Move over Manny..."Pete being Pete"

[missionhockey21]

Pete Rose, doing it for the children.

Here are some highlights:

"It was a complete embarrassment," said Staff Sgt. Steven Tischer, commander of the Colerain-Highland Ridge U.S. Army Recruiting Station that sponsored the baseball camp for 7- to 14-year-olds. "You don't swear in front of kids, that's just common sense. He dropped the F-bomb and the S-bomb. He told them winning is everything and if you get second place you're just losers."

Calling 7 year olds losers is sure to harden them for life's future horrors.

"His comment that he was (bleeped) off that Marge didn't leave him any money in her will and that she left it all to the zoo. His comment about how Marge loved to smoke and she would have smoked in her sleep if someone was there to hold her cigarette all night. His comment that he saw Joe DiMaggio in the shower and he saw more of him than Marilyn Monroe ever did. His comment on a good friend of his that was a gambler - and how I could go on."

Shower encounters with DiMaggio, a story to warm anyone's heart no doubt.

The Army recruiters used baseball to teach great life lessons, Collins said. Players such as Jim O'Toole and Bronson Arroyo were wonderful and each used their 20 minutes to give the kids positive advice, such as the value of playing catch in the backyard with their dads, she said. Rose rambled for an hour until some parents groaned and the kids began to pull grass and chatter.

Encounters of the naked kind with DiMaggio or playing catch with your dad, c'mon, what would you want to hear when you're seven?

"It was like an uncle at Thanksgiving you want to stick in a back corner," Collins said. "The kids were very uncomfortable. They said the only thing they got out of it was that Pete Rose has a potty mouth."

The all-time hits leader and one of the greats on the field, now labeled the "Creepy Uncle."

It just goes downhill each year it seems like for Rose, and he's the only one to ever blame for it.

The Enquirer - Potty-mouth Pete strikes out at camp for kids

[mntwinsfan]

IF Bonds is going to the hall of fame, the Rose and the black soxs team should as well!