Pete Rose does not deserve reinstatement by Major League Baseball nor your sympathy

U.S. all-time hits leader Pete Rose said Tuesday he was disappointed that his life ban from Major League Baseball remains in place.

“All I want to be is friends of baseball, I want baseball and Pete Rose to be friends”, he said, his voice cracking. If being in baseball, and being in the Hall of Fame for his record for most lifetime hits, were that important to him, Rose would not have gambled them away.

“I’m disappointed, obviously disappointed”, Rose said.

Manfred, in his four-page decision, highlighted Pete Rose’s history of betting on horse racing and other professional sports, even baseball. I’m a baseball player.

Rose said Tuesday he is a changed person even if he still likes to bet on an occasional baseball game. But I worked hard at it the last several, several, several years and I have it under wraps. “I’m in control of myself”.

A University of Kansas researcher has discovered what is believed to be the only audio recording of basketball inventor James Naismith, during which he describes the first game he organized 124 years ago this month as a bit of a disaster.

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.

Rose, who held his press conference in Las Vegas, said he’s now a “recreational gambler, but not a compulsive gambler”, per USA Today’s Bob Nightengale. I don’t bet every day. “I’m not a stock market guy”. I don’t play blackjack, roulette, dice, all that stuff. Everything I do is legal.

Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred denied the appeal of Pete Rose to lift his ban from Major League Baseball. I tried to be as honest as I could with the commissioner, and I think he respected that. “People headed down the wrong path can learn from my situation”.

While Manfred had the final say in whether Rose could be reinstated, he made a point of noting Monday that his decision was separate from that of the Hall of Fame, which in 1991 adopted a rule keeping anyone on the permanently ineligible list off the ballot.

“I’m just looking to be friends with baseball”.