HOUR 4 – The Voice Of The Dodgers Lives On Forever

Jason and Mike continue their trip down memory lane and remember the life and career of Vin Scully including sharing moments in sports that many might not even knew he called. Scully voiced the Dodgers for 67 years and the guys explain how Scully defined a generation and honor the impact he had in the broadcasting booth. Scully was great at painting a picture of the scene, telling a story, but also knew when to not talk and let the play breathe. Vin was truly one of a kind.

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listening to Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports Radio The Jason
Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. Where tonight
you are remembering the life and career of Vin Scully,
who died earlier tonight at the age of ninety four.

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Vin scully passing away word gets through to all of
us in the middle of the Dodgers Giants game. Game
the Dodgers have just one, nine to five, and you
know Vin Scully four sixty seven years old, and I
really can't get over he us is the way during
a Dodgers Giants game. Yeah, there's a clip making the
rounds of him talking about the end of his career

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and hoping it would end with a Dodgers Giants game.
And so that's making the rounds. Obviously tied to tonight
the Dodger win. But some of the stats. Twenty five
World Series, twelve All Star Games, twenty one no hitters
he called twenty one no hitters perfect games. Yeah called
twenty I mean there's have to finish a game, you know.

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All the faceball, yeah, he called three of them amazing.
Uh it really there are great play by play men
working now, great play by play women working now. They
are great ones that we have celebrated throughout life. Uh.
Nobody like Vince Gully. Nobody could do it like a king. No,
but just nobody had all the skills that he did

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to be able to do a game by himself and
to have it sound very natural, to not miss having
a color guide and not miss having someone come in
and go, well, this pitch is a little bit inside
and I don't know that it's on the plate, and
you didn't need it. You didn't need it. With then, Uh,
he was able to entertain you. And he was someone
that you listened to. Even if the Dodgers stunk, if

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they had years where they were bad, it doesn't matter.
I'm watching the Dodger game. Why, because you knew it
was gonna be entertaining. Because Vince Scully was gonna tell
you stories. He was gonna tell you things that you
didn't know. He was gonna tell you a story about
this rookie that the that the Dodgers had brought up
and and nobody knows anything about him. And here's a
story that he knew about him growing up, and he
can tell it while he was coming up to back
for the first time. We're watching some of these clips

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over the course of the night and you're just amazed
the seamless in between pitches. But you know, here's Madison Bumgarner.
You know, they found the snake. And when they you know,
some dued and uh ultimately dismember the snake. There's live
rabbits in here, and the rabbits like, what the hell
of all one? Outside? Oh, he draws the walk. Bump

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Garner is gonna be really upset about the watch. But
let me finish telling you about the snake. And he's
ravage that they say that insanity fighting the umpire right now.
But you know, and and that was one thing that
Vince Kully got that still a lot of people don't get,
is that when you're broadcasting a game. He was someone

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that went from radio to television, right and not when
he first started, he was on the radio, games are
on the radio, and then obviously segue to television where
he did everything. He did World Series, that did Super Bowls,
He did all kinds of things. And the fact that
even if you're on radio, you don't need to talk
all the time, and you can let the action breathe

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because going to a game and listening to a game
or watching a game, I see what's going on. I
can see if the ball was inside or not. I
can see this, I can say and I don't know.
He doesn't need to fill every single second a word,
And it's okay if fifteen seconds go by and nobody

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says anything, you know, ball two outside two and oh,
and then you hear the crowd is cheering a little bit,
and you hear the clapping, and and you know, the
picture looks yeah. And then the picture look, you know,
looks him off and wants to get another sign. And
instead of saying hell, he looks him off. He wants
another sign. They go through the progressions again, first and
second two. Instead of the default that you would have

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to always say something, he would just let it go
and it didn't matter. I knew what was going on.
With the game the count was doing, Oh, count was
doing Oh, and we're gonna see the next pitch that
no one's running on the field, no doubt. I'm getting
everything I need. And then when he wanted to fill
and tell a story, he did it very purposefully. He
spoke a lot, he didn't waste words. Uh. He was

