Only timely after watching the local news anchor hide below the desk while on air from the last earthquake. Scully, cool as a cucumber! Never missed a beat. 86 years old. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/vin-scully-provides-play-play-5-1-earthquake-050741614--mlb.html
I'm sorry, don't take this personally. That was boring. I never understood the big fascination with Vin Scully. That moved me about .01 on the Breeze scale.
That was the point! Totally unflappable. Did you see the video of the studio anchor going under the desk during a similar scale earthquake. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gN3m5eHfYFE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
i watched that video this morning. scully was slow and steady, as if it were another day at the park, but i didn't find his commentary to be particularly interesting or fascinating. i wouldn't have expected anything different, given the magnitude. although i guess i'd have to give him points for the candlestick story. bottom line: the guy seems to do no wrong regardless of the situation. that aside, i illegally stream dodgers baseball games late at night here in God's country just to listen to him paint the picture. it never gets old.
To each his own, but I'll cast my vote for the "poser" who has been doing it longer at the major league level than Kalas.
Hey, I would be under the desk, too, if there was an earthquake and there were big ass heavy lights hanging over my head. I don't know why people making fun of that guy never acknowledge the danger there is in that environment.
"The two-two to Sand-berg... Swung on and missed And Hersh-heiser gets him on a change." I can hear Scully as I type that. Hearing Harry Kalas discuss another Jimmy Rollins groundout to second never did it for me, but he was great on NFL Films segments. Here's another one I can picture as I type... "Heh, hehheh, You know, Steve, Sammy Sosa spelled backwards is Why-Mass Ass-oss... And heeeeeeee popped it up."
