Gambling on baseball when you’re a player or coach is far worse than taking performance-enhancing drugs. Steroids never had a chance of destroying the entire sport. Gambling did.
(Please don’t hit me with “but he was betting on his own team to win!” Anyone stating that as a defense of anyone is not only too stupid to be operating a computer, they’re too stupid to be alive.)
And Rose was taking performance-enhancing drugs, too, for that matter.