photo credit foxsports1360.com: Dodgers announcer Vin Scully whose planned retirement will end in San Francisco in September

SAN FRANCISCO–Maybe somebody already forgot what legendary Dodgers play by play man said during the Dodgers Fanfest at Dodger Stadium, before the season got started, about three months ago. Scully hasn’t traveled much in recent seasons, but would like to make at least three in-state road trips with the Dodgers in his final season of broadcasting for the team, including his final regular season game in the home of the Dodgers’ biggest rival at  AT&T Park vs the San Francisco Giants, Sunday October 2.

Scully was one of the star attractions for the just under 25,000 people who came to Dodger Stadium for 2016 Dodgers FanFest on a Saturday back in January.
“As a little kid who grew up literally in the Polo Grounds and was an avid Giants fan, I think I would love to finish in a Dodgers-Giants game,” Scully said. “God willing, it will work out. We’ll see.”

Since he announced his intentions to call the last game of his career(and last game of the season)on Sunday, October 2, the 88 year old legend had a street name after him in Los Angeles and was rendered a great tribute on Opening Day at Dodger Stadium. On the 2016 Los Angeles Dodgers Media Guide, he is featured alone, a picture of a young Scully, who began his career in 1950, when he began his Hall of Fame broadcasting career. At that time the Dodgers played in Brooklyn. He grew up in Upper Manhattan, near the Polo Grounds where the New York Giants played before they move to San Francisco in 1957 to play at Seals Stadium, later at cold Candlestick Park.

Scully also said that if the Dodgers make the playoffs this season. he might be willing to broadcast a postseason game on radio because it is his final season., however he said he would not want to broadcast a World Series game because he feels it would be unfair to current broadcasters Rick Monday and Charlie Steiner.

Although it is basically unheard for the Giants to honor a Dodger, it should be a ‘no brainer’ for the San Francisco Giants to honor Mr.Scully during that final weekend of the season at AT&T Park. Considering he was a Giants fan even before the Giants where in San Francisco, that makes even more sense for a narrative about his connection with the Giants. He has broadcasted for the Dodgers from 1950 unitl 2016, that’s 66 consecutive seasons. Last time I saw him I told him he was the only guy I ever met that had worked for the same company for that long. He laughed, and then said in his inimitable style “what do you mean by work?” A truly professional and delightful man, a living example that proves the saying that if you enjoy what you do and it brings you happiness, you going to enjoy a long life

Mr. Vin Scully is the best baseball play by play man who ever lived.

 Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio voice for the Oakland A’s and the Spanish TV voice for the Los Angeles Angels and does News and Commentary each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com