Pete Rose will not be the 'hit queen' | SPEAK FOR YOURSELF — Transcript

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1. 0:00for me I see a little upside in you
2. 0:02being banned from the Hall of Fame in
3. 0:04terms of now listen you obviously a
4. 0:05tremendous player one of the five
5. 0:08greatest of all time but I think being
6. 0:10out of the Hall of Fame has made you
7. 0:12even more famous other than Babe Ruth I
8. 0:15think your name is is synonymous with
9. 0:17baseball because of the man you're a
10. 0:19smart guy you're a smart guy a lot of
11. 0:22people have told me that but uh But
12. 0:24there again you know I made the Hall of
13. 0:25Fame of Cincinnati a couple weeks ago
14. 0:27and that's my hometown and uh I want to
15. 0:29make the Hall of Fame in since night
16. 0:31ever since I was knee high to a
17. 0:32grasshopper and the next day they
18. 0:33retired my number and next year I'm
19. 0:35getting a statue so things are happening
20. 0:37to me where I want them to happen good
21. 0:40in the right areas and that's Cincinnati
22. 0:41Ohio sure every player should want to go
23. 0:44to his or her Hall of Fame it's the
24. 0:45ultimate gold you can reach I haven't
25. 0:47given up on the the coopertown Hall of
26. 0:49Fame yet uh although you know I'm 75 I'm
27. 0:52running out of time so I don't want to
28. 0:54make it once I'm you know being viewed
29. 0:57you know you'd rather be talking to and
30. 0:58then view your R is why
31. 1:01all right so icho whoo According to some
32. 1:06close or broke your hit record you like
33. 1:10me sometimes don't have the greatest
34. 1:12discipline with your mouth you said hey
35. 1:14they're trying to turn me into the hit
36. 1:16Queen why did you say that well because
37. 1:18they want me to be second fiddle I mean
38. 1:21listen listen Queens don't have to be
39. 1:23second fiddle I wasn't talking about the
40. 1:25Queen of England now don't get me wrong
41. 1:27but there again you know you talk about
42. 1:29profession hits I think a professional
43. 1:31hit is when you get a hit and you're
44. 1:33getting paid correct yes whether it's
45. 1:35Japan or whether it's Tampa or whether
46. 1:37it's Mak or whether it's Geneva New York
47. 1:40okay professional hits I got
48. 1:434683 of them okay Major League hits I
49. 1:46have
50. 1:474256 so you can read into that anything
51. 1:50you want however Ichiro is a Hall of
52. 1:53Fame player I got a lot of respect for
53. 1:54isiro you know he tied my record at 10
54. 1:57200 season hit Seasons I got 198 twice
55. 2:00man I couldn't have stretched that a
56. 2:02couple times but uh uh he'd probably
57. 2:04make the Hall of Fame in in Japan too I
58. 2:06won't make the Hall of Fame in Japan
59. 2:08because if I had play in Japan I'd have
60. 2:09got 5,000
61. 2:11hits if am I speaking out of turn now no
62. 2:14you're not have you spoken to each have
63. 2:16you did you reach out to him in any way
64. 2:19I did through Tony Perez I don't know if
65. 2:21ich speaks English and I short and hell
66. 2:23don't speak Japanese so we're going to
67. 2:25have a he a tough time
68. 2:26communicating the guy can hit man the
69. 2:29guy the guy can hit I mean he gets a lot
70. 2:31of hits wherever he plays he's just one
71. 2:33of those guys that gets a lot of hits I
72. 2:35take my I take your hat off to him okay
73. 2:38because the guy's a Hall of Famer first
74. 2:40ballot Hall of Famer and I guess he's
75. 2:42got 12 or 1300 hits in Japan he'll make
76. 2:44the Hall of Fame over there however he
77. 2:46ain't the hit queen king if he's the hit
78. 2:48King if he's the hit King Saro is the
79. 2:50Home Run king that's another argument we
80. 2:52can have cuz he got 85 home runs okay so
81. 2:57what's the difference