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LOS ANGELES -- The three-ring binder chock full of tidbits Vin Scully wants to talk about on the air will soon be flipped shut for the last time. Geronimo Allison Jersey .After Saturday night, the Hall of Fame broadcaster is down to calling four Los Angeles Dodgers games before concluding his 67-year career on Oct. 2 in San Francisco.Im trying very hard not to think about me, he said Saturday during a 50-minute session with the media. I want to think about the game and the importance of the game.The game has always been the thing for Scully, starting in 1950 when he joined Red Barber and Connie Desmond in the Brooklyn Dodgers radio and television booth. Barber was the father figure, Desmond was the big brother and Scully was the 22-year-old kid.Early on, Scully declared on the air that Willie Mays was the best player hed ever seen.An irritated Barber pulled him aside afterward, lecturing, You havent been around long enough to talk about the best player youve ever seen.Connie would put his arm around me, Scully recalled, and say, `Its OK, kid. Lets go get a beer.Scullys broadcasts focus on stories involving the people on the field rather than baseball statistics. He admits having no idea about newer stats like WAR (wins above replacement) or OPS (on base plus slugging percentages).Im not smart enough to keep all those numbers in my head, he said. I got to know the players. I started to treat them like human beings. I would be by the batting cage. A player might come over and say, `You know what happened to the shortstop yesterday? and I would have a story.As the longest tenured broadcaster with a single team in any professional sport, Scully has plenty of stories and an amazing recall of names, dates and occasions that would put most 88-year-olds to shame.Hes used his encyclopedic knowledge working games alone for much of his career, making him an anomaly in todays world of booths jammed with play-by-play, color commentators and analysts talking over each other.Thats not an ego trip on my part, Scully said. Red had the theory: one voice, one man. The one-on-one is really effective.Scullys esteem and influence earned him an offer from Eugene Wyman to run for office in 1964. Wymans wife, Roz, was influential in helping bring the Dodgers west in 1958. Wyman told Scully the Democrats were looking for a candidate to fill the U.S. Senate seat from California. Scully listened politely and asked Wyman for 48 hours to mull it over.I called him and said, `Ive given it a lot of thought, which was not true, I just dont think Im qualified and I think Id be happier doing my baseball games, Scully said.His first Brooklyn Dodgers game on April 18, 1950, was in Philadelphia, having cracked jokes on the way to the ballpark in the back of the bus with Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe, whose friendship with Scully extends to this day.They didnt trust me more than one inning, Scully said, recalling Barber assigned him to call the fourth. I was terrified.Even today, he says, Theres a sense of complete relief when its over with.Eventually, Scully grew as comfortable behind the mic as Dodgers fans did listening to his dulcet voice that has informed and educated generations of Angelenos.Im a very happy person. I love people, he said. When I go on the air, Im happy. The people, thats what I will miss. The people have made me feel so much at home and I think Ive carried that onto the air.The fans paid him back with multiple ovations Friday night during an emotional pre-game ceremony on his appreciation night.I started to cry at the beginning, he said. Ive never heard the noise that we heard. It kept building and staying there. There was love coming out of those stands.Youve heard about being on Mount Olympus. I think I was 5 feet above that.When Scully awakes in his own bed on Oct. 3, hell be unemployed for the first time since 1950.Maybe the first thing Ill do is take my watch off and put it in the drawer and just think I can do anything I want, he said. Ill have breakfast, read the papers, go for a walk and get a book.It wont be painful at all, he said, assuredly.Not for him, but for the rest of us. KaDar Hollman Jersey .5 seconds to play in the game, Kevin Love never stopped believing that they would come out of there with a win. JK Scott Jersey . The parade and rally were held to celebrate the Saskatchewan Roughriders 45-23 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Sunday in the CFLs championship game. http://www.wholesalepackersjerseys.com/?...m-ficken-jersey .C. -- When North Carolina freshman Ryan Switzer reported to training camp in August he was a little miffed to learn he was third on the depth chart at punt returner. Mohali offered box-office material on Saturday and heres hoping enough fans of Charlie Chaplin were watching.It began with Ravindra Jadeja, his body the shape of a slanted A and his mouth a pronounced O as an edge off Alastair Cook whooshed past. What a gag. One of Indias best fielders had missed an honest-to-goodness catch.Then R Ashwin got punked everywhere he went. At short midwicket, he made a silly by dropping a dolly. At mid-on, he misfielded so badly Virat Kohli almost facepalmed. At square leg, in the final hour of the day and just as he thought he had the ball covered, it bounced awkwardly and