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Vin Scully

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Dodgers Deal Sealed: McCourt is Outta Here

    When reports surfaced last night that there were a few last-minute details to be hammered out in the Guggenheim Baseball purchase of the Dodgers, we got a bad feeling. Maybe the universally loathed Frank McCourt was pulling a dictator trick in an attempt to unravel the deal and hold on just a littl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Serengeti's Chin Music

    See also: *Anticon MC Serengeti: The Quirkiest, Deepest Rapper *Free Download: Serengeti's "Tracks" Serengeti is wisecracking at Rex's Batting Cages in Inglewood, while hacking at 90 mph heaters. The Chicago-raised, Mount Washington-based rapper riffing on a character in his raps, 45-year-old, Dit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Drink This Now: Guisados' Dodgerata, or Dodger Blue Horchata

    Maybe the folks at Guisados should get out the blue dye number whatever more often. In honor of opening day at nearby Dodger Stadium, the jar of horchata at Guisados taqueria in Boyle Heights was a lovely shade of Dodger blue last night. It was only for the evening, a walk-off win if you will, but w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    10 Best Sports Bars in Los Angeles

    Now that musicians and nerds are the cool kids and jocks are the villains, liking sports has become distinctly uncool. So where are reasonable people of average coolness supposed to go to share their now-lame passion for twentysomething physical freaks throwing or kicking roundish objects for millio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Vin Scully Trends on Twitter, As America Searches For Relief From Joe Buck

    Vin Scully: trending​For a brief period during last night's World Series game, Vin Scully was trending on Twitter. It was not -- as many Twitter users feared -- because he had died.Instead, it was because sportswriter Joe Posnanski asked his followers who should be calling the games. Scully was th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    Counterpoint: Vin Scully Is The Greatest And Here's Proof

    Vin Scully​On Monday, we posted some heretical nonsense about Vin Scully not actually being that good. In rebuttal, you could probably just assert that he's the best there ever was and leave it at that. But it's more fun to prove it.There's a tendency when praising Scully to reach back to the era ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    Vin Scully: Not Everyone Is A Fan

    ​Word that the Dodgers' beloved, mellifluous broadcaster Vin Scully will return to the booth next season brought cheers from most. But at the risk of drawing the hate mail (bring it!), check out a scathing anti-Scully piece a friend wrote in 2007.

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Photo Gallery: What's In Season At The Farmers Market Vote For Your Favorite Market

    Summer may not officially start for about three more weeks, but, between the warm weather and the coming and going of Memorial Day, it sure seems like it's here already. Which means what, that the kids will be home soon, that Vin Scully now narrates your dreams, and that the farmers markets are a ri ... More >>

  • LA Life

    May 20, 2010

    Jennifer Ferro: The Manager

    Summer may not officially start for about three more weeks, but, between the warm weather and the coming and going of Memorial Day, it sure seems like it's here already. Which means what, that the kids will be home soon, that Vin Scully now narrates your dreams, and that the farmers markets are a ri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Vin Scully Expected Back Home Friday After Being Hospitalized

    Vin Scully.​Dodgers announcer and Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully was expected to return home Friday after he was hospitalized for a bump on his head suffered in a fall, Fox11 News reported. Major League Baseball reported the 82-year-old fell and bumped his head Thursday night. H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2009

    Dodgers Finish Off Cardinals: What Did I Tell You?

    ​Yesterday I predicted the Dodgers would knock the Cards out this weekend, but I didn't think it would necessarily happen Saturday--or that the Blue Crew would make it look relatively easy. The Dodgers gradually silenced the St. Louis crowd as they built a 5-0 lead. The Cards scored a measly run i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Dodgers/Cardinals and the Beauty of Baseball's Revolving Door

    ​ The Cardinals took three shots to the gut Thursday. The first was literal, when Matt Holliday misplayed James Loney's two-out line drive against reliever Ryan Franklin, the ball bouncing off the left fielder's mid-section and allowing the tying run to reach second base. The second shot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Dodgers Win First in Series Against Cardinals, Was it Luck?

    When the Cardinals loaded the bases with no outs in the first inning Wednesday night, it was hard not to think about Cliff Lee, who gave up six hits and one run in the Phillies' victory over the Rockies earlier in the day. The Phillies got last year's American League Cy Young Award-winning pitcher i ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Sandwiches

    When the Cardinals loaded the bases with no outs in the first inning Wednesday night, it was hard not to think about Cliff Lee, who gave up six hits and one run in the Phillies' victory over the Rockies earlier in the day. The Phillies got last year's American League Cy Young Award-winning pitcher i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    Vin Scully's Numbers Problem

    In the sickening moments that followed the line drive that struck L.A. Dodger pitcher Hiroki Kuroda in Saturday's game with the Arizona Diamondbacks, announcer Vin Scully provided a calming voice to TV viewers who watched medical staff members and teammates surround the fallen hurler. Scully's fire ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Manny Ramirez's Grand Slam Silences Critics

    With his first swing of a bat last night Manny Ramirez laid to rest the loitering demons of doubt and recrimination that have followed his emergence from suspension. On July 3 he took the field against San Diego after a 50-game hiatus for having used an illegal performance enhancing substance. Catca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    When Will Dodger Stadium's Makeover Begin?

