What I Learned from The Great Pete Rose

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh to Pete Rose when I was a kid, without
a doubt. I mean, I'm grew up a Yankee fan,
but I was also a huge Pete Rose fan. I
love the way he played. I don't know if it
was you know, maybe because you know, I wasn't a

(00:37):
home run hitter. It was something I couldn't do. My
brother Michael, my brother Matthew they could. And my brother
matt I don't know how many home runs he hit
in his last little league season, in the sixteen game season.
It was like twenty five or thirty. It was insane.
But anyway, not me. I just back then, I hated
did not like striking out. I like to put the

(00:58):
ball in play. I like to run the basis. I
always went one hundred miles an hour, and I guess
I still do that throughout life. And that's how Pete
Rose played a lot of younger people not familiar with him,
and all you really know about Pete is that he
is the all time hits leader and he's not in
the Hall of Fame because he bet on baseball again.

(01:19):
So no, no, it's a rule. I get it. He
lied about it as well. Pete Rose, without a doubt,
a flawed human being. But I'm asking anybody that's listening
right now, are you not flawed in some way, shape,
matter of form. We're all broken human beings. We all

(01:42):
screw up. These bands that they have. They call it
a lifetime band. Well, he's no longer with us. I
mean that needs to be lifted right away, and he
needs to be voted into the Hall of Fame. Plus
you know that the hypocrisy of the entire thing. I
don't even know how these the gambling works now with sports,

(02:03):
they actually track phones of professional athletes are not allowed
to vote. If they're actually on the premises, they can
get fined. But they're allowed to vokes to me, allowed
to gamble unless they're on the premises. They can't allow.
They've got to be off or not. They're going to
get fined. We all see how gambling is. It owns everything.
At this point in time, I major League Baseball, it's

(02:25):
got to deal with sports books. I'm one that I
don't gamble. I never placed to bet in my life.
I don't do that. I have no interest in it.
I'm not interested in the whole fantasy crap that goes on.
I got better things to do with my time. However,
if you're not familiar, not familiar again, little ode to

(02:46):
Pete Rose. He played the game the way it's supposed to.
One hundred miles an hour. Again, everything in life meaning
value worth work, time and effort. This guy wasn't a
tremendous athlete by any stretch of the imagination, but he
would walk. You get you take a walk, ball four
sprint to first base, sprint head first dives. H Listen,

(03:11):
you go through life like that. You're going through life
one hundred miles an hour all the time. You're gonna
make mistakes, but good things are gonna happen. Good things
gonna happen. I kind of translate that again to the
way I coach lacrosse. I always tell kids all the time.
I said, go out there and make fast mistakes. Make

(03:35):
fast mistakes, meaning you're going as hard as you can
all the time. And that's that's what I learned from
Pete Rose growing up watchdog on Wall street dot Com.