#rip vin scully

[sabrinafigueroaartist]

My cousin showing off her Vin Scully shirt!! Drawn and painted by urs truly, ME lol😁💙🤍💙 My "in memorial" tribute to the late, great passing of a Dodgers legend. 67years broadcasting 🎙 🙏Many thanks to my cousin Veronica 💙🤍💙 for keeping da scene alive!!! ...and supporting My Artwork while she does it! 😏 lol (Interested in having a shirt of ur own? Dm me or if u have ur own and don't mind me bragging about ya ...send me a pic Walk of fame pic by @markmulkerron ) #dogerfans #rockit #vinscully #artwork #dodgerstadium #mlb #vinscullyart #winforvin #rip #art #artist #sabrinafigueroaartist #dodgerblue #ladodgers #dodgerfan #dodgers #dodgersfanart #mlbart #artist #digitalillustration #portrait #portraitart #galleryready #characterdesign #dowhatyoulove #fanart #vintagelook #broadcaster #trueblue #digitalart https://www.instagram.com/p/CktCk7ZLdPM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cheshire-cats-smile]

08/02/22: As the game against the Dodgers ends, Giants announce the death of Vin Scully via their scoreboard.

Rest in peace Vincent Edward Scully : November 29, 1927 - August 2, 2022

[myturtlespeedy]

NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo!

[thoughtsthatstray]

I’ve often half joked that I was born on the wrong coast. I’ve said that for various reasons. At times, it has been because I wanted to surf, other times it’s those fabled bushy bushy blonde hair-dos Brian Wilson and his brothers Carl & Dennis used to sing about. 

I have an infatuation with the Hollywood Hills and Mulholland Drive, though the latter would have likely brought an end to 16 year old Kevin, because I would have tested her that is for sure. 

Another major reason was Los Angeles Dodgers, my first sports love. I remember hating Reggie Jackson and the Yankees as they ended the season in ‘77 and ‘78 and then being overjoyed that the Dodgers were able to kick their ass in ‘81. It wouldn’t have been as sweet if it would have come against another American League team. Just being honest. Those three years, I was 5, 6 and 9 respectively, but it was when I was 11-14 or so when I really got introduced to the Dodgers. My dad had purchased one of those big ugly backyard satellite dishes, and every chance I got, was moving it around to catch the Dodgers broadcast. 

Vin Scully was a wordsmith. He was a poet. Words simply flowed out of him. That paired with his memory and story-telling ability, he was golden. I’ve said I’d listen to him read a phone book. Just a magical presence. I remember pulling the lazyboy in front of the tv and kicking back and watching and listening. Sometimes I’d wake up about 4:00 am and make it up stairs to bed, other times my dad would wake me up when he was making coffee the next morning. 

That lasted a couple of years, and then they started to scramble the signals as they required more of a package to get to watch a lot of the things the dish had to offer, and it was back to seeing them when I could.

I would have loved to have had the ability to go to numerous games at Dodger Stadium with a walkman inside to listen to the great Vin Scully as the game played out in front of me.  He passed away last night and the news broke during the Dodgers/Giants game which was fitting. I had turned the game on and not realized the shocking news until Joe Davis was telling a story and signed off the inning with something like “remembering Vin Scully”, and his photo and dates of birth/death were on the screen and it simply shocked me. 

I turned to twitter, made a post, and simply watched others that knew him far better than I did reminisce and I’m not necessarily talking about the former players like a Steve Garvey, or others that really knew him. I’m talking about Dodgers fans that spent night after night, day after day with him, hearing his magical delivery. He’s one of a few, a very select few in the world of sports that not many, again very few would have a negative word said about them. In sports, that is extremely rare. 

I will say that the job Joe Davis and Jessica Mendoza did last night was phenomenal. They, shared stories and memories and would touch on the game as the ball demanded it. They were thrown one helluva  curve ball in the middle of that game with the news breaking, but they handled it a lot like the man they were waxing poetically about. The Dodgers booth is in good hands. 

Today I read an article that came out a few years ago after he retired and Jerry Reuss, the colorful lefty from my childhood talked about once when he was there as a visitor, that there was only around 20k in the stands and that there were so many transistor radios on that he could hear Scully telling a story from the hump. He said he stepped off the rubber, grabbed the rosin, bought him a bit of time and heard a laugh from the crowd when Scully got the point he was trying to make out, stepped back on the rubber and it was “Reuss with the delivery”... He also said something along the lines that Vin deserved that respect. This was before he even pitched as a Dodger. 

Yes, I was born on the wrong coast. No doubt about it.  I can’t really regret it because I can’t do a damn thing about it, but I can sure as hell miss it.

RIP Vin Scully, you were the best to ever do it and there will never be another remotely close. I’m sure he’s already had to talk about Don Drysdale knocking Hank Aaron or Mickey Mantle out of the box from his first of many more games.

[hondagirll]

Vin Scully has died! 💔😭😭😭

His voice was the background of entire childhood/young adult life. I can't believe he is gone.

[lakings9]

RIP Vin Scully

Credit: LA Kings, Los Angeles Dodgers

Credit: LA Kings, Bob Miller

[floridaboiler]

RIP Vin Scully

[justinssportscorner]

RIP Vin Scully,

[tomsiebert]

Vin Scully was the poet of baseball broadcasting and the nicest person I’ve ever interviewed. #VinScully #RIP

[delllasoul]

RIP VIN SCULLY

[cheshire-cats-smile]

08/05/22: Before the game against the Padres, the Dodgers honor and celebrate the life of Vin Scully.

They win for Vin as they beat SD 8-1.

Rest in peace Vincent Edward Scully :  November 29, 1927 - August 2, 2022

[renegade528]

Watch "Vin Scully calls Hank Aaron's historic 715th home run" on YouTube

#RIP

[sabrinafigueroaartist]

I got my Vin Scully shirt!! He looks great 😁💙🤍💙 Artwork designed by urs truly of course! Now when's the next home Dodgers game?! 🧢⚾️ Link in bio to my Redbubble shop if you'd want to get ur own ✨️ Or link at www.SabrinaFigueroa.com #dogerfans #rockit #vinscully #artwork at #dodgerstadium #mlb #vinscullyart #winforvin #rip #art #artist #sabrinafigueroaartist #dodgerblue #ladodgers #dodgerfan #dodgers #dodgersfanart #mlbart #artist #digitalillustration #portrait #portraitart #galleryready #characterdesign #dowhatyoulove #fanart #vintagelook #broadcaster #trueblue #digitalart https://www.instagram.com/p/ChvLDUcvTc5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[polyvinylfilms]

RIP Vin Scully

[baldmanrunning]

I have such fond memories of watching Saturday baseball with Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola. Tune in this week for a new episode of This Week in Baseball. RIP. #twibnotes #vinscully #scullyandgaragiola https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg0Ee5tBTyZCynkSYWFwkiCdCgCezdo3ydqc680/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=