Culpepper: An appreciation of Vin Scully in his 66th year broadcasting Dodgers games
From Chuck Culpepper at the Washington Post on June 26, 2015:
Usually the sentence appears almost docilely: This is Vin Scully’s 66th season broadcasting Dodgers games. It appears amid neighboring sentences as if it’s supposed to sit there and blend in: This is Vin Scully’s 66th season broadcasting Dodgers games.
It appears almost as if some blithe relay of some mere factoid, as if it could start with “Hey” and then a comma: This is Vin Scully’s 66th season broadcasting Dodgers games. It appears as plain English even as a reasonable person might deem it staggering.
This is Vin Scully’s 66th season broadcasting Dodgers games. Sometimes, if you repeat the truth enough, it can become almost believable.
Read the full article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/this-is-vin-scullys-66th-season-broadcasting-dodgers-games-really/2015/06/26/0fe9ecca-1c10-11e5-bd7f-4611a60dd8e5_story.html
Originally published: July 1, 2015. Last Updated: July 1, 2015.