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February 05, 2020

Cheating Pete Rose whines for reinstatement;
sad trombones time for him and his stanners

So Pete Rose thinks that because the Astros cheated on sign-stealing, he deserves reinstatement from Commissioner Rob Manfred on baseball's eligibles list and thus a vote in the Hall of Fame.

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:
And that's that.

Now, to other stanners, starting with this:
And this:
Then this:
Followed by this:
Then this:
And wrapping with this big enchilada observation:
Bye.

Well, not quite.
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.

1 comment:

  1. 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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