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Hankron1) I think Rose should be allowed in the Hall of Fame after he admits and apoloizes for betting on baseball. I also think O.J. Simpson, Ty Cobb and Joe Jackson belong in the Hall of Fame.
2) I think that banning all betting by managers or players is a reasonable and prudent rule. I support it 100 percent.
Realize that Roses' betting habbits were used as important information by the gambling community. He would place a bet when he was cofident that his team would win (depending on who was pitching), and would not place a bet when he wasn't cofident. Many in the gambling community were aware of this pattern, and used the information to their benifit. I think this is exactly the type of relationship that MLB hoped to avoid when insituting the rule.
I think that it would be a PR disaster if players and managers could be allowed to bet on baseball games. Is anyone trying to tell me that players calling their bookies on their cellpohones before World Series games is a desirable situation? Are you telling me their wouldn't be a media swirl, next time Pedro Martinez skips a game due to a 'sore arm'? Or when Omar Visquel bobbles a grounder in the bottom of the ninth? Or when Joe Torre sits a Derek Jeter due to 'disclipanary reasons'?
Pandora should be left in her box.
3) Pete Rose obviously knew that betting on games was wrong and and a horrible thing to do. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been denying it for the last 13 years.
4) Rose had no one to blame but himself.