    LA DodgersThe future according to Frank McCourtToday's Eastsider L.A. looks at what's cookin' at the Ravine. Or rather, how quiet the L.A. Dodgers and owner Frank McCourt have been over plans to spend half a billion dollars to give  the team's ballpark a megaplex makeover, by developing it into ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    The Baseball Bat Peppermill: Who Needs Cork When You Have Tellicherry Peppercorns?

    Here's the perfect summer grilling accessory: a baseball bat that's actually a peppermill. Imagine the langorous backyard, the coals glowing in the firepit, Vin Scully broadcasting on a radio propped against the sweating keg, a tray of burgers and steaks and links that would make any self-respecting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2009

    Vin, We Hardly Know Ya

    L.A. Observed reports on the imminent publication of an unauthorized biography of the legendary voice of the Dodgers, Vin Scully. "Unauthorized" may, in the course of celebrity events, conjure visions of gossip and scandal or, at least, of off-air profanity, but in straight-arrow Vin's case it simpl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    What the ALF? A pair of Animal Liberation Front associates were arrested in connection with alleged criminal intimidation of UCLA researchers and an L.A.-based juice company. Linda Faith Greene, 61, and Kevin Richard Olliff, 22, are being held in lieu of $450,000 and $460,000 bonds, respectively. L. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Don Larsen's Beautiful Nothing

    Diane Pucin has a fine Memory Lane piece in today's L.A. Times Sports section. In "Scully Pulls Up His Own Chair," Pucin interviews L.A. Dodger announcer Vin Scully about Don Larsen's 1956 World Series no-hitter. It came in Game 5 between Larsen's team, the New York Yankees, and the Brooklyn Dodgers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Vin Scully Inducted into Hall of Fame

    Vin Scully, the TV and radio voice of the Dodgers for 59 years, will be inducted into the newly formed Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in New York City tonight.  Don Ohlmeyer will be joining  him, along with other broadcasting legends such as the late Chet Forte and Curt Gowdy. Scully, wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2008

    It's Only Rock and Roll but I Like It: Music as a Soundtrack to Life

    Music is exceptionally - my wife may say irrationally - important to me. I can walk into a store, determined to spend hundreds of dollars, only to turn around and walk right back out if something horrible is playing inside. Music has never been disposable background noise; it's defined me, inspired ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    Dodgers Fight Back

    In front of a sold out crowd at Dodgers Stadium on Sunday, Big Blue blew out the Philadelphia Phillies 7-2 in the third game of a seven-game series for the National League Championship. The Dodgers still trail the Phillies one game to two, but the team can even the series with a win tonight at Chave ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2008

    Dodgers Win Big in Chicago

    Before the Lakers took over the minds and hearts of sports fans in Los Angeles, there were the Dodgers. Players such as Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Maury Wills, Ron Cey, Steve Garvey, Tommy John, and Fernando Valenzuela, among many others, were gods, and then things didn't go so well for the team in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2008

    The Magic of Joe Torre

    Twelve years ago, Joe Torre was hired by the New York Yankees to manage a team that was expected to be a contender, but not necessarily the next world champions. In his first year, Torre made all the right moves, and with some dramatic hitting in the World Series against the Atlanta Braves--Yankee f ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 3, 2008

    Tommy Lasorda: The Lion in Spring

    Twelve years ago, Joe Torre was hired by the New York Yankees to manage a team that was expected to be a contender, but not necessarily the next world champions. In his first year, Torre made all the right moves, and with some dramatic hitting in the World Series against the Atlanta Braves--Yankee f ... More >>

  • News

    May 24, 2007

    Love Letter to the L.A. Dodgers

    True blue

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    Steak Me Out for the Ball Game

    Best beggars’ banquet at Dodger Stadium

  • Calendar

    June 29, 2006

    Music Picks

    For the week of June 29 - July 6

  • Music

    April 27, 2006

    A Fan's Notes

    A salute to a new season for American Idol — and the Dodgers

  • Film+TV

    March 30, 2006

    Film Reviews

    For the week of March 31-April 6

  • Music

    March 16, 2006

    Crumbelievable!

    For the week of March 31-April 6

  • Eat+Drink

    February 9, 2006

    Dining

    For the week of March 31-April 6

  • Eat+Drink

    February 9, 2006

    Out of the Flames

    L.A.'s best roasted, grilled sizzled and wood-baked cooking

  • News

    December 8, 2005

    Calling The Hole

    The Vin Scully of pro poker: Mike Sexton

  • News

    October 6, 2005

    Missing the Unthinkable

    Drive, I said

  • Eat+Drink

    July 7, 2005

    The Six Dollar Man

    Drive, I said

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    Go Blue!

    Dodger Moves I’d Make if the Team Were Mine

  • News

    January 24, 2002

    America's Most Unwanted

    Dodger Moves I’d Make if the Team Were Mine

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