Love Quote by Vin Scully

Scully slips a whole career ethos into a sentence that’s half love letter, half expense report. He doesn’t romanticize baseball as myth; he loves it as labor: "the guys and the game" (the clubhouse human scale) and, just as telling, "the challenge of describing things" (the craft). For a broadcaster, that phrase is the tell. Baseball isn’t only entertainment, it’s raw material for language: dead time, sudden motion, tiny decisions with outsized consequence. He’s confessing that the real addiction is narration itself, the hard pleasure of turning a slow sport into a running story without lying about what’s happening.

Then comes the pivot: "The only thing I hate" isn’t losing, or bad calls, or even the business side. It’s "the loneliness on the road", delivered with a parenthetical nod to adulthood: "pay the bills". That aside works like a quick wink to anyone tempted to envy the job. The subtext is a rejection of the glamour script. Yes, the voice in your living room is living out of suitcases, eating alone, sleeping in anonymous hotels, performing intimacy for millions while missing his own.

It also hints at the strange bargain of sports media in the 20th century: constant travel before today’s always-on connectivity, a job built on belonging (to teams, to fans) that can quietly un-belong you from ordinary life. Scully’s realism makes the devotion credible; the complaint doesn’t sour the love, it proves it.