With less than three months to start the 2023 MLB season, predictions are already making noise. Many baseball fans are already placing their bets on their favorite team. And when talking about bets, it is impossible not to mention MLB legend, Pete Rose. Recently, Rose, once again, placed a bet on his favorite team. Although this time, he did it legally, the MLB world did not hesitate to mock the Cincinnati Reds legend.
Up until now, almost all the bets made by Rose were illegal. Because of this, he received a permanent ban from MLB. Whereas his recent gamble is the first legal sports bet in Ohio. But given his controversial history, even the first legal bet he made did not sit right with the MLB fans. Therefore, the controversial legend got brutally mocked by baseball fans.?
What are the fans saying about Pete Rose?
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While taking shots at Pete Rose getting banned from MLB and not being in the Hall of Fame because of it, baseball fans mocked the Reds legend for his first legal bet in Ohio.
Aside from this, they also talked about how he used to waste money, and is doing the same now. Notably, the Reds have not played their best baseball at least in the last 5-10 years. And considering Rose has placed his bet on a no-performing Reds, fans believe that this is nothing but a waste of money.
Pete Rose bets on the Reds to win the World Series with the first official legal sports bet in Ohio. pic.twitter.com/kKHLWKh2ZZ
— Cincinnati 💔 (@CincyProblems) January 1, 2023
Anddd that’s why he’s broke
— Licky Fudge (@TribeCalledDOOM) January 1, 2023
He should have bet on the @Reds to have the worst record in baseball. I think the odds were better.
— Jonesy2596🇨🇦 (@doats2596) January 1, 2023
Do we need more reasons to keep him out of the hall
— JAG7 (@Jroll_81) January 1, 2023
Haha of course that was his bet. (Funny I didn’t see any money passed over). Good way for Pete to #not get into the hall of fame.
— @amj48 (@amj483) January 2, 2023
Bro just lost hella money
— Jesse Leo (@JoeBrrrrrrrr9) January 1, 2023
https://twitter.com/johnPhi16042848/status/1609544927947497472?s=20&t=fs5GxIEUtd82P1CSHHtvUw
Looks like he's reconfiguring his life😂😂😂 what's the odds million to one?
— Jerry E (@KatKrazy0821) January 1, 2023
I love when celebrities donate their money
— Jason Ramsey (@J_Train92) January 1, 2023
He should be rebanned
— JB (@jibbitzer) January 1, 2023
Aw Pete Pete Pete. I hope he put $1 on that. 😂
— Travis (@TMorty19) January 1, 2023
Despite his three World Series wins and various other accolades he won in his career, he is considered to be a tainted legend because of his illegal betting.
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When did Rose start betting on his team?
A year after retiring from MLB as a player in 1983, he took on the role of Reds’ manager. According to the Bleacher Report, it was in 1984 when he started betting on his team. He had denied all allegations towards him for fifteen years until his autobiography, My Prison Without Bars, came?in January 2004.
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He was well known as a gambler, but suspicions of him betting on baseball first came around 1989. After months of investigation, on August 24, 1989, Rose accepted a lifetime ban from MLB commissioner Bart Giamatti. After a year of facing a lifetime ban from the big leagues, he got banned from the Hall of Fame ballot and also served a five-month prison sentence for falsifying tax returns.
Do you think Rose made a wise choice by betting on the Reds for the championship this year? Tell us in the comments section below!
