[quote name=\'trainman\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 10:57 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 19 2005, 09:53 PM\'](You LA types: TELL me Vin still does a few innings of the Dodger game, at least.)
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Vin still does
entire Dodger games -- home games, at least. And when I say "entire," I mean
he's the only one who talks...there's no color commentator in the booth with him.
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I love it. I remember back in the day he used to split the radio and TV duties with Ross Porter and Don Drysdale. We are blessed to have Dave Niehaus here in Seattle, but he's not Vin.
To get this tenuously back on-topic, I know someone who used to do run the sound board at what is now Fox's studio's in LA who had the privlege of working with Vin on some kind of baseball TV special they were doing. Vin was to be on set, by himself, telling some baseball stories, and they needed Vin's segment to time out something like ten minutes, no more or less, they needed an exact time. So my friend asks Vin how he would like to be cued...usually you would keep the talent aware of how much time was left in the segment pretty coninuously, or at least enough so they can keep track. Vin simply asked to be signaled when there were 30 and 15 seconds left, and he'd take care of the rest. Um, ok.
The punch line: He nailed it with the first take. Fade up on Vin, he starts waxing poetic for nine and a half minutes, show him 30, he starts to wrap, show him 15, he wraps up neatly and throws it to break. Just perfect.