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Retirement announcements have begun with those of two Met postseason opponents: Alex Gordon of the 2015 Royals and Hunter Pence of the 2016 Giants.


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Frayed Knot wrote:

So now he'll have more time to watch 'Godfather III'


Read earlier in the week that they will be re-releasing that movie with an alternate ending.

He'll be waiting breathlessly for it.

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Not sure what an alternate ending would be since I never saw the original ending ... or the original beginning.

I & II are among my favorite movies of all time but I've never even been tempted to take a gander at III


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Frayed Knot wrote:

Not sure what an alternate ending would be since I never saw the original ending ... or the original beginning.

I & II are among my favorite movies of all time but I've never even been tempted to take a gander at III


If you liked I and II, don't watch III unless they change it. (maybe even if they change the ending)

Trust me (and almost every film reviewer on the planet) on this one.

Later


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And enjoy RC Cola.


I found RC Cola in the vending machine at work the other day...had to buy it for nostalgic sakes...it wasn't as good as I remembered it as a Mets sponsor as a kid...Did not realize that the company formerly known as "Green Mountain Coffee" owns RC Cola nowadays, they make better coffee than soda apparently


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Goodbye Francisco, you showboating bastard. I'm sure that Ronnie is weeping after all of the praise he gave you. Go pump your fist into your face.


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Yonder Alonso has announced his retirement via Instagram, as one is prone to do.


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Frayed Knot wrote:

Not sure what an alternate ending would be since I never saw the original ending ... or the original beginning.

I & II are among my favorite movies of all time but I've never even been tempted to take a gander at III


If you liked I and II, don't watch III unless they change it. (maybe even if they change the ending)

Trust me (and almost every film reviewer on the planet) on this one.

Later


It had a couple of good scenes, and, honestly, it had the potential to be a good movie, while not anything even in the ballpark of the two movies in the series that preceded it. But man, Sofia Coppola, for all of her later-to-emerge directing prowess, was both bad at acting and bad at being good looking.



I never could get past the point that Andy Garcia could bed an in-her-prime Bridget Fonda 30 minutes into that movie but later fall desperately in love with his own ugly cousin.


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Howie Kendrick, a World Series hero in certain circles, retires.

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Former Cubs manager and Dodgers coach Joey Amalfitano is retiring from his player development role for the Giants a couple of weeks shy of 87. Been in baseball since the Giants were in the Polo Grounds (played for ‘em there).





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It's hard not to speculate that the death of Lasorda triggered his choice.



I can't speak to "greatest," but he really was a terrific third base coach.


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I remember Murph always inserting an extra syllable in his name. He pronounced it Uh-mal-UH- fa-ta-no.

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That's a shame. Ten years ago he was looking like a 3,000-hit candidate, and he wound up not getting 2,000. Only three hits since 2017.


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A lot of parallels with David Wright: a beloved lifer with one team whose career fizzled out after being derailed by injuries for several seasons. Too bad there will be no opportunity for Pedroia to play a final game with the Sox. Although, I suspect he'll be back in a coaching position in the not-to-distant future (should he want to do such a thing).


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Yeah, I was thinking of the parallels too.



Pedroia got the Rookie of the Year that Wright ended up missing out on due to a mid-season callup, and the MVP that Wright missed out on due to a not-so-great voting job.



Both also got undermined by one injury compounding another, though I associate much of Wright's premature decline with training rather than with on-the-field mishaps.



Can't write out that collision with Davis, though.


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Cody Allen, Tim Tebow and Jared Hughes are sentimental types who wandered over here from other threads to say, “Bye.”


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