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08-23-2014, 01:24 AM #1
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Pete Rose poll on ESPN front page
Should Pete Rose's lifetime ban from baseball be reversed?
81%
Yes
19%
No
Discuss (Total votes: 170,988)
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08-23-2014, 07:57 AM #2
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Re: Pete Rose poll on ESPN front page
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....
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08-23-2014, 08:56 AM #3
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08-23-2014, 09:39 AM #4
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08-23-2014, 10:21 AM #5
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08-23-2014, 10:56 AM #6
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08-23-2014, 12:19 PM #7
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08-23-2014, 12:23 PM #8
Re: Pete Rose poll on ESPN front page
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.
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08-23-2014, 12:40 PM #9
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Re: Pete Rose poll on ESPN front page
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.
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08-23-2014, 03:58 PM #10
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Re: Pete Rose poll on ESPN front page
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.Jeff
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