>A woman said she had a sexual relationship with the former baseball star Pete Rose in the 1970s, starting when she was 14 or 15 years old, according to testimony submitted to a court Monday.
>The testimony was presented by the defense as part of a federal lawsuit Rose filed last year in Philadelphia against a lawyer whose investigation led to Rose’s being kicked out of Major League Baseball for gambling.
>Rose, the major leagues’ career hit leader, contends that the lawyer, John Dowd, defamed him in 2015 by saying on the radio that Rose had raped girls age 12 to 14 during spring training. Rose, 76, has acknowledged having a relationship with the woman beginning when she was 16, the age of consent in Ohio.
Jimmy Carter, I am begging you to make it to 12:01am
“Wild” doesn’t even begin to describe the last 24 hours. In all sports. Wtf
wtf, I swear I legit just looked him up on wikipedia like 20 minutes ago because I was bored and looking thru old baseball stuff. That’s actually terrifying
A great man died today. And so did Pete Rose
Kane gonna give him a tombstone for old times sake.
I wonder how much he had on the Braves for game 1
Amazing player, not so amazing human being.
A case study on how being really good at sports doesn’t make you a good person
hall of terrible dudes who were good ball players gained a new member today
Rip Charlie hustle. You weren’t a great man but I loved watching you play. You played with nothing but heart at all times.
Pete Rose was in many ways a very scummy person but I’ll always think it’s gross to celebrate a man’s death like so many people here are masturbating over.
If you hated him, I won’t try to change your mind or even say that you’re wrong to feel that way but I do think that it’s ok to feel like Pete Rose had certain good qualities and to appreciate someone who worked his ass off on the field.
All he had to do was not gamble.
However you feel, the MLB succeeded in making sure he never made the Hall during his lifetime. Not here to comment about whether his “lifetime ban” should end now that his lifetime ended. But what a weird day for baseball and an eerie feeling. Everyone kinda kicked his Hall candidacy down the road till he died, and well, he just did. Time to answer the questions.
I met him once, around this time in 1995. I was 12, family just moved to Boca Raton, FL. Turns out, he and Wilt Chamberlain had “Dave and Busters-esque” restaurants down in Boca. I met him while getting his autograph, he knew the Braves would beat my Tribe in the ’95 WS, and I think he gave my sister and I each $10 worth of tokens.
My mother went to Xavier University (actually Edgecliff College before it merged with Xavier) in Cincinnati in the mid-to-late 70s and always tells a story about Pete Rose whenever he’s brought up.
She was with her college girlfriends at Cincinnati’s airport, waiting to get on an airplane to fly back home to Wisconsin for Thanksgiving. And into their area in the terminal walks Pete Rose in a huge fur coat down to the ground and big dark sunglasses. And all the girls go “Its Pete Rose!” and swoon.
And my mom, who doesn’t watch baseball, isn’t from Cincinnati and couldn’t care less says out loud “Who is Pete Rose?”
Pete saunters over to her in his giant raccoon coat, sidles up and says “Don’t you want my autograph?”
My mom exclaims “No!” Pete looks offended and leaves. Upon telling my grandparents about it later, they scold her and say she should’ve gotten his autograph.
Dikembe Mutombo is standing at the pearly gates, ready to reject him with a solemn finger wag.
Pete Rose was my first lesson that you never want to meet your heroes. I was at a regional youth baseball game where his kid was playing my brother’s team. I was 8, he was leaning up along the fence down the left field line. I was very courteous and asked him to sign my Reds cap I wore everywhere. He told me to buzz off and never even looked at me. Sucked.
A few years later, I met Buddy Bell in a similar manner and he couldn’t have been nicer. Buddy Bell became my new favorite player.
A few years ago (or was it last year?) the Phillies had an alumni day where Rose was allowed to participate. One of the wildest sights in my life, a guy banned from baseball for gambling walking out to a cheering stadium covered from field to the upper deck in sports bettings adds.
The real tragedy is that Castellanos can’t hit
The only way to remark on Rose’s legacy is complicated and bizarre. He deserved to be ostracized from the game while also being one of the greatest competitors and players in the history of the game.
A real shitbag off the field, but no one can argue that he wasn’t one of the greatest to ever play the game.
Bart Giamatti offered Pete Rose the opportunity to accept a suspension and return to MLB if he admitted to gambling. Pete Rose turned that offer down, then whined for years about it. Sorry, dude, you made your bed and now you have to rest in it.
Also, he’s an alleged statutory rapist.
Reminder: it’s a permanent ban not lifetime
Damn this struck a chord. Probably A-Minor.
Isn’t he “permanently ineligible”?…could have sworn I read that 30 years ago in the agreement he signed…
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RIP to the all-time hits leader
RIP hit/gambling king
Damn, weird day with him and Mutumbo.
And Gavin Creel, although that isn’t sports related.
This might be the most chaotic day in baseball history
One fewer pedophile on the planet
I just saw Mutombo died too. What’s going on?
Nimmo’s lack of hustle killed him
One less pedo
Now that’s he’s dead I’m okay with him still never getting into the HoF.
