Colin Cowherd's comparison of the film Dodgers 2026 to The Godfather Part III is brilliant.

Colin Cowherd compares the LA Dodgers' deep 0-3 hole to The Godfather Part III: familiar names, but the magic has faded.

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Perhaps the best analogy for the staggering 0-3 hole the Los Angeles Dodgers find themselves in is from The Godfather - the third installment in the trilogy.

Credit FS1 host Colin Cowherd for Wednesday's comparison.

"The Dodgers, trying to win a third World Series, have a Godfather III vibe," 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."

Now, for some ground rules before sharing the analogy widely.

Before you start assigning Dodgers players to the cast, know that Pacino was still great in The Godfather Part III. Shohei Ohtani, universally recognized as the best baseball player in the world, has not.

Ohtani had hit under .200 in four straight postseason games. The Dodgers reportedly even considered benching him before Game 3 due to his struggles and injuries.

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But if the Dodgers don't somehow bounce 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 very well be significant.

The Godfather and The Godfather Part II are two of the best movies ever made. The opinion here is that the original is the best movie of all time, and the sequel - which is a prequel in part - is somewhere in the top 10, maybe in the top five.

Part 3 isn't nearly as bad as some movie buffs sometimes make it out to be. However, it was undoubtedly a deep disappointment compared to the first two films.

First, Coppola cast his daughter Sofia as Mary Corleone. This did not work. The romance between Mary and her first cousin Vincent took up too much screen time, as it ultimately did not contribute to the trilogy's conclusion.

The absence of Tom Hagen is notable, as is the loss of Sonny Corleone, whose death in the original film deprived the third installment of another defining character from the Corleone family.

All in all, if there was never a third movie, it would be called The Godfather Trilogy. There's a reason some Godfather marathons end so easily after the second episode.

Likewise, if the Dodgers don't make it back in this series, the 2026 team will be remembered as a stain on the dynasty's legacy.

However, The Godfather Episode 3 had some excuses.

This movie was released 16 years after the second part. The main actors were old. Robert Duvall, who played Hagen, did not return. And after nearly two decades, the first two films have been raised to a standard that virtually no sequel could reasonably live up to.

Their salaries are higher than the sum of the remaining three teams. Los Angeles added Tarik Escobal and Kyle Tucker to a roster that was already one of the best assembled on paper.

True, actors, like movies, are aging. They are trying to recapture the old magic. This does not work.

Still, we enjoyed the analogy. The third installment of The Godfather and the Dodgers' 2026 postseason are shaping up to be two of the most memorable disappointments in their respective fields.

Even depressed Dodgers superfan and OutKick reporter Ian Miller welcomed the Cowherd comparison.

"There's a case to be made that The Godfather Part 1 and The Godfather Part 2 are two of the best movies ever made. Just like the 2024-25 Dodgers are two of the best teams ever. If the price drops for the 2026 team, it's worth it," Miller said of Cowherd.

However, he added an important feature:

Of course, until they reach Megalopolis next year."

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