Pete Rose uses Astros saga
to ask for reinstatement
ESPN,
by
Don Van Natta Jr.
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
2/6/2020 4:56:21 AM
Pete Rose asked commissioner Rob Manfred on Wednesday morning to remove his name from Major League Baseball's ineligible list, which would allow the all-time hits leader to be considered for induction into the Hall of Fame.
In a petition sent to the MLB commissioner's office and obtained by ESPN, Rose and his lawyers argue that Manfred has recently opted not to punish players guilty of major game-changing rules infractions and, as a result, should end Rose's 30½-year ban for gambling on baseball while he was manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
The lawyers say that Rose's lifetime ban is "vastly disproportionate"
Reply 1 - Posted by:
crunchycon 2/6/2020 4:58:12 AM (No. 309197)
Oh, Pete, give it up.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
hershey 2/6/2020 5:21:09 AM (No. 309203)
What part of 'lifetime' don't you understand??? It's until you kick off this mortal coil...every once in awhile he resurfaces...he was full of himself when I went to high school with him, he still is....
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 2/6/2020 6:06:41 AM (No. 309247)
Pete, Pete, remember Shakespeare’s line: “The evil men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their gloves.”
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Tank 2/6/2020 6:13:48 AM (No. 309260)
He's not wrong, y'know.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/6/2020 7:13:06 AM (No. 309319)
Pete broke a rule. Compared to what today's professional thugs get away with, it's laughable. The award is for ability and performance, not integrity. The rule was originally set up to prevent throwing games to win money as was done in boxing on a regular basis. Pete did not do that.
Nearly all good athletes are egotistical, insufferably cocky and not very nice human beings. It comes with the territory.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bobmadison 2/6/2020 7:36:29 AM (No. 309342)
For Pete's sake put him in the Hall and give him some peace and pleasure in his final years. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Muguy 2/6/2020 7:56:19 AM (No. 309366)
And then there are those who "juiced" themselves with performance-enhancing steroids.....
Will we see THEM in the Hall of Fame???
Some were rumored to have used them, others were flat out guilty of use.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
walcb 2/6/2020 7:57:33 AM (No. 309368)
He has or had a gambling problem. He played harder than anyone I have seen in baseball. He claims (and I tend to believe him) that he only bet on his team, his constant hustle tends to support that he was always trying to win. The ban has lasted long enough.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MHR 2/6/2020 8:05:58 AM (No. 309378)
NO, no and no. Pete's hoping people will forget and NO, we won't, you bet against Baseball.....you're toast
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
GO3 2/6/2020 8:27:19 AM (No. 309398)
Oh heck, just put him in the HOF so we can get some peace and pleasure and not have to hear ESPN's annual Pete Rose ritual. Tired of it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
StormCnter 2/6/2020 8:54:21 AM (No. 309423)
Geez, this wasn't just a matter of "gambling", it was gambling for sure, but he was a manager and a player and he gambled on his own team. Keep him out forever. I don't care how hard he whines. I've been an avid baseball fan all my teenage and then adult and now old life. Pete Rose bears a permanent stain of disgrace.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MDConservative 2/6/2020 10:06:14 AM (No. 309532)
#5 - You may be surprised to note that Rose signed an agreement with the Commissioner that admitted his guilt and accepted his ban rather than face public scrutiny.
In that document "Peter Edward Rose acknowledges that the Commissioner has a factual basis to impose the penalty provided herein, and hereby accepts the penalty imposed on him by the Commissioner and agrees not to challenge that penalty in court or otherwise."
By the way, it is generally known as the "Pete Rose / A. Bartlett Giamatti Agreement"...Selig had nothing to do with it. Giamatti was the Commissioner at the time. And, no, Selig did not make a lot more of the story than there was...baseball was actually very charitable towards Rose, then and in the years since, and ol' Pete knows it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/6/2020 10:09:28 AM (No. 309537)
Pete Rose deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.
His record cannot be denied, an keeping him out for his lifetime is a bunch of crap.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
hotcorner 2/6/2020 10:51:13 AM (No. 309603)
I will bet that Alex Rodriquez will get into the HOF. The Astros destroyed the integrity of the game. The HOF is a joke without Pete Rose, Charlie Hustle.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 2/6/2020 11:57:48 AM (No. 309725)
Choosing to break clearly written rules like you did carry a lifetime punishment. If you couldn't handle the exile Petey, you should not have done the crime. You have shown absolutely NO remorse for your own behavior, and that is why you are not getting any sympathy from the majority of us who appreciate decency and honesty.
You chose your path Little Man, now keep walking it. Dealing with some of the worst criminal elements who run gambling is a whole lot worse than what the Astros did, and if you were a decent human, you would accept that. Instead you still insist on making a mockery of our national pastime.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
msjena 2/6/2020 11:58:01 AM (No. 309727)
I think the Hall of Fame should be based on achievements on the field. By that measure, Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame. If he broke the law, let the authorities deal with it. Or just ban him from baseball, as has been done. Or if gambling is reason to keep someone out, at least show that it affected the outcome of a game. We have the Houston Astros cheating by stealing signs in the World Series! Tell me that didn't help them win. Which of their players/managers is even being banned from the game, let alone from the Hall of Fame?
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