John M. Dowd

So Pete Rose was banned for betting on games, including those of his team, the Cincinnati Reds.

An investigation led by John Dowd, [coughs] confirmed Rose wagered on at least 52 Reds games in 1987, violating MLB's rule.

Rose accepted a lifetime ban from MLB on October, uh, uh, August 24th, 1989.

Though he initially denied on betting baseball, the ban made Rose ineligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame, despite his record-breaking 4,256 hits.

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... you just can't do what he did.

And then John Dowd uncovered the Pete Rose that nobody wanted to...

That he couldn't tell the truth about later on when he eventually opened up about his gambling addiction.

It's lawyers and it's people claiming their rights.

I mean, this kind of started with a guy, Ed O'Banion, who was a college basketball player.

And he's playing one of the video games that was for sale.

And he recognizes himself as one of the characters.

And I don't think it would.

I suppose we could have given that fifth year a year earlier.

The fifth year issue, most of these guys actually, I think, had an extra year because of COVID.

I think that was the last year of it anyway.