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MLB legend Pete Rose on sports betting: ‘I came along at the wrong time’
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MLB legend Pete Rose joined the OutKick 360 crew on Monday. The OK360 panel mentioned quite a lot of subjects through the interview, together with fashionable sports activities betting and the way it adjustments the narrative on Rose’s legacy.
OutKick 360’s Chad Withrow requested Rose what he considered the stark distinction within the angle towards sports activities betting now and through his time in baseball.
Pete Rose #14 of the Montreal Expos swings at a pitch throughout an MLB recreation in opposition to the New York Mets in April 1984 at Shea Stadium in Flushing, New York. (Picture by B Bennett/Bruce Bennett Studios by way of Getty Pictures Studios/Getty Pictures)
“For years, professional sports activities wouldn’t embrace Las Vegas,” Withrow mentioned. “You couldn’t have a staff there as a result of guys had been gonna be on the take, and it was gonna look unhealthy for the league and everybody was gonna suppose the sport is mounted.”
Withrow requested, “Does that make you go searching and suppose, ‘What are we doing right here with baseball’s view of me,’ and what occurred years in the past if you see their willingness to embrace it now?”
“Probably not as a result of I simply got here alongside on the incorrect time,” Rose admitted.
American baseball participant Pete Rose, of the Cincinatti Reds, crouches on the sector earlier than a recreation at Shea Stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, New York, New York, July 24, 1978. The sport, in opposition to the New York Mets, resulted in Rose growing his hitting streak to 37 consecutive video games (the streak finally lasted 44 video games).
(Picture by Gary Gershoff/Getty Pictures)
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“I’m not right here to inform baseball what to do,” Rose famous. “As you recognize, baseball is all about making {dollars}. I’m not right here to attempt to inform baseball run its enterprise, and I’m definitely not going to inform the casinos run their enterprise.”
“Ultimately consequence, I simply hope everybody’s joyful,” he added.
Baseball legend Pete Rose visits Fox Enterprise Community Studios on June 5, 2019 in New York Metropolis.
(Picture by Steven Ferdman/Getty Pictures)
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