Pete Rose Dead At 83
Source: TMZ
MLB legend Pete Rose has died at the age of 83, TMZ Sports has learned.
Rose, Major League Baseball's hit king, passed away earlier today at his home in Las Vegas.
Pete's agent, Ryan Fiterman of Fiterman Sports, confirmed the news, saying, "the family is asking for privacy at this time."
Pete was one of the greatest baseball players to ever grace a diamond, earning 17 All-Star Game nods, winning three World Series and the 1973 N.L. MVP.
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no_hypocrisy
(48,231 posts)jimfields33
(18,256 posts)Even an obituary. Enough please .pretty please.
NoRethugFriends
(2,812 posts)jimfields33
(18,256 posts)NoRethugFriends
(2,812 posts)Polybius
(17,061 posts)So yes.
PufPuf23
(9,230 posts)just to see if possible and for Democratic/DU team building.
jimfields33
(18,256 posts)PufPuf23
(9,230 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(2,411 posts)aggiesal
(9,351 posts)When I was in Little League, I used a Louisville Slugger Hillerich & Bradsby, size 30 Pete Rose Little League bat.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,216 posts)theyre both liars. Rose lied about his gambling for years until he had a book (My Prison Without Bars) which came out in 2004.
Bengus81
(7,312 posts)Meaning once again,Trump supports this kind of activity because it's a part of his damn life.
Montauk6
(8,368 posts)twodogsbarking
(11,874 posts)NoRethugFriends
(2,812 posts)JoseBalow
(4,598 posts)I knew them and interacted with them, and they both sucked at being decent humans.
underpants
(185,648 posts)I heard Sparky say his whole name once and you could feel his appreciation for him.
Growing up when I did - see post below- we didnt emulate flash, we had to be honest with ourselves about effort. The man in the mirror dont lie.
underpants
(185,648 posts)Not just because we lived near and went to a lot of Reds games.
Hustle. No matter what you are playing you have to give it all every play.
I had all of the Big Red Machines signatures many times over. Bench was hard to get. I dont know if we knew someone or just knew to go to a certain level of the parking lot next to Riverfront. We werent the only family there. I probably went to 10 games before I was 7. I had them all. Thus was before signatures had value. We moved a lot so eventually I cast them off. You cant move everything youve ever had.
RIP Pete. Thanks.
SarcasticSatyr
(1,243 posts)shitty person ...
TexasBushwhacker
(20,607 posts)He was a great ballplayer, but a pretty creepy human being.
Zorro
(16,103 posts)DJ Synikus Makisimus
(598 posts)I wouldn't hold my breath on either happening.
valleyrogue
(765 posts)I don't get it with the apologists for this man who disgraced himself. They remind me of the Lance Armstrong defenders who even now still make excuses for his flagrant cheating in pro cycling.
aggiesal
(9,351 posts)If you ask Paul Giamatti about Pete Rose, we would tell you that Pete Rose was the cause of his father's death.
I'm sure he would fight to keep Pete Rose out of the Baseball Hall Of Fame.
OAITW r.2.0
(27,506 posts)Of course, today. you probably would get a pass.....
maxsolomon
(34,691 posts)He sure paid for it - more than almost anyone else in MLB.
Certainly, more than Shohei Ohtani has, oh sorry, that was his interpreter.
OAITW r.2.0
(27,506 posts)In another era, it might be forgiven. Assuming you can designate a fall guy.
NoRethugFriends
(2,812 posts)maxsolomon
(34,691 posts)He'll never be in the HOF.
Listening to Johnny Bench talk about Rose on Dan Patrick this morning was tragic.
Clouds Passing
(1,410 posts)timms139
(168 posts)60's card signed by Pete.
BumRushDaShow
(138,981 posts)and as many teams as he was on, he WAS a Philly at one time and on our 1980 World Series team.
BOSSHOG
(39,132 posts)Look at them hairdos. And a leisure Suit. Michael Jack Schmidt turned 75 last Friday (27 September.)
Hopefully another such picture forthcoming.
BumRushDaShow
(138,981 posts)I hope so too. I remember the Brad Lidge final play 16 years ago, which came 28 years after the 1980 miracle win for this city!
BOSSHOG
(39,132 posts)World Series Tickets printed up. Oh the pain.
BumRushDaShow
(138,981 posts)We sort of felt like that last year as it is.
iluvtennis
(20,563 posts)NoRethugFriends
(2,812 posts)raising2moredems
(700 posts)He did admit it sucked that Ron Santo did not get into the Hall of Fame until after he was dead. Should have got a picture with him - my pappaw was a big Reds fan (and full disclosure, my mammaw never tried to set him on fire). But the Blackhawks had a playoff game that night and that was first and foremost on my mind. Blackhawks won FYI.
