Vin Scully may call it quits after '14 By Mark Saxon | ESPNLosAngeles.com -- 40 minutes ago ATLANTA -- Legendary Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully said in a radio interview that 2014 might be his last season behind the microphone. Scully, 85, announced earlier this season he would return next year for his 65th season announcing Dodgers games. He began his career in Brooklyn, moving west with the Dodgers in 1958. "I'm pretty well sure -- and I don't want to go back and forth with it -- but I'm looking to next year and thinking that should be about it," Scully told KPCC. For this postseason, Scully is returning to his radio roots, announcing the first three and the final three innings of the Dodgers' NLDS games against the Atlanta Braves. He has in the past threatened to retire the following year only to change his mind and return. During the regular season, Scully does not travel to games east of Denver. Los Angeles' new mayor, Eric Garcetti, floated the idea of naming a street after Scully, but the broadcaster said he didn't feel worthy of such an honor. __
I'm ok with it. It has to happen eventually, and Vin has given everything to us. In the past the thought has been dark and depressing, but with Guggenheim I feel ready and capable to move on. If we could clone Vin Scully and make him the voice of the Dodgers forever, I would be all for it. But we can't. A final WS push seems only fitting. Win4Vin
May he die without ever again seeing another team hoist the WS trophy. And may he live 100 more years.
I wish I could buy another one off of LFP, but I don't think he's selling them anymore. I'm a lot leaner and my shirt is probably a little too big now.
Does Brownie still make those? I've looked on his site but he doesn't seem to be selling shirts anymore :/
I've been expecting him to retire for 2 years now, and he keeps coming back... he needs to have a farewell tour bigger than the Mariano tour...
That's not Vin's style. He didn't even want a street named after him - when in reality, all the streets should be named after him.
Vin Scully refutes the idea that he'll retire after next season Vin Scully says he hasn't decided whether he'll retire after next season. "It all boils down to come July or August, how I feel physically," Scully says. (Nick Ut / Associated Press / September 5, 2013) By Steve Dilbeck October 2, 2013, 4:42 p.m. Slow breaths now, find you inner calm, think gentle breezes through the pines. Vin Scully has not announced next season will be his last. Which doesn’t mean it might not be, but that’s the same as it’s been for several years now. Scully, 85, said he will do his annual evaluation next summer and determine if he wants to come back for another year. “I look at each year as possibly my last,” Scully said. “Next year will be no different. It all boils down to come July or August, how I feel physically. I’ll look at how many mistakes I’ve made and if they’re coming for me yet, and how I feel.” The legendary broadcaster has already agreed to return for a record 65th season next spring, but in a recent interview with KPCC he sounded like next year could be his last. “I wasn’t making a declaration,” Scully said. “I guess it was misconstrued. Each year is my last, until the next one. I never say yes or no.” And while I had him on the phone, I had to give him opportunity to respond to an earlier post I wrote, urging him to permit Los Angeles to name a street after him around Dodger Stadium. Fearing he would ask me not to write it, I had intentionally not reached out to him then. His reaction has not changed. He would like to see the city honor Walter O’Malley, the owner who moved the Dodgers to Los Angeles. “It seems like people have forgotten,” Scully said. “What he’s done is much more deserving. He’s the one who came out on a gamble, who played in the Coliseum with that [left-field] screen to the scorn of Eastern writers, who built Dodger Stadium. “He really deserves it. Just think of all the city and tax dollars generated, all the jobs. “This is not me being humble at another award. I would really like to see something done in his honor.” For more from Scully, here's a great Q&A with the Daily News' Tom Hoffarth, that includes a surprising choice as one of the most significant home runs he's ever seen and some frank thoughts on Sen. John McCain blasting the Dodgers their celebratory pool party. http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...31002,0,6562629.story?track=rss#axzz2ggqZGION
