It was great to see Vin Scully return to the booth Sunday after missing the Dodgers’ first five home games with a bad cold.

Everyone in LA hopes Scully will go on forever, and he just might. However, the reality is that he is 84-years old. At some point, somebody will take his place.

Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News examined life after Scully in a recent column. He writes the team doesn’t really have a plan for a successor.

Scully, at 84, with a cold, sends a chill down everyone else’s spine. Enough to where you’d think by now the Dodgers, as they are currently constituted amid an ownership change, would have a security blanket ready to wrap everyone in, either for the short term or long term.

They really don’t, according to a variety of sources who spoke off the record about it. That by itself should be unsettling.

While Scully has stayed in bed at his Hidden Hills home the past three Dodgers games, the hope is that he’ll be back sometime this weekend for a Prime Ticket telecast at Dodger Stadium between the San Diego Padres and Dodgers, and we can all breathe easier.

But there are no guarantees. He’s day-to-day, the team says. “Aren’t we all?” Scully once said in what has become a famous line attributed to him.

He also is fond of saying that if you want to make God smile, you tell Him your plans. But that shouldn’t preclude the team to begin accounting for the time when (gasp) Scully disappears like Cheshire Cat, as he said recently, and all that will be left is his smile.

They can keep using a combination of Charley Steiner, Steve Lyons, Eric Collins or Rick Monday, but all that seems to be is a scripted fire drill.