Gennifer Flowers, a former model who had an extramarital sexual encounter with Bill Clinton in the 1980s, has reportedly accepted an invitation to sit in the front row during Hillary Clintons presidential debate with Donald Trump on Monday night.
Flowers herself appeared to confirm the report on Saturday, writing on Twitter: Hi Donald. You know Im in your corner and will definitely be at the debate!
Nine years earlier, however, Flowers said she would support Hillary Clinton in her first presidential campaign. Speaking in 2007, Flowers said: I cant help but want to support my own gender.
She added: I dont have any interest whatsoever in getting back out there and bashing Hillary Clinton.
Her reported invitation to watch Trump do so in 2016 appeared to have its roots in a feud between the Republican candidate and Mark Cuban, a politically outspoken billionaire who has questioned Trumps boasted worth.
On Thursday, Cuban tweeted that he had just got a front row seat to watch @HillaryClinton overwhelm @realDonaldTrump at the Humbling at Hofstra on Monday. It Is On!
On Saturday morning, Trump replied: If dopey Mark Cuban of failed Benefactor fame wants to sit in the front row, perhaps I will put Gennifer Flowers right alongside of him!
BuzzFeed News then reported that Judy Stell, an assistant to Flowers, said in an email that though Flowers had previously declined invitations to public events because she did not want to be a sideshow, Ms Flowers has agreed to join Donald at the debate.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request from the Guardian for confirmation.
Trump v Clinton: an analysis of debate styles (produced and edited by Chris Whitworth)
Clinton was reportedly spending the weekend preparing for Mondays debate, which will be held at Hofstra University in New York. Trump was scheduled to address a rally in Roanoke, Virginia, on Saturday evening.
The New York Times reported that Clintons preparations include a staffer, Philippe Reines, playing Trump and pursuing expected lines of attack including Bill Clintons sexual indiscretions.
Speaking to Fox News on Monday, Trump said that out of respect for Clinton he would not be looking to pursue such attacks. I dont know what Im going to do exactly, he said. It depends on what level she hits you with, if shes fair, if its unfair, but certainly Im not looking to do that.
Flowers came to national prominence in January 1992, when Bill Clinton first campaigned for the White House, with an allegation of a 12-year affair and tapes of conversations between the two.
Clinton initially denied the claim, but admitted in a 1998 deposition in a sexual harassment suit that he had had a single sexual encounter with Flowers. Beginning in 1999, Flowers pursued a defamation suit against Hillary Clinton and two Clinton aides, James Carville and George Stephanopoulos. It was dismissed.
PITTSBURGH - The 2016 Nationals won the National League East without drama, without wild pendulum swings, without the kind of indelible memories (both good and bad) that so often define championship seasons.
No, this was a methodical march to a division title by a ballclub that simply was very good throughout and wore down its opponents along the way.
And now, at last, these guys can celebrate their achievement.
The Nationals officially clinched the NL East crown tonight, beating the Pirates 6-1 at PNC Park and then watching as the Phillies fended off a furious Mets rally from 10 runs down at Citi Field, the 1-2 punch necessary to turn a magic number of two into a magic number of zero and ignite a champagne celebration in the visitors clubhouse here.
And they did it, as they so often have all season, in methodical fashion. They took a quick lead, expanded that lead shortly thereafter and then finished things off.
Might as well have been a condensed version of the 2016 season. The Nationals opened the Dusty Baker Era with a 9-1 record. They only briefly fell out of first place, for a measly four days in early May, then retook their lead over the Mets and Marlins and continued to expand it steadily over the next four months.
In the end, they managed to open up an 8 1/2-game lead on New York with only eight games remaining on the schedule. Thats all she wrote.
Its the franchises third division title in five years, and all were won in relatively convincing fashion. This team still has never found itself thrust into a down-to-the-wire pennant race, an oddity to be sure but one no one is complaining about considering the end results.
Next up: Winning a postseason series for the first time. The Nationals will face the NL West winners (almost certainly the Dodgers) in the NLDS, beginning Oct. 7. That best-of-five series will go a long way toward cementing this clubs legacy, but thats a story for another day.
Right now, this achievement deserves to be celebrated, and celebrate these Nationals will.
