It’s even better to listen to:

http://www.doubledogmusic.com/baseball/Scully_Koufax_Perfect.mp3

Yes, I wish he’d shut up, and he’s always second-guessing everything, and whatever happens on the field he convolutes into something he just said would happen but didn’t…. just like a day at the ballpark with my late Uncle Virgil.

One of the reasons I prefer baseball is the announcers don’t yell at you all the time. If you’ve never heard a “meaningless” game broadcast by Vin Scully, I hope I owe you money.

He’s like the smartest guy in the world sitting in the crowd next to you. But he shuts up sometimes. And he really, really knows a lot.

Somewhere on the ‘Net is a verbatim transcript of the last half-inning of Sandy Koufax’s perfect game. It’s a perfect essay, off the cuff, with all the strikes and balls (there weren’t many balls) in real time.

Over the years I’ve learned a lot about baseball from Morgan’s blather. A lot of it falls in the old Yogism, “90% of his game is half mental.” But for a lot of years my summer Sunday nights have had Morgan in the background. Like years ago with Uncle Virgil, if Uncle Virgil had been a hall-of-famer.

Nice try, but we know you aren’t really Joe Morgan. He would NEVER be caught dead reading an actual blog, or ANYTHING off a **shudder** computer!

37.2 IP, 3-0 W-L, 1.67 ERA