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he I could say, for a guy that did a
game by himself and filled it. He was also very
economical with him. I don't ever remember him stammering ever
telling the story. I stammer all the time here and
stutter and say things about well with this end, I
talked mouth versus brand speed. Yeah, sometimes they're not in sync. Uh.
And just the fact that that he was able to

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work for so long, to go all the way to
until he finally retired. Remember when he retired, he said,
he said, what, what's my plan right now? Is just
to live with the time I have left, And he
was still doing things and staying busy. It just jumped
on Twitter a few months ago and he said, Okay,
we're gonna be positive here. There's not gonna be any negativity.

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I'm like, let's see Vince can get people and not
be negative. And anybody can do it. So he still
was doing things, still involved in the game, and and
still involved as much as he could with the Dodgers
and his passing. Is the part of tonight that that
people are starting to get is just the enormity of

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his career and what he was able to do in
the inspiration he was for people to want to be
broadcasters or just to love sports, because he's everybody, no
matter how old you are, even millennials, right, I said,
even millennials and even Generation Z have memories of big
moments that Vince Scully is called in their lives from
my dad. You know who's gonna tell me you don't

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remember what he called the Don Larson perfect Game. So
to all day tomorrow, I'm gonna have to hear about
Donald is perfect game, uh you know, and he'll tell
me about that, and and I'll talk about the Mets
and and Frostburg's gonna talk about Kirk Gibson and all
these different things. And even people in a few years,
I remember this. I remember what he said goodbye. I
remember his speech when he said goodbye to everybody. And
that's what you know. Young people remember now, and they

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they're just getting the true enormity of what he was
able to accomplish. Well, it's funny because I mean, we
do this for a living and been around in public
speaking and a bit parts and past jobs before I
got into broadcasting and Talkue chied, you know, as we
talked with our our imaging director, veto last hour. You know,
his dad not something he'd experienced where his dad was

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lost for words. I've had that happened a couple of times, right,
A couple of big celebrities that you meet, and then
one was just the idiot across the hallway as Vin
was being led into the into the the press box,
as my daughter and I were making our way. You know,
one of those days where someone showed you a little

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bit of love with seats. Didn't get to speak to him,
but it was one of those where you want to.
It's like, oh, it's it's it's it's you, and you're
stammering and you're trying to explain Eleanor would have been
what eight at the time, so trying to explain this
is a guy that's the voice of generations. This guy's
the voice of this city right right now, across all

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of Los Angeles. It is. I mean, it's heartbreak, but
a lot of smiles and happy moments talking about these
stories that we have, not just the big moments in
big games, but the little stories, the little villins that
he would do, and you know, fireside chats with uncle,
Uncle Vin, Grandpa Vin, whatever he would put on it.

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It's gonna come on in and sit a spell, We're
gonna have some fun together. We're gonna watch ball game.
And and that's what it was every game for sixty
seven years. Made ponder that that you're still excited to
go to the ballpark. You still have that boyish enthusiasm,
the the love of the game and the players and
the managers, and the just the dance that you have

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to do on a nightly basis, never too high, never
too low, but always celebrating what was coming next. And
that that's I guess as good a legacy as you
could possibly have. Frostburger, What what was the first time
you met Vince Gully? The first time is it probably
like I would say, like thirteen years ago at Dodger Stadium.

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I was going to games at the time as an
intern at I heart L A K L A C
I M five L a sports was just under your pseudonym.
It was Montana Roland and I used to go to
all the games, Laker games, Dodger games with Victor brick Jacobs,
a true legend. And uh he had known that I
never had met Vince Scully. So we were hanging out

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in the press area by our seats, and I think
it was pregame. Vin walked out of the booth where
he was broadcasting and walked into the media area and
Vick walked up to him and said, uh, Vin, this
is this is justin. I said, hi, Mr Scully, and
he looked at me, shook my hand and said it's Vin.
And I'm thinking to myself in my head, like, no,

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it's bleeping not it's it's Mr Scully. But that night,
I'll never forget it. I swear I walked around Dodger
Stadium after that like I owned the bleep in place
because Vince Scully said Hi to me. You just met
Vince Scully. Wait were you more excited about meeting Vince
Scully or when you and I almost shared an elevator
with Keith R. Nandez at the Doctor And that was legendary.

