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Pete Rose passing away at the age of 83 as former teammate Johnny Bench a little bit later on.

Growing up in Cincinnati, we all wanted to wear number 14.

We all were sliding headfirst. We wanted to have the same haircut as Pete Rose.

So he certainly had an impact on me. My first autograph was from Pete Rose, and he wasn't charging back then.

But I have had many, many interviews with him, interactions with him. He said a lot of things to me on my radio show.

And when I first got to ESPN was 1989, and I left CNN, went to ESPN.

And then a few months later, I'm on the 11 o'clock Sports Center with Bob Lee,

one of the great sports journalist in history.

So I come in and the Pete Rose situation is unfolding right in front of me.

Now, I used to gamble and one of my bookies used to take bets from Pete Rose.

So I say to Bob Lee, Bob, I got information here, and I'll put that coverage up against any

network of what we did covering Pete Rose, in large part because of Bob, but I did have a connection

and I knew exactly what was going on with his betting.

Now, I never found out if he bet while he was a player on the Reds, against the Reds.

And I know that there's this outpouring of sympathy and sentiment for Pete Rose to be in the Hall of Fame.

Nothing has changed from yesterday, today, today, to a week ago with Pete Rose.

It's just sentiment here to get him in the Hall of Fame.

And what I like to see Pete in the Hall of Fame, it's a museum.

If you want to tell the story of baseball, then do it that way.

Because I know that there'll be a lot of people, old schools say, well, he stained the game, embarrassed the game.

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