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Post by beavaristotle on Aug 2, 2022 19:29:52 GMT -8
Nobody has ever done it better. RIP in blue heaven
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Post by lebaneaver on Aug 2, 2022 19:39:32 GMT -8
RIP. A great! His demeanor and delivery was “pitch” perfect. RIP in blue Heaven, indeed.
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Post by spudbeaver on Aug 2, 2022 20:33:04 GMT -8
Hate the Dodgers.
Loved Vin Scully.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Aug 2, 2022 22:15:02 GMT -8
For Love of the Game is one of my all-time favorite baseball movies.
Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston had absolutely zero chemistry, but pretty much everything else clicks.
The broadcasting duo for the game was Vin Scully and all-time Oregon State great Steve "Psycho" Lyons.
Lyons was the highest-drafted position player for Oregon State until Michael Conforto was drafted 10th overall in 2014.
Scully's calls in the ninth inning, in particular, are just phenomenal, exactly how you would imagine them to be.
Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.
Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.
Hank Aaron's 715th homerun.
Sandy Koufax' perfect game, the first perfect game by a lefty since 1880.
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Post by Werebeaver on Aug 3, 2022 5:04:18 GMT -8
What a career. Dodgers pbp announcer for 67 years, from 1950-2016.
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Post by dryside on Aug 3, 2022 7:08:44 GMT -8
One of my greatest memories of Scully....Listening to him call a perfect game no hitter by Koufax against the cubs while I was standing on the deck of a troop transport ship headed to Vietnam...
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Post by beavaristotle on Aug 3, 2022 9:14:10 GMT -8
For Love of the Game is one of my all-time favorite baseball movies. Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston had absolutely zero chemistry, but pretty much everything else clicks. The broadcasting duo for the game was Vin Scully and all-time Oregon State great Steve "Psycho" Lyons. Lyons was the highest-drafted position player for Oregon State until Michael Conforto was drafted 10th overall in 2014. Scully's calls in the ninth inning, in particular, are just phenomenal, exactly how you would imagine them to be. Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. Hank Aaron's 715th homerun. Sandy Koufax' perfect game, the first perfect game by a lefty since 1880. story goes that he did that famous scene in love of the game off the cuff. They just showed him the scene and let Vin go. Of course he did, you don’t hand Beethoven sheet music |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Aug 3, 2022 11:06:41 GMT -8
He broadcast four perfect games by the Dodgers or their opponents, and one by the Tigers, which will never be matched. Don Larsen, Koufax, Tom Browning, Dennis Martinez, Billy Chapel.
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Post by beavaristotle on Aug 3, 2022 13:30:48 GMT -8
He broadcast four perfect games by the Dodgers or their opponents, and one by the Tigers, which will never be matched. Don Larsen, Koufax, Tom Browning, Dennis Martinez, Billy Chapel. you can find Vin’s call of Koufax’s perfect game on YouTube. Poetry. Also a great call of Dennis Martinez’s perfect game. “ el presidente el perfection” |
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Post by EmeraldEmpire on Aug 3, 2022 15:53:51 GMT -8
Vin Scully recites famous "Field of Dreams" speech:
As someone in the comment section there said Vin has just walked through the corn to announce the Field of Dreams team...
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Post by mallardhunter on Aug 3, 2022 16:36:35 GMT -8
RIP to the best I've ever heard broadcast a game. I fully believe too that Mike Parker got his style from Vin and I believe that MP is the best in college baseball.
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Post by EmeraldEmpire on Aug 3, 2022 17:11:22 GMT -8
RIP to the best I've ever heard broadcast a game. I fully believe too that Mike Parker got his style from Vin and I believe that MP is the best in college baseball. 'tis true ... Mike Parker pays homage to Vin: |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Aug 4, 2022 8:42:20 GMT -8
Still not as good as James Earl Jones. Maybe the best scene in any baseball movie.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Aug 4, 2022 21:27:28 GMT -8
Still not as good as James Earl Jones. Maybe the best scene in any baseball movie.I mean: C'mon, now. It's a great soliloquy, maybe the greatest baseball soliloquy ever. "Field of Dreams" is a much better movie than "The Natural," but "The Natural" is a much better baseball movie IMO.......much more rewatchable, if nothing else. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Aug 5, 2022 8:50:01 GMT -8
I specifically wrote "scene." A small part of a movie. Not the entire movie.
There is no one scene in "The Natural," a movie I love for numerous reasons, that is as good as the four minutes of James Earl Jones in FOD.
The best scenes in "The Natural" are when Roy strikes out the Whammer; when he steps into the cage the first time for BP, and when he gets out of the hospital, goes over to the locker room at the stadium and tells a shaving Pop that he's good to go.
And the cinematography in "The Natural" is brilliant, the way Caleb Deschanel uses the various shades of light in each scene, such as in Iris Gaines' hat when she stands up and there is a glow around her head like the famous Madonna painting, or when Hobbs opens up the case holding Wonderboy and a light shines off it, like the sword of Excalibur.
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