Posted on 11/22/2005 8:02:01 AM PST by Airborne1986
NEW YORK - When it comes to the Hall of Fame, Pete Rose will still be locked out.
Rose wont appear on the baseball writers ballot in his final year of eligibility because commissioner Bud Selig will not rule on Roses application for reinstatement before the 2006 candidates are announced Nov. 29, according to Bob DuPuy, baseballs chief operating officer.
Rose, who last year admitted he bet on the Cincinnati Reds while managing the team in the late 1980s, doesnt understand why the rules, unless changed, wont allow him to ever appear on the annual ballot of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
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Ping.
Rules, for sure. He broke them. OTOH,
private betting on games has been abused
by other pro game players who were NOT
punished despite its being known. Ex:
Michael Jordan, big time gambling.
The discussion on FoxNews this a.m.
mentioned the "rules" abuse of Rose's
faux pas in comparison to the use of
drug enhancing performances so prevalent
in the games today. Specifically, WHAT
is the END goal of a player deciding to
ingest drugs? Answer...fat contract
deal...$$$. It does seem a bit of a
wash.
Wonder what kind of odds Pete got from his bookie on the upcoming vote.
I'll take that bet.
"he'd be a shoe in."
14,053 at bats. 4,256 hits. 24 seasons/.303 career BA. Degenerate gambler or not, what is the point of having a Baseball Hall of Fame if you don't have this guy in it?
Did those other guys bet on the game?
Betting is the one thing you can do that absolutly means you will be banned from baseball for life. It's a simple rule. It's posted in every locker room. There are no exceptions. Every player knows it. End of story.
Rose can just go on selling autographs to suckers and being an all around jerk and Cooperstown will be just fine without him.
Which only goes to prove that pro athletic leagues could screw up a soup sandwich. I have a distinct feeling that 100 years after his death (assuming MLB lasts that long), they may decide to vote him in "honorarily".
True baseball fans (which I am not) should be outraged. Lesser players who used steroids hold prominent positions in the HofF, but not one of the best of his time, Pete Rose.
Idiocy!
Betting on baseball is the worst thing a player or manager can do, because it directly destroys the integrity of the game itself. Those other offenses are bad, but they concern individual players, not the game itself.
Which HOF inductees are you referring to?
I'll bet ya that I eventually get in! - Pete Rose
If Babe Ruth can be in the Hall, if Ty Cobb can be in the Hall, if Barry Bonds can be in the Hall (and you know he will be), Pete Rose should be in the Hall.
Rose was not even close to being the best. He was just consistently very good for a very long time.
I followed baseball very closely throughout his entire career, from start to finish. I saw him--as well as all the other players--play in person and on television dozens and dozens of times. He was a real good and consistent player, perhaps the most intensely combative and competitive, perhaps the most self-consumed player, but not the best. Mays, Aaron, Schmidt, Bench--that's just for starters.
Every season head coaches gamble their extremely lucrative jobs on whether their team will win. This occurs in every sport. What is the big deal over adding some additional money to the wager?
Please don't cite "integrity" as an answer, as the obvious replies to sports integrity are: Darryl Strawberry, Randy Moss, Bobby Bowden, Tanya Harding, Kobe Bryant etc.
But his gambling, along with his long denial, has rightly kept him out.
All you have to do is whine long enough.
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