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Monday, June 16, 2008
As a mesmerized A-Rod listened, mouth agape, Rose told him he got 4,256 career hits without watching a single frame of film. He said he never hit off a tee, barely lifted a weight and had an offseason program that consisted of playing full-court basketball. He told A-Rod every game was a “four at-bat war,” that he was a “grinder,” that he remembered every pitch a pitcher ever threw him. He told him he didn’t buy into this notion of “hitting inside the ball or outside the ball,” that his only goal was to hit the thing hard someplace.
I looked, and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him.
Van Lingle Mungo Jerry
Posted: June 16, 2008 at 02:02 PM | 13 comment(s)
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Rose answered, "Yeah, it'd have been fun to play against him, but I'd be dead by now. So I wouldn't be able to talk to you."
Then the furious humping began.
I doubt many players could get away with this now, everyone else is lifting all off-season and studying film, you'd put yourself at a disadvantage if you didn't.
First of all, that is truly sage advice. Second of all, Pete hit .321/.388./440 in the postseason, A-Rod hit .279/.361/.483. Not really that shabby compared to Pete.
Pete's got him easily, though, given the difference in era to go along with the higher OBP.
Rose lived in the batting cage. This guy's capacity to delude himself is infinite.
Of course, attacking each at bat with the intensity of Pete Rose would have been the worst possible advice to give Arod at that point in time. The advice Rose gave seems to have been pretty reasonable.
If Arod wants a mentor and Pete Rose wants to be a mentor, what's the skin off your nose?
Despite Rose's intensity, the three things mentioned in the article -- hitting off of tees, watching videotape, and lifting weights -- all caught on after the bulk of his playing career was over.
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