PHILADELPHIA — Pete Rose’s profane appearance in the Phillies broadcast booth has been erased by NBC Sports Philadelphia.
MLB’s all-time hits leader was at Citizens Bank Park on Sunday at the Phillies’ invitation to celebrate the team’s 1980 World Series championship. But his appearance in the booth alongside announcers Tom McCarthy and John Kruk got blue fast, as he tossed out locker-room language too obscene to repeat here.
Rose joined the booth in the bottom of the fifth inning and stayed through the end of the sixth. McCarthy did his best to account for Rose’s foul mouth, but the former All-Star’s repeated off-color comments regularly forced McCarthy to abruptly shift gears.