Bryan Cranston gets nostalgic while remembering the great Vin Scully - "In a season filled with unprobables, the impossible has happened"
"Breaking Bad" superstar Bryan Cranston has always been vocal about his idol, the late Vin Scully. Cranston regularly spoke about the fact that Scully was his idol growing up and that he made him fall in love with the Dodgers franchise.
Scully was an immaculate sportscaster who spent 67 seasons calling games for the Dodgers, beginning in 1950, when the team was still in Brooklyn. His voice resonated with the masses as he enthusiastically commented throughout the game and always had some major memories to share with the massive crowds inside Dodger Park.
Bryan Cranston discussing Vin Scully on the latest episode of Hot Ones is making me emotional. https://t.co/qspM4sw9za
"In a season filled with unprobables, the impossible has happened," Cranston quoted Scully's immortal line on "Hot Ones."
On the episode of "Hot Ones," Bryan Cranston got nostalgic as the interviewer asked him about his relationship with the great Vin Scully, to which Bryan very humbly replied that Scully was his "lifelong idol." The "Breaking Bad" star quoted some of Vin's phrases from the 1980s but asserted that the one from 1988 was his favorite.
Scully uttered the phrase when an injured Kirk Gibson pinch hit a towering, two-run walk-off home run on an offspeed pitch by Oakland A's closer Dennis Eckersley. The blast came with two outs and and a full count in the bottom of the ninth, and the Dodger Stadium crowd went berserk as the Dodgers won 5-4.
Vin Scully calling Kirk Gibson’s walk-off home run in the 1988 World Series.
Iconic.
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"Vin Scully calling Kirk Gibson’s walk-off home run in the 1988 World Series. Iconic," Bleacher Report tweeted.
Bryan Cranston shared a special bond with Vin Scully
Bryan Cranston shared that he had a troubled childhood, but he used to find solace and a sense of comfort in Scully's commentary during baseball games. Bryan said that he used to just put on Vin’s commentary and sit in peace for hours, feeling a sense of security during trying times.
Tonight, @BryanCranston met his hero, Vin Scully. http://t.co/W25vJxvNgT
"Tonight, BryanCranston met his hero, Vin Scully," the Los Angeles Dodgers tweeted.
The actor, who played the character Walter White, got the chance to meet his idol in 2014 and see him at work from the pressbox at Dodger Stadium, much to Bryan's elatio. He didn't want to leave Scully's company that day and was always seen with a smile on his face when both of them got photographed by the LA Dodgers photographers.
Scully celebrated the arrival of spring by reciting the famous "People will come" monologue from "Field of Dreams" during his final season in the booth. He did this by simultaneously moving forward and back in time. He said on air that he needed the fans more than they needed him on his final day in the booth that fall.