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Baseball

Botany

(72,708 posts) Mon Sep 30, 2024, 07:55 PM Sep 2024

Now Pete Rose can go into the Hall of Fame [View all]

Great baseball player but not so much as
a person. His attacks on Bart Giamatti* were classless. He absolutely deserves to be in the Hall of Fame but not when he was living.

* no idea on how to spell that nsme.

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Now Pete Rose can go into the Hall of Fame [View all] Botany Sep 2024 OP

As far as I'm concerned, they can wait another 10 years. WestMichRad Sep 2024 #1

He deserves nothing. He bet on baseball. That disqualifies him NoRethugFriends Sep 2024 #2

Pete called out the mouth breathers before .. Botany Sep 2024 #4

If they let Rose in, Joe Jackson better get in too. n/t brewens Sep 2024 #3

totally agree gopiscrap Sep 2024 #11

What kind of odds are the bookmakers giving on that? n/t Attilatheblond Sep 2024 #5

I grew up in Tampa in the Pete Rose time period, so to speak ms liberty Sep 2024 #6

Never met him but from various interviews I gather biophile Sep 2024 #7

The rule against gambling appears on every clubhouse door. rsdsharp Sep 2024 #10

I lost all respect for Rose after the incident at the 1970 All-Star Game where he... Different Drummer Sep 2024 #8

If there is any justice, he will never be inducted Wiz Imp Sep 2024 #9

He had sex with a minor (and I don't mean minor leaguer) rpannier Oct 2024 #12