http://paneech.com/2009/03/hasnt-pete-rose-paid-the-price-long-enough-already/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:31:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://paneech.com/2009/03/hasnt-pete-rose-paid-the-price-long-enough-already/#comment-34 Largebill Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:22:50 +0000 http://paneech.com/?p=58#comment-34 Pete Rose' accomplishments are on display in Cooperstown. However, he will not and should not be enshrined. Sure some HoF'rs have done "worse" (depending on who defines worse). Problem with that argument is those "worse" things are not specifically banned by major league baseball with a well defined punishment of permanent banishment. Mantle was a drunk. Okay. Drinking isn't against MLB rules. Cobb was a racist. Once again not against the rules when he was around. Rose spent decades in a locker room with a big sign proclaiming gambling on baseball is forbidden. It is nice that we can assert he didn't kill his wife (or a president), but that isn't really the minimum standard. Pete Rose’ accomplishments are on display in Cooperstown. However, he will not and should not be enshrined. Sure some HoF’rs have done “worse” (depending on who defines worse). Problem with that argument is those “worse” things are not specifically banned by major league baseball with a well defined punishment of permanent banishment. Mantle was a drunk. Okay. Drinking isn’t against MLB rules. Cobb was a racist. Once again not against the rules when he was around. Rose spent decades in a locker room with a big sign proclaiming gambling on baseball is forbidden. It is nice that we can assert he didn’t kill his wife (or a president), but that isn’t really the minimum standard.

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