Pay Heed Poets and Gods of Baseball

Vin Scully is the master at painting the scenes at Dodger’s Stadium. I also firmly believe that the game now abides by his commands. Back in 2014 I was listening to a game where he was talking about one of the Upton brothers who had tremendous speed but also frequently went down on strikes. Once Vin Scully mentioned this behavior then fate obeyed and Upton struck out. I can live with the thought that the baseball god’s follow Scully’s words. After six decades in the business they better heed his words.

The poetry, however, always gets me. Upton is walking back to the dugout and Scully simply says, “And for all of his speed, he finds out that there is only one pace that takes him back to the dugout.”

We bow to the master!