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The support ... and distaste for Pete Rose

By John Sickels
Special to ESPN.com

Saturday, December 21, 2002

Let's do some baseball housekeeping on Pete Rose, international comments, and the Rule 5 draft. My thoughts about Pete Rose last week generated numerous responses from readers. To my surprise, readers were split about 50/50 in reaction to what I wrote about Rose. I thought it would be more like 80/20 in Rose's favor. The 50 percent who agreed with me basically, well, agreed with me. The 50 percent who disagreed for the most part just responded with a defense of Rose that could have come right f ...

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