[My Favorite Headache]

Rose is a womanizing,gambling junkie,drunk. He should fit right in with the current crop of baseball players in 2003. His managing skills are piss poor so the hype to get him on the bench for a team shouldn't really be anything of real substance...more for the fans to see him come out on the field when a call doesn't go his way and he can throw a tantrum.

PR machine in full effect folks...this is baseball cramming for any kind of good PR it can get right now.

[D. Brian Carter]

PR machine in full effect folks...this is baseball cramming for any kind of good PR it can get right now.

Agreed, completely. The thing is their are plenty of good stories right now that MLB could be pushing (have you seen the Marlins and their young crop lately?) to fix their image problems.

[Ray Kinsella]

They will point to the fact that 70% of people responding to polls are in favor of it. But who is in the 30 and who is in the 70? What is the point of having 70% favor it if they are "fans" who never attend games? How much of the 30% is part of the true fan base? That shoud be explored I think.

[SaveTheChief]

You ought to take a look around the league. Baseball fans are still showing up to see the games. In fact, they are packing the house as they always have.

Please humor me and list some examples of MLB "cramming for any kind of good PR it can get right now." I just don't see the desperation you do.

The bad publicity that baseball receives -- Sammy Sosa and the corked bat incident, for example -- is certainly no worse than say, Alan Iverson and his off-court thuggery. It seemed people wanted to form a posse to go find and hang Sosa after this incident. I wish people would get that excited when they see an Iverson or a Spreewell doing what they do.

I am getting tired of people who constantly berate the game of baseball and the athletes who play the sport, especially when those athletes of the NBA, NFL and other professional sports leagues are no better, and certainly not any less wealthy.

[Rebelbase]

"PR machine in full effect folks...this is baseball cramming for any kind of good PR it can get right now."

I think a few more exploding pigeons would be good for the game.

[Hatteras]

"Rose is a womanizing,gambling junkie,drunk. He should fit right in with the current crop of baseball players in 2003..."

Actually, If that's the charge, he'd fit right in with the old crop of players too. Heck, he could sit down right between Mickey Mantle and the Babe.

[Moleman]

Rose is a womanizing,gambling junkie,drunk.
And also has more base hits than Ty Cobb- regardless he belongs in the Hall of Fame.