If Pete Rose played on the Braves or the Cubs of his era, he would not have gotten so many hits, as he would have been pitched around. You can’t do that when you have Joe Morgan, George Foster and Johnny Bench coming up. In later years, you couldn ‘t do it with Mike Schmidt and Greg Luzinski. coming up, either.
Pete’s transgression didn’t enhance his own stats or wins.
And EVERY other rule-breaker has been given chances, and is not banned from the sport entirely.
I’m done with baseball until Pete Rose is in the Hall of Fame... and if they wait until he is dead, then MLB is dead to me forever. Period.
I feel the same as you do, I also stopped watching baseball abecause of Rose not being inducted.
George Steinbrenner owned horse and bet on them, Rose bet
on hi own team to win, what is the difference?
I lived for a decade in Vegas and believe me Rose was loved in Vegas, and crowds always around him, Gamblers
knew he was like them only interested in winning not throwing a game. Nobody who hustled like Charlie Hustle would bet against his own team.
Baseball lost lots of fans like me with their BS, its like
hating Trump, silly.
>> If Pete Rose played on the Braves or the Cubs of his era, he would not have gotten so many hits, as he would have been pitched around. You can’t do that when you have Joe Morgan, George Foster and Johnny Bench coming up. In later years, you couldn ‘t do it with Mike Schmidt and Greg Luzinski. coming up, either. <<
LOL! No way in HELL would anyone have pitched around a guy who was strictly a singles-only hitter. He averaged 56 RBIs and only 8 HRs! Then again, maybe they could’ve been hoping to pick him off!