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Originally posted by highrisemech
The guy was railroaded.
The allegations were never proven as fact.
Jhonny Hustle is a hero to many.
There is no reasonable reason to keep him out of baseball at this juncture.
Myself, I would trust his character before a lot of the druggie athletes that were allowed to stay in baseball.
This issue could have been resolved though other means without banning him for life.
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Rose was given the opportunity to do the right thing, accept the ban for life, prior to a complete hearing. According to many sources, Rose was shown all the evidence and give the option of taking the ban voluntarily or go thru the whole process, which would have made the evidence public (intentionally or not). I think that Rose decided that if all the evidence were made public, the fans might have thought that a lifetime ban was going to easy on him and in an effort to save what little face he had left, he took the plea.
The fact that Rose bet on baseball does not diminish his accomplishments on the field, what it did do is diminish the man. His efforts are recorded in the record book and will always remain there but the man can not and should not be in the hall of fame.
Of course, as always, this is IMHO.