With an Arod ban looming should Pete Rose still be banned?

With a suspension looming for Alex Rodriguez and a possible lifetime ban, it has brought up the attention on the career of one of the all-time greats Pete Rose. Rose received a lifetime ban for betting on baseball which he didn’t admit until years after receiving the ban. Rose wasn’t betting against his own team and was not point shaving which would make the situation much worse. He was betting on his own team; he was not purposely losing to win money like the 1919 White Sox did. Rose the all-time hits leader is still recognized as the hits leader,but he is excluded from baseball’s Hall of Fame.

Rose has come out and said that Arod should fess up to what he has done to avoid the lifetime ban. Arod has cheated the game by using performance enhancing drugs and he faces some steep consequences for it. Arod who could have been considered one of the best players of all time ruined his reputation by being involved with PEDS. This Arod suspension really puts into perspective of how Rose really did not do anything to deserve a lifetime ban. He was not point shaving like the 1919 White Sox and Shoeless Joe Jackson. He was not cheating the game by using drugs. All he was do was believe in his team so much that he would bet on them. The ban should be lifted, but the commissioner Bud Selig is so old-school that we won’t see it lifted while he is in office.   Selig needs any news to draw attention away from the Biogenesis scandal and I believe a lifting on the Rose ban would be right for the sport. There is no one being inducted into the Hall of Fame because of the black cloud that hangs over the game so this is ample opportunity to induct the all-time hits leader into a place that he should be in the first place.