PETE ROSE to manage Padres?

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San Diego Padres first baseman admits his club has an office pool for March Madness: "I think every team does one," San Diego Padres' first baseman Phil Nevin said. "I guess it's popular. We do them all year - Masters, the big golf tournaments, the NBA Finals, stuff like that." Nevin put together the Padres' pool, where squares went for $100 and the winnings are based on final scores of games throughout the tournament with $1,000 going to the championship game winner. Though some younger players balked at the price, the 100 squares sold out.

Not sold Pete was a great manager, but he deserves the hall.

i think pete would be a good fit for the vegas team when they finally get one..

i gotta believe every team has a bracket pool.. it would be un-american not to..

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/16753

Pete Rose Has Given Up on Hall of Fame Hopes, But Still Wants to Manage
By Julie Kent. Published on 05/14/2011 - 10:37pm
Pete Rose, who accepted a lifetime ban from Major League baseball in 1989 after admitting to gambling on the sport, was the keynote speaker Saturday night at a gala of the Ohio Justice & Policy Center. During his speak, Rose says that he still wants to manage one day and questions why MLB hasn't given him a second chance.

Rose, 70, spoke before a crowd of about 300 guests, one of whom was the federal judge that sent him to prison for tax evasion related to his gambling.

Rose says that he has given up any hopes of being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, but still wants to manage. He says he deserves a second chance.

I have a better chance at managing in the majors.

bigtendominator said:

I have a better chance at managing in the majors.

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exactly. ole pete has really had it stuck to him.

I think the message has been received. Why not let ol' Pete have another day at managing? Could actually help sell out some more seats, which baseball desperately needs. In regards to the HOF, who the fuck cares anyways?

donkeybucks said:

I think the message has been received. Why not let ol' Pete have another day at managing? Could actually help sell out some more seats, which baseball desperately needs. In regards to the HOF, who the fuck cares anyways?

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I agree with you on the HOF. As for Pete getting another chance. Gambling is the biggest no-no in sports. You could murder somebody or go LAPD on Rodney King had have a better chance of managing in the bigs.

http://recorderpress.com/2015/12/18/rose-still-hopes-to-enter-hall-of-fame.html

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Rose, who held his press conference in Las Vegas, said he's now a "recreational gambler, but not a compulsive gambler", per USA Today's Bob Nightengale.
Over 25 years after his ban from MLB, Pete Rose's reinstatement remains a touchy topic among sports fans. He has tried unsuccessfully in the past to get reinstated, but had hoped a new commissioner might see things in a different light. Manfred also said that Major League Baseball has additional evidence to prove the charges: a notebook of betting records from 1986 kept by Pete Rose's associate Michael Bertolini.
Rose tries to tell us he is a changed man, too, but acknowledged to Manfred he continues to bet on sporting events and, yes, on Major League Baseball. Absent such credible evidence, allowing him to work in the game presents an unacceptable risk of a future violation by him of Rule 21, and thus to the integrity of the sport. Manfred says in a letter sent to Rose and made public on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, that baseball's hits king hasn't been completely honest about his gambling on baseball games.
The Hall of Fame's board of directors voted in 1991 to ban those on the permanently ineligible list from the Baseball Writers' Association of America ballot.
Rose jokingly added: "I should probably be the commissioner of baseball". And he also said that he "wanted to be friends with baseball".
Rose was slightly emotional at times during the news conference. The 1973 NL MVP ended his career with 4,256 hits - the most in Major League Baseball history.
"Pete's fall from grace is without parallel, but he recognizes that it was also of his own making", they said.
Now, Pete Rose's Hall-of-Fame chances seem nearly nonexistent.
"I'm a good guy, to be honest with you", Rose said.
The denial means the lifetime ban that began in 1989 after Rose was caught gambling while managing his hometown Cincinnati Reds stays in place.
If Rose isn't considered fit for baseball eligibility - and who on earth could argue that he is? - then he is not fit for baseball's Hall of Fame.
"I think I can teach lots of people not to make same mistakes I made, to learn from my situation", he said. Common sense and stats might say that Rose deserves to be in the Hall, but his failure to present "a reconfigured life" absent of gambling gave the commissioner no choice.
Manfred notes that during their September interview, Rose initially denied betting on baseball now and only later in the interview did he "clarify" his response to admit such betting.
Rose was contrite and somewhat upbeat in offering his first comments since Manfred on Monday rejected his application for reinstatement. "I watch baseball, talk on Fox and talk baseball to anyone who wants to talk about it". In the meantime, he is turning his attention to the Hall of Fame.
He's at peace with Manfred's decision, he said, but still yearns for a relationship with the game he has loved all his life.

Degen of the century, my favorite player ever. He deserves the hall at least, his numbers speak for themselves...the fact he still gambles is probably why I love him so much

One of the top FIVE most gifted and most valuable baseball players to ever shit behind a pair of shoes. Period!

beefdiesel said:

Degen of the century, my favorite player ever. He deserves the hall at least, his numbers speak for themselves...the fact he still gambles is probably why I love him so much

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I would have to nominate Buckeye Art for the that title.

I"m a recreational gambler, Rose is not. I met him in Vegas on a dare of a buddy who dared me to ask him who he liked on an NFL game. Rose was in a casino in Vegas were he had jut finshed a radio show broadcast. He gave me the side, 2nd half total and a bunch of prop bets. off course i didnt bet anything but in hindsight i should faded them all, everything lost.