The Burlesque of Pete Rose’s Ethical Doghouse
Looks like pretty small potatoes now, the overwhelmingly righteous and never-ending woodshedding of an American great in America’s national game. Michael Jordan gets a pass and Pete Rose is still in the principal’s office.
Looks like pretty small potatoes now, the overwhelmingly righteous and never-ending woodshedding of an American great in America’s national game. Michael Jordan gets a pass and Pete Rose is still in the principal’s office.
Gambling on your team to win every time they take the field.
Metaphorically sticking your chest out and hollering “my guys can beat your guys, any day of the week.” That was Pete. Charlie Hustle. Never outgrowing the schoolyard? Maybe, but it’s a schoolyard sport.
Except for the illegal drug trade, sports betting is probably America's biggest, most lucrative unregulated business. Except for the concept of Christ on the cross, judging the ethical behavior of sports heroes is probably America’s biggest, most practiced unregulated hypocrisy.
Grown men s…