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Pete Rose is dead

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Regan MacNeil, Sep 30, 2024.

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  1. YMCA B-Baller

    YMCA B-Baller Well-Known Member

    Pete Rose advertised everything in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Including this!

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    You're welcome!
     
    YMCA B-Baller, Sep 30, 2024
    #37
  2. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Huge fan of Pete as a player. My Dad was a Cincinnati west-sider and I understand all the admiration from there. That little river rat got 4,256 hits in the big leagues. It really is remarkable.

    But it was time to go. The Max doc painted him absolutely perfectly as a low-class scumbag. I didn't want to see him grow frail signing autographs--which you know he'd do, straining to raise his arm for every last $75 or whatever.

    I don't give a shit about the HOF. The most tired debate in sports.
     
    playthrough, Sep 30, 2024
    #38
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  3. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Pete Rose kept Pete Rose out of the Hall of Fame.
     
    micropolitan guy, Sep 30, 2024
    #39
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  4. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Thanks, d__b! :cool:
     
    2muchcoffeeman, Sep 30, 2024
    #40
  5. Matt1735

    Matt1735 Well-Known Member

    Well, excuse the hell out of me for wanting baseball to uphold its own rules.

    Gaylord Perry broke rules and was punished according to those rules.

    So was Pete Rose.
     
    Matt1735, Sep 30, 2024
    #41
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  6. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Sorry I didn't see your post.
     
    micropolitan guy, Sep 30, 2024
    #42
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  7. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    OK. Let me try to put it this way.

    Pete Rose doesn't deserve a plaque after his death.

    Baseball deserves a completely representative Hall of Fame.
     
    jr/shotglass, Sep 30, 2024
    #43
  8. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    This for me, a Phillies fan of a certain age, is personal. I KNOW Pete Rose was a low-class, compulsive gambling dirtbag. I am almost certain baseball knew he bet against his own team when he managed the Reds. BUT, without Pete Rose, there's no way the Phillies win their first ever World Series in their 97 years of existence and my 30 years of existence until then, without him. So despite what I know, I owe Pete Rose. What I think I owe is this. We should never ever forget just what a great ballplayer he was, one of the top 40 or 50 in history. That's my conflict, and I live with it.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Sep 30, 2024
    #44
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  9. Junkie

    Junkie Well-Known Member

    Your lofty standard is impossible to be consistent with.
     
    Junkie, Sep 30, 2024
    #45
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  10. UNCGrad

    UNCGrad Well-Known Member

    Anyone who thought this wouldn't be the thread when Pete Rose died wasn't really thinking this through.

    This is every text thread out there among baseball fans, too. And it'll be every column and talking head topic again as well.
     
    UNCGrad, Sep 30, 2024
    #46
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  11. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Well, yeah. That was inevitable, especially when there's the type of division of opinion which is clearly evident here.
     
    jr/shotglass, Sep 30, 2024
    #47
  12. Matt1735

    Matt1735 Well-Known Member

    If Rose hadn't agreed to the ban, he would have been found guilty and banned anyway. He thought by agreeing to the ban and the possibility of reinstatement, that he would be forgiven. Sorry, not sorry.
     
    Matt1735, Sep 30, 2024
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