way out of here this is baseball tonight the podcast this is the baseball tonight

podcast for tuesday may 14th 2025 and today will be better than yesterday i'm buster

only working from my home in Montana.

Taylor Schwink is working actually from the Bristol campus of ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut.

And Taylor, I got a question for you.

Shoot.

Okay, tell me what you know of Pete Rose.

Like, tell me what your perspective is on Pete Rose, because you're a lot younger than I am.

Pete Rose, hit king, bet on baseball, and then, you know, famously involved in signing

autographs, you know, that was sort of his post-playing bit in my eyes, and then, you know,

obviously not allowed in the Hall of Fame, and then died and famously did not care

that he was not in the Hall of Fame as well. Or he certainly made decisions along the way,

which could have gotten him into baseball eligibility and maybe eventually be inducted

the Hall of Fame, and he chose not to do those things. He also, when he was a player,

and Mike Greenberg made this point when I talked

to him on Get Up this morning, during the 1970s, like any kid would imitate Pete Rose, who when he would

take a walk, he would sprint to first base, and he'd flip his bat away, and he absolutely loved

to play baseball. And it was clear in how he played. And I love that great story from the

1975 World Series. It's Game 6. It's into extra endings. He stands up with a plate and he turns

to Carlton Fisk. And he's like, isn't this a great game? Like in the middle of this competition

in which the Reds, they win Game 6, they win the World Series. And he was just, he loved it. And that was all true. And it was also true. He had this wildly complicated,

you know, existence and a lot of ugly parts of his life. And we're going to talk to Paul

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