[StatesEnemy]

Let him in the HoF.

Keep him out of any managerial/coach/front-office role.

[Petronski]

Put him in the HoF, right after he's dead.

[Leroy S. Mort]

If the report is true, then Commissioner Selig has failed baseball fans in a colossal way.

It didn't take this latest stupendously stupid move to prove that to baseball fans.

[CheezyD]

What StatesEnemy said.

[Petronski]

Bud Selig is a multi-tiered managerial disaster of the highest magnitude. He is neither an adequate authority figure nor an adminstrator nor a competent moneyman nor an ambassador for baseball. At the time when baseball needs a Pete Rozelle, it has instead a Michael Dukakis. The sport languishes under his rudderless command and teams like Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Tampa, et cetera (even his own Milwaukee) struggle to keep their heads above the surf.

What's going to happen when MLB tries to put the Expos in DC? Disastrous multi-party litigation, and all because everyone in baseball (Selig included) knows that dear Bud is an empty suit. Someone's got to start slamming fists on tables, but dear Bud's too busy licking boots.

And by the way, just who is supposed to believe his daughter is really running the Brewers?

[Remole]

If Rose is reinstated to Professional Baseball, I will never again attend a Major League Game. That would be the end for me.

[Az Joe]

Let Rose alone, in the Hall and back into baseball. He is no worse than Steinbrenner, a convicted felon, or the owners who colluded to hold down player's salaries a few years back. Jeeez, drug users and drunks get chance after chance, he's no worse than they are.

What ever Rose did there is NO evidence that he EVER did anything that affected the outcome of ANY game, except play his heart out and try to win ALL THE TIME.

[Godzilla]

Its interesting how on many aspects Rose is being dumped upon. However, when compared to the multiple drug convictions many players have acquired and the damage they have caused to baseball with the gross lack of any similar punishment make Rose's ban very unfair. I cannot condone his actions, but baseball has a higher volume of equally damaging players they need to deal seriously with.

[xzins]

This same info was posted last week and MLB eventually said that it was a rumor.

Mike Schmidt said something in the Cincy Enquirer about Pete getting a hearing sometime during the off season.

That's a far cry from winning his case.

Personally, I think he should be in the HoF as a player. (He doesn't have the wins to justify being in as a manager, but that's a moot point. His gambling as a manager should disqualify him if he ever gets that far.)

[CONSERVE]

The integrity of the game will totally and completely undermined if Rose is allowed back in under these condition.

The game hasn't had integrity since the last strike who the h#!$ do they think they are kidding?

[Teacher317]

Good. Let Charley Hustle have some peace. Compared to the rapists, addicts, cheaters (corked bats, spitballs, etc), a bet is hardly worth mentioning. The great hue and cry of "he COULD have coached in a way that COULD have affected the outcome of the game IF he had bet on a game he participated in" pales in comparison to those who sully the game by having a bat explode during a game, the news associating the team name with a rape/theft/assault, or a SEVEN-TIME suspended player getting just one more chance (what a great mesage for kids who might be thinking about experimenting, eh?). He was put through decades of this nonsense for personal reasons, and nothing more. Those jealous of his success (thanks more to hard work than gifts) got to make him sufer for this many years. It's enough. Put him back in.

[OrioleFan]

If the report is true, then Commissioner Selig has failed baseball fans in a colossal way.

Selig is a failure. Probably trying to use this to line up more support to get rid of the Minnesota Twins (although I can't figure out how).

[Cooter]

They should put Pete Rose in the HOF right beside John McGraw.

American League President Ban Johnson to issue an order in 1903 forbidding all gambling and betting in American League parks. Johnson's order was greatly ignored as gambling continued to infest baseball. Two years later, New York Giants manager [and 1937 Hall of Fame inductee]John McGraw was involved in a gambling incident during the A's-Giants World Series. McGraw had placed $400 on the Giants to win the Series. After New York defeated the A's in 5 games, McGraw collected on his winnings and never faced any discipline over the incident.

[PatriotBill]

Bud Selig wears frilly lacy panties...Rose gambled on the outcome of the sport of baseball, something he was intimately involved in as a manager. He broke the rules and deserves the justice Bart Giamatti administered. Why can't all you milk toasts get that?! There are too many citizens suffering from "Principle Bypasses."

[PatriotBill]

Attention to all of you nimrods who keep mailing me because I don't believe Pete Rose belongs in the Hall of Fame: Either you believe in Principles, Justice, and Conviction or you don't. If you do, you probably don't think Rose belongs in the HOF...If you don't believe in the absolutes of the aforementioned concepts, you most likely think Rose belongs in the HOF. It's that simple...end of discussion.