Leave Pete Alone, Babe
Sam Sykes ~ 07/31/2024
The new HBO documentary series, Charlie Hustle & The Matter of Pete Rose, is a classic example of shitty beta-cuck journalists attacking an old man for partying half a century ago. The smearing of one of the greatest baseball players of all time is a representation of how our modern media has a death grip on the narrative and public opinion. They frame every question with ill-intentions and create the most low IQ, “gotcha” journalism I’ve ever seen.
Pete Rose may be a lot of things, a liar, a criminal, a gambling addict, but throughout the series he is unfairly being edited as some sort of evil villian playing an “aw shucks” character. Pedantic claims are put under a microscope. Rose says, “I never weightlifted in my life”... and they show a grainy photo of him lifting in the 70s. Is it possible he is being hyperbolic or exaggerative to explain that he never took training seriously. Throughout the documentary they ask him very specific questions with exact times, dates, and events. He routinely answered the best he could, but 81-year-old men aren’t exactly the best historians. Look at Joe Biden, that motherfucker couldn’t tell you all his grandkids names or who serves as his Vice president, is he supposed to know what he was doing in the afternoon of August 5th, 1986? Rose is asked tons of dumb questions and if there is even the smallest evidence against it, they put him on blast in real time. Fuck those guys.
Another egregious move by the filmmakers was their constant attacks on Rose for events that happened decades before. Pete Rose was a young and very popular celebrity in the 1960s and 70s, and he lived the part. One could argue that he wasn’t even as wild as other superstars in this era because he abstained from drugs and alcohol. If this documentary was made even 10 years ago, most of the attacks on Rose would have looked trivial. However, the new trend of combing through 80 years of a man’s life and criticizing every off-color joke and old-school exploit to death is on full display in this series. We have to remember, this is how men acted back then, like real men. Unfortunately, the sub-beta, weak journalists tearing Rose apart are so far removed from manhood, they talk like a bunch of midwestern moms. I pray that once these losers are in their eighties, they are forced to apologize for any “insensitive” content or trendy cultural taboos they may have violated in a decades-long career.
The filmmakers are such fucking bitches, that they even allude to Rose’s sexual success as being almost evil. They ask him if he felt like he was using his “power” as a baseball star in his mid- to late-twenties to coerce young 18 and 19-year-old women into sex. What a bunch of bullshit. Rose seems confused at the question and asks back to the film crew if they had ever had sex with a younger woman. The answer is clear in the way they edited this scene, they make it seem like the type of sexual experiences Rose was having are completely absurd and wrong. It may be absurd for the virgins behind the camera, but it’s really no big deal. Young sluts have always gravitated towards men of status and wealth. I don’t see anyone asking Mick Jagger or Bruce Springsteen if they used their “power” to fuck the thousands of young broads they have. Just Pete Rose, why not beat an old man when he’s down.
The series offers lots of infuriating scenes of journalistic retardation, but nothing compares to that pompous bitch Alex Coffey. She’s some rich chick that uses mommy and daddy’s money to L.A.R.P. as a sportswriter. In a crucial scene of the series, a controversy begins to swirl around the elderly Rose at a Phillies wall of fame ceremony. Did he murder someone, rape them, steal millions, call a kid the N-word, or shoot a dog? No. None of these. He called Coffey “babe” while responding to her ridiculous and clearly targeted question. Holy shit, lock him up, he should probably spend the rest of his life writing apology letters and begging for forgiveness. Absolute fucking nonsense. We even have to watch a scene where Coffey, the self-righteous cunt in her early twenties, does everything she can to make everyone as uncomfortable as possible. Poor Pete Rose is sitting there genuinely asking, “Did I say that?” in his forced contrition as Coffey responds “I have it on the record!”. She is the other half of the journalism problem plaguing the modern western world. The men reporting the news are just weak pussies and the chicks are just fucking babysitters who watched to much TV growing up. Rich girls like our chick Coffey dominate the news, determined to destroy powerful and accomplished men.
My favorite part of Charlie Hustle & The Matter of Pete Rose is the dichotomy between the men and the journalists. It becomes very clear early that former players and coaches (high-testosterone men) all acknowledge Rose’s faults, but rally around him with true brotherly love. The journalists are firmly in the other camp, so offended by Rose’s microaggressions and hustling nature. About halfway through the series, I started to realize why they hated him so much. It was jealousy. These fucking dweebs were cast aside in high school, college, and the sexual marketplace as a whole. They could never land the girls the jocks got, and could not participate in the joy of team camaraderie. These little betas grew up and realized that they could influence the public against the guys they resented as young nerds. As long as I am the editor of Riot Club, I’ll make sure we keep these cuck-dorks from ever pussifying our site.
