Rose disappointed in Major League Baseball decision

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has decided not to lift the permanent ban imposed on Pete Rose more than a quarter-century ago, meaning the player with more hits than anyone else in the sport’s history will continue to be kept out of the Hall of Fame.

Rose still can’t be trusted, and that would have been true had Manfred brought him back into the game.

“All I look forward to being someday is friends of baseball”, Rose said.

Rose filed for a request to Commissioner Manfred to be reinstated in March. I don’t play blackjack, roulette, dice, all that stuff.

I wouldn’t start drafting any outlines, but Manfred did leave open the door ever-so-slightly for Rose to perhaps one day make that speech in a village in Otsego County, New York.

Manfred notes that during their September interview, Rose initially denied betting on baseball now and only later in the interview did he “clarify” his response to admit such betting. However, under the sanction imposed by Rule 21 means that Rose may not associate with any Major or Minor League Club.

Now, Pete Rose’s Hall-of-Fame chances seem nearly nonexistent. Reds President Bob Castellini said he hopes the Hall will reconsider its decision.

“It would be nice to have the opportunity to go to the Hall of Fame”, Rose said.

“I’ve worked hard at it”, Rose said “I’ve got it under wraps the last several years”.

The Hall of Fame’s separate ban of Rose became an issue again after Manfred rejected Rose’s application for reinstatement Monday but said his standard for reinstating Rose and the Hall of Fame’s standard for making Rose eligible need not be the same. “I, therefore, must reject Mr. Rose’s application for reinstatement”.

“It was great opinion”, Dowd said.

“The Commissioner called me this morning prior to the announcement”.

I just don’t think he gets it. And he also said that he “wanted to be friends with baseball”. He also said his meeting with Manfred earlier this year – where he first denied still betting on baseball and then admitted he did – could have gone better. He said he was sorry for his mistakes of the past, which included betting on games while with the Cincinnati Reds at a time he said his gambling habit was out of control.

Pete Rose loves the game of baseball so much that he has a message for MLB. Manfred said he gave the report little weight because it was inconsistent with what Manfred told him.

A Major League Baseball report reveals Rose voluntarily took a polygraph test in August, which resulted in a “no opinion” conclusion. Manfred wrote the polygraph test concluded “no opinion” based on technical reasons that were not Rose’s responsibility.

A 17-time All-Star, Rose was the 1963 NL Rookie of the Year, 1973 MVP and 1975 World Series MVP. He ended his playing days in 1986 with a record 4,256 hits and managed the Reds until 1989.

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Rose – the game’s all-time hits leader – fronted the media on Tuesday and the 74-year-old told reporters: “I’m disappointed, obviously disappointed”.

Manfred said in a letter sent to Rose and made publicMonday that baseball’s hit king hasn’t been completely honest about his gambling on baseball games.