Pete Rose never bet against his own team. He was suspended for betting on his own team to win which is still against the rules. Then again I guess that's the point of this article...even the writer can't get the facts straight. It appears the only way to get reinstated to a professional sports team is to make an apology on Oprah or Larry King or 20/20 after less heinous crimes than betting on your own team to win like killing dogs, or shooting people or yourself or running over a cop or doing sterioids.
@BullfightsOnAcid: Well, some people actually do blame rape victims, for their rapes. And I go on to indirectly criticisize the rape victim in the next sentence. But thanks for narrowly reading the definition of the word "culpable," all of you, in the service of being total assholes!
@Ryan Tate: I mean "total assholes" affectionately, btw. And I should explain that here, just like I had to explain that I don't blame rape victims above.
@Ryan Tate: So, basically, you wanted to make a cheap joke based on a reference that no one who doesn't watch MC Hammer's Reality Show would get (which i'm guessing is most everyone), and to set it up required an entire paragraph, as well a half-assed attempt to make sure we didn't think you were "blaming the victim", which, in the course of doing that, you left out the word "is", making the whole thing a terrible chore to read. Good job, kiddo. And i mean that affectionately.
@Lonesome_George: oh, Jeebus. First I laughed, then felt bad for laughing at a rape joke, then went to Marv Alpert, and laughed again at the thought of a woman being bitten by a man in ladies' undergarments.
@OrneryBabe: Shield your eyes, dear one; it gets worse... and she is an attractive woman! (and kinda funny and playful) but she insists on looking like a cross between a burn victim and a cartoon cricket. Why??????
@alec_baldwin: I really gave up worrying about cancer when Linda McCartney died. When a happy, healthy, vegetarian, fulfilled wife and mother gazillionaire can die of breast cancer before she's 60, well, just cross your fingers (if you still have them)hope for the best and pass the trans fats, please.
@SarahHeartburn: Linda McCartney had Ashkenazi heritage (her maiden name had been changed from Edelman to Eastman, I believe) and that leads me to think her cancer was strongly influenced by genes. She also worked a lot with developing film during a time of no safety warnings, and some of those chemicals are pretty strong...but yes, I agree with you, her death completely made me feel like a slave to the whims of fate. More than usual, i mean.
@forwardmotion: Thanks. Absolutely right; we're exposed to so many possible toxins or risk factors in our lives, that, apart from living a sensible, healthy life, there's a limit to what we can do.
@SarahHeartburn: And to quote the great Edina Monsoon, circa 1990: "You can't play rock and roll on a diet of Quorn, veggie juice and Linda bloody McCartney's tofu treats."
@PandoraSpocks: Though truth be told, I'm sure there are some groups out there whose contracts insist on backstage catering based exactly on mush like that.
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Pete Rose is a prick. That's why he won't get reinstated.
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i don't care about the missing is... I do care about the missing making sense.
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"He's totally guilty, if found guilty." Good point!
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LEAVE. HIM. ALONE.
That is all.
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If the paps are so hungry for a hideous visage, they should be following Lisa Rinna around.
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