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Let's Go to the Videotape: 1986 Potpourri
Last week, we looked at a news report about Giants fans desperately trying to keep up with game 7 of the World Series while also attending Monday Night Football. Today, we get another on-site news report, this one coming from game 3 of the NLCS against the Astros. This feature from ABC-7 (aka...
Washington Nationals' Livan Hernandez's Defection From Cuba As Told By Dodgers' Announcer Vin Scully.
There's nothing better than listening to the Los Angeles Dodgers' legendary one-man announce team, Vin Scully, call a game. The 83-year-old, Bronx, NY-born Scully, who's been the voice of the Dodgers since 1950, will, without fail, tell you things about your own players you never knew. For...
Vin Scully: Dumping Mike Scioscia a Dodgers Mistake for the Ages
Dodgers announcer Vin Scully is the unparalleled icon of sports broadcasting. Like Fellini, he gave Jeff Biggs and Jason Brennan of AM-830 8-1/2 minutes yesterday on the Angels pregame show and, as the master is prone to do, packed in more information in that time than another interview subject...
Kings Gameday: Welcome Back, Bob
<!-- BEGIN WIDGET --> Next Game Chicago Blackhawks @ Los Angeles Kings Thursday, Mar 18, 2010, 7:30 PM PDT STAPLES Center Complete Coverage > <!-- END WIDGET --> Vin Scully is kind of like a grandfather. Like most people growing up in Los Angeles, I grew up listening to...
Mike Emerick's Broken Thesaurus
I will preface this by saying there are very few play-by-play announcers who I would seek out on their own merits (Vin Scully and Bob Ufer would be two; Ufer, we used to turn down the sound on U of M TV broadcasts, in order to listen to his radio call). And there's nothing especially bad about Mike...
Vin Scully To Retire After 2010
Bill Plaschke of the LA Times brings us the news that Dodgers' announcer Vin Scully will likely retire after next season: Scully, 81, said if he continues to feel well he will work past his landmark year and retire after the 2010 season."God willing, I will probably come back for one more year,"...
Nielsen: Angels TV Ratings in Toilet; Dodgers Trounce Halos
My contact at The Nielsen Company just broke the sad truth to me: Despite doggedly competing for first place in 2009, the Angels’ television ratings are in the toilet this season compared to last year, and especially compared to the Dodgers.The Angels local broadcasts (FSN-West and My13) are...
15 years ago today: Rangers 2 Devils 1, 2 OT (again)
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Angels Get Figgy on the Freeway, Beat Dodgers
Final Score in Los Angeles: Angels 3, Dodgers 1 A three and a half hour game in Los Angeles to decide who the best team in Southern California is came up with the correct answer: IT IS THE ANGELS! Well the National League park hosted a National League style game compete with bunting, defense,...
Yankee broadcaster Vin Scully?
Every time I listen to John Sterling muck up a call on the radio -- which happens every time I listen to him -- I want to hit something. Hard. Now, along comes Keith Olbermann with an entry on his blog, 'The Baseball Nerd,' that makes me absolutely sick to my stomach. It seems that the legendary...
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