Props

Some people are lucky enough to watch a perfect game in person, after all, there have only been 17 in history. It's quite the memorable experience, especially during the 9th inning, when all of the pressure is on, the crowd is paying attention to every individual second, etc. Assuming that an average of 45,000 in paid attendance watched each one, that means that in all 100-plus years of baseball history, only 765,000 fans have personally seen a perfect game at the stadium.

Well, this guy has called three of them.

Props to Vin Scully on 60 years of being one of the best in the business.

He's shared the booth with Joe Gariagiola, John Madden, Jack Buck, and Ronald Reagan, just to name a few. He's also called a college football game from the roof of Fenway Park without a coat or gloves (let me put it this way - Boston is very, very cold). Dana Scully, the X-Files character, is named after him, and yes, he has also won an Emmy.

It'd be great if more announcers would take this page out of Scully's playbook:

CBS Sports Director Red Barber, who hired and trained Scully, told him that if he wanted to be a successful sports announcer he should never be a "homer" (openly showing a rooting interest for the team that employs you, as many more modern sportscasters do), never listen to other announcers, and keep his opinions to himself.

Maybe the Yankees will actually hire someone who isn't a total homer one day.