In the wake of Friday nights crushing loss, during which Mark Melancon blew the save with two outs in the ninth and Yusmeiro Petit surrendered the winning run in the 11th, the Nationals remained a loose and upbeat bunch this afternoon. At least a dozen players were in the PNC Park outfield some 4 1/2 hours before game time playing soccer, Frisbee, Nerf football or trying to fly a toy airplane.
This, after all, is a mostly veteran team, with a host of guys who have been here before and werent about to start panicking over a slightly delayed division title clinch.
And when they took the field for real at 7:07 p.m., they were all business, bursting out of the gates to open up a quick 3-0 lead behind Bryce Harpers sacrifice fly and Stephen Drews two-run single.
Handed that lead before he even took the mound, Joe Ross was sharp through his first two innings of work, throwing 25 of his 36 pitches for strikes. The right-hander, though, faded in the bottom of the third, and that caused some trouble.
Bakers ideal plan entering the game was for Ross to throw four or five innings, building upon his three-inning, 51-pitch return from the disabled list. The managers one caveat: He wanted Ross to avoid any prolonged innings. So when the right-hander needed 27 pitches to face six batters in the third, Baker decided not to push him any farther.
Sean Burnett entered with two outs and the bases loaded and coaxed a line out to right field from John Jaso, protecting a 3-1 lead. The Nationals still needed six more innings from their bullpen, but their lineup made sure to provide that group some more room for error.
Thanks in part to three Pirates errors, the Nationals scored three more runs in the top of the fourth, extending the lead to 6-1.
Meanwhile in Flushing, the Phillies were on a rampage, exploding to a 10-0 lead over the Mets that left manager Terry Collins benching many of his starters and sending the B squad out to the field for the rest of the night. Those backups did make it interesting, rallying to get to within striking distance, but not close enough to pull off the unthinkable.
And thanks to a dazzling performance out of the bullpen by Reynaldo Lopez, who took over in the bottom of the fourth and kept posting nothing but zeroes until he was pulled with one out in the ninth, the Nationals gave the Pirates no reason to conjure up thoughts of their own comeback.
Everything was academic. No drama. Just a methodical completion of the rest of the game.
It was, in the end, a fitting way for these Nationals to clinch this division title.
Manchester United 4-1 Leicester - Jose Mourinho Full Post Match Press Conference
Jose Mourinho needs to take a leaf from the book of... Neil Warnock .
The man affectionately dubbed Colin by his players you can work out the anagram with the rest of the letters in his name always had a player or two who he took with him to every club.
A player who would gauge the mood of the dressing room and report back to him at the times when the temperature was rising.
A player, who not only kept his manager abreast of the feelings in the camp, but a plater who would have the respect of the rest of the boys as well.
Someone who could tell them: Look, dont worry that he has just dug you out, thats his way of keeping you on your toes and, trust me, hes doing it for your benefit and the benefit of the group.
Mourinho needs a player in his squad that can report back to him about dressing room morale
Neil told me this in a conversation once, he explained those benefits, and you could understand why it did work for him.
More to the point, it would work for Mourinho at Manchester United , too, if he had a Clint Hill, Paddy Kenny or Sean Derry of his own.
Some of you might think Zlatan Ibrahimovic was brought to Old Trafford to do just that. Well, that and score a few goals.
The pair have never made any secret of their admiration for each other from the time they spent together at Inter Milan and Ibrahimovic is always going to praise his gaffers virtues.
Mourinho and Zlatan have a good relationship
But while he might help out from time to time, ultimately Zlatan will always be about Zlatan and a manager needs someone who is all about the bigger picture.
So, when Mourinho has let rip and he has done a couple of times in the past few weeks, first with Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Jesse Lingard, then Luke Shaw there hasnt seemed to be anyone putting an arm round those he has targeted.
Or reporting back to the manager and telling him to rein it in if it hasnt gone down well with the players.
You need lieutenants in the dressing room and one or two people on your backroom staff who will allow you to get a good cop, bad cop thing going.
Luke Shaw came in for criticism for his performance against Watford
A John Robertson type he was so good at that for Martin ONeill.
If Mourinho is going to go on and beat the likes of Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp these hungrier, younger managers then he needs to address that and start boxing a little bit clever.
He needs to stop making it look like, Its all about me, Im the boss, Im the Special One, because that style is dying a little bit.
Mourinho"s style is dying a bit
Or, at least, it appears to be showing a few cracks.
