the voice

04/15/09 10:51

I think this happened last year too: the first week of the baseball season, Direct-TV opens all its Major League Baseball channels, showing games from around the country.

So last week I ended up in San Diego, because the Padres were hosting the Dodgers, and Vin Scully was announcing. In some ways, it is just the sound of his voice - the voice of lazy summer afternoons. (That's when most games were played when Scully began his career.) A few years ago I attended a game at Dodger Stadium and heard his play-by-play piped into the men's room - and found it a little difficult to return to my seat. He has, as they say of some pitchers, great command, giving background that seems perfectly timed to conclude with the next pitch, and his gracefully matter-of-fact description of it. He speaks as Flaubert and Fitzgerald wrote, without a wasted word.

There is also the historical aspect: this voice now gently mocking Manny's unlikeliness to steal second reverently recorded Sandy's pristine pitches. At a time when everything outside the stadium seems to be in flux, the voice inside remains unchanged. You can't help but listen.

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