Posted on 02/28/2025 8:52:26 PM PST by hardspunned
Major League Baseball didn't have the courage or decency to put the late, great, Pete Rose, also known as "Charlie Hustle," into the Baseball Hall of fame. Now he is dead, will never experience the thrill of being selected, even though he was a FAR BETTER PLAYER than most of those who made it, and can only be named posthumously. WHAT A SHAME! Anyway, over the next few weeks I will be signing a complete PARDON of Pete Rose, who shouldn't have been gambling on baseball, but only bet on HIS TEAM WINNING. He never betted against himself, or the other team. He had the most hits, by far, in baseball history, and won more games than anyone in sports history. Baseball, which is dying all over the place, should get off its fat, lazy ass, and elect Pete Rose, even though far too late, into the Baseball Hall of Fame!
MLB lost all credibility when they embraced sports gambling. Now I don’t care either way.
I’d much rather watch The Savannah Bananas.
Nuts. Might as well elect Shoeless Joe Jackson.
What he did was stupid. You can’t fix it.
Who cares? Baseball sucks and it’s about as exciting as watching golf.
MLB needs to cut ticket prices by a factor of 10 and provide Free Beer to those who stream the games.
I ceased watching major leagues when then went on strike.
After most major sports have embraced the wacky woke, my wife and I enjoy the local little league.
Nope. Pete Rose was a great player. No doubt about that.
But he made bets involving his own team when he was a manager. And he lied about it. Did Rose change lineups just to give himself a better chance of winning a bet?
If baseball is to have any standards at all, just no. Rose does not belong in the Hall of Fame. He disgraced himself and he disgraced the game.
I stopped watching MLB when they stopped broadcasting on antenna TV.
Pete Rose should be banished from memory for that awful haircut. :-P
Problem with baseball is that its core fan base was once males who actually played the game in their youth, understood and appreciated its nuances. Now over the past fifty years baseball diamonds are vastly underused. Far fewer boys and middle aged men have ever played baseball. If you don’t have that inherent love and understanding of the game, it could be very boring.
Should be in the Hall of Fame AND the Hall of Shame. Since gambling on sports is allowed, expect more of this. Even at the lowest levels of sport. Good luck, sports addicts.
Want to do a list of the losers currently in the HOF and quote chapter and verse their crimes and sins? You know they have sports books at the ballparks Rose was prohibited from walking into.
Rose was the only guy in America not good enough to use MLB’s on site gambling facilities. Tell me, is there a FanDuel concession at the HOF too?
Nope.
Rose made his bed.
So tired of the Dodgers. And they’re in my town. 🙄 Haven’t been to game in ages but from tv the vibe feels more woke than the other sports.
They never had the classic ‘Americana’ vibe the way the Yankees and some northeastern teams do though.
I’ve followed hockey now.
Geez, I’m off this thread. Ya’ll must be a bunch of Euroweenie “football” fans!
They keep changing the rules in baseball.
Now the baseball stadium is a place to socialize.
And a place for the gamblers to hang out.
Pete should be in the ‘all-time liars’ hall of fame, that’s for sure.
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