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Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is a man after my own heart.<\/p>\n

He has told Pete Rose categorically this: No matter how great you were on the field of play, you do not deserve reinstatement in the game you dominated for so many years.<\/p>\n

I totally agree with Manfred.<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s been speculated that Manfred’s edict might open the door — if only slightly — for Rose to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I hope that isn’t the case, either. Most experts, though, say that\u00a0Manfred’s decision slams the Hall of Fame door shut — forever.<\/p>\n

Look, I am as big a baseball fan as any red-blooded American male. I used to love watching Rose play hardball. He got more out of his fairly limited natural<\/em> athletic ability than any\u00a010 players<\/em> who ever donned a uniform. Rose played hard and he played to win.<\/p>\n

Even in all-star games<\/em>. Who can forget when he bowled catcher Ray Fosse over in the 1970 all-star game, injuring Fosse so severely that the Cleveland Indians star never recovered fully?<\/p>\n

That said, he also violated one of MLB’s cardinal rules. He bet on the game. The rule book stipulates clearly: violation of the no-betting rule shall result in a lifetime ban from the game.<\/p>\n

As others have noted, MLB instituted the rule as a reaction to the 1919 Chicago “Black Sox” betting scandal that has kept Shoeless Joe Jackson — another Hall of Fame-quality player — out of the Cooperstown, N.Y., shrine.<\/p>\n

I also am acutely aware that the Hall of Fame is full of assorted scoundrels; they are\u00a0drunks, racists, womanizers, drug users … you name it, they’ve done it and are still in the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

The Grand Old Game doesn’t stipulate — in writing — that holding racist views or bar-hopping the night before a big game disqualifies you from having anything to do with the game.<\/p>\n

It does with betting.<\/p>\n

Pete Rose bet on baseball. As Manfred said, Rose “has not presented credible evidence of a reconfigured life either by an honest acceptance by him of his wrongdoing \u2026 or by a rigorous, self-aware and sustained program of avoidance by him of all the circumstances that led to his permanent eligibility in 1989.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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