Vin Scully has been one of the privileges of moving to Los Angeles.

My wife and I moved from New England, where there hasn't been a National League team since the Braves moved to Milwaukee. We started watching Dodger games and listening to Vin Scully announce.

One night he suddenly says, "ever been to Curaçao?" He was talking about Kenley Jansen's home country. He began talking about the country between his clean descriptions of the action. It just struck us as the weirdest yet fully researched thing to talk about in the middle of a televised ball game.

We noticed that Vin would get looser and have what we took to calling Curaçao moments after the sixth inning in each game. They've come to be our favorite part of following the Dodgers: that someone that ice skated against Jackie Robinson is still the single best announcer in all of baseball.

It takes five other people to fill in when the team isn't playing in California. None of them have the focus and background. Together, they start watching players in the dugout knock the salt off their sunflower seeds. As Vin says, "let's get back to the action in this game."