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08-26-2010, 08:29 PM
Pete Rose now wishes he had fessed up the first chance he had. Read more in this report from ESPN.
âI wish I had come clean the day they had called me into the [commissionerâs] office in 1989 â I do,â Rose told ESPN.com in a story posted Thursday. âBecause I wouldâve saved myself a lot of grief, a lot of everything. Money, you name it. The thing that was so hard for me is I had a lot of respect for the game, and I was respected for that while I was in the game. And I miss that, you know? But I messed up, I messed up!â
Rose told ESPN.com he sees many parallels between himself and Clemens, who was implicated of steroid use in Major League Baseballâs Mitchell Report and later, under oath before Congress, denied using them.
âWhen I look at Roger, I just think Roger is a competitor, and heâs got it in his craw that heâs gonna go to his grave saying he didnât do this,â Rose told ESPN.com. âI think Roger is adamant that heâs just not going to admit this is something he did. Theyâll probably give him a plea bargain opportunity. And heâll probably not take it. Why? Because he thinks his whole reputation and everything heâs ever done is on the line. If he goes down, it seems like heâs made up his mind that heâs gonna go down fighting.
âBut one thing I donât like about Rogerâs case is [that] I have no reason to think (former teammate) Andy Pettitte would lie,â Rose told ESPN.com. âAnd that bothers me. Is it possible Andy made a mistake, this or that? I donât know. But if Andy Pettitte says it happened, well ⦠then I donât know what to think about Roger.â
Rose accepted a lifetime ban from baseball on Aug. 24, 1989. He applied for reinstatement in September 1997, met with commissioner Bud Selig in 2002, and in 2004 released a book, âMy Prison Without Bars,â in which he admitted betting on baseball while Reds manager.
Roseâs application for reinstatement has remained open since. Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, a close friend of Selig, advocated Roseâs reinstatement last July, but Selig said only that Roseâs status remained âunder review.â
âI seem no closer to reinstatement today than I was when it happened,â Rose told ESPN.com.
âI wish I had come clean the day they had called me into the [commissionerâs] office in 1989 â I do,â Rose told ESPN.com in a story posted Thursday. âBecause I wouldâve saved myself a lot of grief, a lot of everything. Money, you name it. The thing that was so hard for me is I had a lot of respect for the game, and I was respected for that while I was in the game. And I miss that, you know? But I messed up, I messed up!â
Rose told ESPN.com he sees many parallels between himself and Clemens, who was implicated of steroid use in Major League Baseballâs Mitchell Report and later, under oath before Congress, denied using them.
âWhen I look at Roger, I just think Roger is a competitor, and heâs got it in his craw that heâs gonna go to his grave saying he didnât do this,â Rose told ESPN.com. âI think Roger is adamant that heâs just not going to admit this is something he did. Theyâll probably give him a plea bargain opportunity. And heâll probably not take it. Why? Because he thinks his whole reputation and everything heâs ever done is on the line. If he goes down, it seems like heâs made up his mind that heâs gonna go down fighting.
âBut one thing I donât like about Rogerâs case is [that] I have no reason to think (former teammate) Andy Pettitte would lie,â Rose told ESPN.com. âAnd that bothers me. Is it possible Andy made a mistake, this or that? I donât know. But if Andy Pettitte says it happened, well ⦠then I donât know what to think about Roger.â
Rose accepted a lifetime ban from baseball on Aug. 24, 1989. He applied for reinstatement in September 1997, met with commissioner Bud Selig in 2002, and in 2004 released a book, âMy Prison Without Bars,â in which he admitted betting on baseball while Reds manager.
Roseâs application for reinstatement has remained open since. Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, a close friend of Selig, advocated Roseâs reinstatement last July, but Selig said only that Roseâs status remained âunder review.â
âI seem no closer to reinstatement today than I was when it happened,â Rose told ESPN.com.
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08-27-2010, 12:19 PM
I think that they are doing Pete extremely dirty. I think he has truely learned from his mistakes. I think its time to give him another chance.
08-27-2010, 12:44 PM
Pete Rose IMO is the epitomy of American Baseball and I think it's unfortunate what he did, but I also think it's a shame on MLB executives that he hasn't made it on the way to the ballot yet.
I don't see why everyone that has a HOF vote doesn't give a write-in for Pete Rose every year.
I don't see why everyone that has a HOF vote doesn't give a write-in for Pete Rose every year.
08-27-2010, 02:54 PM
zaga_fan Wrote:Pete Rose IMO is the epitomy of American Baseball and I think it's unfortunate what he did, but I also think it's a shame on MLB executives that he hasn't made it on the way to the ballot yet.
I don't see why everyone that has a HOF vote doesn't give a write-in for Pete Rose every year.
Wouldn't matter, the Commissioner dictates who is elligible
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