How desperate is Pete Rose?

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This guy will do anything to get the attention back on him and the Hall of Fame. He'll use any platform, and any situation that occurs in the game to make what he did seem not so terrible.

"I never thought anybody would make me look like an altar boy. I've been suspended 18 years for betting on my own team to win," he added. "I was wrong ... but these guys today, if the allegations are true, they're making a mockery of the game."

Is this guy serious? He's REALLY grasping at straws now.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-mitchellreport-peterose&prov=ap&type=lgns

Could 1 person be any more pathetic and desperate?
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Rose saying someone else is making a mockery of the game is like Bobby Cox saying another manager gets ejected too many times.
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Answer 1

I almost feel sorry for him that he has sunken to that level to be so pathetic. I know that 50 people will answer with recommendations that he be put in the hall...that will never happen and should never happen, he broke THE carinal rule in Baseball. I think it is amazing that people believe that he only bet on games as a manager, like he woke up one morning and had an epiphany that he could bet on the team! He was always a gambler and I find it hard to believe that he did not bet on games as a player as well. He lied for all those years and now everyone thinks that he is revealing the entire truth???

Answer 2

For those that get VERSUS, he'll be on a special edition of Dennis Miller's Sports Unfiltered tonight talking about the Mitchell Report. That's probably where the quotes come from.

Any bets (pun intended) Miller creams himself bowing at Pete's feet? Talk about pathetic and desperate!

Answer 3

I agree. It was just plain pathetic. If he went about this the right way and spoke out against gambling and did volunteer work, etc. I bet they would have let him in by now.

Back to a comment I continue to make. If someone apologizes, they are forgiven by the public. It really doesn't matter what someoen does. Americans in general forgive. Clinton, the olimpic runner (she lost her medals but no one talks about what an aweful person she is), mcguire, etc. The only people that the public latches onto and hates are arrogant people that won't admit when they are wrong.

Answer 4

Would you ever expect Pete Rose to ever be anything but desperate and pathetic?
You might as well ask the Pope to be a little less Catholic.

It's amazing to me how many idiots think that somehow because they have found new and improved ways to cheat, that somehow makes the fact that Rose bet on baseball suddenly okay. But then again, anyone who doesn't understand how despicable Rose truly is probably has a difficult time understanding the concept of such things as zippers.

The only question that remains to me is whether Rose was more pathetic because he bet on baseball, because he thought somehow it was acceptable because he bet on his own team, because he thought he should at some point be declared eligible again, or the incredibly low depths he has gone to in an attempt to somehow make himself look like the victim.

Answer 5

Pete Rose was a well known user of amphetamines and the manner in which he got BIG in the early 1970's and was able to amass an impressive games played streak are strong indicators he was a Juicer.

BTW, I am in favor of adding EVERYONE into the Hall of Fame, including Rose, despite the bad public persona he projects.

Answer 6

He's like a piece of rotted fruit pointing at all the stuff in the garbage that as also gone bad and trying to look more edible.

So very sad that he had sunk this low, I agree, pathetic and desperate.

Answer 7

I saw it too... I'm still of the mind that he should be in... But I'll admit... that WAS pretty pathetic...


And I'll admit that I don't know anything about him either... I wasn't around when he cheated, I won't pretend I was...


EDIT: As for the Cox comment... I like Quality more than Quantity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGZUKHtW7vg

Answer 8

Hey, don't be so sure the sorry writers won't listen to the violin music and put him in. He doesn't deserve it, for sure, but the writers are a pretty independent and inconsistent and stupid group. They might just say, "Yeah. Pete was good for us on slow days. Let's put him in." It IS pathetic -- no, sickening -- how he shows up whenever he can to do his Bojangles dance to get in, though.

Answer 9

Haha good point, but I can kind of see what hes talking about if barry bonds and roger clements took performance enhancers to make them better but pete rose bet on his own team to win it kinda seems lop sided

Answer 10

It continues to amaze me how Rose apologists and enablers still hold his career in far higher regard than Rose himself did.

I don't wish an early death upon Rose, but by now it is obvious that's the only way we'll ever hear the last from him.