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Pete Rose is a sleazebag. He's also right.

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"And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven't given too many gamblers a second chance in the world of baseball." Anyone remember the Yankees' Steve Howe? He was suspended from baseball 7 times for drugs. and reinstated 7 times. Baseball made an agreement with Pete Rose: After one year of his lifetime ban, he could reply for reinstatement. To my mind, that meant when Rose applied for reinstatement, baseball was obligated to respond, yes or no. Selig acknowledged that he was considering Rose's application, leading to speculation that Rose's return might be imminent. Ultimately, however, Selig took no action. What Rose did was wrong. Some of what baseball has done to him is also wrong.