Mike Schmidt
Mike Schmidt
Michael Jack Schmidtis an American former professional baseball third baseman who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseballfor the Philadelphia Phillies. Schmidt was a twelve-time All-Star and a three-time winner of the National LeagueMost Valuable Player award, and he was known for his combination of power hitting and strong defense: as a hitter, he compiled 548 home runs and 1,595 runs batted in, and led the NL in home runs eight times and in RBIs four times. As a fielder,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth27 September 1949
CityDayton, OH
CountryUnited States of America
I'm always there for Pete. Major League Baseball has created this Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. I don't think he would mind if the commissioner said no, if the committee voted no.
There's a lot of sad elements in that thing. It was sad that Pete bet on baseball. It was sad that Pete thought he could get away with it. It was sad the way he confessed, so to speak. The way the league perceived that he admitted to it was sad, and it's sad now the way baseball is handling it. It truly could be put to bed one way or the other, and I think we all sort of wish that would happen for all the parties.
I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.
It's sort of a study in the human nature of how things like this can happen and how turning a blind eye on the subject allowed baseball to recover in the late '90s and 2000 with the offensive explosion. And now, how the right steps have been taken by the players' association and the commissioner's office to totally cleanse the game.
I had more people come to me and say 'It was great to see a player of your caliber treat that honestly and not come out totally against the current players.
I've got to tell you right out of the chute, Ryan Howard, to me, is very interested in my input in his hitting. To me that makes me really feel good. We've chatted over the years about hitting.
No missing people reports were called in (Friday) night. Since there are no confirmed bodies, we decided to not go any further because at this point, there's so much danger up there, we'd have a hard time doing anything safely.
We've had teams from Greenwood that come here and play, and those people are going to eat.
You have to judge him against his peers in the game. He hasn't been banished from the game like Rose, and his accomplishments on the field stand for themselves.
I sort of ride the fence on that whole steroid era issue. I don't have a definite opinion like some of my fellow Hall of Famers. Some of the guys were very, very adamant about a person being associated with steroids: 'They'll never be in the Hall of Fame. If they are, I'll never come back.'
The whole Pete Rose issue, I believe, is dead for all practical reasons,
This is a big lifestyle change for me,
This is as early as I've ever seen it get this wild.
One of the things that DARPA helps provide is funding to get a technology to a certain maturity level, ... That makes DARPA more important in the rolling out of technologies from the defense industry because the market now demands that maturity.