Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good many baseball fans -- and gamblers -- whether Rose can ever convincingly refute the allegations is almost irrelevant. Charlie Hustle has become a symbol not just of gambling but also of the social toleration of it. Many people declare belligerently that even if all the allegations are true, they cannot see that Rose did anything grievously wrong. Had he bet on the Reds to lose, he would deserve severe punishment. But the Dowd report asserts that so far as anyone can determine, Rose bet on his team only to win -- and, many people ask, What was so terrible about that...
This sentiment, of course, is strongest in Cincinnati, where Rose is still a sort of god (Riverfront Stadium, where the Reds play, stands on Pete Rose Way). But those opinions can be heard all over the country. In a TIME/CNN poll taken last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, only 30% of the 504 people questioned thought Rose should be suspended from baseball for life if the accusations are correct; 40% said he should be suspended for only one year; and 20% were against any suspension...
...others. But to many people this stern morality is as outdated as the 70-year-old scandal that prompted it. In 1919 eight members of the Chicago White Sox were charged with taking money from gamblers to throw the World Series against, yes, the Cincinnati Reds. The rules that Rose is accused of breaking were written in the wake of that scandal. Said a typical telephone caller to a Cincinnati radio talk show last week: "It's not like he's a criminal or anything...
...which makes the Pete Rose story more than a gossipy tale about the downfall of an idol. Whether or not he bet on baseball, the last thing America's growing legion of gamblers needs is an example of an admitted heavy bettor blithely denying he has done anything wrong and actually commanding the sympathy of people who continue to worship him. The lure of excessive gambling is too great, even without an exemplar of Rose's stature. Painful as it may be for the millions who admired him as a ballplayer, he should be punished as severely as an objective...
...expression that suggested dejection or resignation. He neither smiled when the tribunal of 47 generals and admirals praised his past acts of military valor in places as far-flung as Angola and Ethiopia nor frowned when it branded him a traitor and called for his execution. When Ochoa finally rose to speak, he denied none of the charges: consorting with international drug dealers, illicitly trafficking in everything from cocaine and diamonds to ivory and sugar, shaming the Cuban revolution with acts of high treason. "I betrayed our country, and one pays for treason with one's life," Ochoa said...