Pete Rose has died

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(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.