Pete Rose: Reinstate me. I’m good for baseball. — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:03November 25th 2002 was when you had the
3. 0:05meeting in commissioner se's office it
4. 0:08was very cordial I mean the guy's a fan
5. 0:10I mean the guy was very nice to me and
6. 0:12Mike Schmidt was there and then when
7. 0:14they left and Bud and I was one on one
8. 0:16and only he knows what was said and I
9. 0:18know what was said I really had a good
10. 0:20feeling about being reinstated when I
11. 0:22left that office and something happened
12. 0:25I don't know what happened when I left
13. 0:27that
14. 0:28office what was said when it was just
15. 0:31you and the commissioner in the office
16. 0:33well I'm not going to tell you that so
17. 0:35to asked him it was like I said the
18. 0:37meeting was very cordial and we're both
19. 0:40great Baseball fans and we both care
20. 0:42about the game and we both understand I
21. 0:43made a mistake uh But there again um I
22. 0:47just told him everything I
23. 0:49did I just I told him everything that
24. 0:51transpired I mean I no no no hold back
25. 0:54just tell him everything and uh I told
26. 0:57him I said I I told him thanks for
27. 0:59giving me a chance get this monkey off
28. 1:01my back I've been carrying around for 10
29. 1:0312 years of the 17 players who've been
30. 1:07banned from baseball no none have ever
31. 1:09been reinstated in your opinion what do
32. 1:12you think the likelihood is next
33. 1:13question since you asked me that
34. 1:15question I'll ask you the question how
35. 1:17many of the 17 have ever
36. 1:19applied none okay so that answers your
37. 1:22question do I think do I think I'm going
38. 1:24to be reinstated I don't know uh but I
39. 1:27can't and I can't answer why the other
40. 1:2816 didn't re reapply for reinstatement
41. 1:31Joe Jackson never applied for
42. 1:32reinstatement or the other 16 guys that
43. 1:35you're you're talking about were they
44. 1:37offered the I don't know you know you
45. 1:39got Joe Jackson people compare him to me
46. 1:42well the last time I checked he took
47. 1:44money to throw games in a World Series
48. 1:47I've bet on my own team to win there a
49. 1:50big ass difference in those two
50. 1:51scenarios right there what would you
51. 1:53want to do if you were reinstated what
52. 1:55would I want to do I I only I only want
53. 1:57to do one thing I I want to manage a BAS
54. 2:00team and I said this before I don't and
55. 2:03I'm trying not trying to be ER or cocky
56. 2:05but if you want to put people in the
57. 2:06stands and
58. 2:08win call
59. 2:10me and if you don't want to put people
60. 2:12in the stands and if you don't want to
61. 2:14win don't waste your phone call on
62. 2:17me because those are the the utmost
63. 2:20things the managers should think about
64. 2:22winning and putting people in the STS
65. 2:25and winning usually puts people in the
66. 2:26stands
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69. 2:38he
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