Really....Look at all the thugs in all of pro sports. He comes out looking like a Boy Scout.
2007-08-29 15:27:31 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
It isn't right.
No more than it's right to keep Buck Weaver and Joe Jackson out. Those guys never threw a game in their lives. And neither did Pete.
Betting on your own games is wrong, and it ought to keep you out of the sport, but not out of the HOF.
While he was playing, Pete Rose WAS Cincinnati. Anybody who ever saw him turn a single into a double has to agree: Pete Rose belongs in Cooperstown.
2007-08-29 15:50:17 · answer #1 · answered by obelix 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
DarthNick--OJ was already in the HOF before he allegedly killed Nicole & Goldman.
Rose bet on baseball while he was managing. Then he denied it for years. He finally came clean in a book deal from which he made millions of dollars, when it was convenient.
None of the pro sports allow anyone involved in the league to gamble--there's too much that could happen to ruin the integrity of the game, which is the key issue. He's never really seemed sincere in his apologies, either.
He was a great player, but the HOF considers character, as well, and I think that's why he's not in the hall.
Furthermore, these thug pro athletes: Pac Man Jones, Tank, Chris Henry, Michael Vick, are not even close to being HOF worthy, so it's really not a parallel analogy.
2007-08-29 15:47:42 · answer #2 · answered by dlatona7 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This goes back to the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal; when baseball was almost sunk for good because a few players on the White Sox conspired to throw the World Series against the Reds. After all was said and done, the owners appointed the first commissioner of baseball to do basically what he's doing today. Because of this, you can do some pretty horrible things and expect to get suspensions and fines, but YOU CANNOT GAMBLE - PERIOD.
Compared to what has been done by others, it seems trivial, but MLB takes this very seriously.
2007-08-29 16:26:05 · answer #3 · answered by chaba 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow - didn't take long for you to get an uninformed opinion. The "idiot" that Alfie refers to is Bart Giamatti, the MLB commissioner who put Rose on the permanently ineligible list. Rose AGREED to be put on that list. The Hall of Fame decides who is eligible and who is not, not the baseball commissioner or anyone else connected to MLB. Rose violated the most sacred rule in baseball by betting on games. In the world in general, is that as bad as stabbing someone? No. But it does affect the integrity of the game more.
I admire the fact that the subsequent commissioners have not reinstated Rose, in spite of the efforts of people that seem to have no concept of what the rules of MLB have to say about gambling on baseball.
By the way Alfie, Giamatti died 8 days later. If you're gonna try to use facts, at least get them right. And you make it sound like the man died on purpose for God's sake.
2007-08-30 03:36:04 · answer #4 · answered by artistictrophy@sbcglobal.net 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because he gambled.
That is a cardinal sin in baseball.
Rose does NOT deserve to be in The Hall Of Fame,
NOT EVEN AS A PAYING CUSTOMER AND NOT AFTER HE'S BEEN DEAD FOR 100 YEARS.
any REAL baseball fan would know that.
2007-08-29 16:14:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pete Rose was one of my boyhood idols, a titan for a generation of fans from the 60's and 70's. But at the very heart of things , he"s a slimeball. He shouldn't ever go to the Hall of Fame and it saddens me to say that.
2007-08-29 17:18:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pete Rose got caught gambling on the team he was managing and therefore was banned from baseball and the potential to be in the HOF.
There does seem to be some inequalities going around these days.
2007-08-29 15:47:25 · answer #7 · answered by Ta Dah! 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He was banned for life for gambling. While some of the current players in pro sports my be of questionable character their actions do not jeopardize the integrity of their sport. Players or coaches who gamble have the potential to alter outcomes of games, and thus damage the integrity of an entire sports league.
2007-08-29 15:43:02 · answer #8 · answered by Drew 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think it is because he gambled on some baseball games. However, he should still be in. For example, Ty Cobb stabbed someone, and that didn't stop him from making the Hall. How can gambling be worse than stabbing someone?
2007-08-29 15:53:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Rose is ineligible for consideration.
He earned his ineligibility by breaking one of baseball's rules (and a really important one at that), and doing so often.
2007-08-29 15:37:32 · answer #10 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