nearly broke a tooth.The most comedic incident, though, at least as far as the press box was concerned, was the toss. Heads craned as the coin went up, then they were thrown back in laughter as Cook promptly chose to bat. Before the first hour was done, he had been given two lives. None of this sounds like a day that ends with India taking eight wickets, does it?Clearly the bowlers deserve a lot of credit for this turn - only the metaphorical kind was on offer despite fears otherwise - of events. They never let England run away with the game.Mohammed Shami had two chances put down in his first spell. He was asked to create a third by his captain 10 minutes before lunch. He bounced Moeen Ali out.From swapping out the spinner for a quick to the setting of a leg-side trap, that wicket was the culmination of a plan coming together. India had a short leg in place. They had also kept a man about 10 yards inside the boundary at fine leg specifically for the top-edge. Normally on such pitches - slow with not much bounce - that man would be positioned squarer to control the runs. Kohli was gambling. Shami was his ace in the hole.The ball was fast, it rose up towards Moeens head, triggered the instinct to hook and subdued the good sense that would have told the batsman he was trying to drag it from outside the off stump and, as such, his timing would be off. Having gone through a horrible first hour - and that doesnt take into account India losing their first-choice opener KL Rahul to injury again - that was a moment of pure joy. Kohli actually skipped over to the catcher M Vijay to share high-fives.With seven balls to stumps, Umesh Yadav finally convinced an outswinger to overcome its shyness and go hug Chris Woakes off stump. Umesh had been warned for following through on the danger area in his fourth over. Going wider of the stumps eventually helped him trouble the England batsmen more because the right-handers felt they had to play most of his deliveries with the angle into them. After that, it was only a matter of being accurate because he was finding sideways movement - both conventional and reverse.I am improving day by day with the matches that I am playing, Umesh said. I talk to my coaches Anil bhai [Kumble] and Sanjay bhai [Bangar]. Pace comes with a disadvantage. If you dont pitch it right, you will go for runs. They advise me to bowl in one particular area. My impact area is ooutside the off stump from where I can bowl my outswingers and make the batsmen play a lot more. Preston Smith Jersey. Its a bit cold and theres some moisture in the wicket. The ball is moving. Its not that if the wicket is flat the new ball wont swing. New ball will swing if you have faith. Me and Shami know that we can swing it till the ball is new. We are trying to bowl outside off stump channel from where we were getting our outswingers. There is good carry in the pitch also at good pace.Indias spinners werent lagging behind either. Jadejas two wickets were the combination of a tried and tested method - strangling the batsman for runs - enhanced by a new skill: drawing them out of their crease. To accomplish that, a man who has thrived by firing darts at the stumps, bringing bowled and lbw into play, had to deceive his opponents with flight.Jadeja bowled 31 deliveries to Ben Stokes. Twenty-eight of them were dots. Sensing the batsman would be looking for a big shot, he held one back and since he had also tossed it up and put in a lot of work with his action, it drifted away too. Stokes had premeditated his charge, was tricked into driving inside the line and then stumped. This sequence - apart from being a delight to watch - tested the theory that batsmen find it easier to score against the ball turning into them.Ashwin redeemed himself, taking a wicket off his first ball and could well have had Englands top-scorer Jonny Bairstow caught behind for 54. Indias premier spinner may not have been ripping it from one corner to another, but his variations of pace and trajectory were beautiful. When Buttler was new at the crease, playing only his second first-class match since being dropped from the Test side in October 2015, Ashwin fed him a few flatter deliveries to push him back before an offbreak with a considerable amount of overspin came along. The batsman, to his credit, managed to adjust to the extra bounce and pat it down with soft hands. Buttler should have done the same against Jadeja in the 69th over. He couldnt and Englands biggest partnership of the innings - 69 runs for the sixth wicket - was rather tamely broken.Jayant Yadav was the least accurate among Indias bowlers, but it was he who showcased how difficult this pitch could become. Drier at the full and good-length areas, where some crumbling has already happened, it encouraged one ball to go on with the arm to take Bairstows outside edge as he defended inside the line. The next one gripped the deck more and turned sharply to beat the inside edge and pin the right-hander lbw.With India being good, bad and ugly all in one day, the Kohli cam had plenty of work to do. He glared. He fumed. He screamed. He wrung his hands in disgust one minute, high-fived with glee the next. However, after stumps, he was simply a man content. At least until 9.30am on Sunday, when the show would start all over again. 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