Because when he starts to curl his lip and you can see it in his eyes when they start to go as well he begins to look aggressive and that is never a good sign.
It started to happen at Chelsea fairly early on and, ultimately, that could be a worry at United.
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Southern Methodist is honoring fallen Dallas-area first responders during its home game against TCU on Friday night.
The Mustangs, who are offering up to four complimentary tickets to police, firefighters and paramedics, will wear special blue uniforms that include a Mustang helmet decal of the Dallas skyline.
"This will be a big game for us as we honor our local police and pay tribute to them, said SMU head coach Chad Morris. Its an opportunity for us and our great cityof Dallas to come together and lock arms and pay tribute to the lives that left us way too soon.
The school will also hold a moment prior to the game for Dallas Police OfficersLorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, Michael Smith and Patrick Zamarripa and DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) Officer Brent Thompson, all of whomwere killed in a July 7 ambush. SMU Officer Mark McCullers, killed during a flash flood in August, and University Park FireDepartment Chief Bob Poynter, murdered in September, will also be honored.
Here"s a look at uniforms, and more details on the tribute and complimentary tickets can be found here.
We"re asking our fans to wear tomorrow, but we"ll be rocking all to honor our Dallas-area first responders. #PonyUpTempo pic.twitter.com/ISgZfUhIzM
#PonyUpTempo (@SMU_Football) September 22, 2016
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Destiny: Xur"s New Exotics & Ornaments - Tip: How To Level Up Fast With Xur (23/9/16) - (9/23/16)
(Bungie)
Now that Rise of Iron has been officially released upon the world its time for our old friend Xur to make his return, however, this week he brought something special for Warlocks. Xur is actually not located in the new hub world Iron Tower, due to that locking a lot of players out from actually going to see him. Instead, you can find Xur this week at The Reef so make sure to spawn there if you want to grab the new loot. When you load into this area take a right down the staircaseand you should see Xuron the lower level in one of the open side rooms.
This week he has brought some Rise of Iron loot for the Warlocks, along with some genuinely solid weapons and armor. In addition to his usual gear, you can also purchase two Weapon Ornaments from him for the price of 25 Silver Dust a piece. The two designs this week are Superspy for the Monte Carlo and Bureau of Aeronautics for the Khvostov 7G-0X. There is also a Legacy GauntletEngram in case you were looking to try and fill out your collection of Year 1 exotics.
Twilight Garrison
Roll: Intellect/Discipline
Armor: Chest Piece
Cost: 13 Strange Coins
Unique Perk: You can evade while in the air.
The Twilight Garrison is one of the best exotics for PvP minded players. Giving the Titan an ability to dodge out of the way is incredibly valuable and can certainly save your life. However, you can also use this special ability to close the gap between you and your enemies. Theres a lot of neat tricks you can pull off with this exotic in the Crucible so make sure to grab this if you dont own it. In terms of PvE there are better choices, as the dodge doesnt come into play nearly as much when fighting against the A.I.
Celestial Nighthawk
Roll: Intellect/Strength
Armor: Helmet
Cost: 13 Strange Coins
Unique Perk: Golden Gun fires one shot with 6x damage, while granting Keyhole for overpenetration.
Its like Bungie wants us to farm the Omnigul Strike for loot. This exoticis a fantastic choice for the PvE minded Guardian who is looking to add a bit more punch to their Golden Gun shot. While this ability never really factors into PvP, its a great pickup for those who like to use the Gunslinger class in Strikes or even the raids. It also should be noted that the Celestial Nighthawk is a must have for those looking to farm Omnigul for high-end loot.
TransversiveSteps
Roll: Discipline/Strength
Armor: Leg
Cost: 13 Strange Coins
Unique Perk: Faster movement speed while crouching. Ammo pickups automatically reload that weapon type.
This brand new exotic from Rise of Iron is certainlyinteresting, though its had to truly tell the breath of its capabilities since it just released. Yet, if you are a Warlock and looking to run the raid this weekend I would suggest grabbing these. Given we know one section has us running for our lives being able to auto reload your weapons could save you some precious seconds while on the move. I will be picking these up myself, so make sure to snag your own pair of fancy, glowing boots.
