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          Jon Miller Does a Japanese and Spanish Vin Scully Impression

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          Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of Vin Scully calling Dodgers games — a truly remarkable feat.

          Several people wrote tributes to Vin including Tony Jackson at ESPNLA, Eric Stephen at TrueBlueLA, and the Associated Press.

          Dodgers announcer Vin Scully showed off his skills in speaking Japanese during the broadcast, teaching viewers how to say “thank you, very much”.

        1. Dodgers announcer Vin Scully showed off his skills in speaking Japanese during the broadcast, teaching viewers how to say “thank you, very much”.
        2. San Francisco Giants voice (and former ESPN Sunday Night Baseball voice) Jon Miller impersonates Vin Scully and former longtime Yankees PA man.
        3. 2 years ago more.
        4. When Scully skipped a game to attend a family wedding, an NBC executive asked Jon Miller to fill in.
        5. He may have worked his entire career for the Dodgers, but he was a lifelong Giants fan.

          6. All of those were lovely tributes to one of my favorite broadcasters of all-time. But there was one tribute that topped them all and it came from Jimmy Traina at SI Hot Clicks. Jimmy linked to an audio clip of Jon Miller (another one of my favorite broadcasters) doing an impression of Vin Scully in both Japanese and Spanish.

          I hadn’t heard these clips in over five years and there’s just as funny now as they were then. Check em out and skip ahead to the 1:30 mark:

          For important background on the impressions, Miller is not mocking Scully; he’s explaining that broadcasters abroad tried to mimic Scully and he was replicating those calls.

          Well, that