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yendi ([personal profile] yendi) wrote2004-01-08 08:43 am

Sportswriting is still writing. In theory

Rob Dibble on Pete Rose: "It's got to be tortuous for Pete to wake up every day knowing that he is his own worst enemy. . ."

Yeah, Rob? The fact that you played baseball does not mean you're qualified to write about it.

(that said, I don't necessarily disagree with Dibble's argument. Certainly, any Hall of Fame that honors scum like Landis and Cobb can honor Rose. But as long as others -- like the Black Sox - are excluded, he doesn't belong, either. And he'll never belong back in baseball itself.)

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