Tonight, 7:32 pm, during the Dodger game, regarding the LAPD:

“The thin blue line between us and the jungle.”

Not exactly the best choice of words, given some of the notorious chapters in the LAPD’s history.

I’m sure he didn’t mean the implication. I’m sure he’d be horrified if he ever hears about it. Everyone eventually says something that carries a meaning they didn’t intend, and for a lot of people, it’s probably at least once a day. Vin has been on the air for, what, 10,000 hours in his life? And now he says exactly one objectionable thing. It would be different if he had a track record or a past as a shock jock or something. But he doesn’t. This is Vin Scully here. I think we can just wince painfully, appreciate the sentence’s pure badness as a form of accidental art, and move on.

I only mention it because if it can happen to Vin freakin’ Scully, one of the most beloved and gentle broadcasters in the history of baseball, it can happen to any of us.

If there’s any controversy about it — and who the hell knows these days — let’s be clear about the feeling in this corner.

Mulligan.

Yikes.