Pete Rose Not Worried About Getting Into the Hall of Fame Anymore | MLB — Transcript

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1. 0:00all the way out to Las Vegas to bring in
2. 0:02Pete Rose yes he joins us on the MSG 150
3. 0:05speed dial presented by files by Verizon
4. 0:07Pete thanks so much for joining us you
5. 0:09have a new book out it's called play
6. 0:10hungry the making of a baseball player
7. 0:13tell us about the book and the
8. 0:15motivation for doing the book well I
9. 0:19think you know I'm getting up there in
10. 0:22years now and I never really had a
11. 0:24situation where I really talked about my
12. 0:26dad the way I should have and I was a
13. 0:29baseball player because the way he
14. 0:32brought me up and I was very fortunate
15. 0:34because he was a baseball player a
16. 0:36basketball player and a football player
17. 0:38and probably the best football player
18. 0:39having to come out of Cincinnati and I'm
19. 0:41just I'm just my dad and next generation
20. 0:44was a bigger and better opportunity and
21. 0:46I think we're getting away from that
22. 0:48today with dads and sons and dads and
23. 0:51daughters of relationship and I just
24. 0:52want or I hope everybody could have
25. 0:55relationship with their dad that I had
26. 0:57with my dad and when you read the book
27. 0:58you'll understand why I played the game
28. 1:01the way I played the game and I believe
29. 1:04I've heard you tell this story before I
30. 1:06think it's also in the book about if
31. 1:08your dad had been around when you were
32. 1:10gambling yeah that things would have
33. 1:12been much different for you tell that
34. 1:14story please it might it might it might
35. 1:16have been it might have been different
36. 1:18but don't forget I don't know it why no
37. 1:22nobody in the clubhouse knew I was
38. 1:24gambling when I was gambling so the
39. 1:26other way my dad would have knew is if I
40. 1:28had told him okay what I mean by that no
41. 1:30players no coaches no clubhouse guys
42. 1:32that nobody knew that when I was
43. 1:35gambling I was gambling it and but my
44. 1:37dad would have been here and he knew I
45. 1:38was gambling he to probably put a halt
46. 1:40to it because I had he's the only guy in
47. 1:43the world I ever idolized and I met
48. 1:45seven presidents but my father is doing
49. 1:47one I ever idolized he where did things
50. 1:50stand in your estimation with the Hall
51. 1:51of Fame right now everybody
52. 1:55they don't stand and I'm not worried
53. 1:58about that I mean if I ever had the
54. 2:01honor of one in Hall Fame I'd be the
55. 2:02happiest guy in the world but I'm not
56. 2:04going to live the rest of my life
57. 2:06worrying about going to the Hall of Fame
58. 2:08my family knows what kind of player I
59. 2:10was my fans know what kind of player was
60. 2:12my teammates know what kind of player
61. 2:14was and I'm the one that screwed that up
62. 2:16so I'm not going to get on your show and
63. 2:18complain about that I don't think
64. 2:20there's any way in the world
65. 2:21then I'll ever go to the Baseball Hall
66. 2:23of Fame I went to the Baseball Hall of
67. 2:25Fame in Cincinnati I got my number
68. 2:27retired in Cincinnati I got a statue in
69. 2:29Cincinnati and don't forget guys that's
70. 2:31where I was born so that means so much
71. 2:34to me to be I have those three things
72. 2:36happen to me in Cincinnati but I can't
73. 2:38live the rest of my life worrying about
74. 2:40going to Cooperstown if it ever opens up
75. 2:43I'd be the happiest guy in the world but
76. 2:45when you screw up you can't complain
77. 2:47about something that's because it's not
78. 2:49their fault it was my fault although I
79. 2:51would like to have a second chance
80. 2:53something I have not been able to get so
81. 2:55far but dumb only 78 so maybe it's
82. 2:58around the corner plenty of time for
83. 3:00sure then and we see how many people
84. 3:02still turn out to see ya to get
85. 3:04autographs to to meet you it shows that
86. 3:07many people still remember the way you
87. 3:09played how hard you played the Charlie
88. 3:11hustle nickname of course and I have to
89. 3:13ask today's game the analytics could
90. 3:17Charlie hustle playing with analytics in
91. 3:20the today's era because of the way they
92. 3:21make you play now where it seems like
93. 3:23hustling is almost the note we'd rather
94. 3:25you strike no I don't know I don't think
95. 3:27they know no no no no no no I I don't
96. 3:30think they make you play a certain way
97. 3:32and there again could you name me a team
98. 3:34that was strictly analytics it's won the
99. 3:36World Series in the last five or six
100. 3:38years here's the way you win a World
101. 3:41Series you pitch you hit you it with men
102. 3:43on base I don't care if you strike out
103. 3:46that's that velocity today how many home
104. 3:48runs can I hit okay that's up strikeouts
105. 3:51are up and more importantly and the
106. 3:54Commissioner should think about this
107. 3:56attendance is down mm-hmm okay
108. 3:59attendance is down in baseball a tendon
109. 4:01is not down in basketball it's not down
