Ain't happening.
Cooperstown recently crushed using a loophole to let Shoeless Joe Jackson be eligible again because he's dead.
Rose, 30 years on, remains more unrepentant than Astros players like Dallas Keuchel, former players like former Red Sox manager Alex Cora, or long ago Astros defending them like Lance Berkman. It took you 15 years just to admit you bet on the Reds, and even that without real apologies. (And I'm still betting MLB might have had evidence you bet AGAINST them — evidence that got eighty-sixed. Investigator John Dowd said in 2002 he thought this was likely.)
Besides, Rose mischaracterizes this with his reinstatement plea, which says:
"There cannot be one set of rules for Mr. Rose and another for everybody else."A. Commissioners are dictators, so sure there can.
B. Different issues demand different rules, to get to the heart of the matter, so there are.
Go away, Pete. And you wasted 20 full pages on this? Other than to reinstate the allegedly permanently banned for roids Jenrry Mejia. That said, even Steve Howe's permanent ban became impermanent after he won a legal battle only to get killed while he was high; contra Wiki. Ferguson Jenkins' ban was technically "indefinite" and not permanent, but still.
And take all your stanners on Twitter with you.
Ahh, the stanners.
What would a piece like this be without a few Twitter callouts?
The biggest Pete Rose stanner is of course Pete Rose. So, let's start there:
And another noogie for Pete:So, Pete Rose is either self-centered enough to think BETTING ON HIS OWN TEAM (and maybe AGAINST it?) is in the same league as sign stealing, or else he's dumb enough to think Rob Manfred thinks that. Which is it .@PeteRose_14? https://t.co/D9wPx2ZvuP— reallyDonaldTrump 🚩🌻 (@AFCC_Esq) February 5, 2020
"When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball (including all betting on win odds, over/under and more)." — Pete Rose. https://t.co/SzSOnVCuhr— reallyDonaldTrump 🚩🌻 (@AFCC_Esq) February 5, 2020
And that's that.
Now, to other stanners, starting with this:
Anybody who thinks Pete Rose should be immediately reinstated should be put under a lifetime ban from making sports comments on Twitter. https://t.co/2YpWIBpNKN— reallyDonaldTrump 🚩🌻 (@AFCC_Esq) February 5, 2020
And this:
DON'T BET ON IT (I see what I did there) on baseball believing that the lunacy of Pete Rose-stanners is actually sensical and that he should be in the HOF. https://t.co/ImY2XOQXg5— reallyDonaldTrump 🚩🌻 (@AFCC_Esq) February 5, 2020
Then this:
It's about time to start muting and blocking Pete Rose-stanners, you mean? https://t.co/nfrqaTu9Gx— reallyDonaldTrump 🚩🌻 (@AFCC_Esq) February 5, 2020
Followed by this:
Besides a fallacious comparison of the degrees of crime between Pete Rose and the Astros, the Astros also contributed to winning. Derp. https://t.co/tAW9cDbELx— reallyDonaldTrump 🚩🌻 (@AFCC_Esq) February 5, 2020
Then this:
I love baseball and I loathe Pete Rose. Suck it, dude. https://t.co/wnXJGeEvgN— reallyDonaldTrump 🚩🌻 (@AFCC_Esq) February 5, 2020
And wrapping with this big enchilada observation:
So are all the Pete Rose stanners checking with all the Las Vegas sports books to see if any of them are offering betting odds on Rod Manfred reinstating Rose?— reallyDonaldTrump 🚩🌻 (@AFCC_Esq) February 5, 2020
As P.T. Barnum said, there's a sucker born every minute and a whole bunch of them are on Twitter right now.
Bye.
Well, not quite.
Hey, all you Pete Rose stanners? He couldn't break 80 WAR and had under 30 WAA. He was a "compiler" candidate for the #HOF and little else.https://t.co/BJLIfugZ5p— reallyDonaldTrump 🚩🌻 (@AFCC_Esq) February 5, 2020
NOW I'm done.
Well, no, cuz there's an update.
Yet one more reason to keep Rose OUT of Cooperstown? Trump wants him in.
Well, no, cuz there's an update.
Yet one more reason to keep Rose OUT of Cooperstown? Trump wants him in.
1 comment:
I really would like to see the evidence that was not allowed. The defense that he only bet on his own team never seemed plausible or psychologically consistent.
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