Bill Plaschke: Angels' Mike Scioscia manages to impress with lasting power
TEMPE, Ariz. - The interview is interrupted when the smartphone in his pocket rings like a kitchen telephone from 1964.
"That's the one it came with, I just never changed it," Mike Scioscia said with a grin.
The interview is interrupted again when the standard phone on the desk that Scioscia is borrowing also rings.
Scioscia answers it - "Tim Mead's office" - and asks if he can take a message. He takes the message. On a scrap of paper. With a pencil.
"OK, now where were we?" he said.
We're trapped in a time machine, that's where, sitting with the wonderfully old-school "Sosh" at Tempe Diablo Stadium on the first day of spring training as he enters
