![]() As always, where Rose went, eyeballs followed, as Fox set records for viewership. He had seemed to turn a corner in remaking his image, with his studio commentator gig during the playoffs on Fox winning over fans. The Cincinnati Reds inducted Rose last year into its hall of fame, and it barely registered on the radar. ![]() The team had evidence all would go smoothly. Most organizations and businesses shy away from Rose, and the Phillies marketing department waited until it had very few cards left to play to get people into the stadium before saying, “Let’s put Pete Rose in the Wall of Fame! We’ll sell out!”īut the team had to have known the volatility with which something like scheduling Rose for induction into its Wall of Fame carries, and now it’s going to have to deal with it. In the past 20 years, few public figures have incited such a splintered debate as Rose. These are serious accusations that paint Rose’s sexual activities as questionable at their most charitable, disgustingly illegal at their most damning. Now the Phillies are faced with a grave decision to make before Charlie Hustle’s date for induction to the Phillies Wall of Fame.įirst, let’s not belittle the unidentified woman’s accusation or the mental anguish it could have put a young woman through 40 years ago. Also, this was about four decades ago, long gone from the statute of limitations in Ohio. Rose alleges the relationship began when the woman was 16, which is legal age in Ohio. Recent reports detail court documents that a woman claimed to have sex with Rose before she turned 16, and while he was in his 30s. Well, the Phillies played with one of the quickest-igniting matches there is in Pete Rose when the team announced it would induct Rose into its Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame during an event scheduled for Aug. “But still, I have to say, you play with matches, you get burned.” Vincent Vega said it best in “Pulp Fiction.”
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