Remembering Pete Rose: A Complex Legacy in the MLB

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00:00But yesterday, a sad day in Major League Baseball as well with the passing of the all-time hits

00:08leader Charlie Hustle, Pete Rose, a complicated legacy, of course, in MLB, banished from the

00:15sport for betting on his own team, the Reds, when he was a player manager back in the mid

00:20to late 80s.

00:21But his accomplishments on the diamond, those are hard to argue.

00:25How do you remember Pete Rose and what he meant to the sport of baseball?

00:29Yeah, look, he was, you know, for his era and for his time before the game changed in

00:33a different way, you know, he's the hit king.

00:35I mean, all-time hit king, played at a very high level, basically as long as anybody has

00:40ever played the game.

00:42And then things got complicated after that, of course, with him as a manager and the whole,

00:46you know, gambling scandal and everything that happened like that.

00:49And then certainly later on, made his way in Las Vegas, signing autographs every single

00:54day.

00:55And we knew that he could do that for about 20 years every day, that people would still

00:59come in and get his autographs all those years later.

01:02My best experience that I could have with him was probably about seven, eight years

01:07ago, maybe a little bit longer.

01:09We invited him at the time I was hosting and producing a television show on Fox Sports

01:13Florida at the time, which is now Bally.

01:16And he came into our studio, actually came into our studio, and we recorded basically

01:20a whole show with him.

01:22And guys, the one thing that I could say, in doing that show for about 10 years, he

01:27was the only guest that we had ever, that we ever had on that stayed for two hours after

01:33the show ended.

01:34And we just sat there and talked baseball.

01:36It was really one of those incredible moments for me learning so much about the game with

01:40him there.