2007-11-17 02:14:31 · 14 answers · asked by mark c 2 in Sports ➔ Baseball
as far as the hall of fame?
pete rose admitted to gambling on games as a manager, not a player. he should be barred from entering the hall as a manager only, not as a player. put him in.
barry bonds. he is the current all time home run leader, less than a half of season worth of hits to 3000. his career average is well over .300, he's won 7 mvps and many gold gloves. he has never tested positive for steroids, nor were steroids banned in baseball the years he's accused of using. if you don't elect barry to the hall, you can't elect anyone that played from 1990-2003, the years of baseball's juicing problem. the owners and gm's knew damn well what was going on these years, and they didn't do a damn thing to stop it. the parks were selling out, people were in aw of the tons of homers hit...............blame the owners for the steroid problem, not the players. barry is by far the greatest ball player in the last 50 years. he is nothing less than a first ballot hall of famer. if he is kept out, the hall of fame will mean nothing.
2 of the games greatest players are out now, pete rose and joe jackson. by adding a 3rd great to this list would be a damn shame.
2007-11-17 04:03:38 · answer #1 · answered by joe 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The answer is simple. Pete Rose broke the rules of Major League Baseball the minute he placed his first bet on a baseball game. On the other hand, you have Barry Bonds, who has never failed a drug test, and has never been found to have broken any rules. I have no doubt in my mind that Bonds was on something, steroids, HGH, whatever, but the bottom line is that since baseball banned those substances and he has been tested, he has been clean. Was what he did unfair and immoral? Absolutely. Was it against the rules of baseball? Not at all. You are basically comparing apples and oranges. As much as I dislike Bonds, he has not broken any of the rules of MLB. His case and Rose's case have absolutely nothing to do with the other. There are 2 things that will keep Bonds from the Hall of Fame. One would be that he simply does not get enough votes (remember how few McGwire got) and the other would be that he would be ineligible. Bonds has done nothing to this point that will get him banned for life, and while I don't think very highly of him as a person, I doubt he would be so stupid as to do something now that would cause him to be banished from the game. The achievements of Bonds in no way change the facts of what Pete Rose did, and the fact that Pete Rose bet on baseball has nothing to do with Bond's guilt or innocence. The 2 are totally unrelated. To think otherwise is just plain silly.
2016-05-23 23:22:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pete Rose didn't abuse of any substance or any other thing to increase his performance, Barry bonds in the other hand did it, until 1997 Barry Bonds was a great player a secure hall of fame.
The thing is that Rose broke the golden rule of baseball after the black sox scandal, never bet on the game, in Bonds defense steroids and performance drugs weren't illegal at the moment an he lie to the congress and all the fans who believe in the greatness of the game, everyone use steroids or other substance in the MLB and the team owners knew it so he shouldn't lie about, i also think that Sosa, Schilling are both liars and are a shame to the game and them self, the only one who had the courage and tell the truth was Giambi he admit it and he still in the majors so why lie.
2007-11-17 03:08:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Pete Rose - A man who got a bad break by being BANNED from the MLB in his manager day and not being elected in the HOF. HE should have got a suspension for a month or two, not his whole life for a gambling problem!
Barry Bonds - Just a downright jerk by the way he acts and the way he speaks about people. What ever punishment he gets he deserves.
2007-11-17 02:43:48 · answer #4 · answered by #1 New York Yankees Fan 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Pete Rose the best hitter and the most driven player in baseball who was also a compulsive gambler. He could not fight his addictions and lost everything.
Barry Bonds is the most contreversial player of all time. He was a great player who could not combat his addiction to being the best, the center of attention and in the process threw away everything that made him great.
2007-11-17 04:49:05 · answer #5 · answered by Shadow Knight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peter Rose should be allow back into Baseball AND Barry Bonds not matter what people say they forget that Bonds was a sure shot Hall of Famer before the steroids talk.
2007-11-17 04:09:02 · answer #6 · answered by Yak 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
My personal opinion is that Pete Rose is the best hitter of all time. To me, I don't care if he gets into the Hall of Fame or not. We all have players that in our minds are in our own Hall of Fame. We have our own favorites and since I'm never gonna visit Cooperstown, it doesn't matter to me. He's a Hall of Famer. Steroids or not, Bonds has been a jerk his entire career. Your evidence of steroid use is in his pictures. Check out the baseball cards from the Pirate years till his final years with the Giants. Notice the size of his head. Growth Hormone is the only thing that does that.
2007-11-17 02:47:14 · answer #7 · answered by Andy 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Pete Rose was a compulsive gambler, whose actions didn't affect baseball statistics.
Barry Bonds is a cheater whose actions did affect baseball statistics.
2007-11-17 02:34:08 · answer #8 · answered by Louie O 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Pete Rose should be allowed back and into the HOF. Bonds* should be shot into space, and use his big, fat steroid head as a GPS satellite.
2007-11-17 03:14:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think Rose should get in the H.O.F, but Bonds should get the lethal injection.
2007-11-17 08:22:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