On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Joe Hass<[email protected]> wrote: > > This depresses me more than anything I've read today. > > Here is a link to the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's perfect game from > 1965. Scully said on the old Bob Costas radio show that he > traditionally would mention the date of the broadcast when a pitcher > took a no-hitter to the ninth. Since he knew he had already called a > Koufax no-hitter, he decided to focus on the clock. > > This is the reason why when a broadcaster talks about not mentioning > the words "no hitter" or "perfect game" on a broadcast, I feel > obligated to tell them they're morons. > > http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=31154
Even though I grew up in Los Angeles, for complicated reasons I have always hated the Dodgers. When I say hate, I mean hate in the way that only a 10 year old boy can hate the rival of his beloved baseball team (the Giants). For many summers I used to ride the three buses from the northeast San Fernando Valley to Dodger Stadium (no easy feat to take public transportation in SOCAL) to root against the Dodgers and for whoever they were playing - and I used to get just hammered by Blue fans, me wearing my Giants batting helmet. All of that to say that I also grew up loving Vin Scully. I had one of those "pitch back" things in my back yard, and I used to "pitch" the entire game, listening to Scully and imaging he was calling my pitches. I would fall asleep on warm summer nights with his voice flowing out of the transistor radio on my pillow. Even as a kid, with very little other models to compare him too (Dick Enberg doing the Angels, also very good, and Curt Gowdy I suppose on NBC's Game of the Week - not very good) I knew that Scully was the absolute best. They used to play that Koufax game back on LA radio (the game itself was before my time) and it would just give me goose flesh to listen to it, and it brings tears to my eyes these days whenever I hear it again. It is such a perfect marriage of two men doing their job at the very highest level. My mom, who hated baseball but loved Sandy, even liked listening to this. "It is nine-forty six pm in the city of the angels..." The broadcast also demonstrates how television producers have almost completely ruined baseball announcing. I don't think they should ever let anyone who did not learn their craft doing radio play be play ever announce a televised game, and I think the producer of a TV game should always be outranked by the announcer - the pictures they show should be an attempt to compliment what the announcer is saying - they should never ever (well, almost never) cram pictures onto the screen that force the announcers hand. Scully literally paints the picture of that game (and every game) so well that I could swear I have actually seen Sandy wiping the sweat from his brow off on legs of his pants. Scully is why God invented baseball... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
