This Dude 
....If that was Hank Aaron using Cork, they wouldn't asterisk his Name, they would remove it totally!?!?!?! CAC'S!!!
Bloom off of whatever was left of Pete's Rose
http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/06/08/bloom-off-whatever-left-of-pete-rose/?ncid=txtlnkusspor00000002
Break out the asterisk. We need one for Pete Rose.
It turns out he didn't just gamble on baseball, he cheated at it, too. Charlie Hustle used a corked bat as he pursued Ty Cobb's all-time hit mark in 1985.
There have long been rumors of such. The supposed proof came Tuesday in a story on Deadspin.com about a memorabilia dealer who had one of Rose's bats X-rayed.
There it was, looming like a bag of cocaine swallowed by a drug mule.
Cork.
Unlike Rose, the photograph doesn't lie. The question is whether Bud Selig will look at the X-ray and see that justice is done.
He should place an asterisk next to Rose's record of 4,256 hits. Ty Cobb may have been a cleat-sharpening scoundrel, but at least he got his 4,191 hits the old-fashioned way.
No doubt, there are other suspicious baseball records. But his isn't just any entry. If most home runs in the Holy Grail of records, most hits is the Holy Salad Fork.
Imagine the uproar if Hank Aaron had used a corked bat to break Babe Ruth's record. Or if Barry Bonds had used one to break Aaron's record. As it is, Bonds used a corked body and will probably never get into the Hall of Fame because of it.
Speaking of which, Tuesday's news should at least end Selig's hemming and hawing about whether the Rose ban should ever be lifted. No less an authority than Aaron said so at last year's Hall of Fame weekend.
"I would certainly like to see him in," Aaron said. "He belongs in, really. His career is one that needs to be right here in the middle of all this."
Instead, Rose is usually across the street at the Super Wal-Mart of autograph booths. You can get an inscribed three-jersey set for $695. That's Reds, Expos and Phillies.
Rose also wore a U.S. Penitentiary jersey from Marion, Ill., for five months after being nailed for tax evasion. The shock is that he hasn't made it a four-jersey set so he could fleece a few extra bucks out of the public.
Even before the corked bat revelation, Rose's perception was firmly established. You either considered him a scoundrel or a scoundrel. Well, there were still a few poor dupes hopelessly devoted to Pete.
They long ago set the all-time mark for rationalization. Rose was a helpless gambling addict. Rose never bet against his team. He never cheated the game.
With all of today's pampered lollygaggers, a dirt-covered Rose barreling into a catcher seemed pretty appealing. But now we know why he always sprinted to first base. Rose didn't want the umpire to have time to notice the circular incision at the top of his bat.
There's no telling how often Rose cheated. He ordered 30 specially-made Mizuno PR4192 models before the 1985 season. At that point the 44-year-old had only one goal in mind -- Cobb.
The incriminating evidence in the Deadspin.com story is airtight. But then, so was the Dowd Report that exhaustively detailed Rose's gambling, and his defenders have been happy to overlook that.
This time they might say that a corked bat doesn't help. They'll cite the TV program "MythBusters," which showed that a ball comes off a corked bat more slowly than a pure one. Tell that to Norm Cash, who admitted he used a corked bat throughout the 1961 season.
He batted .361 with 41 home runs and 132 RBI. After uncorking, Cash never came close to those numbers again.
Whether cork mattered, Rose believed the lighter bat would help him. He was willing to cheat. The argument that he never did anything to tarnish the game while playing is officially dead.
Anyone who bought into the Poor Pete routine should feel like one of Bernie Madoff's investors. We're just lucky Rose came along before steroids were all the rage. He might have shown up at spring training in 1985 with two Bonds-sized heads.
Rose did not comment on the Deadspin.com story. Go ahead and assume he'll deny any wrongdoing, just as he denied gambling on baseball for 15 years. Then when he had a book to sell, the author was happy to tell all.
Or was it all?
With Rose we'll never know. The only person who can definitively say how often Pete Rose used a corked bat is Pete Rose. And are you going to believe anything this guy says?
What's now undeniable is that baseball's all-time hit record is tainted. The untainted leader is Tyrus R. Cobb. When fans scan the records at Cooperstown, they should be reminded of that.
Then, if it's Hall of Fame Weekend, they can go across the street and get Rose to sign one of the Styrofoam asterisks he'll probably have on sale.
For an extra $10, he'll use a corked pen.
