YOUR HORSE IS TOO HIGH

So the ruling has come down and the status remains the same. Pete Rose is not worthy of being reinstated to baseball. For the love of Seattle Slew please come off your high horse baseball.

I am indifferent as to whether Pete Rose needs to be castrated baseball wise but what I can say without hesitation is baseball needs to get off its high horse. Yes the baseball that allows betting; the baseball that allows casinos to sponsor team events and place signage in baseball parks. Yes the baseball that has sweepstakes and partners with the likes of fantasy baseball and the likes. Yes someone who committed the ultimate "betting" crime has to he hung out to dry? Give me a break.

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I know there are those who say Pete Rose did it to himself; he did. You did it to yourself. What is that? Put yourself in position to be judged as blameless and perfect. To be judged by GOD (if you're a believer) or to be judged by your peers when the time comes and it will, if it hasn't already.  I am NOT condoning what Pete Rose did but simply condoning those who want him to serve a lifetime punishment for a game. We're talking about a game? What are we talking about (In my Allen Iverson voice) a game!? A game man?

That's exactly what we're talking about a man and a game. A game that is full of performance enhancement violations; collusion by owners; greed by players and teams; Bar fights, domestic violence and on and on. Yet this one crime and person shall be hailed as the greatest crime ever committed in baseball. There is the alleged racist Ty Cobb, yet no one says recall his Hall of Fame status ala the Bill Cosby retraction that seems to happen every month.

Ty Cobb was an alleged racist but no calls for his removal from the Hall of Fame - Phillysportshistory.com

Baseball needs to get a grip but those who agree with baseball need to as well. To say Pete Rose should forever be banned because he brought it on himself is counter to those who know a family member or themselves that have asked for forgiveness and got it. And if they didn't get it they cry bloody murder at the missed opportunity. Yet when it comes to Pete Rose they want to hang em' high.

Betting on baseball is legal - Bronxbaseballdaily.com

I still say Pete will get in after he has passes as if he can't do any harm to the "Integrity of the Game." I say the game lost its integrity when it didn't say to Pete, you've suffered enough, been embarrassed enough and enough time has lapse to teach any forthcoming players or future stars a valuable lesson. And that could be Pete's job, going to every major and minor league team annually and telling his story and what it cost him. What he's paying now is interest on ignorance and that's not a good return on anyone's investment.

Yes I know he still bet on baseball; but baseball also makes it easy for Las Vegas to bet on the game too. I'd love to point out their hypocrisy but the horse is too high for common sense to reach. That's the ways I see it sitting in The Box Seat. I'm Wayne Box Miller