Vin Scully started broadcasting for the Dodgers in 1950. 1950 was the last year Connie Mack managed the Philadelphia Athletics. Scully has stated that the last game he is going to call is October 2, 2016 in San Francisco, which is the Dodgers last regular season game.
So Vin Scully will be ending his broadcast career in 2016 where during his first year of broadcasting (1950) there was a major league team being managed by a manager who was born in 1862.
Take Al Spalding together with Connie Mack and Vin Scully, and the entirety of Major League Baseball history can be measured in the careers of just three men.
The Blue Jays went to a six-man rotation for a bit, because they decided their high-performing starting rotation needed the addition of a guy with a terrible ERA, and it obviously didn’t do the team any good. Marco Estrada, especially, was visibly a worse pitcher with an extra day of rest. Last night he started on normal rest and was terrific, as he had been on normal rest before the 6-man-rotation idea.
What’s wonderful about this is the Toronto media is hammering John Gibbons on the six man rotation idea and the fact that it’s stupid, and Gibbons hates being second guessed so he’s sniping back at them. It’s really quite funny, and I like managers finally being called out for the silly, cover-my-ass ways they mismanage pitching staffs.
Dodgers - Rockies got rained out Tuesday, leading to yesterday’s double-header. Rockies win the first game and were cruising to a win in the evening game when the Dodgers decided to be a baseball team again. Down 2-8 after the 7th, they ended up winning 10-8 thanks to Andrew Toles’ ninth inning, two out Grand Slam.
Thankfully I had already gone to bed. My heart couldn’t have taken it. 
Typical Dodgers fan, leaving in the 7th.
Guilty!
silenus, I’m going to go see the Bums play in the Bronx in a couple of weeks. Let’s hope they’re looking more consistently like a real baseball team by then. We’ve got a lot of starting rotation folks who are theoretically going to be back at that point, at least. Only one that really matters, though.
RickJay started the new September/October thread here. That’s what I get for slacking.