Posted on 02/28/2025 8:52:26 PM PST by hardspunned
bkmk
Hear hear
I think they probably should.
Won’t change my mind about MLB though.
up until the 1990’s, all the teams had a chance to be good with smart trades, free agents etc. In the 1980’s, the TV ratings were huge, because the baseball cities still watched. 35-45 million watched the World Series games every night. Last year, the top game watched was a pathetic 9 million. The players swear they will never accept a salary cap, so, we’ll see how long this lasts. 700-800 million dollar contracts..insane.
They can get off their high horse with Alex Cora being allowed to manage and now welcoming his co-conspirator Bregman to his team. They should have gotten the death penalty. Meanwhile, the whole baseball world crows about “first ballot HOFer Altuve.” Another guy who should be out of the sport.
I had relatives in Northern Kentucky and saw Rose a few times at the old River Downs and Latonia racetracks. Guy was a total jerk. Openly cheated on his wife, he’d offer waitresses to pay to get them a boob job. Total creep that led a double life.
And with all their sanctimonious piety, how about the condoning of literally dozens of power hitting stars for over a decade now known as “the steroid era.” Or “performance enhancing drug” period of baseball. Pitchers also used them to make faster reflex moves and increased power to throw fastballs. When the drug testing began, more pitchers than hitters were caught.
Old times:
“In December 2007, Mitchell released a lengthy report that linked 89 major leaguers — including Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Ken Caminiti, Jason Giambi, Juan Gonzalez, Mo Vaughn and Miguel Tejada — with the use of illegal, performance-enhancing drugs.” Dec 5, 2012
1996-1997 sudden home run surges began....
“In 1997, both McGwire and the Seattle Mariners’ Ken Griffey Jr. threatened the individual record of 61 — set by Roger Maris in 1961 — before ending the season with 58 and 56 home runs, respectively.”
“Midway through the 1997 season, McGwire was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals. The move set the stage for a memorable season when he and Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs battled for the National League home run title, during a year in which 13 different major leaguers hit at least 40 home runs.”
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https://www.espn.com/mlb/topics/_/page/the-steroids-era#:~:text=In%20December%202007%2C%20Mitchell%20released,illegal%2C%20performance-enhancing%20dru
he was a good player that got the most out of his limited talent. But he was a singles hitter, and remember, he played almost all his games in those horrible 60’ and 70’s stadiums. The “astro-turf” was rock hard and the ball literally shot thru the infield like a rocket. Id bet a third of his hits were those “astro-turf” singles. Riverfront in Cincinnati, Busch in St Louis, Three Rivers in Pittsburgh, Veterans in Philly, Atlanta, Astro Dome in Houston, Shea in NY, Montreal,..just awful stadiums.
I always thought that Rose should have apologized and gone the “I have a disease” route, but he kept fighting against the obvious and left little room for a way out.
ABSOLUTELY NEVER.
This is not even a question.
He ruined the integrity of the game in the worst possible way.
Never.
question....never fallowed sports but being an old man today I remember how big of a deal Pete roses ban was....in the years after several times I heard him say that he never bet against his team meaning he always bet that he was going to win....my question for those more knowledgeable was Pete Rose lying when he said he never bet against his team.
Big league sports aren’t sporting, for a host of reasons. Give me the minor leagues and amateur ball.
They should get rid of the cgi graphics that place a box over home plate, or show a line when the ball is hit. Other sports same thing. They do not exist in real life so just stop using them except in a replay.
Re: 9, etc - agreed.
It’s posted in all MLB and MiLB clubhouses - no betting. Rose did and then lied about it for years.
MLB has its faults for sure. But electing Rose to the HOF won’t correct those faults.
Rose knew the rules, and he broke the rules. His decision, his choice.
Re: 72 - great point.
The MLB Audio subscription is $29/year and with that you get almost all the MiLB home game live video as well. MiLB is where it’s at I believe - players are still hungry.
Got to agree with you, pro sports in general is not as exciting in play as amateur sports.
And what happened to Pete Rose happened according to a big bettor I know is that he lost some big bets to a bookie and decided to stiff him, so the bookie turned him in. Shame
Thats a very good point.
Where I live, high school baseball is huge and the college baseball playoffs are huge.
Do we really need baseball in the US any more? Can’t we just leave it to Latin America?
Trump should go to bat for Dave Parker.
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