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[yendi]

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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[trochee.livejournal.com]

More on Pete Rose's "apology" is recently in Language Log (here (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000327.html), syndicated at languagelog).

It includes the following stunner:

Well, as far as the much-quoted passage from his book is concerned, the simple fact is that Pete Rose hasn't apologized at all.

Hah.

[yendi]

*nod* Yeah, the only thing he's sorry about is that he got caught. Actually, not even that. He's sorry he's been punished.