Dammit.

[The Duck]

RIP.

[TRENT]

thanks for the memories Charlie Hustle,,,One of my best memories as a teen,,,watching those 80's Phils just dominate!

[The Duck]

I'm in a 1980 NLCS rabbit hole now. Hands down, the best series I've ever seen. And the best sports memory I'll ever have.

[IronEagle]

I'm in a 1980 NLCS rabbit hole now. Hands down, the best series I've ever seen. And the best sports memory I'll ever have.

They don't play baseball like that anymore. RIP

[RSE]

He did it his way.

[Dim Bulb]

RIP. A flawed man and a great player.

[The Duck]

At least he won't have to suffer the indignity of watching Ohtani winning a World Series after getting off scot-free for the same thing that got Pete a life-without-parole ban.

[wynnron123]

I think MLB should put him in the HOF when the next induction since he is gone. The punishment of him alive and not getting in is over, no one is breaking that record Imo in today's baseball.

[Riccardo]

RIP Moe

[Overbrook]

At least he won't have to suffer the indignity of watching Ohtani winning a World Series after getting off scot-free for the same thing that got Pete a life-without-parole ban.

Once again, you and I are on the same page.
Gambling and hitting singles and doubles..........lifetime ban
Gambling and hitting home runs.........................beisbol hero
Ohtani was/is guilty as shit for gambling. You can bet (ha ha) that his interpreter will be one wealthy fellow when he's released. I'm not sure of the going rate for going to prison for someone, but I'd imagine it's a fair amount

As one who attended all the 1980 post season games, my lasting image is Pete snatching that foul ball out of the air after Boone botched catching it.

As for the HOF, I feel inducting him now would be a terrible idea. Pete deserved to be inducted the day after he retired, but Giamaati was an out of touch asshole. To put him in now that he's gone would be a bigger insult than his exclusion while alive. Let MLB bear the shame for all time.

I greatly admired Pete Rose the ball player, but have to add that to say he was a flawed human being is a gross understatement. The guy was a cretin.

[The Duck]

Once again, you and I are on the same page.
Gambling and hitting singles and doubles..........lifetime ban
Gambling and hitting home runs.........................beisbol hero
Ohtani was/is guilty as shit for gambling. You can bet (ha ha) that his interpreter will be one wealthy fellow when he's released. I'm not sure of the going rate for going to prison for someone, but I'd imagine it's a fair amount

As one who attended all the 1980 post season games, my lasting image is Pete snatching that foul ball out of the air after Boone botched catching it.

As for the HOF, I feel inducting him now would be a terrible idea. Pete deserved to be inducted the day after he retired, but Giamaati was an out of touch asshole. To put him in now that he's gone would be a bigger insult than his exclusion while alive. Let MLB bear the shame for all time.

I greatly admired Pete Rose the ball player, but have to add that to say he was a flawed human being is a gross understatement. The guy was a cretin.

Agree with all of this. Especially admitting him into the HOF now that he's gone. That window is permanently closed. Fuck MLB for not making it right when they had the chance, especially after the blatant Ohtani whitewash, and the advent of gambling ads plastered all over major league broadcasts and stadiums.

No matter how much I came to know about Rose later in life, my impressions were formed in an era when all I knew was what he did on the field, and what Bill Conlin (whose personal life I was also perfectly happy to know nothing of) wrote about him the next day. The man just had the perfect approach to the game of baseball. In the years I played the game, he wasn't my biggest influence. He was the only influence. All of the ugly, sordid details of his personal life can't erase that.

He was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. Full stop. That'll always be what I remember about Pete Rose, first and foremost.