Dead at the age of 83

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yeah, he was getting up there...lots of stress the past few decades for him.

great baseball player, flawed human. to me, epitome of 70s baseball.

Wanna bet?

Are there any unflawed humans?

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not at his level.

My favorite Pete Rose moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3gnuDuWV5A

This thread is useless without pictures of Rose's girlfriend.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

Aw damn.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

The Asians something something money and power.

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My grandkids

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Wattabout Kodak Black?

The anti Andrew Benintendi.

His max effort at all times approach made him stand out even in the 70s when less players loafed.

He never showed pain when hbp. He would even run full speed to first on those hbp & IBB.

Ray Fosse was his buddy and went out to dinner with them the night before and still drilled him in an All-Star game.



This was pretty memorable too.

As throwaway as that was, I still ‘d.

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Not a mult.

I once stumbled into a drunken Rose in an alley in Poughkeepsie.

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Screw the HOF. I'm taking it off my bucket list. And I SOOOOO wanted to visit Harold Baines bust.

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Wattabout Kodak Black?

man rough day

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

#Verdad

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i remember the banner in the right field bleachers at comiskey during the late 70s:

washington slept here

Talking Big Red Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgCxBQGWlMk

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Fuck, I had an odd numbered day!!!

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

$50 says that was some random drunk guy.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

never a fan when all i knew about him was on the field. Narcissist who never realized his look was laughably cheezy, even in the max cheese era of the 70s. His numbers are good but by the time I watched him play he was already a legend and me, as a kid, wondered why?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

In this WAR/low batting average era, I don't see how his record gets broken. No one would give the Pete Rose of the 20's or 30's the opportunity to play into his 40's.

he had almost a .400 OBP at age 44 with a full season of AB. Some chooch GM would love him

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

He was roundly hated at Cincinnati. People started to appreciate the baseball machine he was when he was in Philly. Not everybody, but enough. No sportswriters though.

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Wattabout Kodak Black?

If a GM doesnt want a .400 OBP guy on his team, he shouldn’t be a GM

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Age 41: -1.1 WAR
Age 42: -2.1 WAR
Age 43: 1.0 WAR
Age 44: .6 WAR
Age 45: -.9 WAR

I'm guessing in today's climate he doesn't get an opportunity at age 43 after his performance in the two preceding years.

Ages 43-45 he was the last man on the bench and also the manager of some terrible Reds teams. The front office certainly wasn’t going to stop him from writing his name in the lineup enough times to get the hits record.

I completely forgot about the player-manager years

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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I had completely forgot Pete Rose had spent 5 months in Marion Illinois US penitentiary for tax evasion. Same prison that John Gotti went to.

Also from a 2014 article.
By Wins Above Average, Rose’s final seven seasons rank 29th-worst among position players in modern baseball history. With the help of the Baseball-Reference.com Play Index tool.

That would explain a lot.

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