I think when I first started, I tried to make believe I was in the ballpark, sitting next to somebody and just talking. And if you go to a ballgame, and you sit there, you're not going to talk pitches for three hours.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of natural conversation and connection in storytelling rather than technical details.
Vin Scully, a legendary sports broadcaster, reflects on his early approach to commentary, suggesting that effective storytelling is more about creating a relatable and friendly atmosphere, much like conversing with a friend at a ballgame, rather than getting bogged down by technical jargon. This highlights the value of personal connection and engaging communication in any narrative, allowing the audience to feel included and immersed in the experience.
In practice
During a workshop on public speaking, this quote could encourage participants to focus on engaging with their audience personally.
The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.
Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.
There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.
Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth.
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