I don't know if you heard but Vin Scully made his social media debut yesterday. Yup, the 92-year-old decided the time was right to enter the online swamp and start up a Twitter account . I hope it goes well for him. He said he misses the fan interaction and people probably will be mostly civil to such a legend. Scully is one of the few phenomenons in life that everyone on Twitter can agree is a treasure, and hopefully the trolls will leave him alone. Outside of when Scully started becoming the main voice for NBC baseball during the 1980s, I didn't grow up listening to him like many Dodgers fans. And I've had to learn many of his well-known phrases second-hand from fans who repeat them quite often. One of the most-common is "old friend" or "old friend alert." Scully turned the conflicting feeling of seeing a former Dodger on an opposing team, often playing against the Dodgers, into a friendly sentiment. It's become such a popular phrase tha...
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