“…Freedom is just another word for Nothing Left to Lose…” That might be best line ever in a song. Kris Kristofferon ruled, I always wanted to be just like him— grizzled.
Damn you guys are quick. One of the best moments of my early life was seeing the 1972 Oakland Athletics beat the Cinncinati Reds and watching Pete Rose slink into the Dugout. He was one hell of a baseball player though.
Be interesting to see if they finally crack on letting him in on the hall of fame. Personally I always thought the rules were the rules he clearly broke them and agreed to the punishment. Couple years ago his bookie released his notebooks from Rose’s gambling era and it clearly showed he had gambled against the Reds too when he was manager. As a Cincinnati native I am sad I never actually got to see or meet him in person. Way things are going for the Reds might not see them win a series before I die either.
A player willing to injure other people in all-star games. I can’t explain how delicious it is that he never got into the HOF, and all those fuckhead fans still blathering that he “deserves it” now have to stick it up their asses—ideways— for the rest of their lives. Fuck ‘em. Like Tommy LaSorda he’ll make great worm food.
It's not delicious, it's sad. He's the all-time hit king. Bobby Witt lead MLB in hits this year with 211. If he does that for 20 years, he will still have fewer than Rose. Matt Olson for the Braves (and some others) played all 162 games this year. If he does that for 22 years, he'll pass Rose's total in games played. And he was a lifetime .303 hitter during that span. He was an MVP and he helped the Reds win 3 World Series titles. I wanted to play like him when I played. I don't think he "deserves" to be in the Hall Of Fame - he broke the rules, and it was a bad one that specifically hurts the integrity of the game that I love. But, man, there are probably shittier people in the Hall, and we have forgiven a lot shittier people in sports and entertainment. I don't have a problem with him being left out of the Hall of Fame for his transgressions, but people who pretend his stats aren't real or don't matter are the ones with sticks up their asses.
His stats are real. Everything he did was real, that’s why —like LaSorda— I choose to thoroughly not like him. He’s a bad fucking person to a point when he got his four thousandth hit his team wouldn’t congratulate him on field because of what an asshole he was. I’m perfectly comfy calling Ichiro the all-time hits leaders anyways. I mean, he is, Japan has objectively demonstrated that as a country they dominate baseball on the world stage, and professionally has more hits than Rose.
Damn that sucks. Love watching that show, even if it got wildly exaggerated and staged into the later years.