Yesterday, I was telling a friend that “someone told me” the explanation for the phrase, “dog days of summer.” I told her the whole story about how the ancient Romans believed that these hot, humid days were the result of the anger of Sirius, the “Dog Star” and that they sacrificed a brown dog at the beginning of what they believed to be this evil period in order to be spared Sirius’ wrath.
She looked at me and said, “Who told you that? Vin Scully maybe? He told me and about another gazillion people the same thing–over the radio! You take all conversations with Vin so personally?”
Uh, yeah.
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Vin Scully throws out so many facts during a game. Some of them are a little boring. I don’t really care that so-and-so went to the same high school as his current rival. Others are pretty cool, and it keeps you in to the game.