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From: wimp@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Haferman)
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Subject: Re: Pete Rose
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Date: Sat, 25-May-85 23:56:34 EDT
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> I'd to take a little poll amongst you afficianados of baseball.  What is your
> opinion of Pete Rose, I mean Pete Rose the player not the Grecian Formula
> model.

> In Rose's case there is no dichotomy between personality and effort.  I can
> remember getting sick at the sight of him and his burrhead go sliding into
> first base; Although his hair got longer he was the same asshole as before.

I like Pete.  I'll bet he would think you're an a*s*o*e.
(I'm just speculating) 




> Pete Rose is full of shit when he says that he is not staying on as a player 
> inorder to break Ty Cobb's basehit record, blah, blah, blah.  Well I under- 
> stand that Cobb was an asshole also, so maybe it would be fitting.

Yeah, but put yourself in Pete's shoes (I'll bet you'd love to).  Wouldn't
it just suck to retire so close to the record?  I say if he has the means
to do it, more power to him, records are meant to be broken, and all of that
malarkey. 


Jeff Haferman

p.s. -  John McEnroe is wonderful also.