Pete Rose is dead

This is a masterpiece. Nobody writes about uncomfortable truths and how they tie into sports like Howard Bryant.

 

Howard's, "Why didn't you just obey, Pete?" line hit me very, very hard.

 

This isn't a case of The Man driving the little guy to his knees.

Comparing Rose to Black teenagers clubbed to the pavement by toothpick chewing cops is a special brand of obscene few white writers would ever dare.

 

There were at least a dozen paragraphs in which you could sub out "Trump" for "Rose" and nobody would think it out of place

It was spooky after awhile.

 

Yeah, I didn't want to go there.

 

Also, there's every reason to think Rose did steroids too.