Speaking of one of the best players there is, we're joined right now by an MLB network insider,

as was an NHL network reporter and a serious XM MLB network radio contributor, great friend of the program,

John Paul Morosi, John, what's going on? How are you?

Jim, good afternoon, good morning on the West Coast.

Happy MLB postseason, my friend. It all

begins today. I can't wait. Finally, it's about time. And we say that as to what do I do. I start you off

with something that's not related to that. Before we focus on the playoffs, John, let me ask you about

Pete Rose, who passed away yesterday at the age of 83. Pete, of course, was the all-time hit king, leader in games played,

and placed on the permanently banned list in 1989 and banned from the sport.

I got to ask, John, it's obviously such a complicated legacy.

When you hear about the passing Pete Rose, what kind of thoughts do you have about him and his career?

Well, Jim, complicated is the right word because there are really two different ways in which you view him number one as

you say the hit king no one in the history of the sport collected more hits than him part of one of the

most iconic teams in the history of the game, the big red

machine of the 1970s. And yet, as soon as you mention his name, you think about what you

described as being placed on the permanently ineligible list due to betting on baseball.

And that is one of those rules that has been sacrosanct in the game for a very, very long

time. And the rules of it

are understood. Obviously, Pete Rose himself has acknowledged that perhaps if he had handled things

differently and maybe admitted right away that he had bet on baseball as opposed to the approach

that he took, perhaps he would have been welcomed back into the game at some point. But I think what

it is, Jim, is in a lot of ways a tragic story because Pete had talked about, he had told

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