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And now, without further ado, I welcome to this very podcast through the miracle of riverside none other than

and recording rich how are you good on pete rose that was one one of the big developments over the last

couple days well i don't like it but you know, I think it's almost inevitable.

I know a lot of, there's a New York sports writer who says he still doesn't think this will get Rose into the Hall of Fame.

I disagree.

I think he'll eventually get in.

But I just, I've talked about this before.

I've written it on the site a few times.

I'm really uncomfortable with the way that sports did a 180 on betting, which of course was,

you know, the reason that Rose was treated the way he was treated was because that was back in the not so long ago era where baseball recognizing its history and the fact that the national pastime almost collapsed maybe irretrievably because of the Black Sox scandal in, was it 1919?

Probably saved by Babe Ruth, but it was a real black eye when the White Sox fixed the World Series.

Eight Men Out is the great movie that was made about that.

But I think baseball realized that because they had come so perilously close to the whole thing just collapsing,

they had very strict rules against betting and being involved in gambling at all.

And then I think at a certain point, and this is probably driven, everything is probably driven.

I didn't realize it at the time in the late 60s and early 70s, but everything is probably driven by the Kurt Flood case that

opened baseball up to free agency and made it such an, you know, made it such an expensive

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