Do you think its karma with MLB and Pete Rose and the whole steroid/hgh dilemma and asteriks next to records?

Question

Do you think its karma with MLB, Pete Rose, steroids/hgh and asteriks talked about being placed near records that have been broken recently? No one can question Pete Rose's commitment and effort IN THE FIELD OF PLAY. It's what he did OFF THE FIELD OF PLAY. Consequently, he gets a lifetime ban from MLB supposely for putting a really bad mark on it. However, today you have steroid/hgh prevalent in MLB which in my opinion is just as detrimental to the game of baseball. I am not saying I know who exactly's guilty, but they probably will not recieve a lifetime ban from MLB even though they cheated IN THE FIELD OF PLAY. Say what you want, Pete Rose was one of the greatest players to ever step ON THE FIELD. Ban Pete Rose for OFF THE FIELD antics. Do not ban players for ON THE Field antics. All of his records were set honestly, no atericks needed. I don't care if he's booed and hekled at his Hall Of Fame speech, he deserves to put in the Hall Of Fame, now! What's your viewpoint?

Answer 1

Canseco told the truth. MLB is the Mafia. The Mafia runs MLB. Pete Rose is a cheater because he cheated MLB.

Answer 2

It's simple. If you are employed by Major League Baseball - and that includes clerks who work for low pay in the offices of the Texas Rangers - you are not allowed to bet on baseball. You get caught, you get tossed out. It's clear and well publicized within the sport. Everybody knows the rule. Especially someone who was employed by the sport for almost 30 years. Pete Rose bet on baseball. He got caught. He's permanently banned. End of story. No mitigating circumstances. No pass because he's Pete Rose. He's out - and no instant replay is required.

For those who think because he was a manager it's different, consider this. Aside from the fact he's an employee of MLB as noted above Pete Rose, as manager of the Reds, bets on the Reds to win tonight. That means, if he thinks he has a chance to win his bet, he can overextend a pitcher for this one game with no thought whatsoever about how it effects the player or his team moving forward. To say that's not relevant to what's happening on the field is ludicrous.

Pete Rose was a great player, a remarkable player. He would have easily been a first ballot Hall of Famer. But he thought he was bigger than the game. He gambled that he wouldn't get caught. He lost.

Answer 3

Rose's ban is not "lifetime". His ban is "permanent". Even his eventual death will bring no surcease from his well-deserved punishment.

This whole "on the field / off the field" thing is nonsense, one because it is irrelevant, two because his gambling occurred while he was field manager -- very much an ON THE FIELD job. So this entire approach has no leg upon which to stand, but thanks for playing.

(Not to mention, his gambling extends back, possibly FAR back, into his playing days. Dowd never substantiated this because he didn't have time and he didn't have need. But it is true. Rose hasn't confessed to it because it is the last, splintering reed upon which the fantasies of his legion of supporters, apologists, and enablers hang. No doubt it'll come out some day, when he needs to sell another book, titled similar to "Further Confessions Of A Wilted Rose: How I Deceived Everyone Who Believed In Me All These Decades". And even then, he'll have some people behind him, probably based upon a fictionalized film entitled "Riverfront Field Of Dreams: Being Taken For A Ride Down Pete Rose Way". I won't be lining up to see it.)

All the rest of this is so much twaddle.

Answer 4

My answer is that Gaylord Perry is in the Hall of Fame and he cheated his entire career. It's cheating AND getting caught that is the crime.