We love our guys Steve Berthiaume and Bob Brenly in the FOX Sports Arizona broadcast booth, but that doesn't mean we can't appreciate the guys calling the shots for the opposing nine.  Especially the one and only Vin Scully, who's in his final season calling Dodgers games.  On Thursday night, Scully riffed on the bad rap given the No. 13 -- a digression triggered by the Diamondbacks scoring the game's first run on an RBI single by Nick Ahmed, who wears the number:  "It's an untrue, old-fashioned belief that No. 13 is an unlucky number. It's a worldwide belief, but it does not hold up ..."  There's much more -- give a listen:  Ahmed wasn't the only Diamondbacks player to inspire words of wisdom from Vin during the three game series. Scully gave L.A. viewers a poignant history lesson in Tuesday's home opener when Socrates Brito came to the plate -- musing on the ancient Greek philosophy superstar Socrates and the poisonous plant that caused his demise:  "I was talking about him earlier, a Greek philosopher, smartest man probably in Greece, started teaching, and the government didn't like what he was teaching, they put him in jail. They tell me, well at least I read, that he could've escaped and he wouldn't do it. He said, 'I wanna go to trial, and prove that they were wrong, and then I want a dinner every night, free.'  "He stayed in jail and eventually drank the hemlock. I guess back in Rome that's the same thing as we say 'well, he must have had the Kool-Aid.' Well, in 470 B.C., or whatever it was, he drank the hemlock. One thing I did look up, so I might as well just tell you, our man Socrates drank the hemlock and they said you would drink it, and you would continue to walk around in your cell and you'd start feeling numb all throughout your body and eventually, adios. But what in the heck is hemlock? That's what bothered me.  "For those of you that care at all, it's of the parsley family and the juice from that little flower, that poisonous plant, that's what took Socrates away."  And then, later in the game, when Brito delivered an RBI triple, he wrapped it up with a Scully-esque bow.  "Socrates Brito feeds the Dodgers the hemlock."  Say, could we maybe petition for a 13-year delay on those retirement plans?
Inspired by Socrates Brito and Nick Ahmed's jersey number, Vin Scully takes viewers where no one else can.