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I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?

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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Voice Actor
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
Write
Didn
Back
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Corinthians
Life
Catholic
Understood

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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
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When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.
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You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
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I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.
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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.
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A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.
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Nothing succeeds like - failure.
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The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.
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My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.'
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