That reminds me ... if MLB has no authority in regards to running the Hall of Fame (that is to say, the HoF doesn't answer to Selig, et al), how is it that Pete Rose's MLB ban has anything to do w/ the HoF?

I mean, if the voters wanted Sosa in and McGwire out (it's just an example, settle down), it doesn't matter if MLB would pitch a bitch about it one way or another, right?

Pete signed a document w/ Giamatti saying if they both shut up, he'd agree to a lifetime MLB ban ... what's that got to do with the HoF? Rose made no such arrangement with the HoF, just MLB - two seperate entities.

Or am I completely misinformed?

He broke the rule as a manager. He was a HoF player and what he did as a manager should not get in the way of that. If he had bet on games after he got into the HoF would they kick him out? No. Why not let him in then? He is easily one of the top 20 players of all time.

If you are going to keep Pete Rose out of the Hall of Fame for gambling on the game, then you have to remove Ty Cobb as well - although I am not sure that they have the undeniable proof that they have in Pete's case.

Pete Rose was and still is my favorite player of all time, so anything I say is slightly jaded, but given that, I find it interesting that baseball's stance pretty much is: "Do whatever you want to yourself and we won't ban you from the Hall of Fame. However, take money out of our pockets by damaging the game, you are banned for life"

Baseball's hypocrisy irks me sometimes. All this talk about steroids this and HGH that but noone ever wants to recognize the fact that players for the last 30 years have been hopped up on greenies and were encouraged to do so. I would argue that these are performance enhancing drugs but noone wants to hear that.

Pete should be in as well as the players from this era and others that have used PED's - give them a separate era and call it the PED era or whatever you want.