Should Pete Rose be reinstated?

I doubt Buck Weaver's family thinks Buck Weaver should be in the Hall of Fame.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/weavebu01.shtml

 

Buck Weaver was not a HOF player. Jackson and Rose were.

At some point, isn't enough enough?

 

No.
4,256 Times No.
The rule is clearly stated in the locker room of every MLB and MiLB stadium. It's the one that gets you banned for life.
Not only did he do it, but he did it repeatedly. And after a lot of years of lying about it, he admits to doing it.

 

Nope

 

Count me among the hell no's.

But if someone decided that Joe Jackson had been banned long enough and wanted to start Rose's meter so that he too could be reinstated 90-odd years after his transgressions, you wouldn't see me raising a ruckus when Rose finally was brought back.

 

Nyet.

 

Rose is not still banned from baseball to keep him out of the hall of fame. He's still banned from baseball to keep some dumbass team (probably the Reds) from hiring him as manager, which is what he really wants.

He'll be reinstated shortly after he dies.

 

It's a tough call but yes. We are supposed to be forgiving people. It's time to forgive Pete Rose.

 

We are.

For murderers and rapists and drug abusers and wife-beaters.

Just not for someone who bet on his team to win. Because that rule is POSTED ON WALLS (never mind those posted speed limits on highways, though; we just ignore those silly, you know, laws).

Gotta keep things in perspective, ya know.


The human mind's ability to rationalize Bad Behavior A while at the same time being so rigid against Bad Behavior B is a wonder.

 

Hall eligible - absolutely, with all the details on his plaque.
Reinstated to work in baseball - no.

Same goes for Shoeless Joe, especially the part about how well he played in the 1919 World Series that he was supposed to have thrown.

 

"This," as the kids say these days.