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John Condit was the last person to interview Pete Rose, which made him 10 days before his death for a documentary to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the successful record of Rose Breaking Ty Cobb.
In this interview, the hit of all time of Major League Baseball (MLB) predicted that if it should be the temple of fame, it would not be before his death. Condit recently told PK Press Club Digital that he “started to shake” when he heard of Rose’s death, given what Rose had told him a few days before.
Well, Rose’s dark prediction begins to seem to materialize.
MLB announced Tuesday that people on the ineligible list of baseball will be restored after their death – Thus, Rose is now eligible for baseball, with “Sho school” Joe Jackson and 15 others.
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President Donald Trump, on the left, wants Pete Rose in the temple of fame. (Imagn)
In turn, Rose is now eligible to be inducted into the temple of fame.
Condit, a former sportsman from DAYTON Voisin who grew up in a Reds fan (Johnny Bench was his favorite), said that if Rose should never be reinstated, the Cincinnati’s celebration from Rose to Great American Ball Park on Wednesday evening (scheduled before Rose’s reintegration) would have been the last real celebration of Rose.
This is why Condit recently launched a petition to bring President Donald Trump to Pardon Rose, a move that the president said he would “in the coming weeks” in March, before Reds Honor Rose on Wednesday evening.
“I love the fact that President Trump plans to use his pulpit to do this right, at least in the eyes of millions of baseball fans who say” he has done a lot of bad things out of the field, he lied, but damn, it should be in the Hall of Fame “. And that can only happen if baseball says” that we are going to restore it “, Digital before the recent MLB decision.
Baseball ended up saying that.
Condit no longer needs to count on the president, and it is now more and more likely that Rose is celebrated in New York State.
The temple of the renown of the Reds of Cincinnati, Pete Rose, gives a boost to the fans while it is presented during a pre-match ceremony for the unveiling of the bronze statue of Pete Rose installed outside the stadium before the match of the National League MLB between the Cincinnati Reds and the Dodgers of Los Angeles in Great American Ball Park Cincinnati on Saturday June 17, 2017. (Imagn)
“I am extremely happy. My fear was that it does not happen, that the biggest moment for Pete Rose after his death would be Wednesday evening in Cincinnati. Instead, we have a celebration in Cincinnati that we did not have three hours ago,” said Condit Digital shortly after the recovery of Rose. “Now, we have had a real blow, a real blow for him to enter the temple of fame, which fans of Pete Rose want. So I am ecstatic.”
The temple of fame decided in 1991, two years after the rose ban, that he would not have voting processes for players on the ineligible list of baseball. As long as Rose was excluded from sport, the room did not move.
Thus, Trump and Manfred met last month, and we largely assume that they spoke of Rose. Condit said that he was “grateful” to Trump and Manfred for Rose de Rose (without puns) to enter Cooperstown.
John Condit pleads for President Donald Trump to forgive Pete Rose. (John Condit)
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“I believe [Trump] played an important role in this for two reasons. One, he loves baseball, he likes Pete Rose. Two, who means no to a president? “Said Condit.” Who wants to put himself on the wrong side of a president when there is so much? I give a lot of credit to Manfred. He could have taken the line and said, “I will stay with the tradition of maintaining this punishment in place, and it is a punishment”. Or “I’m going to turn a page and offer forgiveness to Pete, Joe Jackson and others”. People will love it. “”
The story of Condit with Rose dates back to the 1980s. He actually interviewed Rose in 1989 when one of the rose agents interrupted to inform Rose that MLB had started an investigation into him to play. He was also in the press room when the MLB commissioner, A. Bartlett Giamatti, announced the life ban on rose from the game.
“In 1989, before being banished, I was at an event that Boomer Esiason ran for cystic fibrosis in the Cincinnati region. When Pete finished interviewing with me, I gave him a letter that I wrote and I said:” When you get on the plane, read this. “And he said` `If you did, admit it.
“When I interviewed him [last year]I asked him on this subject – he did not remember it, but I asked if he could do it differently. He said, ‘No. I thought I could get away. “”
This is why Condit includes both sides of the argument. Rose has played on the game, lied for years and never seemed really full of remorse. Condit even said that he would not blame anyone for having voted against Rose.
“No saint. In fact, he did a lot of trouble,” said Rose Condit.
John Condit has personally known Pete Rose since the 1980s. (John Condit)
However, “I believe in the second chances and the third chances and perhaps seven chances. And I think that statistically, this is the ideal moment to say, you know what? He paid for his price. It’s time for him to go to the temple of fame.”
Condit said that he hoped that the pink family could possibly forgive baseball and the temple of fame – even to condit himself, there is still a certain anger.
“But everything that ends well can be good, and it could very well end.”
