{"id":24996,"date":"2022-08-03T09:17:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24996"},"modified":"2022-08-03T09:17:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:17:22","slug":"obit-watch-august-3-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24996","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: August 3, 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"

Vin Scully<\/a>. LAT<\/strong> through archive.is<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For all the Dodgers\u2019 marquee players since World War II, Mr. Scully was the enduring face of the franchise. He was a national sports treasure as well, broadcasting for CBS and NBC. He called baseball\u2019s Game of the Week, All-Star Games, the playoffs and more than two dozen World Series. In 2009, the American Sportscasters Association voted him No. 1 on its list of the \u201cTop 50 Sportscasters of All Time.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

In a poll of fans conducted by the Dodgers in 1976, Mr. Scully was voted the most memorable personality from the team\u2019s first two decades in Los Angeles. In 1982, he was elected to the broadcasters\u2019 wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1995, he received an Emmy Award for lifetime achievement in sports broadcasting.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

Fans came to trust him when the team struggled and he wasn\u2019t afraid to say so. After television took over, his broadcasts retained a familiar tenor; belonging to a generation before instant replay, he still used his words to paint a picture. Every game included shots of children in the stands. Every at-bat, it seems, prompted a quip.<\/a>
\nTalking about an opposing player, Scully once said: \u201cAndre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. \u2026 Aren\u2019t we all?\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

Home life was devoted to children and grandchildren and a reading list that included James Michener as well as books about famous court trials.<\/a>
\n\u201cI\u2019m certainly not an intellectual,\u201d he said. \u201cI just have a fairly curious mind.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mo Ostin<\/a>, music executive.<\/p>\n

The list of artists signed to the constellation of affiliated Warner Bros. labels when they were guided by Mr. Ostin reads like a dream-world music hall of fame. It includes pivotal singers of the 1950s like Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr.; innovators of the 1960s and \u201970s like Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell and the Grateful Dead; and game-changers of the \u201980s and \u201990s like Madonna, R.E.M. and Green Day.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Batgirl”, the movie<\/a>. I’m seeing estimates that this cost between $90 and $100 million, so it’d have to pull in about $300 million to break even. Does Warner Brothers have no confidence that they can make at least $300 million? Doesn’t any superhero movie these days pull in about $300 million in the first week?<\/p>\n

Or is this part of WB’s Machiavellian plan? Announce that they consider the movie to be un-releasable, wait for the Internet clamor to see the movie (insert accusations of sexism and racism), then reverse their decision, release the movie, and hope that public attention gets them to at least break-even? (See “Snyder Cut<\/a>“.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vin Scully. LAT through archive.is. For all the Dodgers\u2019 marquee players since World War II, Mr. Scully was the enduring face of the franchise. He was a national sports treasure as well, broadcasting for CBS and NBC. He called baseball\u2019s Game of the Week, All-Star Games, the playoffs and more than two dozen World Series. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16,80,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-obits","category-sports","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24997,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996\/revisions\/24997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}