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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...
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...
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...
Eric Collins to Call 38 Dodger Games in 2009
The Dodgers today hired Eric Collins as their fill-in announcer for the 38 games on KCAL or FSN Prime Ticket not announced by Vin Scully. Collins will work with Steve Lyons in those games. Collins won the job from a group of six announcers that were given auditions this spring.From the press...
The Dodger Play-By-Play Candidates
This spring the Dodgers have been auditioning candidates to be the secondary play-by-play announcer, for the games Vin Scully doesn't broadcast. Generally, Scully doesn't travel east of Colorado except for special occasions. By my count, there are 42 41 such games this season: April 21-23: 3...
Brooklyn Smurfs @ Angels Friday Pregame
7:05 PM - Hiroki Kuroda @ Joe Saunders IN-DEPTH SERIES PREVIEW by Rob McMillin at the 6-4-2 Blog I kinda used to follow the Dodgers back in the days of newspapers when you would get three paragraphs about the Angels for your quarter. Oh, 70s night was last night? Oh, okay, who are these...
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