You Can Bet on It

So, Donald Trump says he’s going to pardon Pete Rose and wants him in the HOF while at the same time Commissioner Rob Manfred announces that he’s is considering a petition from Rose’s family to remove Rose from the ineligible list, which would just so happen make him eligible for election to Cooperstown. Trump seems to think it was OK for Rose to break the cardinal rule of baseball since “Charlie Hustle” only bet on his team to win. Yeah, because he had to stop after getting caught. You think Rose wouldn’t have bet the other way once he racked up serious debt to gamblers? But let the powers that be have their way on the matter, provided Manfred at least acknowledges any change to Rose’s status demands reconsideration of Buck Weaver’s and Shoeless Joe Jackson’s. The one didn’t bet against his team in 1919, and the other may have taken the money and played to win, anyhow. How ‘bout it, Commissioner?