Monte Carlo
Primary Weapon: Auto Rifle
Cost: 23 Strange Coins
Unique Perk: Dealing damage with this weapon reduces your melee cooldown and grants a chance to fully charge your melee with each kill.
If you are looking for a generally strong all around weapon look no further than the Monte Carlo. This is a very powerful gun for both PvE and PvP thanks to the benefit of constantly resetting your melee ability. If you run a very close quarters focused build such as a Voidwalker or Striker then this can help push your build over the edge. Plus, Xur is selling an Exotic Ornament for the gun so you can trick it out before taking it out into the field.
Its important to note that all of the gear from Xur will be sold at 350 Light, which means he can help rank you us if youre struggling. Even if you have these exotics, it might be worth buying one or two for the sake of infusing them into your current gear. Now get out there Guardians and good luck to all of those running the Wrath of the Machine raid today.
Vin Scully talks memorable call and more with Colin - "The Herd" (FULL INTERVIEW) The Man
We always describe him as "a broadcaster." But to call Vin Scully just "a broadcaster" doesn"t begin to approach what his name represents, especially on his turf in Southern California.
John Lowe (Longtime friend and baseball writer): "I"ll never forget something I read (from) H.L. Mencken. He said about Beethoven: "The artist can be no greater than the man." And that makes me think of Vinny, because the reason you"re hearing so many stories about him, and the reason he is so beloved and so brilliant, is that he"s a great man. He"s a great artist because he"s a great man."
Fred Claire (Former Dodgers PR director and GM): "I can remember I had just started with the Dodgers, and there was this young guy who was just starting with the radio station. He wanted to interview Vin. I"ll never forget this. So he came in, and Vin said, "Sure, I"ll do it." And so the young man hit the recorder and talked to Vinny. Vinny spent at least 40 minutes with him. The young man came back to me, and ... he"s shaking. He said, "Fred, I didn"t hit the right button. The recorder didn"t work" -- literally in tears. So he said, "Could I just have a few more minutes?" And so I went to Vinny and explained what happened. It"s a young guy interested in announcing. And Vinny said, "Let"s do it again. Let"s do it again." I don"t know anyone else who would do that. "Let"s do it again." Think about that. That has to do with his compassion, his humanity and something that"s part of his grace and his memory of a young announcer starting out himself who got a helping hand."
Dennis Gilbert (Longtime friend and agent, current White Sox special assistant): "Vin and his wife are America"s greatest love story. ... It"s the respect they have for each other, the caring they have for each other, the courtesy. I mean, he"s still opening her car door, he"s still -- they hold hands."
Ned Colletti (Former Dodgers GM, current Dodgers senior advisor): "Now, as the world gets different and it gets faster and more impersonal and all those things are changing, when I think about Vin and I talk to Vin, even as of today, he"s like the comforting soul that reminds me of what it was. It"s still in present tense for him -- how he is and how he treats people and his tremendous respect and passion for the game of baseball.
Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully talks to sportswriter Rick Reilly during a March 1985 spring training game in Vero Beach, Florida. Bernstein Associates/Getty Images
Dennis Gilbert: "There was a gentleman who was 90 years old who wanted to meet Vin. ... So we go into the press box, and Vin sits there, and they"re chatting for about 10 minutes, and then he had to excuse himself to get ready for the game. Well, the next day I hear from the gentleman"s son, just saying how his father says his life is now complete. It was one of the greatest moments of his life to meet Vin. And I called Vin to tell him. ... Vin said, "Thank ME? I want to thank HIM because of what a great experience it was for me just to meet the gentleman." How about that?"
A.J. Ellis (Former Dodgers catcher): "You can catch him (in the clubhouse) on Sunday mornings on the way to Mass. He comes in and gets coffee. (One Sunday,) Brandon (McCarthy) and I are the only two guys in the clubhouse. And Vin comes in and starts chatting. ... And all of a sudden his phone rings, and he says, "Sorry, boys, excuse me." He"s always so polite. So he says, "Yes, dear. Oh thank you for reminding me. Yes, dear." (Then he says,) "Gentlemen, if you would excuse me, today is one of my grandchildren"s birthdays. We have a tradition in our family that I have to sing to her." And he steps into the players" bathroom and you can hear him singing "Happy Birthday" over the phone to his grandchild. Me and Brandon are looking at each other like, OK, this is unbelievable. Here"s Vin Scully in his great baritone voice, singing "Happy Birthday" as it echoes through the bathroom of the clubhouse."
