Rose interview about steroids

For a moment in today’s story about the steroid scandal, Pete Rose almost sounded as though he understood the concept of “integrity of the game.”

But then in the closing paragraph he had to revert to the old Pete we have come to expect:
“If steroids had been prevalent in his day?
‘I would have got 5,000 hits.’ ”

Why couldn’t he have just said he would never touch the stuff?

And please, why does Rose, or anybody else, think that Clemens, Bonds or any other player using drugs to pump up their performance has the slightest relevance to Rose’s own brand of rule-breaking?

Rose’s disgrace belongs to him and his punishment was suitable to his offense. It has nothing to do with other scandals, which should be considered on their own.