The sports all time leader in games played, hits, ABs, with 3 World Series rings, an MVP, 17 All Star appearances, 17 MLB Records, Rookie of the Year award, and part of the games all century team.....isn't in it's HALL OF FAME???:think2::think2:
Only a moron would think he's not a Hall of Famer.
Only a moron would think he's not a Hall of Famer.
Correct. It's not so much that he "broke the law" because many HOF players have done likewise.
It's that he deliberately and with aforethought Tampered With the Very Fabric of The Great Game, when he gambled on MLB games (including CincyRed games....have no doubt) when he was manager of a MLB team.
xIf I ever got a vote into the Cooperstown cabal, I could never raise my hand for Ole' Pete Buddy. I don't give a hoot for no 4,200 hits. It just doesn't matter. Pete knew the rules better than anyone else in baseball history. He thumbed his nose at the rules and at baseball. This isn't the Joe Jackson myth---the regular small-town kinda guy who just wasn't smart enough to know what was going on. Pete knew the score; He said, 'fuck you, baseball. It just doesn't matter, I get in.' So, I say the same to him. Screw you, Pete Rose. The game, is so, bigger than you.
If I ever got a vote into the Cooperstown cabal, I could never raise my hand for Ole' Pete Buddy. I don't give a hoot for no 4,200 hits. It just doesn't matter. Pete knew the rules better than anyone else in baseball history. He thumbed his nose at the rules and at baseball. This isn't the Joe Jackson myth---the regular small-town kinda guy who just wasn't smart enough to know what was going on. Pete knew the score; He said, 'fuck you, baseball. It just doesn't matter, I get in.' So, I say the same to him. Screw you, Pete Rose. The game, is so, bigger than you.
Doesn't matter if he bet on the Reds, against the Reds, over or the under, he gambled.
As a manager you can not gamble on your team, you manage things differently, you leave a pitcher you like in a little bit longer, like I said, you tend to let the wager dictate how you run the game.
It's called 'integrity'.
Rose had none, less than zero.
As a manager you can not gamble on your team, you manage things differently, you leave a pitcher you like in a little bit longer, like I said, you tend to let the wager dictate how you run the game.
It's called 'integrity'.
Rose had none, less than zero.