110. 4:04in football it's certainly not down in
111. 4:06hockey
112. 4:06so baseball has some concern
113. 4:08that they have to take care of and I
114. 4:10don't like the way the game is played
115. 4:11today but it's not the players fault the
116. 4:14players they go to the ball parks and
117. 4:16the ball parks are banned boxes in the
118. 4:18ball juice they play with what they give
119. 4:20them to play with and don't tell me the
120. 4:22ball it's not use there's too many home
121. 4:24right everybody plays baseball today
122. 4:25it's potentially a home run hitter not
123. 4:28forty fifty but I guarantee everybody on
124. 4:30every roster today has at least one home
125. 4:32run and it's going to have more and more
126. 4:34and more and you know I never thought
127. 4:37I'd get on the show and defend pitchers
128. 4:39you can't pitch in Cincinnati you can't
129. 4:41pitch him in the Camden Yards you can't
130. 4:43pitch in Colorado you can't pitch in
131. 4:45Philadelphia you can't pitch in Colorado
132. 4:47you can't pitch in the new ballpark una
133. 4:50in Atlanta you know there's so many
134. 4:52bandboxes in baseball Houston is a joke
135. 4:55if you ever did an appearance there and
136. 4:57you stood at home plate you say why is
137. 4:58those fences so close you know to where
138. 5:01the fielder plays it's just not fair to
139. 5:03pitchers but that's what baseball wants
140. 5:05and that's what they got I imagine you
141. 5:07wonder how many home runs could you hit
142. 5:08today because you know you watch you
143. 5:11watch the way the games played and you
144. 5:13ask yourself you know what players would
145. 5:15be transcended which players could have
146. 5:17played in another era
147. 5:18is there someone you watch today and say
148. 5:20well that's that's a guy when he plays
149. 5:23the play listen I was over I was over in
150. 5:27New York last week and did everything
151. 5:29all the main shows Fran says son Kay and
152. 5:32and mad dog and and and the rest of him
153. 5:35I'm Fox and and I even had one guy I've
154. 5:37got it was he said well Mickey Mantle
155. 5:39and Willie Mays a hank Aaron couldn't
156. 5:41play today what the hell were they
157. 5:43talking about those guys couldn't play
158. 5:45baseball today maybe the guys today
159. 5:47couldn't play back in the 60s and set up
160. 5:49if you can play baseball you can play
161. 5:52today yeah you could play today it's
162. 5:54just I'm not gonna drop my back shoulder
163. 5:57and try to hit a fly ball I'm gonna hit
164. 5:58a try try to hit a line drive you know I
165. 6:01don't care how far a home run goes if
166. 6:03you have a 330 foot fence you hit at 331
167. 6:07feet you get an RBI you don't get two
168. 6:09RBIs you hit 440 feet and everybody on
169. 6:12TV today oh that one went 460 that one
170. 6:16went 430 so what who cares how far it
171. 6:19goes just get it over the fence
172. 6:21mine drives me out of the ballpark - I
173. 6:23know a guy hits 755 home runs and never
174. 6:26hit a tape-measure home run his name was
175. 6:29Henry Aaron he hit line drive home run
176. 6:31755 of them okay Barry Bonds wasn't a
177. 6:35tape-measure type guy he hit more homers
178. 6:37than Hank did Willie Mays hit 660 you
179. 6:41know I watched these guys played their
180. 6:42whole careers I don't remember a time
181. 6:44hitting opposite field home runs every
182. 6:46night I watched replays theirs opposite
183. 6:48field home runs and every game is played
184. 6:50in baseball today are they that much
185. 6:53stronger than we were I don't know how
186. 6:55much stronger they could be than Willie
187. 6:56McCovey Pete what Willie Mays was 100
188. 7:00and 198 pounds last one for upto the
189. 7:06year in 1963 its Rookie of the Week here
190. 7:09yeah on MSG Network presented by
191. 7:11Squarespace a rookie week all week -
192. 7:13presented by Squarespace any memories
193. 7:14that stand out for you during that year
194. 7:17when you won Rookie of the Year your
195. 7:18first year in Major League Baseball a
196. 7:21couple one I had to beat out Ron hunt
197. 7:24who played for the Mets everybody New
198. 7:26York want him to win and I remember when
199. 7:29I was called by Jack Lang to
200. 7:31congratulate me on being nationally
201. 7:33Rookie of the Year I was why I was
202. 7:35shining the mess hall floor of the at
203. 7:39Fort Knox I was in the army and I got
204. 7:42the call from out from Jack Lang I don't
205. 7:44know how the hell he got hold me at Fort
206. 7:45Knox but he did to congratulate me on
207. 7:48being a rookie the year that's that's
208. 7:49kind of interesting I was a great story
209. 7:51well pink we'll leave it there hey
210. 7:53thanks so much I enjoy the summer we
211. 7:54can't thank you enough for joining us
212. 7:55here well you get my book I got a lot of
213. 7:57stories of it I got a lot of stories in
214. 7:59my book you're good at your laughter ass
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216. 8:01and by the way MSG does a great job all
217. 8:04right Thank You Pete thank you so much
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