Comments on: Pete Rose wants to be reinstated, sun rises in east

By: pat monahan

pat monahan — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:54:16 +0000

Steriods, corked bats, scuffed balls have a direct correlation to the results in the game. Gambling may or may not have an effect.

That is why I believe they are totally different animals and should be treated as such, with a harsher penalty on those that use steriods, corked bats or scuff the ball.

I can understand not allowing Rose an onfield job, but I don’t agree with a total ban from the game.

If the HOF is for the fans, which I believe it is; then I believe it’s the Reds fans or Rose fans from the 70’s that are being banned from the HOF.

By: DMZ

DMZ — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:20:50 +0000

There’s a huge difference between having some relatively small portion of players use drugs and having the essential integrity of the contest undermined.

Gambling threatens to snuff the game entirely. Steroids threatens the health of the players, but they’re still competing against each other, with the outcome uncertain.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:57:50 +0000

I really hope he never gets in. Not due to not liking him, or thinking what he did was terrible and ruined the game, or anything like that.

I would just hate the precedent of “These are the rules, go ahead and break them, if you are good enough we’ll go ahead and change them for you!”

If you asked me 5 years ago my opinion was different, but now I have no sympathy for him. The rules were clear, he knew the consequences, its time to live with them.

By: roku

roku — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:09:56 +0000

Baseball’s intolerance toward gambling while allowing the drug problems to grow to the embarrassing size they are today is shameful in itself.