{"database": "pelican", "table": "content", "rows": [["ryan", "musings", "Twelve years ago today Steve Finley hit a Grand Slam in the 9th to clinch the\nNL West title against the Giants. Today, the Dodgers have already won the NL\nWest title so we won't have anything like that again, but it is Vin Scully's\nlast game to be called. EVER.\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\nI remember watching Dodgers games on KTLA with my grandmother in the 80's. I\nthought baseball was slow and boring, but the way that Vin would tell stories\nwas able to keep me interested.\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\nVin is able to call a game, with no emotion, just tell the story of the game.\nDropping tidbits about this player or that player. Always knowing more about\nthe people in the game while also knowing so much about the game.\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\nHe's quite literally seen everything. From perfect games to triple plays. He\ncalled Hank Aaron's historic record breaking home run. He even saw a pitcher\nthrowing a perfect game through 7 get pulled (I'm looking at you DAve\nRoberts).\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\nIn the last game he ever called the Dodgers are in playoff form. This ... is\nnot a good thing. The Dodgers are historically an awful performing playoff\nteam, and so far, they have managed to lose 4 of their last 5 and are working\non making it 5 of 6.\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\nIt's a dark and dreary day in San Francisco. It's raining in San Francisco.\nKenta Maeda is pitching for the Dodgers.\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\nDodgers first out of the game is a Stikeout of Hunter Pence ... but the\nDodgers are down 0-2. Might be a long one today\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\n...\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\nThe game ended not with a win, but a whimper as the Dodgers lost to the Giants\n7-1.\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\nAs Vin gave his last call it wasn't a great call like Charlie Culberson's Home\nRun to win the West (and the game) last weekend. It was a pop fly that sent\nthe Giants back to New York to face the Mets.\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\nFive years ago I never wanted him to retire. This season, I'm glad he decided\nto put the microphone up. A little slower in the outfield, not quite as quick\nwith the bat, still the greatest broadcaster that ever lived.\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\nVin was teaching lessons all those years, not just calling games. It was only\nin his last season, his last game, that I really was able to hear them.\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\n_Realize that you are blessed to do what you do._\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\n_Don't be sad that something has ended, but be happy that it had started._\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\nThe last one gets me in a way I can't quite describe. Maybe it's where I'm at\nin life right now, maybe it's that it would resonate with me regardless, but\nit is a nice reminder, that life is what you make of it. Don't be sad that a\nthing has ended, but instead be happy that you had a chance to have it happen\nat all.\n\n    \n    \n    </p>\n    \n\nGreat words Vin. Thank you\n\n", "2016-10-03", "vins-last-game", "Twelve years ago today Steve Finley hit a Grand Slam in the 9th to clinch the\nNL West title against the Giants. Today, the Dodgers have already won the NL\nWest title so we won't have anything like that again, but it is Vin Scully's\nlast game to be called \u2026\n\n", "Vin's Last Game", "https://www.ryancheley.com/2016/10/03/vins-last-game/"]], "columns": ["author", "category", "content", "published_date", "slug", "summary", "title", "url"], "primary_keys": ["slug"], "primary_key_values": ["vins-last-game"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8010556921362877}