The Reluctant Megastar
He lives and works in the town where more Americans chase stardom than anywhere else. But somehow, Hollywood"s only 88-year-old rock star is a man who spends every day of his life aiming the spotlight away from himself.
Charley Steiner: "L.A. is the city of stars. Name any star you want, from Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, on and on and on and on. My contention is Vin is THE star. In the city of stars, he is the biggest star of them all. Because everybody listens to him, everybody loves him, and he has been the soundtrack of their stars since 1958."
Ned Colletti: "I don"t know that I know anybody else like him -- with the reverence of the people, with the adoring public that he has and how many people speak so kindly of this man every day. And yet he is the most humble man I"ve ever known."
Fred Claire: "I think the last time I saw Vin earlier this year, he was being honored by the L.A. Sports Council at a significant dinner in Los Angeles. And ... he said, "Fred, let"s go over here. There"s a reception area, and we can visit." ... We were talking and having a glass of wine, and I think both of us were kind of locked into the conversation. But what was happening was I could see over my shoulder there was a crowd of people forming. ... It was incredible because everyone wants to tell him how much they think of him. How much they love him. How much he means to them and to their families. And Vinny is so gracious that he can"t refuse anybody. ... It would be overwhelming if it wasn"t for Vinny being on the receiving end."
Rick Monday (Current Dodgers broadcaster): "I grew up in Southern California, Santa Monica. ... My mother was a single parent, and we had Vinny and Jerry Doggett in my mom"s car when the Dodgers played, and they were in our homes. They were already our friends. ... (Later in life, when I got to the big leagues) my mother knew that I obviously was in the major leagues, but I really truly believe that the first time it really struck home for her was when her son was playing in a major league game against the Dodgers, and my mother heard Vin Scully mention her son"s name."
Ned Colletti: "My daughter, Jenna, interned for the Dodgers a few years ago. ... So she got to know Vin, and he became her favorite Dodger. And when she got married ... Vin read the bridal party introductions on tape. So he surprised everybody at the ceremony. This was in Chicago. When the people heard his voice, the whole place erupted. ... It"s hard to steal the show from a bride and groom at a wedding, but for a couple of minutes, a guy who surely didn"t want to steal the show from anybody at any point, stole the show. ... We"ll forever be grateful for the humility and the love that he showed."
Bob Costas: "Somewhere around 1994, "95, I was interviewing Ray Charles for an NBC news magazine and probably spent a couple of hours talking with him. ... Then, when we"re done and the cameras had been turned off, he says to me, "You know who I would really like to meet?" And I"m thinking, "He"s Ray Charles. He could have met just about anybody he"d wanted to have met throughout the course of his life. Who might it be?" ... "Vin Scully." And I say, "Why?" And he says, "Well, because I love baseball. But you have to understand, to me the picture means nothing. It"s all the sound. And Vin Scully"s broadcasts are almost musical, so I enjoy baseball so much more listening to him." ... So I set it up with Vin and took Ray to Dodger Stadium. I was sitting across from Ray, and there was an empty seat awaiting Vin"s arrival, and Vin came walking through the door wearing -- as I remember -- a royal blue jacket, the way he is always turned out for a baseball broadcast. And as he walked toward Charles, he said, "Ray, my name is Vin Scully, and it"s a pleasure to meet you." He might as well have said, "A pleasant good evening to you wherever you may be," because that"s how it struck Ray. And then they sat down, and we had a combination baseball and music discussion. Vin had a nice experience. And Ray Charles -- and I mean this sincerely -- he"s Ray freaking Charles -- I believe he had one of the great experiences of his life."
The Style
He has been the Dodgers" television voice for decades, but if you listen closely to Vin Scully on the airwaves, you can still hear a man who was raised on radio. And even he admits that all those years filling in the "blank canvas" on radio have helped him carve out a style unlike anyone else in the booth.
Jon Miller (San Francisco Giants broadcaster): "I think that he has a great grasp of how to do the television, (but) it"s all firmly grounded in his ability to do radio and how he was brought up in the business as a radio guy. ... There are plenty of guys who are on TV ... where they just sit and chit-chat, the two guys chit-chatting back and forth as pitches are being made. And, you know, Vinny, that"s not his style. He likes to give you the next pitch, to digress for a moment from this story, and then the pitch, and then back to the story. ... You know, in radio, you have to describe every pitch to people. It didn"t happen until you described it to people on radio. That"s just a total, basic fundamental of radio."
