ball from Mookie Wilson rolled between Bill Buckner's legs during the 1986 World Series, and when Dodgers player Kirk Gibson slugged his unlikely pinch hit home run in the 1988 World Series. As knowledgeable prepared and eloquent a person as any to ever practice his profession, Scully, after whom the Dodgers press box was named in 2001 and the main road to Dodger Stadium was renamed in 2016, was inducted into the American sportscasters association's Hall of Fame in 1992, and the national radio Hall of Fame in 1995 received the national baseball Hall of Fame's Ford Frick award in 1982 and a lifetime achievement Emmy Award in 1995 in 2014 was presented by Major League Baseball commissioner bud selig with the commissioner's historic achievement award becoming only its 14th recipient and only its second non player recipient. And in 2016 was presented by president Barack Obama with America's highest civilian honor. The Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Bill Handel
Los Angeles Erupts As Dodgers Fans Celebrate World Series Championship
"Are jubilant about the first World Series win for the Dodgers since 1988 final score in Game six against Tampa Bay last night was 3 to 1. People rushed into the streets in the LAPD tweeted out a pretaped call from the com legendary retired Dodger announcer Vin Scully, chill the rest of the country that we know how to celebrate the proper way. So congratulations to the ballclub. Congratulations to you, and now together. Let's celebrate the right way. Well, some people either ignored Scully or they weren't following the LAPD on Twitter. Cops declared an unlawful assembly downtown in some looting and vandalism were reported at least eight people were arrested in three officers were hurt.
Westwood One Daily News Flash Briefing
Larsen, with only perfect World Series game, dies
"Larsen The New York Yankees Pitcher who threw the only perfect perfect game in world series. History has died. This was the call on radio in nineteen fifty six when the final out of the perfect game concluded the savage Vin scully. Courtesy of Major League Baseball. Don Don Larsen was ninety years
Jim Bohannon
Don Larsen, who threw only perfect World Series game, dies at 90
"Don Larsen the New York Yankees pitcher who threw the only perfect game in World Series history has died this was the call on radio in nineteen fifty six when the final out of the perfect game concluded is vin Scully courtesy of Major League Baseball don Larsen was ninety years