Report: Pete Rose bet on baseball as a player — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:07I'm Tamara holder and this is sports
3. 0:09court today with a baseball bombshell
4. 0:12ESPN's Outside the Lines has obtained a
5. 0:14notebook that reportedly shows Pete Rose
6. 0:17bet on baseball not only while serving
7. 0:20as manager for the Cincinnati Reds which
8. 0:22we already knew but now we learn also as
9. 0:25a player could this be the final blow
10. 0:27for his Hall of Fame bid here to away in
11. 0:30is attorney Dominic Romano welcome
12. 0:33thanks for being here thank you so is
13. 0:35this going to ruin him uh you know it's
14. 0:37part of a consistent pattern these
15. 0:39allegations are part of a pattern that
16. 0:42Rose has been deceiving the public and
17. 0:43probably deceiving himself look it took
18. 0:45him 15 years 15 years from the moment
19. 0:48that he was banned in baseball
20. 0:49permanently banned to 2004 when in his
21. 0:53autobiography he admitted to betting but
22. 0:55only he said as a manager now there
23. 0:57seems to be conclusive proof conclusive
24. 0:59evidence that you know back in his days
25. 1:02as a player he also bet on baseball
26. 1:05you're using words like evidence and
27. 1:08pattern which is great for the courtroom
28. 1:10but what about his fans what about the
29. 1:13people that say it doesn't matter this
30. 1:15is a smear campaign he's uh he's come
31. 1:18clean and people are just digging say
32. 1:20for example a a random analysis but
33. 1:23Casey Anthony all of a sudden 10 years
34. 1:25later somebody says oh I just dug up
35. 1:27this sealed document is that fair well
36. 1:31uh you could ask is it fair for someone
37. 1:34to not be truthful to his fans and to
38. 1:36the public look there are a lot of Pete
39. 1:37Rose apologist there and no matter what
40. 1:39he does they're going to say he belongs
41. 1:41not only at the Ballpark on July 14th
42. 1:43during the All-Star Game in Cincinnati
43. 1:45but he belongs back in the game because
44. 1:47of his accomplishments but look this is
45. 1:49not the first time this is not the first
46. 1:51piece of apparently damaging damning
47. 1:54evidence against Pete Rose there's you
48. 1:56know the Vanity Fair article from 14
49. 1:59years ago
50. 2:00that that 14 years ago but it's out
51. 2:03there you can't take it back so I want
52. 2:05to just go back to to start from the
53. 2:08beginning from this 1989
54. 2:12investigation why wasn't he criminally
55. 2:14charged this is a document or this
56. 2:16notebook was under seal by the court
57. 2:18shouldn't you as an attorney say why is
58. 2:21the court sealing this document and not
59. 2:23allowing the public that relies on this
60. 2:25man and and his character to not see
61. 2:28this well that's a good question the
62. 2:30original document was sealed it was
63. 2:31obtained by Postal in inspectors as part
64. 2:33of another investigation under seal John
65. 2:36Dow who conducted the investigation for
66. 2:38Major League Baseball which led to the
67. 2:40lifetime suspension didn't have access
68. 2:42but Dow has come out and said today or
69. 2:44the other very recently this is it it's
70. 2:46done it's a shut case this piece of
71. 2:48evidence would have been the home run
72. 2:50the Grand Slam that would have put Rose
73. 2:52away without question okay so do you
74. 2:54blame last question do you blame then
75. 2:56the judge do you blame the final person
76. 2:59that put this under seal and say ask the
77. 3:01judge why would you put this document
78. 3:03under seal if the prosecutor needed the
79. 3:05slam dunk look I think people out there
80. 3:08they look at the situation they look
81. 3:09answer the question do you blame the
82. 3:11judge no I Pete Rose has one person to
83. 3:13blame in this if this is true you should
84. 3:16look in the mirror and the only way this
85. 3:18is ever going to be resolved is if he
86. 3:20comes perfectly clean and admits the
87. 3:22truth not part of the truth but the
88. 3:24whole truth okay well that's not not the
89. 3:26judge's fault it's not the judge's fault
90. 3:28that Pete Rose misled the public okay
91. 3:30well we'll see what else comes of this
92. 3:32because he's he's still petitioning he
93. 3:34wants to be in the Hall of Fame bad on
94. 3:36his part great timing as a player not so
95. 3:38much okay afterwards well we'll see he
96. 3:42denies it thank you all for joining us
97. 3:44Sports Court is adjourned