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Sunday’s NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast of the Washington Nationals–Philadelphia Phillies game was a lot looser than your typical baseball broadcast. Especially when Pete Rose was in the booth.

Rose returned to Philadelphia as part of a celebration of the Phillies’ 1980 World Series team. Rose isn’t usually around the ballpark given his lifetime ban from baseball but he was telling stories and letting the expletives fly.


In the first clip, Rose was talking about the time he caught a foul ball that Bob Boone dropped during Game 6. Rose talked about how slow Boone ran and having to “watch out for the horseshit” that was on the field. After saying “son of a *****” and “horseshit,” Rose asked if the broadcast was an “X-rated show” which probably should’ve been asked before cursing but oh well.

The second clip was a story from Rose’s time with the Cincinnati Reds. Longtime Reds player and broadcaster Joe Nuxhall was interviewing Tony Pérez after Pérez hit a walk-off home run and when asked what he hit, Rose claimed that Pérez said he hit a “****-high fastball.” Flabbergasted by the response, Nuxhall said, “No ****?”

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