Legendary Dodgers Broadcaster Vin Scully Was an Ardent Foe of Socialism
August 04, 2022
Legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully passed away at the age of 94 on Tuesday, leaving behind a great legacy in sports broadcasting, but aside from his boundless enthusiasm for baseball, Scully also had an abiding disgust for the failures of socialism.
That disgust really came out during a game between his beloved Dodgers and the Milwaukee Brewers back in 2016 when Brewers infielder Hernan Perez, a native of socialist Venezuela, came to the plate.
As Perez stepped up to the plate, the Hall of Fame broadcaster announced his name and told the audience where Perez was from. Then he let both barrels loose on socialism.
“Socialism failing to work, as it always does, this time in Venezuela,” Scully told the fans. “You talk about giving everybody something free and all of a sudden, there’s no food to eat. And who do you think is the richest person in Venezuela? The daughter of Hugo Chavez. Hello!”