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Posted By: jay behrens

Seems most people here are forgetting a few things. #1 is that the HOF is NOT owned, operated or controled by MLB. #2 I forget the exact wording of the criteria for getting into the HOF, but the word INTEGRITY is one of them. And Rose lacks it in great amounts.

Like many people here, I was a big Rose fan as a kid, but lost all respect for him after the whole betting thing and lying to everyone for 14 years. Plus, he has shown that he cares only about himself, always timing things to happen around the HOF to try and steal the thunder from deserving people.

Cy, you may think Bonds is an egomaniac, but he doesn't hold a candle to Rose. And as much as people may not like performance enhancing drugs, Bonds did nothing that violated the rules of baseball. Players eat better today, take vitamins and other suppliments to enhance their performance. Should all modern records be erased simply because today's players have personal trainers and other advantages that Cobb, Ruth and others did not have? Baseball is an ever evolving game, with the game constantly being tweeked. Throughout the history of basbeball, the older generation has always claimed the newest generation of players has an unfair advantage and that their records should be rendered meaningless.

Jay