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Judge DredDavid,
"If a baseball player was undergoing MLB's treatment/penalty plan for cocaine addiction and bet on his own team while under the influence, he would be banned for life for betting on baseball"
Is this right? What if he was high on drugs when he bet on baseball? Wouldn't the impaired judgement be caused by the substance abuse? I think someone could very well challenge the ruling based on that circumstance.
I'm just kidding and being a bit facetious. You are absolutely correct, Rose was banned for BETTING ON BASEBALL, not because he was a gambler (which ultimately led him to bet on baseball). Ok, so does that mean that his gambling addiction caused him to bet on baseball which would mean that his will was conquered by the gambling disease which might make him eligible to challenge this whole mess by pleaing stupidity?
Rose - Great baseball sense and skills but a lack of common sense and self control. You have to figure if they can lift the ban on Rose then they can do the same for Shoeless Joe.