Credit FS1 host Colin Cowherd for the comparison Wednesday.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners.If you sign up or place a wager, FOX News may be compensated.
This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom."The Dodgers trying to win a third World Series is starting to have Godfather III vibes to it," he began."Some of the names are familiar.
Al Pacino.Diane Keaton.
Francis Ford Coppola is still directing it.But it feels played.
And the Dodgers feel played out."Brilliant.Cuban-American actor Andy Garcia and American actor Al Pacino are on the set of The Godfather: Part III, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.(Corbis via Getty Images)Now, for some ground rules before sharing the analogy widely.Before you start assigning Dodgers players to actors, understand that Pacino was still excellent in The Godfather Part III.
Shohei Ohtani, universally recognized as the greatest baseball player in the world, has not been.Ohtani had batted under .200 in four straight postseason games.The Dodgers reportedly even considered benching him ahead of Game 3 because of his struggles and injuries.A DODGERS-LESS WORLD SERIES WOULD HURT NOW, BUT HELP MLB LATER | BOBBY BURACKBut if the Dodgers don't somehow surge back from 0-3 and become just the second team in MLB history to overcome such a deficit in an LCS series, the Godfather analogy could hold up remarkably well.The Godfather and The Godfather Part II are two of the greatest films ever made.
The opinion here is that the original is the greatest movie ever and the sequel – which is also partly a prequel – is somewhere in the top 10, maybe the top five.Part III isn't nearly as bad as some movie buffs sometimes portray it.However, it was undoubtedly a profound disappointment compared to the first two films.For one, Coppola cast his daughter Sofia as Mary Corleone.
It didn't work.The romance between Mary and her first cousin Vincent consumed too much ...