ZonkerHarris
(25,089 posts)LudwigPastorius
(10,466 posts)ZonkerHarris
(25,089 posts)Lunabell
(6,607 posts)RIP Kris Kristofferson.
DinahMoeHum
(22,343 posts). . .Pete Rose would've been in the baseball HOF a long time ago. First ballot. No question. Even if there were issues of gambling while he was a player.
Players with worse character issues than that are in the HOF.
maxsolomon
(34,691 posts)It really wasn't his skill set.
So, in a way, this is Marge Schott's fault for hiring him.
Tarc
(10,549 posts)still not HoF-worthy. Unrepentant about his cheating to the very end.
MichMan
(12,824 posts)LudwigPastorius
(10,466 posts)BumRushDaShow
(138,981 posts)By Matt Snyder & R.J. Anderson
Jun 4, 2024 at 2:21 pm ET
USATSI
Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, pleaded guilty to bank and tax fraud charges on Tuesday morning. He faces a maximum sentence of 33 years in prison, five years of supervised release and a fine of $1,250,000 and will be sentenced on October 25, according to ESPN's Alden Gonzalez. Mizuhara did not answer questions after leaving the courthouse.
Mizuhara's charges stemmed from the gambling scandal in which he was accused of stealing almost $17 million from the baseball player and using it to place illegal bets, the U.S Attorney's Office for the Central District of California announced on May 8.
Mizuhara, described by the Attorney's Office as Ohtani's "de facto manager," pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of subscribing to a false tax return.
The 39-year-old former interpreter will be required to pay full restitution to his victims, which includes $16,975,010 to Victim A, Ohtani, and $1,149,400 to the IRS.
(snip)
This type of thing has really been a no-no for over a century thanks to this -
Of course this year, the White Sox have set another, rather unsavory record but I won't go into that.
Music Man
(1,533 posts)Betting on games as manager, including betting against one's own team, is a serious ethical breach. He was in a position to change the outcomes of games. He stood to profit while adversely affecting the careers of his players. Anyone that says "people who've done worse are in the Hall of Fame" are engaging in whataboutism, not arguing the issue at hand.
moniss
(5,211 posts)who condemned him in life, or after themselves being enriched by his play acted like they couldn't speak his name, are now the ones to issue praise. There is always nothing so shallow as those who do this. You see it at funerals where people come and say things about the deceased that are a 180 degree turn from what they had been saying while the person had life. Moochers probably showing up to see if there is food after the funeral. I've had a belly full of such funerals in my life and been witness to many more.
Major League Baseball issued their hollow sympathies. It goes without saying the weasel nature of MLB being more than happy to make money off of the career of Pete Rose while proclaiming him to be pariah. Not another word MLB. Just STFU. At long last leave the name of Pete Rose out of your mouth. You never deserved him and on his worst day on earth he was still more as a human being than the MLB brass and the ones who turned away.
LeftInTX
(29,378 posts)Last edited Tue Oct 1, 2024, 11:18 AM - Edit history (1)
Full disclosure: I don't follow sports very much.
ECL213
(289 posts)if he hadn't been such an asshole.
maxsolomon
(34,691 posts)if he'd come clean publicly, but couldn't swallow his pride.
vapor2
(1,439 posts)and Pete was one block over signing $2 bills for every trick or treater. Have to add that he did serve jail time and repaid the IRS.
JohnnyRingo
(19,135 posts)Gambling on baseball when he's directly involved in the sport takes it to a level with WWE Wrestling.
We can't believe any outcome or umpire call if mobsters and bookies are paying off players to throw games. Gambling debts are the easiest way to recruit players and managers into the corruption, and a team member can bet against their own team, then cash in.
He should never be seen as a hero of the game as an example to others.
Zambero
(9,480 posts)However, his willingness to corrupt the sport for his own personal gain cannot be overlooked. MLB made the right decision and stood by it.
Mawspam2
(838 posts)perhaps MLB could posthumously drop its HoF ban.
Mosby
(17,109 posts)New rules:
Dont bet on the NFL.
Dont gamble at your team facility while traveling for a road game or staying at a team hotel.
Dont have someone bet for you.
Dont share team inside information.
Dont enter a sportsbook during the NFL playing season.
Dont play daily fantasy football (DFS).
So they can bet on anything they want other than football, that's a complete 180 from the previous policies.
KPN
(15,996 posts)for their 4 games to 3 World Series victory over the Sox in 1975! A heartbreaker!
Otherwise, I have mixed feelings about Rose, both as a ball player and a person. His hustle sometimes appeared to be more showmanship to me at least.
maxsolomon
(34,691 posts)Reds had '90 (right after they'd fired Rose and hired a real manager, Lou Pinella), and floundering futility since then.