MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred: Pete Rose Won’t Be Reinstated

Rose spoke in Las Vegas a day after major league commissioner Rob Manfred said he would not end Rose’s lifetime banishment for betting on baseball as the Cincinnati Reds manager, a punishment imposed in 1989. I’m under control right now.

“I’m a baseball player, I’m a baseball person, that’s never going to change”, he said.

It’s clear now that Pete Rose, who would need to be reinstated in order to be eligible for the Hall of Fame, is likely to remain outside the gates forever.

No, commissioner, I don’t bet on baseball. “I’m very selective with people I associate with now”. I don’t know (Sammy) Sosa, but he was a great player.

The Hall of Fame’s board of directors voted in 1991 to ban those on the permanently ineligible list from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot.

Had Mr. Rose only beaten his girlfriend to near death in an elevator or spent $70,000 in a Las Vegas brothel almost dying from massive cocaine ingestion, and illegal and immoral acts, he would have been welcomed back with thunderous applause and forgiveness.

“I think I can teach lots of people not to make same mistakes I made, to learn from my situation”, he said. Unlike 30 years ago, when I was out of control as a gambler. If I could change the way my life was lived, obviously I would.

About that time, fans in the background were heard chanting, “Let him in, let him in” and Rose smiled and said, “See what you started?”

Rose was contrite a day after baseball, for all intent and purposes, closed the door a final time on the all-time hit king’s pursuit of reinstatement.

Rose will turn 75 years old this upcoming baseball season and the likelihood that he will stand at the podium of his own induction ceremony evaporated nearly completely with Manfred’s decision to uphold the lifetime ban on Monday. I’m not a Draft Kings and online guy. No more behind-the-scenes stuff that got me in trouble.

“We are a nation of second chances, and I implore the Hall committee not to give Pete a second chance, but a first chance of reinstatement”, Rosenbaum said. Pete’s accomplishments warrant his inclusion, at minimum, for consideration into the Hall of Fame. “It is, after all, the Hall of Fame and not the Hall of Saints”. For Rose, the Hall of Fame remains a distant dream that hovers over his purgatory, which he continued after the news conference when he went to Mandalay Bay to perform his daily job of signing autographs.