My only conversation with Pete Rose came in the early 1980s, when he was with the Phillies. And he started it.
It was early April, a Friday night, and the Phils were to be on NBC’s “Game of the Week” the next day. Some NBC public relations fellows were driving down to Philly for the game and asked if I’d like to join them.
But on he went. He wanted to talk; he needed to talk. He was obviously buzzed, presumably by the amphetamines he was widely suspected of ingesting to keep him cranking into his 40s.I recognized his wide-eyed inability to cease talking and stand still from my college days, when many of us popped “black beauties” to study during finals. They didn’t help us study as much as they kept us talking to one another until past dawn.
Rose, by then well into his 60s, was with a young female, who looked no older than 18. I figured she was his granddaughter — until they started holding hands and playing under-the-table footsie. But then why did YES replay it with audio, then replay it again without, in case anyone missed it the first two times?While it’s highly doubtful that a golf audience is thick with Snoop Dogg fans, the telecast’s announcers expressed their joy that we’d see even more of Dogg on NBC, especially given his sensational co-hosting performance on NBC’s Paris Olympics.No silly expression is free from duplication, repetition and perpetuation.
Player of the Week: IU DL James Carpenter. After a solo sack, he rose, made no all-about-me gestures, then sought his team’s huddle. Of course, his team-first modesty eliminated him from all in-game, postgame and network highlights reels.Monday’s was another “The game has changed” example of a game determined by bad baseball and bad, wish-based managing.
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