Comments on: Pete Rose files for divorce from second wife

By: cur68

cur68 — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:14:54 +0000

You were winning there dondbaseball till you brought up Cobb. Check out the laundry list of Cobb’s failings as a human being. He’s in the HOF, and yet, of the two guys, I’d rather spend time with Rose (mostly because I likely wouldn’t have to deck Rose for racial slurs uttered at me). If the HOF can stand Cobb, then they ought to give old Pete a break, too. But, bottom line, I really don’t have much time for either dude; but I want Joe Jackson in. He never did anything to deserve what happened to him.

By: dondbaseball

dondbaseball — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:48:06 +0000

I don’t know but I will give it a shot…First and foremost baseball has a Character requirement and Pete Rose is the exact opposite of that. #1.Let’s start with the fact he bet on baseball- not once, twice or even 25 times but considerably more. Baseball has a rule against that. #2. He lied about betting on it even when the evidence was over whelming all the while besmirching John Dowd, Bart Giamotti and Fay Vincent’s good names. This continued for 15 years until he wrote a book about it to make a buck. #3. He cheated mightly on his taxes, served jail time. #4. Is so NON Contrite about the gambling he continues to work for a casino.

I can hear the rebuttals now that the hall has many men of poor character in it, but I would be glad to argue that Pete Rose would be the clear #1 scumbag in the hall and it wouldn’t even be close. Even Ty Cobb had more redeeming qualities than Rose.

By: smokehouse56

smokehouse56 — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:40:45 +0000

Cur68…I can live with that. I was going to mention Jackson in my rant but than forgot until you reminded me. The HOF, without two of the best hitter ever, isn’t really a HOF. And no, I don’t want it to become a Hall of Shame.

By: cur68

cur68 — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:01:01 +0000

Sure, I agree, HOF all the way. But then, so arguably, so was Shoeless Joe. Of the 2 of ‘m, lets go with Joe first. He had it worse and the evidence against him was pretty flimsy.

By: smokehouse56

smokehouse56 — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:50:51 +0000

Why the hell isn’t this man in the HOF? My God, he has paid for his sins and he is one of the best to ever play the game. He (along with Schmidt & Carlton) turned good teams into great teams, Philly in 1980 & 1983. His only sin was he didn’t get 3000 hits. Oh wait, he got over 4000 hits. More than any other hall of famer. You won’t hear many fans in Cincinnati or Philly bad mouth this man. He was the heart and soul of their great teams in the 70′s and 80′s. He was a winner. Big time. He has rings, lots of ‘em. He played with a passion few others have ever duplicated in major league baseball, if any. And by the way, he wasn’t juiced. I know some will disagree with me and that’s all right. But just look at his records and tell me he doesn’t deserve several rooms at Cooperstown.

By: bigharold

bigharold — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:44:54 +0000

You know aside from providing the opportunity to hurl a few snarky remarks Rose’s way, which some would say is reason enough, is this REALLY baseball news?

By: JBerardi

JBerardi — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:08:54 +0000

Class. Act.

By: hep3

hep3 — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:30:24 +0000

There was also the great quote from his first wife:

“The only book he ever read was ‘The Pete Rose Story’.”

By: jetersusedjersey

jetersusedjersey — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:18:38 +0000

Wow! Who would have BET that his marriage would end in divorced!

By: largebill

largebill — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:45:32 +0000

Huh, what are the odds? No, seriously, what was the line?

By: cur68

cur68 — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:44:55 +0000

“You may remember that Rose was very public about his relationship with a much younger woman back in 2009, so I’m going to guess this divorce was a few years in the making.”

Ohh, man. Charlie Hustle, still classy after all these years.