{"id":4581,"date":"2010-08-22T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T19:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4581"},"modified":"2010-08-22T12:55:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T19:55:26","slug":"scully-will-return-to-dodgers%e2%80%99-booth-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4581","title":{"rendered":"Scully Will Return to Dodgers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Booth Next Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The best news I&#8217;ve heard all year:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scully Will Return to Dodgers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Booth Next Season<br \/>\nBy RICHARD SANDOMIR<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/beta.images.theglobeandmail.com\/archive\/00835\/CATS101-Giants_D_835841gm-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vin Scully will return next season for for a 62nd year of calling Dodgers baseball.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just honored and humbled to continue my association with the Dodgers, which has been a major part of my life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Scully said Sunday in a news release issued by the team.<\/p>\n<p>Scully suggested last year that this might be his final season with the team whose games he started calling in Brooklyn in 1950. And on Saturday, when he told The Los Angeles Times that he would announce his future plans before Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s game, he said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to do that so everyone hears it at the same time. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the proper way to do it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>For those who fret about the day when Scully, 82, is not behind a microphone for the Dodgers, the remark might have implied something more serious than announcing his return.<\/p>\n<p>But he indeed will be back, calling all nine innings of the games on TV, with the first three innings of each game simulcast on radio. He works only home games and road games against the Dodgers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 opponents in the N.L. West. He cut back on his travel schedule several years ago, tiring of the loneliness of the road and the time spent away from his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Scully has become the nearly-indispensable Dodger, a lyrical witness to the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history even as the great players and managers have retired. He has survived ownership changes; his presence is an antidote to the nasty divorce case between the current owner, Frank McCourt and his wife, Jamie, who was fired by her husband as the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief executive last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m as thrilled as our fans that Vin will be returning,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Frank McCourt said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best news I&#8217;ve heard all year: Scully Will Return to Dodgers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Booth Next Season By RICHARD SANDOMIR Vin Scully will return next season for for a 62nd year of calling Dodgers baseball. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just honored and humbled to continue my association with the Dodgers, which has been a major part of my life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Scully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}