Pete Rose poll on ESPN front page

[Roady]

Should Pete Rose's lifetime ban from baseball be reversed?

81%
Yes
19%
No
Discuss (Total votes: 170,988)

[Hoosier39]

25yrs is long enough for what he did. I say let the guy in while he's still here.

They should also take a poll of all members of the HOF and if they think he deserves in, then he should be put back on the ballot. Or somethin like that....

[ironmanfan]

25yrs is long enough for what he did. I say let the guy in while he's still here.

They should also take a poll of all members of the HOF and if they think he deserves in, then he should be put back on the ballot. Or somethin like that....

I think if they polled the existing members of the Hall of Fame, the overwhelming majority of them would be against it.

[Hoosier39]

I think if they polled the existing members of the Hall of Fame, the overwhelming majority of them would be against it.

I think you're right. And if that's correct, then it would tough letting him in when the majority are against it.

Then again, that might not be fair for Rose.

[Roady]

I think if they polled the existing members of the Hall of Fame, the overwhelming majority of them would be against it.

Let's take a poll to find out instead of guessing.
I have only talked to a handful of HOFers but never asked them about it.
How many have you asked?

[Hoosier39]

Let's take a poll to find out instead of guessing.
I have only talked to a handful of HOFers but never asked them about it.
How many have you asked?

I was listening to the radio a couple days ago and I think they said F. Robinson is very much against it. Not sure if that was all, but that's who I heard in the small clip. Very curious about the other members.

[Roady]

I was listening to the radio a couple days ago and I think they said F. Robinson is very much against it. Not sure if that was all, but that's who I heard in the small clip. Very curious about the other members.

I would be very curious to hear all of their opinions also.

[brianborsch]

If anyone should be let in, it should be Joe Jackson. He was proven innocent and he is still banned?! On top of that he is dead! Even a criminal prinoer's sentence is considered served at death, yet Joe Jackson is still banned years after he has passed?! Simply absurd. If Rose gets in, then Jackson better be allowed in too.

[Roady]

If anyone should be let in, it should be Joe Jackson. He was proven innocent and he is still banned?! On top of that he is dead! Even a criminal prinoer's sentence is considered served at death, yet Joe Jackson is still banned years after he has passed?! Simply absurd. If Rose gets in, then Jackson better be allowed in too.

There are a lot of good books written on the Black Sox. It is very interesting and I have wavered over the years between his innocence and his guilt.
He was found innocent in a court of law but the Commissioner had the right to ban him if he chose based on what the Commissioner believed at the time.
Right or wrong at least Landis made a decision unlike Selig does.

[godwulf]

If Rose had ever bet against a team that he was playing for or managing, I'd say let the lifetime ban follow him to the grave; that's not the case. Given the negative role that gambling played in Baseball's early days, it's understandable that MLB should have a bug up its butt, to some degree, about gambling - but attitudes about it have changed in the past fifty years, have they not?

In the early '80s, both Mantle and Mays were placed by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn on the "permanently ineligible" list for being associated in some way with a gambling casino.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index....g-at-a-casino/

Today, some MLB teams - and I'm thinking of my own team, the Diamondbacks in particular - have casinos as major sponsors.

I don't know, when people debate about who does or does not belong in the HoF because of off-field conduct - me, I always think about that racist nutcase Ty Cobb, and I think that puts certain things in perspective.