....If that was Hank Aaron using Cork, they wouldn't asterisk his Name, they would remove it totally!?!?!?! CAC'S!!!Bloom off of whatever was left of Pete's Rose
http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/06/08/bloom-off-whatever-left-of-pete-rose/?ncid=txtlnkusspor00000002
Break out the asterisk. We need one for Pete Rose.
It turns out he didn't just gamble on baseball, he cheated at it, too. Charlie Hustle used a corked bat as he pursued Ty Cobb's all-time hit mark in 1985.
There have long been rumors of such. The supposed proof came Tuesday in a story on Deadspin.com about a memorabilia dealer who had one of Rose's bats X-rayed.
There it was, looming like a bag of cocaine swallowed by a drug mule.
Cork.
Unlike Rose, the photograph doesn't lie. The question is whether Bud Selig will look at the X-ray and see that justice is done.
He should place an asterisk next to Rose's record of 4,256 hits. Ty Cobb may have been a cleat-sharpening scoundrel, but at least he got his 4,191 hits the old-fashioned way.
No doubt, there are other suspicious baseball records. But his isn't just any entry. If most home runs in the Holy Grail of records, most hits is the Holy Salad Fork.
Imagine the uproar if Hank Aaron had used a corked bat to break Babe Ruth's record. Or if Barry Bonds had used one to break Aaron's record. As it is, Bonds used a corked body and will probably never get into the Hall of Fame because of it.
Speaking of which, Tuesday's news should at least end Selig's hemming and hawing about whether the Rose ban should ever be lifted. No less an authority than Aaron said so at last year's Hall of Fame weekend.
"I would certainly like to see him in," Aaron said. "He belongs in, really. His career is one that needs to be right here in the middle of all this."
Instead, Rose is usually across the street at the Super Wal-Mart of autograph booths. You can get an inscribed three-jersey set for $695. That's Reds, Expos and Phillies.
Rose also wore a U.S. Penitentiary jersey from Marion, Ill., for five months after being nailed for tax evasion. The shock is that he hasn't made it a four-jersey set so he could fleece a few extra bucks out of the public.
Even before the corked bat revelation, Rose's perception was firmly established. You either considered him a scoundrel or a scoundrel. Well, there were still a few poor dupes hopelessly devoted to Pete.
They long ago set the all-time mark for rationalization. Rose was a helpless gambling addict. Rose never bet against his team. He never cheated the game.
With all of today's pampered lollygaggers, a dirt-covered Rose barreling into a catcher seemed pretty appealing. But now we know why he always sprinted to first base. Rose didn't want the umpire to have time to notice the circular incision at the top of his bat.
There's no telling how often Rose cheated. He ordered 30 specially-made Mizuno PR4192 models before the 1985 season. At that point the 44-year-old had only one goal in mind -- Cobb.
The incriminating evidence in the Deadspin.com story is airtight. But then, so was the Dowd Report that exhaustively detailed Rose's gambling, and his defenders have been happy to overlook that.
This time they might say that a corked bat doesn't help. They'll cite the TV program "MythBusters," which showed that a ball comes off a corked bat more slowly than a pure one. Tell that to Norm Cash, who admitted he used a corked bat throughout the 1961 season.
He batted .361 with 41 home runs and 132 RBI. After uncorking, Cash never came close to those numbers again.
Whether cork mattered, Rose believed the lighter bat would help him. He was willing to cheat. The argument that he never did anything to tarnish the game while playing is officially dead.
Anyone who bought into the Poor Pete routine should feel like one of Bernie Madoff's investors. We're just lucky Rose came along before steroids were all the rage. He might have shown up at spring training in 1985 with two Bonds-sized heads.
Rose did not comment on the Deadspin.com story. Go ahead and assume he'll deny any wrongdoing, just as he denied gambling on baseball for 15 years. Then when he had a book to sell, the author was happy to tell all.
Or was it all?
With Rose we'll never know. The only person who can definitively say how often Pete Rose used a corked bat is Pete Rose. And are you going to believe anything this guy says?
What's now undeniable is that baseball's all-time hit record is tainted. The untainted leader is Tyrus R. Cobb. When fans scan the records at Cooperstown, they should be reminded of that.
Then, if it's Hall of Fame Weekend, they can go across the street and get Rose to sign one of the Styrofoam asterisks he'll probably have on sale.
For an extra $10, he'll use a corked pen.
