Pete Rose will reportedly remain banned from Major League Baseball

Former Reds great Pete Rose publicly speaks about MLB commissioner Rob Manfred’s decision to uphold his banishment from baseball.

Pete Rose called the Major League Baseball commissioner’s decision to maintain his lifetime ban ‘disappointing, ‘ but said the move won’t weaken his love for the sport.

The now 74-year-old Rose was banned for life for betting on baseball while managing the Cincinnati Reds in the 1980’s.

At the time the ban agreement was announced, then-Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti said: “The burden is entirely on Mr. Rose to reconfigure his life in a way he deems appropriate”.

Pete Rose the player should be in the Hall of Fame. And while commissioner Rob Manfred rejected his bid to get back in the game partly because Rose still bets legally in this gambling town, he says he still has a lot to offer the sport. I’m under control right now. That provided the new evidence that compelled Manfred to believe Rose remained evasive and untruthful in the many instances baseball asked him to tell the truth about his rule breaking.

In July, Rose was honored prior to the MLB All-Star Game in Cincinnati and received a long standing ovation as he joined Hall of Famers Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan and Barry Larkin in being voted by fans as Cincinnati’s “Franchise Four”.

“I am a baseball person – that’s never going to change”.

Be it Fay Vincent or Bud Selig previously, the door to reinstatement has always been shut tight on Rose.

Rose has had a wary relationship with both truth and limits ever since he was banned in 1989.

Rose was slightly emotional at times during the news conference.

Rose publicly admits in his autobiography, “My Prison Without Bars”, he bet on Reds games as a manager and player for the club. Even as someone who thinks Rose’s numbers have more than earned him a place in the Hall, I can see how his attitude and actions cause many, including senior MLB officials, to want him nowhere near the league.

On February 26, Rose’s attorneys advised Manfred of Rose’s request for reinstatement, saying that Rose had accepted responsibility for his mistakes and their consequences and that he was sorry for betting on baseball. Rose’s representatives had submitted two reports to Manfred, one of which Manfred said he “gave little weight because the factual background recited in it is inconsistent with what Mr. Rose told me during our meeting”. I don’t play blackjack, roulette, dice, all that stuff.