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NLCS GAME 3: REASON TO BELIEVE

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2008-10-12 14:48:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
Kuroda at home could spell heartburn for Phillies hitters in Game 3 Could Hiroki Kuroda and his success against the Phillies this season be enough reason to believe that the Dodgers have more than just a fighting chance of setting this series back on, at the very least, an even keel? Cliff Corcoran at Sports Illustrated seems to think so. That,...
 
 
 
 
 
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NLCS GAME 2: DODGERS (0-2) VS. PHILLIES (2-0)

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2008-10-11 09:20:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
The Chad Billingsley of the NLDS Game 2 fails to arrive in Philly for this second game Ben, Brian, everyone-- Ah, baseball, it is a fickle mistress, fer sure. (Can an it be a mistress? Just asking that question kinda freaks me out.) And that's part of what's fun and fascinating about it, I think. (Not the freaking out part.) While I was...
 
 
 
 
 
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NLCS GAME 1: DODGERS vs. PHILLIES

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2008-10-09 17:12:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
The game starts in six minutes. I'll be working and "watching" it on the computer. Here's Jon Weisman . Go, Blue
 
 
 
 
 
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A FEW HAPPY NOTES ON THE ASCENDANCE OF THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS and other matters of the utmost importance

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2008-10-06 21:33:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
For anyone who actually cares about such things, the news that the Dodgers completed an unexpected sweep of the Cubs Saturday night to clinch a berth in the National League Championship Series will be old news indeed. And certainly unexpected is a bit of an understatementif you believed the conventional wisdom oozing from sports talk radio...
 
 
 
 
 
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NOBODY'S FOOL: PAUL NEWMAN 1925-2008

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2008-09-30 21:56:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
...movies like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, The Color of Money, Absence of Malice , even The Hustler , have never ranked high on my list of great movies, and they would rank about as high on my list of great Newman performances as well. Especially in the 80s, when he began gravitating toward the kind of roles that mixed sleazy...
 
 
 
 
 
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SOUND COMEDY: BURN AFTER READING

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2008-09-25 20:54:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
...movies crowning joke, one whose ultimate comic value will correlate precisely to how much you enjoy indulging in the perspective of that indifferent, omniscient, technological god whose orbiting point of view is restored as the closing credits commence. Were it not so consistently hilarious, full of oddball character moments (Richard Jenkins...
 
 
 
 
 
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NO MORE EXCUSES: 12 I NEED TO SEE

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2008-09-14 23:58:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
...Movies Ive Never Seen and Desperately Want to See Well, as happens with memes of this type, the original intent of the question tends to get warped to the participants own special purposes, and so it is here. Josephs original question included the qualifier that the movies on your list should be ones that are virtually impossible to find....
 
 
 
 
 
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HALLOWEEN 2008 COSTUME TRYOUT

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2008-09-14 20:59:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
My daughter has worn lots of different costumes for Halloween in her eight years. She's been a moo-cow, Mulan (Disney version), Belle (Disney version), Pocahontas (Disney version), Violet Incredible (Disney version), and last year she garnered rave reviews as a Queen (of All She Surveys). But this year, sensing that she'd already sipped a bit...
 
 
 
 
 
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DANGER! DANGER! Dennis Submits to Dr. Zachary Smith's End of Summer Quiz

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2008-09-09 01:00:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
...movies of the 70s, The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno , still pack a punch. The Towering Inferno has the scale (and the chintziness) that most epitomize Allen, but its a much shorter hop from the flaming excess of that burning skyscraper to the dregs of The Swarm and When Time Ran Out than we might like to admit. The Poseidon...