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Tuesday, January 06, 2004
I pulled out my copy of the Official Rules of Major League Baseball today to make sure I had this right:
Rule 21(d)
BETTING ON BALL GAMES. Any player, umpire, or club official or employee, who shall bet any sum whatsoever upon any baseball game in connection with which the bettor has no duty to perform shall be declared ineligible for one year.
Any player, umpire, or club or league official or employee, who shall bet any sum whatsoever upon any baseball game in connection with which the bettor has a duty to perform shall be declared PERMANENTLY INELIGIBLE (emphasis added by me).
Major League Baseball's version of that crazy uncle who is loved by all the kids but despised by everyone else wise enough to see the patheticism of his antics has made his annual, unexpected (because you never know when in the year it will be), unwelcome visit back into the national spotlight. The latest media blitz is spawned by the shocking announcement that he will be releasing a book containing his confession that he did, in fact, gamble on baseball games in which the team he was managing was involved. Rose has been permanently banned from the game of baseball ever since the accusations came out some 15 years ago. Led by a crowd of Rose supporters, baseball bobbleheads have been calling for Rose to confess if he ever wanted to be allowed back into the game and admitted into the Hall of Fame. I argued in a journal entry in the old POJ almost a year ago that this was a ridiculous idea since a confession would make him that much more guilty. Leave it to Pete Rose to hammer this point home and force all those MLB columnists to eat their words. Rose stands to make a pretty penny off the sale of his new book, not to mention the Primetime interview with Charlie Gibson. Early indications point towards the ever-indignant Rose showing no signs of remorse and obviously going through the motions of whatever is needed to convince Comrade Selig to reinstate him. To me, this is just another excuse for Charlie Hustle (this monicker takes on a completely new meaning these days) to see himself in the headlines again.
Sports journalist are already beginning to share the same skepticism, and I pray that ol' Buddy Brewer shows better judgement than he has in the past and realizes that Rose has not changed, will never change, and is best cast into baseball hades along with Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicote, and any number of other members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox.
Rule 21(d)
BETTING ON BALL GAMES. Any player, umpire, or club official or employee, who shall bet any sum whatsoever upon any baseball game in connection with which the bettor has no duty to perform shall be declared ineligible for one year.
Any player, umpire, or club or league official or employee, who shall bet any sum whatsoever upon any baseball game in connection with which the bettor has a duty to perform shall be declared PERMANENTLY INELIGIBLE (emphasis added by me).
Major League Baseball's version of that crazy uncle who is loved by all the kids but despised by everyone else wise enough to see the patheticism of his antics has made his annual, unexpected (because you never know when in the year it will be), unwelcome visit back into the national spotlight. The latest media blitz is spawned by the shocking announcement that he will be releasing a book containing his confession that he did, in fact, gamble on baseball games in which the team he was managing was involved. Rose has been permanently banned from the game of baseball ever since the accusations came out some 15 years ago. Led by a crowd of Rose supporters, baseball bobbleheads have been calling for Rose to confess if he ever wanted to be allowed back into the game and admitted into the Hall of Fame. I argued in a journal entry in the old POJ almost a year ago that this was a ridiculous idea since a confession would make him that much more guilty. Leave it to Pete Rose to hammer this point home and force all those MLB columnists to eat their words. Rose stands to make a pretty penny off the sale of his new book, not to mention the Primetime interview with Charlie Gibson. Early indications point towards the ever-indignant Rose showing no signs of remorse and obviously going through the motions of whatever is needed to convince Comrade Selig to reinstate him. To me, this is just another excuse for Charlie Hustle (this monicker takes on a completely new meaning these days) to see himself in the headlines again.
Sports journalist are already beginning to share the same skepticism, and I pray that ol' Buddy Brewer shows better judgement than he has in the past and realizes that Rose has not changed, will never change, and is best cast into baseball hades along with Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicote, and any number of other members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox.
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