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But obviously, Vin, I mean to say we grew up
spoiled here l a broadcaster wise is really a true understatement.
We had Bob Miller with the Kings, the Great Chickhorn
with the Lakers, but Vin Scully was the real voice
of this city. I mean he was larger than life.
I remember going to Dodger games as a kid and

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seeing like twenty thousand people holding like transistor radios. They
were at the game, watching it, but yet they wanted
to hear Vin call the game. Yeah, if for a second,
because that was back when when when guys would when
play by play men, the teams would do it. They
would do three innings of radio, then they would go
do three innings of TV and then come back and

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do three innings of of radio. Or they would do
three days of TV, three innings of radio, three names
of TV. And when Vin would do that, if he
would go, you know, go from TV and says, ah,
you know, Rick Mondale, I'll take you through the next
three innings, the people would pull out their radios. I'm
gonna listen to Vent on the radio. So you got
people in the stands saying, yeah, I don't listen to
what you Yeah, who's just saying on television. I'm gonna

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listen to Vent because he's on radio for the next
three innings. Yeah he was. I mean he was the
voice of my childhood basically most of my life, and
he's the voice of everybody's like he broadcast for sixty
seven years. Damn could he paint a picture with words?
I mean he was z z master storyteller and always
had a smile and his ability to be quiet and

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let the moments just breathe was his true genius. Always
just a gentleman, truly loved by all Vince Scully and
there will never be another. No, He's He's the best
there ever. There's never gonna be somebody like him, because
now in the in the in the current play by
play area, now people want to get noticed either getting

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things on social media. I sound like I sound like
I'm like five thousand years old. Everybody. No, but people
look for they have a stick, or they have an act,
or they have some kind of thing they want to
get in. And that's how I'm gonna get or there's
a thousand extra graphics of analytics and breakdown and this
guy in these situations and here's the hitch chart and

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sprays art whatever else. Think, No, I don't need that.
I'm just gonna tell you about the game. That's at
That's what I'm gonna do. Na tell you about the game. Uh,
let's hear a play by play call that maybe you
don't know that Vince Scully did. And again this is
the breadth and depth of how much he did throughout
his career. Twenty five World Series, twelve All Star games,

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twenty one no hitters, and three perfect games. All right,
called the World Series when he was twenty five years old,
youngest announced to call World Series game. Uh, he was
calling games as recently as ten. But you want to
know the first big moment that Vince Scully was able
to call in his career. And look growing up, when
I first started loving baseball like I love baseball, I

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was four or five years old, but I couldn't really
understand a lot of the history untill I got to
be like nine, ten, eleven, and you heard the same
names all the time. You would hear you would hear
Aaron and you would hear Willie Mays, and you would
hear about Willie Mays back to the back to the
home plate catch or Sandy Amorross catch in the World Series.
You here about all these famous plays, Babe Ruth and
is called shot in the World Series. But one of

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the things that was the big unicorn was Don Larson
pitching a no hitter in the World Series, which is
something we hadn't seen a playoff no hitter until Royaliday
did it a few years ago. And Vince Scully called
Don Larson's perfect Game a game that Joe Tory was
in attendance as a kid. All Right, I mean you
go back and all these things about nineteen fifty, in

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the mid nineteen fifties and fifty six and fifty seven. Um,
here's Vince Scully the final out of Don Larson's World
Series Perfect game for the Yankees, Perfect game, World Ferry

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Never Never World Alright, perfect game that's been sixty four pounds,
five hundred seventy have seen it Indian four television. Don
Wasson pitches a perfect game requiring twenty seven Dodgers. In

