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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Yeah, the whole "he was a bad person" thing is just a stupid reason to keep Rose out. They kept him out because he gambled on the game, which at least made some kind of sense, until MLB got in bed with gambling then it didn't. It was politics, plain and simple. Enough people in power, that could affect such decision, didn't like Rose, so they blackballed him.
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It's not so much he was a bad person. He was an embarrassment as an individual, they didn't want to attach MLB to him when at any moment he could say or do something abhorrent.
If Pete had just shut the **** up this would have been solved years ago but he just couldn't.