Johnny Bench: Pete Rose Ain't Making Hall of Fame, Period. | TMZ Sports

Pete Rose can uncross his fingers and stop holding his breath -- he ain't ever going to Cooperstown, so says his former teammate Johnny Bench.

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Johnny Bench: Pete Rose Ain't Making Hall of Fame, Period. | TMZ Sports

[Ditka-]

I can’t believe he even responded. He gets testy when reporters ask him this question in sit down, professional interviews. Let alone getting asked by some paparazzi as he’s trying to collect his baggage

[tonysustarsic]

Nobody could beat the machine. LOVE IT!!!!

[edwardklintworth]

"Nobody can beat the Machine."

[swalterstennis]

Johnny just got SERIOUS, “Nobody can beat the Machine!”
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[ronfowlermusic]

Terrible how you guys chase him around asking about Rose.

[mnamhie]

That's GREAT! "Nobody could beat The Machine." That's right, Johnny. And, btw, you are STILL the greatest catcher in the history of baseball!

[kingtyomama]

Johnny Bench is one one the greatest if not the greatest catchers of all time and he has to for decades answer schmuck reporter's questions about Pete Rose being in the HOF.

[deanclark]

I'm sure ole Johnny gets tired of people asking him about Pete all the time. But I think It's time to get over it Pete has done his time . The need to lut him in the HOF

[KenOnStrength]

What a bunch of parasites. Bench handled that perfectly. “Nobody could beat the Machine”

[DeadCelt]

He’s so sick of getting asked Pete questions

[ethrek]

You can see how tired he is of this question. I ask reporters everywhere to stop asking him this, I mean the man is in the damn hall of fame for being the greatest catcher of all time, and all yo want to ask him is if Pete Rose will get in. Smh

[brentwilcox]

Bench said...ROSE will NOT Be in the HOF....rose is NOT bigger than the game...he broke the #1 rule in EVERY CLUBHOUSE....DO NOT BET ON BASEBALL....i agree, rose was a great player....BUT HE BROKE THE RULES....love bench....no one would beat the machine...period!

[chop]

Now we have legalized gambling🤔 Pete belongs front row HOF. If I had to have one guy on my club, Rose all day long. JB was right about one thing, NOBODY could be the “Big Red Machine” pure awesomeness. My forgotten great team? 72-74 Oakland A’s.

[edgardoberlioz]

F**K JB Pete Rose 🌹 is the epitome of “ memorization visualization perfection “ my favorite “ Hall of Famer” …not JB …

[rckstar]

Pete Rose is already in the hall of fame

[ShawnC.T.]

Click bait, he never said definitively, that Pete Rose won't make the Hall of Fame, he actually said he wished he could, to me, the door is still slightly cracked open...

[braxtonmiller]

Well let’s all forgive Barry bonds Mark Maguire and everybody else who used steroids but nobody can forgive. Rose what he did 1989 as a manager and some say as a player

[jorgeespinosa]

Pete the Cheat.
If we let him in, the Integrity of the game is forever compromised. I am just glad Rose wasn’t my surgeon when I was in the hospital. He’d probably bet 2-1 I’d die, and he would have killed me to win the bet. Think about that. He did such things as a manager, when he was gambling on baseball games. And you still want him in the Hall of Fame? 😂

[dvon]

look at all the awful people in the football hof. Come on Pete deserves to get in