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If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

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It's sort of a study in the human nature of how things like this can happen and how turning a blind eye on the subject allowed baseball to recover in the late '90s and 2000 with the offensive explosion. And now, how the right steps have been taken by the players' association and the commissioner's office to totally cleanse the game.

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There's a lot of sad elements in that thing. It was sad that Pete bet on baseball. It was sad that Pete thought he could get away with it. It was sad the way he confessed, so to speak. The way the league perceived that he admitted to it was sad, and it's sad now the way baseball is handling it. It truly could be put to bed one way or the other, and I think we all sort of wish that would happen for all the parties.

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I'm always there for Pete. Major League Baseball has created this Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. I don't think he would mind if the commissioner said no, if the committee voted no.

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Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in.

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This is as early as I've ever seen it get this wild.

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You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

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About a year after the Milwaukee meeting, I phoned Bud to ask what was holding up his decision on Pete's reinstatement. Bud confided that he didn't think Pete understood the gravity of his commitment.

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Pete's confession lacked one major thing in Bud's mind remorse. I spoke to Bud later, and he told me he got the confession he had expected, but not the expression of genuine remorse he had hoped for.

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No missing people reports were called in (Friday) night. Since there are no confirmed bodies, we decided to not go any further because at this point, there's so much danger up there, we'd have a hard time doing anything safely.

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I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

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One of the things that DARPA helps provide is funding to get a technology to a certain maturity level. That makes DARPA more important in the rolling out of technologies from the defense industry because the market now demands that maturity.

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He (Smith) better get doctors, pharmacists and players who took steroids to all be in the room aa because until you have information from all of those people, the discussion isn't worth a damn.

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They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

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I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

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I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did as a minor-league manager all year.

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If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese.

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Personally, I think the timing and manner of the book's release, given that it overshadowed the New York Hall of Fame news conference, sealed Pete's fate. For some reason, the commissioner wants to keep Pete on permanent hold.

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Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

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I had more people come to me and say 'It was great to see a player of your caliber treat that honestly and not come out totally against the current players.

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We've had teams from Greenwood that come here and play, and those people are going to eat.

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What (the Parks Department) has done in the past five years has been incredible. The fields are always green a our (fields) are good all year round. They put a lot into it.

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He told me that he scouted me at Ohio University, which surprised me. Pat's a fine guy. He called me a couple of times and really rolled out the red carpet.

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Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

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I feel comfortable that any player from when I played through today is going to find that it's truthful and enlightening. I don't think I cross the line, but I go up to the line a little bit.

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