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Vin Scully Will Return In 2014

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In 1950, Vin Scully joined Red Barber and Connie Desmond in the Brooklyn Dodgers broadcast booth. On August 23, 2013, the Dodgers---they've since moved to Los Angeles, don'tcha know?---announced that Scully would return in 2014 for his 65th season with the team. Scully still loves being a broadcaster, saying "I really still enjoy it immensely. My health is good, thank God. So why not?" Indeed, why not? Thank you, Vinny!

http://www.latimes.com/sports/baseb...scully-20130823,0,7859761.story#axzz2cvmK6b1z

Following Scully's announcement, Sports Illustrated listed six of his most memorable calls:

http://mlb.si.com/2013/08/23/vin-scully-returns-to-dodgers-memorable-moments/

And in 2011, KTLA-Channel 5 showed clips of five of Scully's legendary calls:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLexiZHy9wI
 
GO DODGERS!! Vinny is such as legend, he's the best sportscaster around. GREAT JOB VINNY!!
 
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Vin is simply the best and when he is gone, that is it there are no others -it will be something like Eric Collins and Steven Lyons (God help us). So I treasure every game I get to hear Vinny do. His announcement is as good as news as one can hope for.
 
It will be a very sad day in Los Angeles indeed when Vin Scully is gone. I always loved listening to him when I lived in L.A. My favorite "Scullyism" goes back to the days before digital cameras. Some batter or other sent a foul ball rocketing into the photographers' box and Vin described how all the cameras were flying around, and then he says, "That'll develop your film!"
 
During a Dodger game many years ago, manager Tom Lasorda got ejected for arguing with an umpire and then really went ballisitic. The viewers at home---and Scully, watching the tv monitor---could easily read Lasorda's lips. Scully, of course, could not---and would not---quote what Tommy was saying. All Scully said was "Fertilizer." Then, after a few more seconds of Tommy's tirade, Scully said "More fertilizer." Beautiful, Vinny! :)
 
Not only will Vin Scully be in the Dodgers broadcast booth in 2014, he will begin the year with a high honor: He's been chosen to be the grand marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade. He'll also do the coin toss at the 100th annual Rose Bowl game. Congratulations, Vinny!
 
Way to go, Vin!
 
I started this thread one year ago to announce that Vin Scully will be back in the Dodgers broadcast booth in 2014. In the past year, Scully announced that he will be back in 2015 as well.....and the Dodgers launched their own channel, SportsNet LA, on Time Warner Cable. Only 30% of Dodgers fans have been able to watch the team play this season. Dish, DirecTV, Cox, Charter, AT&T and Verizon have all refused to pay the huge fees that Time Warner is demanding: four to five dollars for every subscriber, every month. The other providers do not want to force every subscriber to pay a monthly fee for a channel that not everyone wants or would watch. Time Warner is paying $8.5 billion to the Dodgers and should never have made such a deal without first determining if other providers would agree to terms. Now Time Warner is stuck with all that debt. It serves 'em right!

But I can now report a tiny bit of good news for Dodgers fans. A story in Variety today says that Time Warner has reached a deal that will allow KDOC-Channel 56 to carry the Dodgers' six final regular-season games, beginning on September 22. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. But just think: six whole games!

http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/dod...oc-for-final-regular-season-games-1201305980/
 
LARadioRewind said:
I started this thread one year ago to announce that Vin Scully will be back in the Dodgers broadcast booth in 2014. In the past year, Scully announced that he will be back in 2015 as well.....and the Dodgers launched their own channel, SportsNet LA, on Time Warner Cable. Only 30% of Dodgers fans have been able to watch the team play this season. Dish, DirecTV, Cox, Charter, AT&T and Verizon have all refused to pay the huge fees that Time Warner is demanding: four to five dollars for every subscriber, every month. The other providers do not want to force every subscriber to pay a monthly fee for a channel that not everyone wants or would watch. Time Warner is paying $8.5 billion to the Dodgers and should never have made such a deal without first determining if other providers would agree to terms. Now Time Warner is stuck with all that debt. It serves 'em right!

But I can now report a tiny bit of good news for Dodgers fans. A story in Variety today says that Time Warner has reached a deal that will allow KDOC-Channel 56 to carry the Dodgers' six final regular-season games, beginning on September 22. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. But just think: six whole games!

http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/dod...oc-for-final-regular-season-games-1201305980/
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Amazingly, KDOC is carried in HD by Directv. This is a bit of good news.

Later this October we will still have the same problem as before though - Having to sit through Dodger games with Joe Buck on the call. Nobody should have to suffer like that - not a national audience and particularly not Dodger fans!
 
So Time Warner will allow---for a huge fee, I'm sure---six Dodgers games to be carried on KDOC-Channel 56. Daily News columnist Tom Hoffarth says we should reject what he calls a "self-serving offer" and a "condescending un-noble gesture." He insists that "if the Dodgers were just coming to the conclusion of a season where the playoffs weren't in sight, this same offer would not have materialized."

KDOC is available on these Los Angeles providers:

AT&T U-Verse, 1006
Charter, 710
Cox, 1012
DirecTV, 56
Dish, 56
Verizon FiOS, 506

Play ball!
 
In a full-page ad in today's Los Angeles Times with the headline "Dodgers fans 1st," Time Warner says, "We're part of this community and we love the Dodgers too. That's why we are putting fans first and broadcasting the remaining games of the season on KDOC-TV."

KDOC is not showing "the remaining games"---only six of them. And Time Warner is "putting fans first"? Really? Their CEO made this deal out of the goodness of his heart? KDOC didn't have to pay any money to Time Warner? Wow.
 
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