Monday I told my friend Greg, a Dodgers fan, that you can sometimes catch Vin Scully announcing a game on the MLB Network. Last night I went to the channel and heard the familiar, reassuring, upliftingly businesslike voice doing the Dodgers-Braves game.
In the middle of the second inning, everyone was told to direct their attention to the scoreboard in left field for breaking news. I braced myself for a proclamation of war. Instead, we all watched an amusing, trilingual announcement that Vin Scully would be returning as announcer in 2015. The stadium rose as one, applauding and cheering. Vin Scully stood in his announcer's box, acknowledging the ovation and getting a kiss from his wife. Then, after saying something to the effect that it was a little hard to get back to work after that, he got back to work.
