Vinny’s Coming Back!

Editor’s Note: A dark day and Dodgers season just got brighter as Vin Scully shocked many of us when he announced this afternoon he IS coming back for another season of “Dodger baseball.” Best news of the weekend! Now back to our previously scheduled post, pre-Vinny’s return announcement.

I have nothing clever to say on this day, which follows another rough night/morning with two crazy kids, a missed stoke with Pembertonian, and a Saturday where I spent most of the day in WordPress databases trying to restore a corrupt WCBias database.

If you were one of the two people who visited The Bias yesterday, you probably noticed all 500+ of the Bias’ posts were missing. Gone. Disappeared. Like Manny. No production whatsoever.

Strangest thing I’d ever seen in four years working with WordPress.

Took half the day, but I fixed it, thanks to WP-DB Backup. If you have a WP blog, be sure to use this plugin. Saved my ass, not to mention 211 posts by BG, and a couple hundred posts by Slim (194 posts), Pembertonian (76), Ryantific (36), WCBias Guests (27) and notsellingjeans (3).

Whatever happened to that jeans guy anyway?

Probably had a kid or something.

In fact, I believe our boy Ryantific will be having one shortly. Which means we’ll probably see less of him, too.

Now if BG has a kid, we might as well shut down this blog, because he’s our lifeblood, our ambasador to the blogosphere. Our Vin Scully if you will.

Which brings me to the topic of this post: Vinny.

Today was expected to be one of the saddest in LA Dodgers history as Vin was announcing his future plans before today’s game.

Why did we think he was leaving us? Health reasons? The guy is older than dirt. Family reasons? The guy probably has a million grandkids by now. Tired of travel. Tired of technology. Tired of where the game is headed. Tired of Manny.

He’s like a lot of us. And that’s why we love him.

Vinny, fortunately, is coming back for another season of memories. Here are some of the best memories he’s shared with us here on the West Coast over the past 61 seasons:

Tony Gwynn called Vin Scully an ambasador of the game when I was lucky enough to interview the Hall of Famer a few years back, and that’s something when one of the greatest hitters of all-time is saying that:

“Like most people, I was a fan to begin with. I listened to Vin Scully every night, knew all the ballplayers, their stats and all of that. I always made sure to show my respect to the guys before me. I’m about the game and giving back what a lot of those guys passed on to me. That’s the most important thing you can do, give these younger players what they need to know to be better.”

Scully is so good, he’s one of the Seven Wonders of the (Sports) World in my eyes:

“L.A.’s Big Three: Vin Scully, Bob Miller and the late-Chick Hearn, the greatest trifecta of sports announcers a city will ever see. Gold mics all around.”

And of course, Vinny is an all around good guy and one of the greatest sports announcers of all time. Pembertonian went with Harry Caray No. 1 on this day, but we all know he’s biased to the Midwest. We here at WCB aren’t “Biased.” And West Coast natives know who the real No. 1 is:

“There may not be a cozier baseball voice out there. While Scully has been the voice of the Dodgers for 59 years, I first heard him doing NBC games with Joe Garagiola — perhaps the greatest baseball commentator pairing of all.

“There are too many great Scully calls to mention, but to name a few: Kirk Gibson’s World Series homerun, Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth’s homerun record, and Dwight Clark’s endzone catch in the NFC championship game.”

And our kicker comes from our boy, BG, who has Vinny by his side every time he has to go to that sad sap job of his:

“I have two pictures tapes to my computer monitor in my office/extra bedroom. One is of Morrissey because anyone who can come up with a song like, “The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get” deserves all the props in the world, the second is a postcard imagine of Vin Scully.”

Here’s to Vinny being at all of our sides for at least another season.

- Sick file photo illustration by our own BG, who has been talked down from the ledge and will be posting for The Bias again shortly.