Enough with Pete Rose

Can we please be done with Pete Rose, especially in Philly. The guy is undeniably one of the all-time greats in baseball, but also one of the all-time creeps in life. We don’t need a Phillies Wall of Fame inductee every year and we surely don’t need Pete Rose on the Wall of Fame.

The guy bet on baseball and he bet on games he was involved in. That should be enough.

Rose is a Red. He was here for five years, three of which were great, while the other two were eh. Are three years good enough?

In some cases, yes. Brad Lidge may be one of those cases. He’s season was historic and key to winning the World Series. There are major differences between Brad Lidge and Pete Rose. Lidge didn’t bet on baseball, have “consensual sex with a 16 year old while in his 30’s, or been alleged to have had sex with someone who may have been 15. With those extenuating circumstances, three years probably isn’t enough. To be honest, thirty years and ten World Series Championships probably wouldn’t be enough in light of these admitted and alleged transgressions. .

I’d rather leave room on the Phillies Wall of Fame for a Jayson Werth or Shane Victorino instead of some crumb bum.

Phillies fans clung to the 1980-83 Phillies because those were the glory days. We’ve had more recent glory days. We can and should let Pete Rose disappear into a miserable, selfish, greedy sunset instead of memorializing him in Ashburn Alley.

If the Phillies insist on giving out these Pete Rose bobbleheads on Friday night, I may have to use it for batting practice with my childhood Pete Rose wooden bat. If they insist on honoring Rose on the Wall, I’ll loudly boo, hopefully with a majority of other people. They have to cancel this ceremony.

Stay off our lawn and our Phillies Wall.