Pete Rose Can Rot

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Posted By: Hankron

How's this for a fair compromise. Rose can become unconditionally eligible for the Hall of Fame, but he has to wait the same fifteen years that it took for him to admit to his deed (and, for 15 years, having no apparent problem whatsoever with painting Jim Gray, deceased Giammati, Fay Vincent, Kahn, fellow teammates, etc of being liars). And if it takes 3 years from now for him to admit that he bet from the clubhouse (again, despite what Down says) and that he refused to bet on Reds games whenever Mario Sota or Bill Gullickson was scheduled to start (gee, no harm in betting for your team, huh? If you bet for your team 3 out of 5 games and don't for the other two because you don't like your starters, isn't that essentially the same as betting against your team for two games? And, if it isn't, please explain to me how this is a constructive thing to be doing for your team. "Sorry, Soto, you suck. There's no way I'd bet for the Reds today." Wouldn't it all be simpler and cleaner if there was a rule in baseball that that manager shouldn't be allowed to bet on baseball games? Perhaps MLB should consider a rule), you add another 3 years to the total.