Pete Rose has died

[*bengalfan74*]

(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