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True Dough

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7. Rose is such a polarizing figure
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 01:25 PM
Jan 2017

Most are strongly on one side or the other. I have gone back and forth on the issue, to be honest.

But let me ask you, Professor, you are okay with the known drug cheats making it into the hallowed halls of Cooperstown but you're dead set against Rose? Is it because a handful of elite players were caught taking PEDs (and who knows how many other "average" players were consuming them as well), so the problem is generally considered widespread or rampant during this era? Rose is kind of on an island in the sense that he bet on baseball while managing, particularly betting against his own team. So he has committed the more grievous offense?

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