That could be anybody named “Pete Rose” with thousands of dollars to blow daily on gambling.

You’re absolutely right. The Mob had their hooks into an active player and manager.

Honest question: Wouldn’t it be more troubling if he bet on games as a manager than as a player? Managers can affect the outcome of entire games far more than a single player.

That he bet on the Reds while playing is what most people are going to look for, but I think the end of the story is far more interesting:

Lifetime Reds fan here...and I’ve got nothing. I can no longer defend him. I never felt good about defending him to begin with but my fan side won out over my morals. In recent years I softened my stance on him getting back in baseball. I believed he deserved to be in the HoF. I tried to rationalize that his “crime”…

No. Just....no.

It’s so weird, nothing like that ever happens in bigger leagues

You’ve got a typo in your comment. You said something about “country’s best club” and your URL points to the website of some minor-league team on Long Island.

You’re misunderstanding where the drama comes from. Occasionally you get something crazy like the Brazil-Germany blowout (in the semi-final, no less) or France/Spain’s precipitous drops of 2010 and 2014, but more often, it’s from the bubble teams in each group: the #2 and #3 teams who have to scratch and claw for…

I disagree that this Cup has been “great,” and I doubt that 2019 will be that great either.

Yeah I wasn’t completely clear, but I agree. Exaggerating an injury, as we see here, is infuriating but there’s no real way to hand out a punishment without setting a dangerous precedent. Simulation, as you rightly point out is different, and is essentially faking contact when there was none - or at least that’s how I…

I agree with you. Until he puts his head into the guy that came up to him. Red every single time. I don’t care if he didn’t connect very well. You don’t forcefully butt your head at someone. Ever.

More Like Clinton POORtis Amirite???

You just need to do an expose on the whole retail industry. All my gals in NYC can’t get new jobs since its very ethnic based and mostly controlled by one community. Interview somewhere or send the resume out, the receiver will call up the owner of your job and tell them!

LA resident with one of my bridesmaids as a senior, non creative, business operations executive there for a few years, though recently departed for another major label in an extremely senior role there. At her wedding everyone spoke to her patience, her ability to be a mommy manager to everyone, including strangers on…

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