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Pete Rose: $100 million lost for betting on Cincinnati Reds, baseball is punishment enough

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Among the candid remarks made by Hit King and former Cincinnati Reds great Pete Rose during an interview on the No Filter Sports podcast was his declaration that his lifetime ban from baseball for gambling has cost him $100 million he estimates he would have earned.

Rose had this to say in his conversation on the podcast with Eli Zaret, Bob Page and former Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain - suspended in 1970 by Major League Baseball for his ties to gambling - about whether the legalization of sports gambling in 17 states and counting will help Rose's National Baseball Hall of Fame chances:

"I'm not bitter at all but .