Pete Rose was an exceptional baseball player, but is a cocky, stubborn, dishonest dipstick of a human being. The "Hit King" was permanently suspended from baseball in 1989 for betting on ball games, including betting on games involving his own team. For many years thereafter, Rose adamantly denied everything. He never, ever bet on any baseball game. Then he eventually recalled that, well, yeah, he did bet on baseball, but he never, ever bet on his own team. Until he ultimately remembered in 2004 that, well, yeah, he did that too. All the while, he distanced himself from his former teammates, hung out in Vegas, and cultivated a cock-of-the-walk gambler's lifestyle. (A high-roller in a what's left of a ridiculous Prince Valiant hair-do.)
Now, after a mere 21 years, Rose says he finally "gets it." He says he has recently talked to Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan to try to patch things up, and told them he was "sorry if I caused any embarassment over the years."
If, Pete? Seriously? If??? What a fuckin' blockhead!