LOS ANGELES _ Los Angeles Dodgers announcer Joe Davis is 29, not even a full year older than Kirk Gibson's home run. He is an active participant on social media, unlike his Hall of Fame predecessor, Vin Scully.
As Scully once told his audience, talking about a tweet: "I called it a 'twit.' But I thought it was a twit, since it's Twitter."
Davis tweets regularly. When one of his followers asked the other day whether Scully and Davis might call one game together this season, Davis shared the tweet with the comment: "Nobody would love that more than me."
In this magical Dodgers season, fans might wish for Scully to come out of retirement, to call one game with Davis, or even one inning of what might be the team's first World Series since 1988.
Scully, 89, said he appreciated the sentiments but had no intention of going back on what he said last year. When he hung up the headset in October in San Francisco, he really did call it a career.
"I'm very careful about that," Scully said. "Fox has been kind every year when the Dodgers get into the playoffs. They've asked me to come in and do an inning or so. I don't want to do that, and I certainly don't want to get in the way of the Dodger broadcasts. They're the ones who have been riding the horse all the way. I would feel very awkward, as if people might think I can't wait to get back in the spotlight.
"It's very thoughtful of Joe and I appreciate his remarks, but, no, I'm done. There's a line rattling around in my head: Once upon a time comes around once."
