Writers voice support for Pete Rose Hall of Fame bid

Pete Rose deserves baseball recognition

Don’t you just get tired of being taken for stupid?

The new Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred denied Pete Rose’s reinstatement because doing so would be “detrimental to the game of baseball.”

What a hypocrite you are, Mr. Manfred (who is commissioner only to do the team owners’ bidding).

After the last baseball strike in 1994 – 1995, fans stayed away in droves, the owners were losing money hand over fist and needed to do something to put fans back in the seats. Nothing better to bring fans to the ballpark than home runs so these magnificent gentlemen got together and decided that they would turn their backs on their athletes drugging themselves if it would produce more home runs and boy did it ever work.

In the seven years prior to the strike from 1989 to 1995, 19 players had 40 or more home runs, the next seven years from 1996 to 2002, 83 players had 40 or more home runs.

The fans and the sports writers suspected doping and demanded that it be stopped.

It was then the commissioner (owners) decided to outlaw drugs and start drug testing. Remember before 2006 steroid use was not banned for baseball players.

These glorious gentlemen got what they needed and proceeded to throw their athletes under the bus.

They even went so far as to threaten to asterisk the records of that era, but not being stupid men they didn’t dare.

So much for the integrity of the game of baseball, God knows we can’t let Pete Rose the greatest hitter baseball has ever seen back into baseball or heaven forbid into the Baseball Hall of Fame where he rightly belongs.

Pete Rose didn’t use steroids

So, Pete Rose is again denied reinstatement to the baseball world. Because of an outdated decision to ban him as harmful to the game, because he placed bets on his own team to win. Meanwhile, Mark McQuire and Alex Rodriguez, to just name two, collect accolades for their playing, while using steroids to enhance their performance.

Pete Rose performed his record-setting and still standing records, based solely on his talent, It's past time for baseball to give this man the credit he earned and allow him full participation in the game he gave so many exciting years to.

This story was originally published December 23, 2015 at 12:32 PM with the headline "Writers voice support for Pete Rose Hall of Fame bid."