Pete Rose: 'I Picked The Wrong Vice... I Should Have Picked Alcohol'
All-time hits leader, Reds legend and baseball pariah Pete Rose recently appeared on Pittsburgh's 93.7 The Fan to discuss A-Rod, baseball sins and himself. Rose, of course, was in 1989 banished from baseball for life for gambling during his managerial days, and here's what he has to say about all of that:
"You have to understand, I don't call these guys to do shows, they call me. And of course with all this steroid talk and the 12 guys being suspended and A-Rod appealing, they want my input because I'm suspended for life. Hey, everything is a different case. I made mistakes. I can't whine about it. I'm the one that messed up and I'm paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won't need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball."
It's good that Rose has been professing accountability in recent years, but he did the exact opposite of that for far too long. As to his larger point, I also find it...
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