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re: Will Clark makes quite the case for why Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame

Posted on 10/13/26 at 6:05 pm to
Posted by Zendog
Santa Barbara
Member since Feb 2019
7362 posts
Posted on 10/13/26 at 6:05 pm to
because Ortiz shouldn't be in either
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
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Posted on 10/13/26 at 6:20 pm to
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this thread. It is awesome watching this idiot:
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Houston problem

…keep digging his own hole over and over to the point of absolute stupidity.
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Rag Arm.

Barry has the ball in short left field before Sid Bream reaches 3rd Base and still can't throw him out. I would have been able throw him out from there when I was 15.

They definitely give out Golden Gloves to “defensive liability “players. With rag arms.

Eight times.

Posted by wareaglepete
Siberia
Member since Dec 2012
20502 posts
Posted on 10/13/26 at 8:32 pm to
I don't give a shite what they say. I defended that loser for 20 years. And then find out he was lying his arse off the whole time. No, that motherfricker does not deserve to be in the HOF. Unless we just want to let any POS in there. You can do that if you want. If so, I'm out. frick MLB.

He could have been the bigger man and come clean from the beginning, but nope. Keep lying. Fake it until you make it.
This post was edited on 10/14/26 at 9:01 am
Posted by dukke v
PLUTO
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Posted on 10/13/26 at 9:08 pm to
Will Clark should be in the HOF. It’s should not be just about stats.. the guy was a true baller…
Posted by InkStainedWretch
Member since Dec 2018
5895 posts
Posted on 10/13/26 at 9:20 pm to
The writers had NOTHING to do with this.

Screwing the 14-year-old on top of the gambling … plus a biography of Rose that came out last year presents compelling evidence that Rose was up to his nose in gambling, including on baseball, as early as the 1970s and the Reds knew it but he was so popular in Cincinnati that he was untouchable … ensures that hell will freeze over before Rose gets in the Hall of Fame.

For what it’s worth, that biography also presented the results of a survey on people’s views of Pete Rose. According to that survey, only one demographic as far as age, gender, race and political affiliation has a favorable view of Rose: middle aged white conservative men. He’s under water with every other demographic.
This post was edited on 10/13/26 at 9:24 pm
Posted by grizzlylongcut
Member since Sep 2021
16832 posts
Posted on 10/13/26 at 10:19 pm to
I agree with Clark. However, Ted Williams is the greatest hitter of all time.
Posted by dukke v
PLUTO
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217297 posts
Posted on 10/13/26 at 10:39 pm to
You are 100% correct.
Posted by danilo
Member since Nov 2008
26945 posts
Posted on 10/13/26 at 11:55 pm to
Will didn’t go to LSU. frick him.
Posted by CT Hooktip
Fairmont, WV
Member since Jan 2024
475 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 7:28 am to
It's beyond ridiculous that Pete Rose is not in the HoF. He should have been in long before he croaked.
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 10/14/26 at 7:39 am to
Will Clark refused to give autographs in the astrodome circa 1989. Looked me and the kids around me right in the faces and shook his head no.

Terry Puhl, that legendary ball player, walked over and signed everything.


Terry Puhl > Will Clark
Posted by Indefatigable
Member since Jan 2019
38862 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 8:32 am to
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first-ballot Hall of Famer.
dumbest designation in sports. The baseball writers are awful. Someone either is a HOFer or they aren’t. Time shouldn’t change that.
Posted by Wayne Campbell
Aurora, IL
Member since Oct 2011
7591 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 9:09 am to
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It's beyond ridiculous that Pete Rose is not in the HoF. He should have been in long before he croaked.


And he would have been. If not for that whole "gambling" thing. No one denies Rose's place as one of the game's greats, but he got caught breaking the cardinal sin of baseball since 1919.

He and his fans have no one to blame but Pete Rose himself.
This post was edited on 10/14/26 at 9:11 am
Posted by Houston problem
Member since Oct 2026
196 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 9:16 am to
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It's beyond ridiculous that Pete Rose is not in the HoF. He should have been in long before he croaked.


Mariano Rivera was a unanimous selection but Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Cy Young weren't.

HOF voters have always been retarded
This post was edited on 10/14/26 at 9:24 am
Posted by Wayne Campbell
Aurora, IL
Member since Oct 2011
7591 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 9:19 am to
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I wouldn't ding him for use against a pitcher also using steroids. Would you?


I'd say what others does is immaterial. But one of the greatest factoids of the Steroid Era and the Bonds discussion is that he hit the career record tying home run off Clay Hensley who had previously served a suspension for PED use.
Posted by InkStainedWretch
Member since Dec 2018
5895 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 9:26 am to
And again there’s him screwing 14-year-olds.

Pete Rose was a great baseball player but an utterly repulsive and disgusting human being, a true waste of the union of a sperm and a egg, who for some strange reason is utterly worshipped by a segment of baseball fans.

Who are about to point out all the repulsive bigots and drunks, etc., who are in Cooperstown. My answer to that is yes, Rose is arguably worse than them.
Posted by Broski
Member since Jun 2011
84747 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 9:29 am to
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HOF voters have always been retarded



You should apply to be one considering you don't think pre-roid Bonds was a good player.
Posted by Houston problem
Member since Oct 2026
196 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 9:33 am to
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And again there’s him screwing 14-year-olds.


Hey, Pete said he waited until she was 16, because that makes it ok
This post was edited on 10/14/26 at 9:36 am
Posted by Houston problem
Member since Oct 2026
196 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 9:41 am to
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You should apply to be one considering you don't think pre-roid Bonds was a good player.


Nowhere did I say the pre-roids Bonds wasn't a good player.
I said that it was a reach to say he would have been a first ballot HOF lock without the roids.
Posted by InkStainedWretch
Member since Dec 2018
5895 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 9:45 am to
I think he PROBABLY would have been first ballot but it’s not a metaphysically certain lock. Because he was excellent but he was not as jaw droppingly dominant as he was when he made the jump to hyperspace, Wookie.
Posted by InkStainedWretch
Member since Dec 2018
5895 posts
Posted on 10/14/26 at 9:47 am to
Speaking as someone who has actually cast HoF votes, there was a bunch of constipated old troglodyte voters who thought that since no one in the original group of members was unanimous, no one ever should be. They eventually died out.
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