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all the history of the other perfect game at any
other baseball wax On the parts of the Encyclopedia Baseball,
but here at the Yankee Stadium in the Branxton, New York,
the most dramatic baseball game ever played in seven Bill

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Bevan game, so heartbreakingly close to pitching and no hitter
and didn't do it. But no man has ever pitched
a perfect game in a World series. Only one perfect
game has ever been pitched for that was in the
course of the regular season. But when you put it
in a World series, you set the biggest diamond in

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the biggest ring. And so hats off the don Larks.
No runs, no hits, no errors, no watch, no base
running the final scar the Yankees to run buying it,
and no error the Dodges, no run, no hit, no errors,
in fact, nothing at all. You know what I want

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him to say? There you can find all story stories
like this and the baseball Encyclopede. Hey, you know what,
screw that? Just ask me because I know, and I'm
gonna tell these stories for the next sixty years that
I broadcast here. Don't buy any books, just listen to
me on your transistor radio. We also just like the Hey, basically,
there's been no perfect games. You just heard one down, Yeah,

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there was one one in the history one. Oh, Vince
Scully rest in peace, four years old. Coming up. You'll
continue to hear some of the great calls of Vince
Scully's career. The Dodgers are reacting to the news of
Vince Scully passed way. We'll hear from Dave Roberts coming
up next. Keep it right here, Jason Smith of Mike Harmon.

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was taken over the show tonight. Um, we have been

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in spending the show tonight remembering the life and career
of Vince Scully, who passed away tonight at the age
of ninety four. The news breaking during the Dodgers game
against the San Francisco GIANTSY and the Dodgers went on
to win. And uh, we're starting to hear a lot
of luminary speak about Vince Scully. Or Hersheiser is on
television right now in Los Angeles speaking about Vince Scully. Uh.

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Here's a little bit of Dodger manager Dave Roberts, who
this is right after the game was over, right on
the field, doing an interview with Kirsten Watson. Uh. And
he was the first member of the Dodgers to speak
about Vince Scully. Dave, as we just spoke, you have
now heard the news of the passing of Vince Scully.
So first, what did Vinn mean to you personally? Um?

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A friend, He was a friend and UM, he inspired
me to be better and uh, you know, there's not
a better storyteller. And uh, I think everyone considers him family,
you know, and he was in our living rooms for
so many generations, and um, you know, Dodger fans consider

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him a part of their family. And so he lived
a fantastic life, a legacy that that will live on forever.
And for me to look back on on my decades
of knowing them and considering him a friend, it's a
it's an honor. Um. So now it's kind of our
part to continue to keep this legacy alive and realize
how lucky we are to be a part of this

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game baseball, and also more importantly is to be Dodgers,
you know, and to put this uniform it's on, it's
something special. And so, uh I miss him. Uh my
best to the entire family from the Dodger organization and beyond.
And h yeah, I'm a little surprised. I know he
was sick, but uh, I know he was looking down
on us right now. We miss him and still love you.

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He of course was the voice of the Dodgers for
so long. He's also known as the voice of baseball
and is truly one of the greatest of all time.
How can fans just continue and remember his legacy and
how special he was you know what I think, if
I could put it in one word, he was a gentleman,
and um, that means a lot. And so yeah, he

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was a voice of baseball. But how he interacted with fans,
how we made baseball games come to life. Um, he
was always a gentleman. And that's something that you know,
I strive every day. And uh, I think our players
take that characteristic on from then. So again, I'm just
so proud to say that he was a he was

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a friend in his family. So there's Dave Roberts and
you know, we talked about how Vinn got to call
twenty one no hitters through perfect games. Uh, how many
do you think Dave Roberts kept him from calling? How
many more have you gotten? The thirty? Maybe round up again,
maybe you know a couple more perfect games, maybe maybe

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another perfect game he had the three for the no hitters. Uh, look,
obviously we're just we're just making a joke about that. Look, Um,
the calls that he had. And I want to go
back to something that John Paul MORROSSI talked to us
about when he joined us a couple hours ago. He
joined us, right and we heard the news about Vince Scully.
Literally he was set to come on and talk about

