December 19, 2007 5:45 AM

Another DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener

Rose on Mitchell report: Steroids users ‘making a mockery’ of baseball

DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener #706: Pete Rose

NEW YORK — Pete Rose thinks players who use steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs are “making a mockery” of baseball. The career hits leader, banned by the sport for gambling, weighed in on the Mitchell report in an interview with Dennis Miller that was slated to air Wednesday night on VERSUS. Roger Clemens, Miguel Tejada and Andy Pettitte were among the big stars implicated in last week’s report by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. Clemens denied the allegations. Pettitte acknowledged last weekend that he used human growth hormone twice while rehabbing from an injury in 2002…. “I never thought anybody would make me look like an altar boy,” Rose said…. “I’ve been suspended 18 years for betting on my own team to win,” he added. “I was wrong … but these guys today, if the allegations are true, they’re making a mockery of the game.”

It’s a truism as old as time itself: If you’re going to insist on living in a glass house, you’d best avoid throwing stones. Apparently, Pete Rose never got the memo…hence the well-deserved DUMB@$$ AWARD, which in his case could and really should double as a lifetime achievement award. For ignorance, arrogance, hubris, and chutzpah over and above the call of duty, Pete Rose surely deserves to be included among the long and (not so) honorable list of DUMB@$$E$.

If anyone has no cause to comment on the fallout from the Mitchell Report, it’s Rose. His gambling history, including gambling on baseball while he was managing he Cincinnati Reds, doesn’t exactly lend him much in the way of credibility when it comes to crticizing those who may have cheated by using performance-enhancing substances.

How Rose can think that he has even a shred of credibility remaining is almost beyond comprehension. Though the evidence against him is solid and extensive, Rose continues to deny most of the gambling allegations that have been levelled against him. His behavior tarnished the game of baseball…so where does he get off criticizing those players named in the Mitchell Report? This is why Rose is so richly deserving of his DUMB@$$ AWARD: he still seems to believe that he still has credibility among those who love baseball.

Jeebus, what a (&^%$#@ DUMB@$$, eh?

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