Pete bet on his own team as a manager. I can't see how that is any different than betting as a player, and actually, it's worse. He had control of the game in ways that no single player had. The fact that he was not taking the field is meaningless. He's like a petulant child these days constantly tugging at the media's pant leg.
I like J. McMurry's idea regarding the lifetime ban. Let him spend his days regretting his decision (it's not as though he can't make ends meet). Somewhere down the line, after Leo Durocher trips him up rounding third, and Ray Fosse can walk over and tag him out in front of the big home plate in the sky, once that happens, he should be placed on the next ballot. If he gets in, he gets in.
Oh, yeah. And Bud Selig will most definitely be immortalized in the plaque gallery.
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