Julio Franco: Sadly, Julio Franco Cannot Play Forever

• fastbreakblog

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  I want Julio Franco to play forever.     It is fun to have one guy playing for you and then your Grandkids.

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• ummfada

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  *stands up and applauds* good job by Franco

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Here, I'll start
Published 9 days ago by Andrew Vazzano at The 'Ropolitans
With Willie Randolph getting closer and closer to the chopping block, at least in the fans eyes, I'll be the first to suggest this replacement. Newly retired, former-everything, Julio Franco. Why not?

Failure Is An Option
Published 9 days ago by Andrew at True Blue LA
... Turnbow  was DFA’d by the Brewers. Turnbow has struck out 10.25 per nine since 2006, but has had control issues the whole way, and that’s blown up into a 5/13 K/BB ratio this year. Would he fail miserably on the Dodgers? Probably, but as long as we keep Chan Ho in the pen, we’ve got room for a guy like Turnbow.   ------------------------------   Julio Franco has officially retired , ending a career that began two years before I was born. ...

Deadspin: Sadly, Julio Franco Cannot Play Forever
Published 9 days ago at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Deadspin: Sadly, Julio Franco Cannot Play Forever Julio Franco retiring?...I just looked it up and the night Franco broke in (Friday, April 23, 1982) I was at Maxwell’s contortin’ to The Love Tractors and The Raybeats...and due to lethal grogsumtion, I don’t recall either event. One wouldn’t think that this would be classified as “news,” necessarily, but we still find it noteworthy, and kind of sad: Julio Franco has officially announced his retirement. Well, we think so, anyway; the story has only been reported by the official site of the Mexican League, where Franco had been ...

The Griddle: Julio Franco retires?
Published 9 days ago at Baseball Toaster
Via Deadspin comes this announcement from the Mexican League website that Julio Franco has retired. Este mi rcoles al t rmino del segundo juego de la serie de Tigres frente a Petroleros, el dominicano Julio Franco le anunci a la directiva felina su retiro definitivamente como jugador activo. Despu s de analizar la situaci n con la familia, el dominicano pone fin a una trayectoria de 26 a os como jugador en donde cosech un titulo de bateo con los Rangers de Texas, jugador m s valioso de la Liga Americana en el 90, tres juegos de estrellas y dos t tulos de bateo en M ...

THT Live:Julio Franco retires
Published 8 days ago by Dave Studeman at The Hardball Times
Julio Franco retires by Dave Studeman May 03, 2008 Deadspin reports that Julio Franco has apparently retired from baseball . Dave is the manager of the ...

So it finally comes to an end. Julio Franco has retired.
Published 7 days ago by grum@work at SportsFilter
So it finally comes to an end. Julio Franco has retired. : The oldest man to hit a major league home run has finally retired from professional baseball. His announcement came after a Mexican minor league game. At the age of 49, he's finally hung up the spikes. (crazy Julio Franco trivia inside) ...

Goodbye Julio Franco
Published 5 days ago by TheNaturalMevs at Diamond Hoggers
... If you haven't heard yet; and we're a few days late on this: Julio Franco has retired. Franco officially hung them up a year from the day he hit his last Major League home run off Randy Johnson, becoming the oldest Major League player to hit a home run. ...

David Wells is trying to be the next Julio Franco
Published 2 days ago by houroc at SportFiends.com
... Julio Franco recently retired at the age of 126 and now David Wells is trying to make a comeback and follow in his footsteps. He is trying to be the next overaged, washed up ball player that keeps managing to get paid. ...