Bob Costas: "You know, (Red) Barber, when he first started doing games on television, he very tersely put it: "On radio, a broadcaster"s No. 1. On television, he is a distant No. 2. Your job on radio is to paint the picture. Your job on television is to put a caption beneath a picture that already exists." When he first said that, that sounded like, yes, that"s right, and for the most part, it is right -- except Vin, who obviously had great regard for Barber and owes him a debt as his mentor, Vin didn"t just put a caption beneath a picture. He put a frame around it, and he added shadings to it. So, yes, for Vin there is a difference between radio and television, but my impression is that he didn"t see it as much of an either/or as Red did. Red saw them as distinctly different. Vin saw a way to meld them."
John Lowe: "The year that Ichiro was going to break the George Sisler hit record, of course Sisler played a 154-game schedule and Ichiro was playing a 162-game schedule. So Vinny wants to bring this up without, I think, making it sound like he"s criticizing Ichiro. Ichiro did have a tremendous year. But to bring up this issue of the 154 versus the 162, he tells the TV audience, "Just between us." "
Bob Costas: "If you watch any other game, no matter how good the announcer is, no matter how good they are, there is always some obstacle or some maze that they have got to make their way through if they are going to tell even one or two of the dozen or so stories like that Vin tells during a game. So he"s a uniquely talented announcer, but if a 30-year-old Vin Scully came along today, the circumstances could never be duplicated. The business might not know what to do with him. The importance of radio would be much less. You would never have anything that would match the odyssey of the Dodgers (or) the importance of Jackie Robinson. The transplant from Brooklyn to the West Coast, the broken hearts in Brooklyn, the whole new vistas of baseball on the West Coast. And then the metabolism of the society of the game changing. But he is grandfathered in, and I mean that in the nicest way. So the very things that appeal to people about him are the opposite of most sports TV does. It"s like we can"t get enough of this, and we can"t stop doing the exact opposite."
The Calls
He was there for Sandy Koufax"s perfect game 51 Septembers ago. He was there when Hank Aaron launched No. 715 and changed the world. And of course Vin Scully was there when Kirk Gibson hit a World Series home run off Dennis Eckersley that belonged in a Hollywood script. It"s a reminder that a funny thing happens when a man spends 67 years of his life describing baseball games. His voice, his words, can become almost as big a part of history"s biggest moments as the moments themselves.
Charley Steiner: "You know, we"re running down now, during each game, his top 20 calls of all time. It"s very cool. And for me, there have been so many. But the one call to me that kind of sticks out more than the others is the Gibson home run: "She. Is. Gone." Lays out. He"s not screaming, but you could hear the excitement in his voice. Then there is that moment, as Gibson is running around the bases ... he comes up with this line: "In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened." And I"m thinking to myself, no mortal can do that."
Kirk Gibson (On how Scully inspired him to bat that night): "What happened was, I had several injections in each leg. I was in the training room. He kind of kept painting the game initially as no Kirk Gibson because I wasn"t available. I wasn"t going to play. So they kind of painted that as the game went on. I"d listen to it and I"d put ice on my legs on and off, on and off. I had no inclination I"d be able to play. ... Then, when they got to the eighth inning, before they cut out (for a commercial), they cut to the dugout again. We were trailing by one run now, and they said, "Kirk Gibson will not be playing tonight." And I just got up and said, "My a*s." ... I said, "Go get Tommy [Lasorda]." We hear Tommy [swearing]. Tommy says, "Leave me alone," basically. ... I said, "Hit Davis eighth. I"ll hit for the pitcher." He goes, "OK." ... As I was sitting there watching the game, I kinda started dreaming a moment in my mind. I"d get up there and I"d have a special moment and I started to feel what it would feel like. ... And it just took place. And you hear the calls after it ... "She. Is. Gone." "
Jon Miller (On Aaron"s 715th): "Henry Aaron hits one of the all-time epic historic home runs in the history of the sport, and Vinny gives a vivid description of it ... and (then) Vinny did not say anything for, I don"t know, almost a full minute after that. There was just the roar of the crowd in Atlanta and the fireworks going off. And even though it was just a radio broadcast -- he was only on the radio that night -- there it all was, as if you were right there in the ballpark. You could hear it. You could almost feel it. Then he came back in and he painted the picture not just of what was going on, but of the actual significance of the moment. Of who Henry Aaron was and what he had just done. And then the largest significance, of Henry Aaron being a black man in the deep South in the United States, having broken this cherished record by one of the most popular figures in the history of baseball, a record that a lot of people did not want to see broken. And 50,000 people are on their feet in the Deep South, cheering for this black man. ... And I just remember thinking, "That"s the greatest bit of extemporaneous live play-by-play sports broadcasting in maybe the history of the medium." "
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Hank Aaron"s mother "threw her arms around his neck; kissed him for all she was worth," Scully described after Aaron hit homer No. 715 to pass Babe Ruth on the all-time list in 1974.
