Remembering Vin Scully: Late sports broadcast legend slammed socialism during 2016 MLB game

Retired Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully speaks for the duration of a pregame ceremony honoring language broadcaster Jaime Jarrin inducting him into the Dodger Stadium Ring of Honor at Dodger Stadium on September 2, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Visuals)
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In the wake of the death of sporting activities broadcasting legend, Vin Scully, social media people have been flocking to a viral clip from a 2016 L.A. Dodgers baseball game in which the commentator verbally annihilated socialism.
In the small clip, Scully – who died on Tuesday at the age of 94 – built some blunt remarks on the failures of socialism, in specific the failures of the socio-economic program in Venezuela, throughout an MLB activity in between the L.A. Dodgers and the Milwaukee Brewers. The video clip was shared by athletics commentator Clay Travis to his Twitter site on August 3 to mark Scully’s passing.
“Socialism failing to operate as it constantly does,” Scully commented. “This time in Venezuela,” he ongoing.
“You talk about offering everybody one thing no cost and all of a sudden there’s no food to eat,” Scully remarked, savaging both equally the Venezuelan federal government which ushered in socialism underneath Hugo Chavez, and also giving a modest rebuke at Democratic socialists here in the United States.
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As the Dodgers pitcher lined up for his toss, Scully ongoing admonishing socialism and the predatory elites in Venezuela. “And who do you think is the richest individual in Venezuela?” he questioned. “The daughter of Hugo Chavez. Hello there,” he said, answering himself.
He then nonchalantly returned to commenting on the sport, “In any case, -2.”
Scully’s legendary profession in sports broadcasting included contacting the recreation when Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s dwelling operate file in 1974, and pitcher Sandy Koufax’s perfect video game in 1965. He was the Dodgers’ primary broadcaster from 1950 until finally his retirement in 2016, at the age of 88.

Former Dodger Announcer Vin Scully provides a speech through the Dodgers’ Ring of Honor ceremony for Scully right before an MLB video game among the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers on May well 3, 2017, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, CA.
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Scully also called NFL game titles on CBS from the mid-seventies through the early 1980s.
However typically reticent to explore politics, Scully spoke about his political sights on other events. At an function in Pasadena California in 2017, he declared he would under no circumstances watch a different NFL match again in reaction to players protesting the national anthem in advance of taking part in.
“And it can be not that I am some terrific patriot. I was in the Navy for a yr. Didn’t go any place. Failed to do anything. But I have overpowering regard and admiration for any person who places on a uniform and goes to war,” he claimed at the time. Scully additional, “So the only thing I can do in my very little way is not to preach. I will under no circumstances enjoy a different NFL video game.”
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Corridor of Famer Sandy Koufax and former Dodger Manager Tom Lasorda unveil the Vin Scully plaque in the Dodgers’ Ring of Honor right before an MLB sport concerning the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers on Could 3, 2017, at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, CA.
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