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Old 08-31-2025, 01:33 PM   #460
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Stop fearing the dead.

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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru View Post
It's not a twiggin' dead horse when it comes to defiling a sport that I love.
The living have done more damage to this sport in the last five to seven years than Pete Rose's couple of bets ever could.

- the post-ASG taterballs of 2018(?)
- the universal DH
- one-player rules (no matter how much I adore Shohei-sama)
- extra-inning bonzoball
- schedule erosion
- TV balkanization
- literally betting everywhere
- upcoming: automatic ball/strikes
- upcoming: divisions be gone / realignment

Don't get me wrong. He absolutely should have stayed banned in perpetuity. But Rose - inevitably, eventually! - getting into the Hall of Fame isn't even a scratch on that dead horse.
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