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Bob Costas (On Koufax"s perfect game): "You know, people who were at that game and had transistor radios were still listening to Scully. They could watch it, but they were still listening to Scully and his eye for detail -- "Sandy removes his cap ... wipes his index finger across his left brow, dries it off on his left pant leg, readjusts the bill of his cap. I imagine that the mound at Dodger Stadium must be the loneliest place in the world. There are 29,000 people here ... and about a million butterflies." He described all the little things, like the people in the bullpen who were pressing towards the fence to get a better look, and what the butterflies that the infielders must be feeling, like, "G*d, please don"t let one get through me and mess up a perfect game." And you have to also remember that, although (Jim) Bunning has pitched one the year before, Don Larsen and Bunning"s perfect games were the only perfect games that had been pitched since 1922. So a perfect game was a tremendous rarity. It seems to have come more frequently since. So not only was it a rarity, but it was at Dodger Stadium, and it was Sandy Koufax. ... When Koufax comes along, Vin is not that much older than Sandy. Sandy throws a perfect game (at age) 29. And Vin is, what? 35? 36? They are both kind of at the peak of their respective lives. ... Just as Koufax was an elegant pitcher, Scully is the most elegant of baseball broadcasters."
Jerry Reuss (Former Dodgers pitcher on the thrill of having Scully describe his no-hitter): "Oh, did he ever set the stage. ... I posted it on my Flickr site, and it"s about two and a half minutes long, and you get to see the final inning about how he did it. For me, it"s the most memorable highlight that he ever did. You know, I still can (hear the way he called it), and because of the way that it was done and watching the whole ball game, I still remember the excitement. h**l, I saw the game. I pitched the game. But by the way Vin describes it, it"s the closest I can get to reliving it."
Rick Monday (On how he treasures the tape of Scully describing how he rescued the American flag from a protestor in 1976): "For years and years, all I had was that audio. And then (in) "84 ... I met a gentleman ... in Tom Lasorda"s office who was with one of the movie studios. He said, "Hey, I was at a buddy of mine"s house who"s with a different studio, and he showed me the video tape of the flag." And I said ... "I"ve never seen that; nobody knows it exists." And he messaged it over to me that night. So I"ve been hanging on the words of Vinny to recreate that for years, and then all of a sudden, here"s this video. When you look at the video and you match it with Vinny"s talk, it"s like Vinny was standing not just up in the booth sitting there. It"s like he was right by my side as I was going over. To this day, when I hear Vinny make the call -- and I"ve heard it maybe a few hundred times ... I get goosebumps."
Bob Costas: "Many of the all-time great announcers have truly great and still resonant calls of great moments. Some are every bit as good as Vin"s best calls. But what generally sets Vin apart is all the stuff leading up to it. To really appreciate Vin, you don"t listen to just Harvey Kuenn, the last out of the (Koufax) perfect game. You listen to the whole inning. And you listen to (Kirk) Gibson"s or watch Gibson"s whole at-bat, which was an exceptionally long at-bat because it went to 3-2, and there were foul b***s, and he was limping around and gathering himself, and he had to come out of the dugout, and it was very dramatic. You had to note that he put his uniform on, and now he was present in the dugout -- all those things. It"s when you listen to all of it ... that is where Vin separates. Not necessarily the call of the home run, or of the strikeout, or of the great catch, but of all the atmospherics, everything that led up to it."
