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More rosy responses
Posted: Friday November 05, 1999 05:38 PM
To return to the TV Fishing column, click here. If you didn't know how to do that already, then you're in the running for WHYLO of the week. It's nice to see someone standing up for Jim Gray. I am amazed that the general
public wants to forgive Pete Rose for his actions and persecute Jim Gray. Pete
crossed the one line that can not be crossed in professional sports. As soon as
the players, managers and coaches are allowed to gamble on the sporting events
they take part in, the game loses all credibility. Let Pete bet on the game and
then tune in to the (censored reference to pro wr-------), because it will be
the same thing,
staged!
Thank you so much for standing up for Jim Gray and reminding us WHY Pete Rose is
banned. I cringed when the crowd cheered him is one of the century's greats. I
only hope future commissioners will stand against the wave of ignorant fans who
push for his entrance into the Hall of Fame. Without repentance, how can there
be
forgiveness?
Pete Rose a jerk? You and Gray are jerks. Gray had no right whatsoever asking
Rose that type of question. And especially not on such a night. Gray deserved to
be humiliated. They should ban Gray from
baseball.
I am a baseball fan. I am not a Jim Gray-bashing, Pete-didn't-do-it guy, but my
trouble is this: Why, on a night filled with baseball history & greatness,
do you condone that interview? All we want is class, and although Rose may not
have it, Jim Gray surely didn't that night. The fans (however misguided, as you
say) asked for Pete, and Jim Gray took it upon himself to ruin it for them. Your
article is right. Pete Rose was/is wrong. Yes, we fans don't always make sense.
We welcome back drug dealers and wife-beaters and even gamblers. But we are the
fans, and we voted. We wanted to see Pete where WE think of Pete, on the ball
field, with a Reds cap on. Jim Gray just woke us up from our 10-minute dream,
and we didn't like
it.
You're way off base on this one, Flem. Rose did make an ass of himself with his
actions and continues to make an even bigger ass of himself with his foolish
denials. I'm not saying that the questions don't need to be asked, simply that
they were asked in the wrong forum. Let the man have his moment. Gray needs to
pick a better time to ambush his
subjects.
Am I the only one who recognizes the irony in his nickname, "Charlie
Hustle"? Please shout from the hilltops that the only reason to attend a
sporting event is because the outcome is in doubt. Participants who wager on the
events' results would eliminate the very reason for professional sports
existence.
You hack sportswriters think YOURS is the only opinion that counts and anyone
not agreeing with you is part of some overly emotional, misinformed blob. I have
been reading you for some time, and have often thought: "Now here is an
over-inflated ego with some serious resentment and envy issues." You really
think we don't know all that about Rose? It's not about what he did, you
dumbass, and you know it. If you paid that salient point more than one meager
line of attention, you might understand something. Try a few more cohesive
syllables on for
size.
If a reporter overshadows the event he is covering than he is not doing his
job.
America saw in Jim Gray what they saw in so many television news people - a
journalist who doesn't know when to say when, and who doesn't have any respect
for normal decency and rules of civility which most Americans still believe in.
In other words, once again, the actions of the media are as bad as the actions
of the central characters of the story. Gray wasn't covering "news" he
was trying to make
it.
If you ask me, and I know you would, I say guys like you and Jim Gray simply
have no class and should be banned from further polluting the media, as it is
already full of
crap.
And now, thanks to Fox, it's filled with crappie, too. Sports Illustrated staff writer David Fleming explores the sometimes weird and wacky side of sports every Thursday. Click here to send an e-mail to Flem, or address it yourself: flemfile@aol.com. The opinions expressed here are solely those of the writer.
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