Absolution

We admit it. Many things piss us off. Very few things make us sick. The Pete Rose situation makes us sick.


Travis Nelson was nice enough to mention us at Boy of Summer regarding the Only Baseball Matters piece we wrote on Rose.


ESPN.COM is feeding the fire by having several articles on its MLB page. The problem is, they are siding the issue. You can look at all the pro-Pete Rose crap you want for free, but if you want to read why Rose should be kept out, you have to pay and be an ESPN.COM INSIDER.


Plus, we're getting sick of those Miller Lite pop-ups on EVERY SINGLE ESPN.COM page.


The fact remains that Pete Rose agreed to his lifetime ban from baseball. Essentially he pled no lo contendre. Pete Rose is a guilty man and a horrible human being who made millions off of his persona non grata attitude. Now, he's going to be given carte blanche to return to baseball as long as he 'admits wrongdoing'.

Our STAFF wants to admit wrongdoing, too. One of us took the SAT's hungover and got a 1410; we feel we should get a better score and be allowed into an Ivy League school and be given a six-figure job right out of graduate school. One of us basically plagerized a paper in college by failing to cite a source and lifting a sentence or two and re-working them from a textbook to help with the finer points; we feel we should get a three book deal with Pendant Publishing and be granted post valledictorian. One of us cheated on our girlfiends a long time ago; we fell we should be able to sleep with our ex-girlfirend anytime we want, now. We have admitted our wrongdoing.


If you want the best analogy for the Pete Rose issue, here it is; a guy cheats on his girlfriend by sleeping with his wife, if he aplogizes all will be forgotten...including the spousal abuse, the rape and battery, the DUI, the stealing of her grandmother's social security checks and the night he spent in jail for exposing himself in public. He can even go back to boozing it up, snorting coke of his girlfriend's rack and beating the crap out of her and the kids.


Meanwhile the wife sits at home waiting for the other shoe to hit her in the head. Hey, it's what the wife and girlfriend want in the end that really counts, right? He's paid his dues with that night in prison and the community service. People should get off of his back. He's an American Hero.