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Juan Soto and the trade deadline and everything else, and
and thirty seconds before we came on the air, uh,
we found out Vince Scully had passed away. And you know,
we we we talked about Scully being the soundtrack to
all of our lives because all of us have had
some kind of memory, some sort of instance that that
sticks with us for Vince Scully. And John Paul took

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it a step further when he said, really he took
us through our lives and the lives and what was
going on in the United States through his play by
play calls because of all the famous things that he called.
He started out talking about Jackie Robinson who broke the
color barrier and went in with Hank Aaron breaking Babe
Ruth record, which at the time was was was a

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very big conversation. And you know, moving on into the
eighties and nineties and and post two thousand and one
and and all the things that Vince Scully had done
and all the sports he had brought us. It was
all different parts in our lives almost like it was
almost like a like an American pie, but through sports.
Is how Vince Scully did that because you know everything

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he did, all the big moments we've had, Man landing
on the Moon, the Mets winning the World Series in
sixty nine, Uh, the Mets win again in eighty six,
which is gonna call We're gonna hear in a couple
of minutes. All of this was was brought to us
by Vince Scully and things that were going on, all
the touchstones that happened throughout our lives. Vince Scully was
therefore in broadcasting in big moments. Yeah, he's the voice
over for our Baseball wonder years. I'll respected Daniel Stern,

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but that was Vin Scully all of those. Uh. The
other thing JP brought up, you know, mentioning Jackie Robinson,
but then going through the growth of the game, the
expansion and the globalization, right talking about Nanomania, going into
chan Ho Park and other pictures and players from different lands,

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and he was there for all of it, right, as
the game changed, as society changed, as all of these
different big historical moments, sixty seven years a lifetime. He's
literally the soundtrack right with stories and anecdotes. I bet
we can go through and create our own history book,
just taking snippets of Dodger broadcasts where he would wax

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poetic about whatever was going on in the news. So
I mean, just an amazing, amazing run. And Dave Roberts
encapsulated it perfectly right. He was your friend, his friend personally,
but felt like a friend to all of those in
Los Angeles and certainly nationwide as as you got to
consume broadcasts as he did national games, but also you know,

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friend and family because he was there for all the
big moments, maybe helped walk you through and talk you
through some big moments in your life, good, bad, ugly
all of those things as he was along the ride
for sixty seven years. Uh. Back in nineteen four on
Monday Night Baseball in early April, Hank Aaron was tied

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with Babe Ruth seven fourteen home runs. His next home
run was going to break the biggest record in all
of sports, the all time home run record, and Aaron
did it against Al Downing of the Dodgers. So it's
like a lot of a lot of big moments he
broadcast against that. We got to the Don Larson call
against the Dodgers. But one of the most famous home

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runs in Baby Look, we talked about the most famous
home runs. You have, uh, Bobby Thompson's home run, you
have Kirk Gibson's home run, you have Hank Aaron's home
run number seven fifteen, which, of course Ven was on
the call, Aaron waiting you out, feel deep and straight away,

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marbles moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment for Atlanta
and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous moment for
the country in the world. A black man is getting
a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a
record of an all time baseball idol. And it is

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a great moment for all of us, and particularly for
Henry Aaron, who has met at home plate not only
by every member of the Braves, but by his father
and mother. He threw his arms around his father, and
as he left the home plate area, his mother came
running across the grass, threw her arms around his neck,

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kissed him for all fewer words. I thought he was
going to talk about the hippies. But notice Phil Busters
sit there again left field. Yeah, and Bill, I'll get
to you again in a few years. But you know,
I alluded to it earlier, but I wanted I knew
Vince Gully said it in the call when Hank Aaron
was gonna break Babe Bruce record. There were a lot

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of people that didn't like that. Obviously, there was a
very racial aspect to it. And here was a black
man who was going to break a record held by
Babe Ruth and here's Vin Scully bringing everybody together on
this call. It's a great moment for all of us.
And how about this a black man in the Deep
South getting a standing ovation by everybody at this game.

