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Originally Posted by Skahtboi
Then I will be the dissenter in the turn this conversation has taken. Pete Rose was a member of Major League Baseball when he bet on games. Being a part of a game, as a manager, means that he can influence the outcomes. That action alone is worth his permanent ban from baseball. There is absolutely no proof that Buck Weaver ever bet on a game, or even participated in throwing a game, but he is banned forever from baseball simply because he was roomates with one of the Black Sox participants. Rose, on the other hand, knew what he was doing and that it violated the ethics of MLB.
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Okay, he bet on baseball.
SO WHAT?
As far as I'm concerned, everyone in the game should be required to bet on their own team. It should be part of the salary structure. The fact that a team's performance is not a major part of it, IMO, helped ruin the game of baseball.
Like I said, I'm not a Rose fan. Have had at least two face-to-face disagreements with him at the race track and he jumped on me because Michael Bolton wanted to play the game by his own rules in a softball game. IMO, he has zero class off the field and is an egotistical ******* who is his own worst enemy.
However, even those who would like to see him banned from ever walking within a mile of any baseball field acknowledge that there is no evidence he ever bet against a team or player over which he had any type of influence.
The man deserves his due and because you have all these "moral" baseball writers it will not happen until after his death. And, as big a sonofa***** he is, he deserves to be in the baseball HOF.