With the recent passing of Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hit king and most notorious pariah, I thought it would be a good idea to revisit the ESPN TV movie Hustle from 2004, which essentially serialized the events compiled by the Dowd Report. Overall, despite some of the names attached to the project, it's not anything particularly special, and doesn't aim to be. Maybe I need to read the report for an actual honest-to-goodness comparison, but other than a few blowups here and there, it really holds true to that wholly overused saying - it is what it is.