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Vin Scully: “That is blinkin’ fertilizer”

Vin Scully

FILE - In this July 3, 2002 file photo, Los Angeles Dodgers television play-by-play announcer Vin Scully rehearses before a baseball game between the Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix. Scully, a 1949 graduate, said the biggest baseball game Fordham he played while he was there was against Yale, whose first baseman was George H.W. Bush. Fordham has played baseball every year since 1859, except when the 1944 season was suspended because of World War II. (AP Photo/Paul Connors, File)

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Vin Scully was on the case last night when Jim Tracy came out to argue the catch/trap play on Shane Victorino’s drive to center. Go to around the two minute mark of this video to see his valuable translation services of Tracy’s tirade:

“He caught the blinkin’ ball ... he caught the darn ball ... THAT IS BLINKIN’ FERTILIZER ... you gotta be blinkin’ me ... blinkin’ unbelievable.”

The best part, though, is Scully noting that this whole sequence took way, way longer than any sort of replay procedures would have, thereby undermining the only argument against replay that Joe Torre and Bud Selig ever manage to muster.

Which, even though the umps got this call right, is another argument in favor of replay: it eliminates extended manager arguments. At least if you make a “no arguing replay calls” rule and enforce it with fines and auto-ejections.