Didn’t have time to cash in his parlay
Don’t let any glowing obituaries full of descriptions of Rose as a “polarizing figure” or other bullshit distract you from what a massive piece of shit Rose was. [Lest we forget](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/sports/baseball/woman-testifies-that-she-had-sex-with-pete-rose-as-early-as-age-14.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok4.LOdC.sdu91LF8LLMC&smid=url-share):
>A woman said she had a sexual relationship with the former baseball star Pete Rose in the 1970s, starting when she was 14 or 15 years old, according to testimony submitted to a court Monday.
>The testimony was presented by the defense as part of a federal lawsuit Rose filed last year in Philadelphia against a lawyer whose investigation led to Rose’s being kicked out of Major League Baseball for gambling.
>Rose, the major leagues’ career hit leader, contends that the lawyer, John Dowd, defamed him in 2015 by saying on the radio that Rose had raped girls age 12 to 14 during spring training. Rose, 76, has acknowledged having a relationship with the woman beginning when she was 16, the age of consent in Ohio.
Jimmy Carter, I am begging you to make it to 12:01am
“Wild” doesn’t even begin to describe the last 24 hours. In all sports. Wtf
wtf, I swear I legit just looked him up on wikipedia like 20 minutes ago because I was bored and looking thru old baseball stuff. That’s actually terrifying
A great man died today. And so did Pete Rose
Kane gonna give him a tombstone for old times sake.
I wonder how much he had on the Braves for game 1
Amazing player, not so amazing human being.
A case study on how being really good at sports doesn’t make you a good person
hall of terrible dudes who were good ball players gained a new member today
Rip Charlie hustle. You weren’t a great man but I loved watching you play. You played with nothing but heart at all times.
Pete Rose was in many ways a very scummy person but I’ll always think it’s gross to celebrate a man’s death like so many people here are masturbating over.
If you hated him, I won’t try to change your mind or even say that you’re wrong to feel that way but I do think that it’s ok to feel like Pete Rose had certain good qualities and to appreciate someone who worked his ass off on the field.
All he had to do was not gamble.
However you feel, the MLB succeeded in making sure he never made the Hall during his lifetime. Not here to comment about whether his “lifetime ban” should end now that his lifetime ended. But what a weird day for baseball and an eerie feeling. Everyone kinda kicked his Hall candidacy down the road till he died, and well, he just did. Time to answer the questions.
I met him once, around this time in 1995. I was 12, family just moved to Boca Raton, FL. Turns out, he and Wilt Chamberlain had “Dave and Busters-esque” restaurants down in Boca. I met him while getting his autograph, he knew the Braves would beat my Tribe in the ’95 WS, and I think he gave my sister and I each $10 worth of tokens.
My mother went to Xavier University (actually Edgecliff College before it merged with Xavier) in Cincinnati in the mid-to-late 70s and always tells a story about Pete Rose whenever he’s brought up.
She was with her college girlfriends at Cincinnati’s airport, waiting to get on an airplane to fly back home to Wisconsin for Thanksgiving. And into their area in the terminal walks Pete Rose in a huge fur coat down to the ground and big dark sunglasses. And all the girls go “Its Pete Rose!” and swoon.
And my mom, who doesn’t watch baseball, isn’t from Cincinnati and couldn’t care less says out loud “Who is Pete Rose?”
Pete saunters over to her in his giant raccoon coat, sidles up and says “Don’t you want my autograph?”
My mom exclaims “No!” Pete looks offended and leaves. Upon telling my grandparents about it later, they scold her and say she should’ve gotten his autograph.
Dikembe Mutombo is standing at the pearly gates, ready to reject him with a solemn finger wag.
Pete Rose was my first lesson that you never want to meet your heroes. I was at a regional youth baseball game where his kid was playing my brother’s team. I was 8, he was leaning up along the fence down the left field line. I was very courteous and asked him to sign my Reds cap I wore everywhere. He told me to buzz off and never even looked at me. Sucked.
A few years later, I met Buddy Bell in a similar manner and he couldn’t have been nicer. Buddy Bell became my new favorite player.
A few years ago (or was it last year?) the Phillies had an alumni day where Rose was allowed to participate. One of the wildest sights in my life, a guy banned from baseball for gambling walking out to a cheering stadium covered from field to the upper deck in sports bettings adds.
The real tragedy is that Castellanos can’t hit
The only way to remark on Rose’s legacy is complicated and bizarre. He deserved to be ostracized from the game while also being one of the greatest competitors and players in the history of the game.
A real shitbag off the field, but no one can argue that he wasn’t one of the greatest to ever play the game.
Bart Giamatti offered Pete Rose the opportunity to accept a suspension and return to MLB if he admitted to gambling. Pete Rose turned that offer down, then whined for years about it. Sorry, dude, you made your bed and now you have to rest in it.
Also, he’s an alleged statutory rapist.
Reminder: it’s a permanent ban not lifetime
Damn this struck a chord. Probably A-Minor.
Isn’t he “permanently ineligible”?…could have sworn I read that 30 years ago in the agreement he signed…