Pete Rose is dead

[YMCA B-Baller]

Saw this by accident. Amazing clip. Just wait for it a bit.

 

[Slacker]

Saw this by accident. Amazing clip. Just wait for it a bit.

Time stamp reference point?

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Time stamp reference point?

October 79

 

[dixiehack]

Pretty sure he means where should we fast forward to in order to see the good part.

 

[poindexter]

Wait 15 seconds after the clip begins

 

[YMCA B-Baller]

Just the fact that Pete Rose pops up out of nowhere to talk gambling cracked me up given current context.

 

[mpcincal]

If you want to see Pete one more time, and are in Cincinnati in couple weeks:

Reds announce visitation for Pete Rose at Great American Ball Park in November

Also, I don't know if this was mentioned earlier in the thread, but it was mentioned in the story that a public memorial service was canceled because of "a dispute among his survivors," which doesn't shock me since he has two kids each by his two ex-wives, and another he acknowledged who was born out of wedlock.

 

[HanSenSE]

Reds also holding a "Pete Rose Day" on May 14. Although they are home on July 11, which may be more appropriate.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Is the Asian, weird looking lady with massive tits still involved? Rose would bring her on Howard Stern.

 

[UNCGrad]

Howard Bryant on Pete Rose and America today. Really terrific: Pete Rose's posthumous Baseball Hall of Fame argument

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Howard Bryant on Pete Rose and America today. Really terrific: Pete Rose's posthumous Baseball Hall of Fame argument

Interesting. I never really thought fully that rose was the mirror for white America, but in many ways that was right on the nose.

 

[Starman]

Permanent.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Howard Bryant on Pete Rose and America today. Really terrific: Pete Rose's posthumous Baseball Hall of Fame argument

This is a masterpiece. Nobody writes about uncomfortable truths and how they tie into sports like Howard Bryant.

 

[UNCGrad]

Howard's, "Why didn't you just obey, Pete?" line hit me very, very hard.

 

[Starman]

This isn't a case of The Man driving the little guy to his knees.

Comparing Rose to Black teenagers clubbed to the pavement by toothpick chewing cops is a special brand of obscene few white writers would ever dare.

 

[BTExpress]

There were at least a dozen paragraphs in which you could sub out "Trump" for "Rose" and nobody would think it out of place

The resistance to a Rose induction -- and its true importance -- lies in rejecting this dark redefinition of exceptionalism, the insistence on total victory, that if you lie long enough and loud enough and have enough support for that lie, you can beat people into submission and get what you want. You can make your own rules.

It was spooky after awhile.

 

[Starman]

Yeah, I didn't want to go there.

 

[Starman]

Also, there's every reason to think Rose did steroids too.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

There were at least a dozen paragraphs in which you could sub out "Trump" for "Rose" and nobody would think it out of place



It was spooky after awhile.

That's what made it so great. Intelligent people like us know exactly what he was getting it. The idiots would never get it, would think it was a wordy way to say goodbye to Pete Rose and would thus never scream at him.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Also, there's every reason to think Rose did steroids too.

You're the reason I put two and two together with Rose and steroids! Didn't know in real time and/or remember that one of the guys who ratted him out was a known roider. Plus his son got busted, right? And the blue code, such as it is, was super sturdy in the '80s, so even if teammates knew he was taking roids to catch Cobb, they were never going to say anything. Hell nobody's ever ratted out Curt Schilling for anything and he's an infinitely worse person/teammate with infinitely more telltale signs of steroid abuse than Rose. But yeah, anytime anyone says well at least Rose was clean when he broke this hallowed record...not so much.