Major League Baseball ends lifetime bans for Pete Rose, 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson

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7. I felt this was coming after Rose's death...

...and MLB couldn't do it for him without doing it for others.

I'm ambivalent about the idea of Rose finally getting into the Hall of Fame, which is what this is all about. It's long been argued that the Hall is already littered with racists, wife-beaters, and criminals. Gambling on baseball as a participant was, and remains, and bad thing, even while baseball and the other major sports embrace sports betting as if it's the greatest thing since sex.

As someone else has mentioned, should some allowance for the steroids users? I'm more offended by that than the charges against Rose and Jackson.

I grew up a Mets fan, but Rose was still my favorite player. Maybe this new decision will make current and future players consider what's happened to him, as a cautionary tale.