But Jerry,

The Pete Rose story has a nexus with T-Graph. As indicated, he mentioned your product in his book. He has a love of horses, though some may say of gambling. Inside information is an edge every handicapper would love to have and be in a position to assess. Your very product is to a great extent an "insiders" product. To know how fast a horse really ran as opposed to the number on the stopwatch. Only enlightened "insiders" know that time and order of finish are relative and that a host of variables influence a horse's performance.

In Pete Rose you have a home town Cincinnati boy who visits the local track at River Downs and scores the pick six. Was the score on the basis of some inside information other than your own? If so was it fair? Was it the proper thing to do?

Rose was also in a unique position to both know and evaluate the opposition in MLB and make decisions accordingly. When to hit and run? When to bunt? When to alter the outfield? When to shift the infielders? When to pitch a certain part of the plate or not to pitch the plate at all? When to throw heat or curves? When to steal? When to bet? A great team loses 62 games a year. It's all a gamble in baseball.

And people want to keep the player Pete Rose out of the Hall of Fame for the actions of the manager Pete Rose in betting on his own team to win. Hell thats a managers job. What I want to know is his R.O.I. :) The guy I want stricken from the annals of baseball is Kenesaw Landis for implicating a couple men not involved and refusing to acknowledge his mistake. Oh wait! our own "national commissoner" does that, my bad.

By the way Pete Rose was an effective manager and had a winning record with a team of questionable talent. He in fact surpassed Ty Cobb's managerial record as well. Maybe Cobb was throwing games.

But O.K. I'll be quiet if the Pete Rose detractors will as well.

lol

CtC