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Randy Miller thinks he just broke Watergate because he stumbled upon a West Chester area interview with former MLB investigator John Dowd, whose report led to Pete Rose getting banned from baseball in the 1980s.

Dowd was a guest on WCHE in West Chester with Bill Werndl and Paul Jolovitz last month, and when asked by Jolovitz’s chalkboard-scraping voice if he found Rose a likable person, Dowd replied (transcription via professional transcriber Randy Miller):

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“Ah, no. I don’t. I’ve been asked that question whether he had any moral bearings at all and the answer is no. There’s a lot of other activity. …  Michael Bertolini told us that not only did he run bets, but he ran young girls for him down in spring training. Ages 12-14. Isn’t that lovely? So that’s statutory rape every time you do that. So he’s just not the kind of person that I find very attractive. He’s a street guy.”

The most amazing part of that statement is that Jolovitz didn’t follow up on the statutory rape allegation– he just went right on with the meaningless gambling thing. Dowd, for his part, is opening himself up for a slander suit. More curiously, here’s a guy, Dowd, a lawyer, who was investigating Rose, and at some point he learned of tenuous rape allegations and decided that the betting on baseball thing was the more important thread.

Miller reached out to Rose and his lawyer, both of whom vehemently denied the claim.