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And it was like Vince Scully was the one that
told everybody, Hey, this is fine, Okay, get your heads
out of here. And you know what I mean, Vince
Scully would have said that, but you know, this is
a great moment and we should all be celebrating it.
And this and and this is exactly is this is
exactly how he came across and he said exactly what
he wanted to say, and it was it was a
perfect moment again, a touchstone, a very big moment in

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our lives. I said, poetic once again, and always about
bringing people together and the common experience through baseball, Like
we've talked about it a lot, right sports and what
it does in society, at least Foster's conversation, if not
some sort of understanding in togetherness. And then Scully did

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all that to try to be the glue wherever he
was able to be part of that story. Uh. Now
we mentioned Buckner, and you know, people remember, you know
Bill Buckner. The Buckner play Game six of the eighties
six World Series, one of the two or three most
famous plays in baseball history. And yes, Vince Scully was
on the call for that. And I hear this. We

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played this a couple hours ago. We're gonna play it
again because I hear Vin Scully's voice and I'm in
my basement and I'm fifteen, and I can't believe what's happening.
I'm so low because the Mets, I'm going We're gonna
lose his bleeping World Series of the bleep in Red Sox.
We were the best team in baseball all year and
I don't know how they're gonna be this, but we
got two outs, nobody on in the tenth and we're

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just gonna lose. And how I'm I'm gonna go into
school on Monday and all my friends and all the
Yankee fans all gonna laugh at me and go ah,
and it's so depressing. But then Gary Carter gets a it,
Kevin Mitchell gets a hit, Ready Night gets a hit.
There's a wild pitch, the game is tied, and then
Vince Gully yet another incredibly historic call right now five five,

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then a delarious ten thinning. Can you believe this call? Brother?
Three into the Lukey Wilson little roller up along first
behind the bag, it gets there comes Night and then

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that is fertilized Ner. It is came over the top
and f five fertilizer, you know, And and I hear that,
and I see everything and the behind the bag, and
I get the vision in my head because the camera
starts to shake caause she gets so loud because they

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knew they were gonna win when the ball got through
Buckner's legs and and him saying here comes Night and
the Mets win, and it's it's a perfect cut to
rain Night rounding third leaping in the air, holding onto
his helmet because he can't believe they're gonna win this game.
And like I said, I hear that, and it takes
me all the way back and his behind the bag
and just the excitement, like the the Hackles on my

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arm because I know the behind the bag is coming,
and that's the moment where we're gonna win the game.
And the Mets won the World Series, and next night
again that that's my everybody's got Vince Scully moments, and
it's mine. It just so happens to be one of
the most famous ones in in in baseball history. But
just that behind the bag and his voice gets up
really high, and I can't get over. I mean, I'm

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trying to. I'm watching the emotions overwhelm you as we
sit here, and and we could do another four hours
just reading the tributes and flowing across social media and
and so many baseball luminaries. I just found this one.
I thought i'd I'd put this one in. Michael Kay.
You know, as the Yankees play by play announcer fordham Grad,

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like Vince Scully, what we've lost the greatest broadcast whoever lived.
As Vince Scully passed away Tuesday evening. Every game was
a master's class as he turned an inning into poetry.
And as great as he was, he was just as nice, class, elegance,
and grace. We're all part of his humble but regal
being m You know with Vince Scully, we talked about

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his style earlier. We we spent a lot of time
on his be quick but don't hurry, his forward thrust.
Never any panic you when you get into radio, get
into broadcasting. They always the teachers that that teach you
always tell you the same thing. You're talking to an audience,
but talk like you're talking to one person. And that

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was always a big Like when I first started ESPN,
that was a thing that our our boss then, uh
Bruce Gilbert would talk to us Barguz. You know, think
of it as you're you're talking to what, you're talking
to a friend, you're talking to someone. Bring in a
picture if you're doing a solo show, bringing a picture
of your wife or your girlfriend, and and and and
and look at it and pretend you're telling her a story.
You're talking to her, and you will connect with your

