(09-30-2024, 08:31 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: This hurts. I remember watching him play as a kid at Riverfront. He's one of the reasons I started playing baseball. I would go probably two to three times a year. He was screwed by MLB for banning him from baseball. He didn't bet against the team. And, they've shown leniency to players for worse. But most of you know this story. Hopefully those butt cracks will let him in now. Sucks he's gone and won't enjoy it if they do. I truly hope this brings a black eye to MLB. They robbed a man from his crown.

RIP Charlie Hustle.

(10-01-2024, 09:42 AM)XenoMorph Wrote: Hopefully they will let him in the HoF now

(10-01-2024, 01:25 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: It looks like his lifetime ban has been served. Time to put him in the Hall.

Lifetime is for life, not for HIS life.

I don't agree with it, but that was the precedent set and if you allow Rose in, Cicotte and Jackson need in too, especially since that evidence was significantly more circumstantial.

Rose absolutely deserves the Hall, but peeling it back on him means peeling back a ton of history and letting others in (which I would be all for).

And those talking about betting in sports now, HE WAS A FRIGGIN' MANAGER OF THE TEAM, not a civilian like you or I.

It doesn't matter if it was the Reds he bet on or not (has that been proven, btw? I have no idea), keep it in your damn pants FFS: he crossed literally the ONLY line where there was a precedent, then lied about it.

Again, he deserves the hall 100%, but he did it to himself.

Anyways, this is not the thread to discuss this, my apologies if I detracted. Hope he finds even more peace in death than he did in life.

(10-01-2024, 04:15 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: What a lot of the youngins that never got to see Pete play don't realize, when just looking at the stats. Pete lived for baseball - PERIOD

I heard Johnny Bench describe Pete in an interview something like this "Pete, would run thru a house on fire in a gasoline suit to play baseball" Pete played every inning of every game with an intensity that was just unequaled. He never stopped giving it his all at every moment.

And they don't realize how big Pete was in the mid 70's thru early 80's. Shaving Ads, cover of S.I. Wheatie Boxes, game shows. Like Michael Jordan and Barry Sanders rolled into one.

He deserves to be in the hall

He was the embodiment of what all of us ballplayers strive to be like, though with less class lol (I'd never spike anyone or barrel into the catcher unless it was absolutely necessary).

Still think he was overrated, but his spirit was definitely not.

(10-01-2024, 06:11 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote:

Lifetime is for life, not for HIS life.

I don't agree with it, but that was the precedent set and if you allow Rose in, Cicotte and Jackson need in too, especially since that evidence was significantly more circumstantial.

Rose absolutely deserves the Hall, but peeling it back on him means peeling back a ton of history and letting others in (which I would be all for).

And those talking about betting in sports now, HE WAS A FRIGGIN' MANAGER OF THE TEAM, not a civilian like you or I.

It doesn't matter if it was the Reds he bet on or not (has that been proven, btw? I have no idea), keep it in your damn pants FFS: he crossed literally the ONLY line where there was a precedent, then lied about it.

Again, he deserves the hall 100%, but he did it to himself.

Anyways, this is not the thread to discuss this, my apologies if I detracted. Hope he finds even more peace in death than he did in life.

He was the embodiment of what all of us ballplayers strive to be like, though with less class lol (I'd never spike anyone or barrel into the catcher unless it was absolutely necessary).

Still think he was overrated, but his spirit was definitely not.

For sure

I've always said if he would have come clean right off the bat. And fully straightened up his act. He'd be in

(09-30-2024, 10:29 PM)TecmoBengals Wrote: RIP Pete. I'm sad you didn't get into the HoF while alive.

I was at 4192 as a kid. Fun memory.

I was too, nose bleed red seats behind scoreboard. My very 1st Reds game. After he got the hit a lot of people left & we moved down to green seat front rows to yell at Dave Parker, he finally acknowledged us in about the 7th inning lol. I was 10 years old. I learned to switch hit because of Pete. 

Why would you yell at Dave Parker?

(10-02-2024, 04:06 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Why would you yell at Dave Parker?

I was a kid at my 1st game, I thought it was something you did at a game, like the wave. Jesus excuse me for sharing.

(10-02-2024, 05:00 PM)PCB Bengal Fan Wrote: I was a kid at my 1st game, I thought it was something you did at a game, like the wave. Jesus excuse me for sharing.

????

I asked a question, no need to get hostile.

Can anyone respond to something without being angry or put off?

(10-02-2024, 03:59 PM)PCB Bengal Fan Wrote: I was too, nose bleed red seats behind scoreboard. My very 1st Reds game. After he got the hit a lot of people left & we moved down to green seat front rows to yell at Dave Parker, he finally acknowledged us in about the 7th inning lol. I was 10 years old. I learned to switch hit because of Pete. 

No joke. I was also in the nose bleed red seats behind the scoreboard! I'm a couple years younger though.

I sat in the same location during the 1990 World Series game when Billy Bates scored the winning run. 

One of my heroes. His constant hustle rubbed off on me in many facets of life.

RIP Pete

Overrated. Good God. He holds more records than any other major leaguer. An all star at FIVE positions. One of the greatest, ever.

(10-03-2024, 05:42 PM)TecmoBengals Wrote: No joke. I was also in the nose bleed red seats behind the scoreboard! I'm a couple years younger though.

I sat in the same location during the 1990 World Series game when Billy Bates scored the winning run

About as close to the top of the stadium as you could get. My Uncle Terry bought the tickets & me & my brother had to beg Mom & Dad to let us go on a school night. Plus we lived in Springfield.