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Rose uses Astros saga to ask for reinstatement
In a petition sent to the MLB commissioner's office and obtained by ESPN, Rose and his lawyers argue that Manfred has recently opted not to punish players guilty of major game-changing rules infractions and, as a result, should end Rose's 30½-year ban for gambling on baseball while he was manager of the Cincinnati Reds. The lawyers say that Rose's lifetime ban is "vastly disproportionate" when compared with MLB's punishments of players who took performance-enhancing drugs and the players involved in the sign-stealing schemes by the 2017 Houston Astros.
"There cannot be one set of rules for Mr. Rose and another for everyone else," Rose's 20-page petition for reinstatement says. "No objective standard or categorization of the rules violations committed by Mr. Rose can distinguish his violations from those that have incurred substantially less severe penalties from Major League Baseball."
In February 1991, the Hall of Fame passed a rule that any player on MLB's ineligible list would not appear on its ballot for Cooperstown; the rule was quickly dubbed "the Pete Rose rule." A Hall of Fame spokesperson told ESPN that a permanently banned player would not be eligible for Hall of Fame induction even after the player's death. This statement appears to close the door on any chance for induction of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and seven banned teammates of the 1919 Chicago White Sox, who took cash to throw that year's World Series won by the Cincinnati Reds. That position also, presumably, closes the door on any chance Rose has to get into the Hall of Fame after his death.
In the early 1980s, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were placed on MLB's ineligible list by commissioner Bowie Kuhn for accepting jobs as greeters at Atlantic City casinos. But in 1985, commissioner Peter Ueberroth removed Mantle and Mays from the ineligible list, saying, "The world has changed."
Does he have any chance of being reinstated? I think he has a chance but it won't happen.
In a petition sent to the MLB commissioner's office and obtained by ESPN, Rose and his lawyers argue that Manfred has recently opted not to punish players guilty of major game-changing rules infractions and, as a result, should end Rose's 30½-year ban for gambling on baseball while he was manager of the Cincinnati Reds. The lawyers say that Rose's lifetime ban is "vastly disproportionate" when compared with MLB's punishments of players who took performance-enhancing drugs and the players involved in the sign-stealing schemes by the 2017 Houston Astros.
"There cannot be one set of rules for Mr. Rose and another for everyone else," Rose's 20-page petition for reinstatement says. "No objective standard or categorization of the rules violations committed by Mr. Rose can distinguish his violations from those that have incurred substantially less severe penalties from Major League Baseball."
In February 1991, the Hall of Fame passed a rule that any player on MLB's ineligible list would not appear on its ballot for Cooperstown; the rule was quickly dubbed "the Pete Rose rule." A Hall of Fame spokesperson told ESPN that a permanently banned player would not be eligible for Hall of Fame induction even after the player's death. This statement appears to close the door on any chance for induction of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and seven banned teammates of the 1919 Chicago White Sox, who took cash to throw that year's World Series won by the Cincinnati Reds. That position also, presumably, closes the door on any chance Rose has to get into the Hall of Fame after his death.
In the early 1980s, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were placed on MLB's ineligible list by commissioner Bowie Kuhn for accepting jobs as greeters at Atlantic City casinos. But in 1985, commissioner Peter Ueberroth removed Mantle and Mays from the ineligible list, saying, "The world has changed."
Does he have any chance of being reinstated? I think he has a chance but it won't happen.