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audience more. And it's hard to do because you understand
that you're broadcasting and you're performing and you're you're doing
different things. But they always say, you know, there was
always the big thing was, you know, talk to to
to one person. Now you and I do the show,
we're talking to each other and people listening or listening
to our conversation like we're we're all hanging out together,
like we're all hanging out in a big bar. And
you know you're hammered, you know, And I'm the smart one,

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you know all the different things. Uh, And you're the
one that lost a tooth broadcasting about Vince Scully tonight.
I got excited you lost the two emotional with hackles
or whatever the hell you recalling your arms. You actually
did lose it too. If you lost, you lost your
front tooth. You look a hockey player. You lost time.
I feel pretty tough right now too. You gotta put

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that on Twitter. You gotta put a picture that on Twitter.
You come on, man, you gotta I'm looking at you
all night. Man, you gotta see it lose and you
put it up. But Harmon looks like Letterman. You know,
it's got that big face and his teeth right now,
but they you know that was always the first less
and was talked to like you're talking to one person,
and you think about Vince Scully's broadcast style and it

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was like he was talking to you or he was
in your living room and he was telling a story
to you and your family who were all staring at him, going,
what are you gonna say next? What are you gonna
say next? What are you gonna say next? And to
be able to have that kind of mastery and to
have it be so natural, that's a tough thing. That's
I mean, for for all of us at ESPN, they

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were they would tell us, hey, you sounded like you
were broadcasting too much, that you need you need to
have to be more conversational, talk to people, and and
and it wanted you to talk to and look at
people when you were broadcasting. And and that's a very
big bit of advice that people kind of forget a bit.
And the fact he was able to always do it
and always master it, I mean, that was I mean,

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that's that's I mean, that's why there's never gonna be
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the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
that is certilized as we remember the life of Vin Scully,
who passed away tonight at the age of ninety four. Uh,
you know, that's one of my favorite moments that you'll
you'll hear it. I'd be look, Oh, you're getting all
the luminaries talking about Vince Scully, and you've been playing

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a lot of his best of some hiss calls over
his career as both a baseball football announcer. But I
would always love when he would he would try to
describe an argument between a manager and an umpire, and
he would always say, oh, and here's the conversation. Tommy
Losorda saying you know how much I pay for my fertilizer,

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and the umpire says, oh, I have a lot of
fertilizer in my backyard. You know how much fertilizer I have?
And Tommy Losorta says, not as much fertilizer as me.
And it was just keep going back and forth, and
it was hilarious and just keep saying fertilizer, fertilizing. Good
word choice, and it lives forever in some of these calls,

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and that drop that is with us forever. But yeah,
trying to sanitize it especially, I mean Tommy got a
little colorful. Oh yeah, yeah, that's true, that is true.
The fanatic. He says, hey, giving me all that fertilizer,

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and a the fertilizers going back the other way and
the fertilizer, it's flying fertilizer, fertilizer. Um. You know, we
we've heard a lot of stories tonight. And my dad
actually texted me because he never heard me tell the
story about the time I met Vince Scully in the

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press box and I'll tell I'll tell you again now.
Is I met him in the mid nineties when I
was a production and said, no, when I was a
producer out here and I went to the Dodger game
with one of my friends and he got us into
the press box and in the seventh inning of of
all Dodger games, they put Dodger dogs out in the
press box for everybody to eat, and I was like, oh,
this is great. I'm gonna get Dodger dogs. And I got, yeah,

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free Dodger dogs, to get free Dodger dogs. And so
right around the same time, Vince Scully walked over. He
was saying hi to a couple of people. And I
worked at Fox and I was working for Fox, so
I was able to walk over and just HIHI to
meet Vince Scully. And my friend had met him a
couple the times. And here myself as hey, then, Jason Smith,
are you doing this? How how are you today? And
I just said I'm good. I'm a little hungry right now,

