Now That Vin Scully Is Retired, Is He A Giants Fan Again?

[KamaAina]

http://laist.com/2016/10/03/make_vin_scully_a_giants_fan_again.php

After nearly seven decades in the booth, Scully will now be able to fulfill a fantasy many dream about every day at their desks: saying goodbye to their employer forever. Vin Scully will no longer be there for the Dodgers on game day—does this also mean he will root for the Giants again?

This may sound blasphemous, but even Scully admits his love of baseball started with the Giants. As he has said many times through the years, including during yesterday's game, he remembers being a young boy walking past a Chinese laundry in Bronx and seeing a box score posted on their window: New York Yankees 18, New York Giants 4. "As a little kid, my first thought was, 'Oh, those poor Giants,'" he told the L.A. Times....

Scully's childhood idol was the one and only Mel Ott, the Hall of Fame right fielder for the New York Giants. As a parting gift, the Giants presented Scully with a framed photograph of Ott and a ticket stub to the game where he hit his 500th home run. "He would raise that right leg and hit over 500 home runs," Scully said yesterday, describing Ott's batting stance. "I tried to do it and something happened when I swung the bat, that did not do what Mel Ott did."...

But the most damning piece of evidence that Scully might switch back to his childhood fandom? Let Scully's words explain: "I can root for them now when they go to New York to play the Mets! Darn right!" (The Giants play the Mets on Wednesday night in the National League Wild Card Game.)

Kind of like Michael Bloomberg being a Sox fan while he was mayor of NYC.

[Auggie]

1. Depends on who's paying his pension ...

Though he should have so much dough squirreled away by now that point should moot.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Vin Scully brought his old childhhod NY Giants baseball cap to the park on Sunday

Everyone chuckled because, back in the day, it was essentially Dodgers blue