GOAT broadcaster Vin Scully explains the meaning of GOAT
Vin Scully, in his 67th season as a Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster, hails from an era when you'd be lucky to catch a sports game on TV.
These days, digitally addicted young sports fans furiously shout into the wind on social media and throw around acronyms like GOAT to describe the players they admire.
What does GOAT mean? Let the 88-year-old Scully explain. It's adorable.
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Scully broke it down during Monday's game between the Dodgers and San Diego Padres. Here's video.
Scully's excellent explanation comes in the form of recounting an encounter between Padres outfielder Jon Jay and Michael Jordan, considered the greatest basketball player of all time.
"When he talks about meeting Michael Jordan in the shoe store, he refers to him as the GOAT," Scully intones over the game. "'GOAT?' Why is Michael Jordan 'GOAT'?
"'No no,' he said," Scully continued. "'G-O-A-T.' Greatest of all time.'" You ever heard that?"
And there you have it, straight from Scully, a man many consider the sports broadcasting GOAT.
Conclusion: It is awesome and very cute when elders earnestly explain current pop culture phenomena.
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Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.