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but although not, I'm okay, like I'm telling vinc because
I'm hungry because I know they got Dodger dogs there,
and and and vince Vin Scully says to me, well,
what are you talking to me for? You gotta go
get a Dodger dog right now, And I'm like, all right,
And I think I had like three or four of them,
And like Dad was like, you never told me that story.
I never told you that would slew off Scully and
go eat a Dodger. Great meeting you, Mr Scully, But

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you're right, I gotta go have a dolly. What would
you like on your sir? What are you talking to
me for? You gotta get yourself a Dodger dog right now?
Like yes I do, Yes, I do. I mean he
could have turned you and said they let anybody up here.
Oh I'm sure he did. He's like some guy. I
said hi to him, and he told me he was hungry.
That Scully, Yes, I was doing. I said I was hungry.

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That's me. There in lies the esse of Vin Scully. Though.
Right all the story, as you will hear and tomorrow
will be replete from you know, all the stories that
that have come out at post game from the Dodger grades,
but throughout Major League Baseball, the number of lives touched,
and it all comes back to one common element. As

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good as storyteller, as good a broadcaster, and someone that
was in our homes on the radio and television for
nearly seventy years, he was that much better as a
person and making you feel like you were the only
person that mattered in the moment that he engaged you.
And and that's a hard thing because to do, to

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be so public as he is, you want to have
time to yourself and and and and not always have
to be on or not always have to all right, Hey,
this is someone who I'm meeting for the first time,
and I'd rather just spend a couple of minutes just
decompressing or hanging out or eating my dinner. And he
was always and and and and talk to you like

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you were a friend, and talked and it was Hey,
it's nice from not nice for me to meet you
as much as great it was for you to meet him.
That was his the lack of ego. Hey, it's very
nice to meet you. Yeah, you think it's enough to
come up and say hi to me. I want to
say hi to you and see how you're doing and
ask you how you're doing, and that that's ever. No
one's gonna tell you a story. No one's gonna tell
your story. Vin Scully blew me off one time. Man.

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It was it was awful. I mean, there's there's none.
There's none of those stories for Vince Scully, not one
of the people, man of the city and a city
and all the baseball mournes. I raised my eighth cup
of coffee, uh to his honor and memory, all the friends, family,
and fans Uh, that are memorying, remembering all of those
great moments, and people thought I was kidding earlier. No,

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when we first started talking about Vince Scully, Harmon lost
his front tooth. His front tooth came out your front
you have no front tooth. Right, that's a true story.
We will have to go and get that remedied. Yeah,
you gotta, I mean you gotta go to the dentist,
like like now, like an overnight dentist. We'll be with
a guy like the Joker. Look at you. You have

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a big smile and the big gap between your teeth
right there. You gotta go. Look at you go with
this hockey star Mike Harmon. You know he did true
story everything. No way, Jason, No, I'm not lying. We're
talking about Vince giant gap and Harmon lost his tooth. Uh.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Live from the
Fox Sports Radio Studios. It was just a few years

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ago that Vince Scully retired after a sixty seven year career.
And no matter how old you are, no matter where
you are, you remember this goodbye from then. You know, friends,
so many people have wished me congratulations on a sixty
seven year career in baseball, and they wished me a
wonderful retirement with my family. And now all I can

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do is tell you what I wish for you. May
God give you for every storm of rainbow, for every tear,
a smile, for every care, a promise, end up, blessing
in each isle, for every problem life seems, a faithful
friend to share, for every sigh, a sweet song, and

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an answer for each prayer. You and I have been
friends for a long time, but I know in my
heart that I've always needed you more than you've ever
needed me, and I'll miss our time together more than
I can say. But you know what, there will be
a new day, and eventually a new year, and when
the upcoming winter gives way to spring, rest assured once again,

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it will be time for Dodger baseball. So this is
Vince Gully wishing you a very pleasant good afternoon wherever
you may be. Best there ever was, best there ever
will be Tonight, there's crying in baseball