Motormouth Vin Scully?
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Holy run-on sentence: Vin Scully is baseball’s leading blabbermouth, at least according to a Wall Street Journal story.
The financial publication did a study of how many words TV announcers uttered in the first scoreless inning of their team’s broadcast last Friday. And the nearly immortal Scully topped the list at a whopping 143.51 words per minute, well ahead of No. 2 Dan McLaughlin, the St. Louis Cardinals’ announcer with a word count of 109.93.
Of course, the study was only measuring quantity, not quality, and the Journal noted that Scully doesn’t have a color man chatting along with him in the Dodgers broadcast booth.
All told, the study tallied 30 announcers and the word count varied from Scully’s 143.51 down to the San Francisco Giants’ Duane Kuiper, the only announcer who said less than a word per second, at 55.44.
The Angels’ announcer Steve Physioc ranked near the top in terms of brevity, saying 68.26 words per minute.
--Barry Stavro
