Pete Rose Jim Gray interview 1999 ALL CENTURY TEAM full clip — Transcript

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1. 0:00ceremony marking a return to the
2. 0:01baseball Spotlight he's with Jim Gray
3. 0:04all right thank you very much Hannah be
4. 0:06congratulations it was quite
5. 0:09anation Pete let me ask you now it seems
6. 0:11as though that there is an opening the
7. 0:13American public is very forgiving are
8. 0:15you willing to show Contrition admit
9. 0:17that you're bet on baseball and make
10. 0:19some sort of an apology to that effect
11. 0:21not at all Jim not at all uh I'm not
12. 0:24going to admit something didn't happen I
13. 0:25know you get tired to hear me say that
14. 0:27but uh I appreciate the Ovation I appre
15. 0:29appreciate the American fans voting me
16. 0:31on that all Century team and I'm just a
17. 0:34small part of a big deal tonight with
18. 0:36the overwhelming evidence no is in that
19. 0:38report why not make that step much of a
20. 0:40festive night to worry about that I mean
21. 0:42because I don't know what EV you're
22. 0:43talking about I mean show it to
23. 0:46me but we don't want to debate that Pete
24. 0:49well why not why don't we want why we
25. 0:50want to believe everything he says you
26. 0:52sign a paper acknowledging the ban why
27. 0:55did you sign it if you didn't agree yeah
28. 0:56but it also It also says I can apply for
29. 0:58reinstatement after one year
30. 1:00if you remember the press conference
31. 1:02matter of fact my statement was I can't
32. 1:04wait for my little girl to be a year old
33. 1:05so I can apply for reinstatement at my
34. 1:07press conference so you forgot to add
35. 1:09that CL that was in there well you have
36. 1:11reapplied or you have applied for
37. 1:13reinstatement in 1997 have you heard
38. 1:15back from commissioner C uh no and that
39. 1:18kind of surprises me it's only been two
40. 1:19years though and he's got a lot of
41. 1:20things on his mind but uh uh I hope to
42. 1:24someday Pete it's been 10 years since
43. 1:26you've been allowed on the field yeah
44. 1:28obviously the approach that you have
45. 1:29taken has not worked why not at this
46. 1:31point take a different approach well
47. 1:34when you say it hadn't worked what do
48. 1:35you exactly mean you're not allowed in
49. 1:37baseball you're not allowed to earn a
50. 1:38living in the game you love and you're
51. 1:39not allowed to be in the Hall of Fame be
52. 1:42that was the plan for reinstatement and
53. 1:44uh I hope bu it considers that it gives
54. 1:46me an opportunity I won't need a third
55. 1:48chance I W need is a second chance those
56. 1:50who will hear this tonight will say that
57. 1:52you have been Your Own Worst Enemy and
58. 1:54continue to be how do you respond to
59. 1:56that uh what what and what way are you
60. 1:58talking about by not acknowledging what
61. 2:00seems to be overwhelming evidence um
62. 2:03yeah I'm surprised you're you're you're
63. 2:05you're bombarding me like this I mean
64. 2:06I'm doing an interview with you on a
65. 2:08great night a great occasion a great
66. 2:10Ovation everybody seems to be in a good
67. 2:12mood and you're bringing up something
68. 2:14happened 10 years ago I bring it up
69. 2:16because I think people would like to see
70. 2:17you get it on we got to go we got
71. 2:19prosecutor it's not an interview and I'm
72. 2:21very surprised at you I am really some
73. 2:23would be surprised that you didn't take
74. 2:24the opportunity let's go upstairs to
75. 2:25Hannah
76. 2:28congratulations Bob