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Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully is set to retire at the end of the MLB season, and he is making the media rounds talking about the final days of his unmatched 67-year career. During an appearance on "The Dan Patrick Show" yesterday, Scully said he did not want to plan out what he said in his final broadcast, saying, "I’ve never planned." Scully: “I really don’t want to make a big deal out it because it’s already been made a big deal out of it. I’m appreciative, but I’m also embarrassed. I’ve never wanted to get out in front of the game, and for a long time I was able to keep that game center stage and I was the voice off in the wings. Now that it’s my last year ... it’s become kind of a big deal. It is embarrassing. Most appreciative, but embarrassing." He said his main goal is not to "breakdown on the air." Scully's last call will be on Oct. 2 as the Dodgers face the Giants, and he is “relying on the Giants and the Dodgers to making it a good game and an exciting game so I can do what I love to do: Keep the game out in front and I’ll hide behind it” ( “The Dan Patrick Show,” 9/19 ). Scully today appeared on NPR's "Morning Edition" and said that he first became interested in baseball with the '36 Yankees-Giants World Series, so his final game "will be exactly 80 years to the day when I first discovered baseball." Scully said of his retirement, "I didn't feel that it would be right that I would try to continue broadcasting when I'm going to be 90, God willing, next year. ... The only reason that I would want to do baseball would be for some selfish reason, and I don't want to do that" ( "Morning Edition," NPR, 9/20 ).