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You Better You Bet

Remembering Vin Scully

You Better You Bet

Audacy

Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Nick Ashooh & Chris Mack look back at some of Vin Scully's most famous calls and discuss the art of play-by-play. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened.

0:27.7

So you better, you bet on the bet QL audio network, Nick Aschew and Chris Mac, you better, you bet.

0:35.4

Vince Kelly, 1950 is when he started calling Brooklyn Dodgers games.

0:42.2

It is, that is an incredible run in an industry where we move around all the time,

0:46.9

all the time for him to be, just to be a part of something where he is as iconic as any player

0:54.2

that has ever put on a Dodgers uniform. Now, he called more than just Dodgers games, but that,

0:59.1

I think you might agree with this, that that's what you think of first. Like, when I think of

1:02.8

Vince Kelly, you passed away yesterday at the age of 94, I think of the Dodgers first and foremost,

1:08.5

and somebody that was able to paint a picture that very, very few could do the way that he did it.

1:15.2

And not just his ability to paint the picture, Nick, but I think what's most impressive about

1:19.8

Vince Kelly, and this isn't a knock on guys today, because again, nobody's Vince Kelly,

1:26.2

nobody will ever match up to the standard that he set, but the fact that he knew exactly when

1:32.7

to let things breathe. And you know, you bring up some of the calls that aren't necessarily Dodger calls.

1:41.1

I mean, the Kirk Gibson home run, obviously, that we came back with is, I think probably the

1:45.8

quintessential Vince Kelly Dodger call, although there's so many others, you know, three perfect

1:50.6

games, I think he called over the years. The ones for me that reinforced his ability to just

1:57.6

get out of the way and let the scene speak for itself are people forget he called Montana to

2:04.2

Dwight Clark, the catch in San Francisco. And people, people don't forget it, I don't think,

2:10.6

because it's a baseball play, but Mookie Wilson and the Bill Buckner ground ball.

2:16.3

Both of those are great examples of Vince Kelly making the call and then getting out of the way.

2:23.3

And in those instances, he's aided by the pictures on television, but he was even able to do that

2:29.1

on radio. He would just get out of the way and let the thing breathe and let the scene speak for

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