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Scully downplays fuss over farewell season

PHOENIX -- Fans dreading the day when they can no longer hear Vin Scully should know the feeling is mutual.

"I'll miss the fans and the sounds of the fans," Scully said Friday, before broadcasting the first Spring Training game of his 67th and final season at the Dodgers microphone.

Speaking at a media gathering, Scully told a story about being an 8-year-old crawling under his family's radio and hearing the roar of the crowd at a college football broadcast "wash over me like water out of a showerhead. I used to get ecstatic over the roar.