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    Default Pete Rose reinstatement

    Rob Manfred will consider Pete Rose's request for reinstatement

    New baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has only been on the job for two months, but he may already be confronted with one of the toughest decisions of his tenure.Representatives for former Cincinnati Reds legend Pete Rose have asked Manfred to lift Rose's lifetime ban, according to Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com. Manfred is willing to consider the request, saying, "I'm prepared to deal with that request on its merits."

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    Quote Originally Posted by fj1200 View Post

    ....Im feel yes also fj.....good night and see you tomorrow.....



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    He deserves to be in, 30+ years of humiliation is more than enough of a punishment. Granted, he bet on games, but it was for his own team to win. So the worst case is that he tried even harder to manage his team so that he could win money. Wrong? Yep, no gambling means no gambling - but I think the punishment has since met the crime.

    Put Charlie Hustle into the Hall today. He deserves to be in there more than like 80% of the great folks in there. Rose is a baseball legend.
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    I used to think no. Rose bet on baseball, which is an affront to the integrity of the game.
    Then I began to consider the steroid era, and those players who did far worse things back when the media protected the private lives of players instead of investigated them.
    Now I believe Rose should be in the Hall for his skills as a baseball player. He has done his time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gabosaurus View Post
    I used to think no. Rose bet on baseball, which is an affront to the integrity of the game.
    Then I began to consider the steroid era, and those players who did far worse things back when the media protected the private lives of players instead of investigated them.
    Now I believe Rose should be in the Hall for his skills as a baseball player. He has done his time.
    How? I don't see the affront. If he's betting his team wins? It's not like he was point shaving. Pretty hard to do in baseball. The whole team has to be involved for that to happen.

    Every time I ever put on a uniform from Little League to playing football for my battalion in the Marines I was planning on winning.

    Steroids are a separate issue. Steroids are just another smokescreen "bad guy". Along with pot, cigarettes, booze, etc. YOUR side of the aisle creates them.

    They were pretty-much invented by Nazi Germany to speed up the healing process for burn victims. Our society created every one of the aforementioned monsters. It was "cool" to have a smoke in one hand and a tumbler of whiskey in the other when I was a kid. The Zig Zag Man was "cool". Tobacco funded this nation for almost 2 centuries until some whiny-a$$ sh*ts decided they were offended by smoke. Try running down the street when a city bus goes by.

    We love to look at the hardbodies on WWE or whatever, but then we take a moralistic view if they use chemicals to build those bodies? We want "our" heroes to step up to to the plate and perform. No pressure there. Multi-million dollar contracts. Yet, we go into faux offended mode when they do something to give them an edge.

    And Pete Rose is screwed for just betting his team will win. Lame.
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