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Pete Rose Dead
« on: September 30, 2024, 11:41:57 PM »
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Re: Pete Rose Dead
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2024, 07:45:36 AM »
I wouldn't have bet on that!

I wonder how MLB is going to report on it...

"Breaking news -- Pete Rose, the all time hits leader who disgraced the game by betting on baseball, has died. More from our partner, Draft Kings Betting Service..."

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Re: Pete Rose Dead
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2024, 08:24:41 AM »
Okay who had Sept 30 in the dead pool?


All kidding aside RIP Pete
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Re: Pete Rose Dead
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2024, 09:01:16 AM »
I think he got a raw deal, since he was betting on his own team to win.  And the more indignation MLB expressed . . . the less convincing they were. (Had he been betting against his team - raising the specter of rigging the games - that would have been a different story.)

RIP, Pete.
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Re: Pete Rose Dead
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2024, 09:44:10 AM »
He was made an example, pure and simple. League-wide betting was rampant so MLB picked the single most popular and prominent figure they could find as a "one and done" solution. It didn't help that he and Fay Vincent, former MLB commissioner and deputy commissioner at the time of Rose' ban, had were openly hostile to each other.

RIP, Pete.

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Re: Pete Rose Dead
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2024, 10:16:08 AM »
And yet, we have Shohei Ohtani saying "I had NO idea my personal translator was "stealing" millions from me and betting on baseball!"

Right.
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Re: Pete Rose Dead
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2024, 01:14:09 PM »
Quote from: K Frame on October 01, 2024, 10:16:08 AM
And yet, we have Shohei Ohtani saying "I had NO idea my personal translator was "stealing" millions from me and betting on baseball!"

Right.

It's not gambling if you have a subordinate place the bets, right?
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Re: Pete Rose Dead
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2024, 02:15:55 PM »
Quote from: K Frame on October 01, 2024, 07:45:36 AM
I wouldn't have bet on that!

I wonder how MLB is going to report on it...

"Breaking news -- Pete Rose, the all time hits leader who disgraced the game by betting on baseball, has died. More from our partner, Draft Kings Betting Service..."




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Re: Pete Rose Dead
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2024, 03:46:07 PM »
Meh....  ;/
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Re: Pete Rose Dead
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2024, 09:40:05 PM »
I just found out John Amos died.  Wiki says that was last month.  I guess I missed it. 
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Re: Pete Rose Dead
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2024, 09:56:02 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on October 01, 2024, 09:40:05 PM
I just found out John Amos died.  Wiki says that was last month.  I guess I missed it.

Even started a thread for him
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Re: Pete Rose Dead
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2024, 10:09:42 PM »
nevermind.  I see it.
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