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Offline Machiavelli

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Bill Shaikin
Los Angeles Times
May 3, 2017

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For a franchise that has been so successful in Los Angeles, the Dodgers’ 10 retired numbers speak largely to a Brooklyn heritage. On the day the Dodgers retired his microphone alongside those numbers — and perhaps for the last time at Dodger Stadium — Vin Scully told stories of the Boys of Summer.

“Those numbers are not numbers at all,” Scully said Wednesday. “I can hear them. I really can.” ...

In a pregame ceremony, [Tommy] Lasorda and Sandy Koufax unveiled Scully’s blue and white circle along what the Dodgers now call their “ring of honor,” with “VIN SCULLY” atop a microphone. Scully was the first addition to the ring since the Dodgers retired [Don] Sutton’s number in 1998...
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Re: Vin Scully has microphone retired at Dodger Stadium ceremony
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2017, 03:29:11 pm »
They retired a mic? What are they going to do now? Yell out of the announcers booth with a bull horn?