Posted on 06/06/2019 11:38:11 AM PDT by jazusamo
Baseball legend Pete Rose took a shot at his former teammate and Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench on Thursday during an appearance on The Brian Kilmeade Show.
Rose fired back after Bench refused to budge from his view that the former Cincinnati Reds star should be excluded from the Baseball Hall of Fame for gambling on the sport in 1989.
It don't bother me but you know Johnny Bench is one guy who should thank God I was born, Rose told host Brian Kilmeade. Because he never would have made the Hall of Fame if I wasn't born.
Kilmeade asked Rose to elaborate.
Because I'm the guy he knocked in a thousand times. You got you've got guys in front of you guys right behind you and you got to be responsible for everybody else involved, Rose said, adding that Bench couldnt understand why he wasnt as loved as Rose was in Cincinnati.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Did I mention he was an A’hole dodge ball player too. Discredited, lol. I’m betting you don’t live in Franklin, Ohio now do you. I have met two honorable Reds, corked bat is not one of them.
By your standards do you have issue with Ted Williams too
Or God forbid Cobb
One has to be a sweetie to be in Cooperstown?
My opinion is Rose is exponentially qualified to be there
And its Franklin TN which is near Music City
Im sure Franklin Ohio is fine
My number one employee is from Dublin
Ohio not Ireland
“Character is fate” - Novalis. So true.
According to this list (subjective to be sure) Bench is number 16, Rose 25.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Baseball%27s_100_Greatest_Players
This one has Bench 33, Rose 37:
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1977372-the-100-greatest-mlb-players-of-all-time#slide24
This one has Bench 40, Rose 87:
https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2018/12/3/18123455/the-500-greatest-players-in-mlb-history
Some guy by the name of Ruth keeps occurring as the best of all time. And this before the proliferation of performance-enhancing drugs or PEDs, e.g., the Cream, the Clear, Clomid, Winstrol, Deca-Durabolin, trenbolone, HGH, testosterone decanoate, insulin, and Modafinil.
It must be great to be a sycophant, lol. You could have instead simply did a duckduckgo search on pete rose’s bookie and found a wealth of hidden information you wasn’t looking for.
I think hes qualified as a player to be in the hall of game and that makes me a sycophant
Maybe you should open the dictionary
I don’t need a dictionary, I just simply had to look at your tagline, lol. Little girls??????? See if you really were interested in past words about 16 year olds from corked bat himself you could have easily went to duckduckgo again. You think I made that up. Except she wasn’t 16, Corked bat was fine with that though because the age of consent in Ohio is 16, even though he was 34, married, and had two kids. I can imagine all the baseball statistics you can spout off of what he did at that age. Was it you who accused someone else of being a jock sniffer. s/
your posting style says more about you than anything Pete Rose did
Its a sad facet of free Republic
Obnoxious scolds
Most often found north of Covington
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.