All things Baseball

[Randy Daytona]

“Charlie Hustle” himself has been reinstated by MLB and now eligible for the Hall of Fame.

Rose, 'Shoeless' Joe HOF-eligible as MLB lifts ban

The all-time hit king and Jackson -- both longtime baseball pariahs stained by gambling, seen by MLB as the game's mortal sin -- are now presumably eligible for election into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

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[Spekkio]

Against his and his family's wishes.

 

[number9]

Ichiro is the hit king, and Pete Rose is an asshole.

 

[Flash]

Ichiro is the hit king, and Pete Rose is an asshole.

It wasn't just the gambling but the repeated denials even when given a chance to come clean again, again. again.....and again, with no regrets other than the fact he was caught. The statutory rape stuff doesn't really help either.

 

[Spekkio]

It wasn't just the gambling but the repeated denials even when given a chance to come clean again, again. again.....and again, with no regrets other than the fact he was caught. The statutory rape stuff doesn't really help either.

Listening to sports radio, one of the broadcasters recalled an interview with him well after he retired. Broadcaster promised not to bring up gambling or the scandal and only talk baseball.

Well, apparently during the commercial breaks, Rose took out a sheet of paper and started going down the list asking for results of a whole slew of college football games among nobodies. Broadcaster goes "I dunno man, there's the computer, go ahead and look them up." He said that the on-air convo about baseball was fantastic, but that was an indication that Rose never kicked the gambling habit despite his claims to the contrary.

Then said he ran into him sometime later and Rose essentially flipped him off.

 

[Faded Float Coat]

It wasn't just the gambling but the repeated denials even when given a chance to come clean again, again. again.....and again, with no regrets other than the fact he was caught.

Lance Armstrong's juicing wasn't the most reprehensible part of that saga; it is what he did to those around him through lies, manipulation, and intimidation.

 

[Randy Daytona]

The Super Regionals have started and tiny Coastal Carolina is getting hot again, 9 years after we shocked the baseball world by winning the CWS. The biggest upset so far is #12 Oregon already knocked out, followed by the numbers of teams who have lost 1 game and facing elimination: #1 Vanderbilt, #2 Texas, #7 Georgia, #8 Oregon St and #11 Clemson.

And to go down memory lane, this popped up on my youtube feed: the 4th of July,1985 Braves - Mets game that went 19 innings to include a career .060 average pitcher Rick Camp hitting an 0-2, 2 out pitch for a homerun to tie it in the 18th.

 

[Randy Daytona]

As a followup, #1 Vandy, #2 Texas, #7 Georgia and #11 Clemson all eliminated on an upset filled day.