May 132025
 

The Ringer – Ben Lindbergh – Just Because You Can Honor Pete Rose Doesn’t Mean You Should

Phil has a question:

Will the HOF voters keep Pete Rose out of the HOF because of his gambling or because he was an asshole about his gambling and an asshole in general.

How many other assholes are in the HOF.

The Athletic – Tyler Kepner, David O’Brien and Jayson Stark – Should Pete Rose get into the Hall of Fame? We asked 12 current members

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

Hunter S. Thompson

Do It Again

Phil has a question:

Will the HOF voters keep Pete Rose out of the HOF because of his gambling or because he was an asshole about his gambling.

How many other assholes are in the HOF.

ESPN – Dan Wetzel – The lesson of Pete Rose and ‘Shoeless’ Joe? History is messy

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Mess To Make

Phil has a question:

How much did it cost to get Don the Con’s support.

Does the White House still have the “Pardons For Sale” sign up.

The Athletic – Tyler Kepner – Pete Rose, other deceased players removed from MLB’s permanently ineligible list

ESPN – Don van Natta Jr. – Pete Rose, ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson among players reinstated by MLB

Centrefield

Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That’s why they say, “the game is never over until the last man is out.” Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.

W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

Sports Illustrated – Joe Verducci – MLB Opens Path for Pete Rose to Posthumously Enter Hall of Fame

A ballpark at night is more like a church than a church

W. P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

SportsNet – Jeff Blair – Pete Rose’s reinstatement hardly a shock after political push

Sports Illustrated – Stephanie Apstein –  Rob Manfred’s Pete Rose Flip-Flop Further Stains His Legacy


Phil M Stockmen

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