Scully in for Year 60 ... but after that ... ?

There should have been much more fanfare with this than having to have stumbled across it on the Dodgers' Website (linked here), but Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully says that when his current three-year contract runs out at the end of this season, he'll be back for at least one more year in 2009.

That'll give him 60 years with the franchise, at which point he'll be 82 when that deal runs out.

Scully apparently told the team Friday that he was OK with agreeing to another year after his wife, Sandra, said it was all good.

"When you're on the road as much as we are, it's the loneliness of your wife that you consider," Scully said. "But she said, 'It's been such a part of my life for so long, you might as well do it if you want to do it.' And I still enjoy it. I still feel like I'm happy to be here, I still get goosebumps with an exciting play. So, I told Frank (McCourt, club chairman) that I'll try it for another year."

Scully said he will continue with the same broadcasting workload -- calling virtually all home games, plus road games as far east as Colorado. He said he made no commitment beyond 2009.

With a Sports Illustrated story on him this week (linked here), you'd think this kind of news would have come out in that piece.

We have it on background, meanwhile, that Scully told at least one person who contacted us that '09 "will probably be my last season." We have yet to confirm that with him. Stay tuned.