Look in the Mirror,
Vin, Before You Open Your Mouth
For reasons that are
beyond me, former Dodgers’ broadcaster Vin Scully was honored over the weekend
in Pasadena, yet another example of the insanity that prevails in
California. There was, perish the
thought, “An Evening with Vin Scully” during which he was asked about NFL
player protests during the National Anthem.
“I have only one personal thought, really [ever, that’s for sure],” responded
Scully. “And I’m so disappointed.”
Scully said he had
“overwhelming respect and admiration for anyone who puts on a uniform and goes
to war. So the only thing I can do in my
little way is not to preach,” which he immediately went on to do by adding, “I
will never watch another NFL game.”
The 89-year old Scully
claimed he’s not “some great patriot. I
was in the Navy for a year, didn’t go anywhere, didn’t do anything.” To the best of my knowledge, he also didn’t
do anything when Dodgers’ owner Walter O’Malley decided Ebbets Field was a dump
to get out of and what the city of New York offered as a new home didn’t meet
his needs or standards. So, the Dodgers
and a young Vin Scully abandoned Brooklyn for Los Angeles, where the building
of a new stadium at Chavez Ravine involved the dislocation of a lot of
people. Again, I’m not aware of Scully
ever addressing that particular bit of Dodgers' history.
Given a choice, I’d
take the backstabbing frontrunner-ism of Harry Caray to the gauzy blah-blah of
Scully. But I don’t want to preach.
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