Baseball's latest fiasco

[DrLeftover]

Let me explain baseball commissioner Bud Selig to you.



He sees his job as having the sole objective of keeping Pete Rose out of the Hall of Fame. If he overturns the call and gives the kid the perfect game, then he has to reverse the ban on Rose and he'll get into the Hall of Fame. That's the only reason Selig goes to work in the morning, to keep Rose Out! Period.



Look at Selig's statements, what he does, how he does it. That's it, for the last twenty years or so, that's been the calling of his office.



Otherwise... you explain it.

 

[Jazzy]

Peter Edward Pete Rose (born April 14, 1941) is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. Rose played from 1963 to 1986, and managed from 1984 to 1989.



Rose, a switch hitter, is the all-time Major League leader in hits (4,256), games played (3,562), at-bats (14,053)[1], and outs (10,328). He won three World Series rings, three batting titles, one Most Valuable Player Award, two Gold Gloves, the Rookie of the Year Award, and made 17 All-Star appearances at an unequaled five different positions (2B, LF, RF, 3B & 1B).



In August 1989, three years after he retired as an active player, Rose agreed to permanent ineligibility from baseball amidst accusations that he gambled on baseball games while playing for and managing the Reds, including claims that he bet on his own team. In 2004, after years of public denial, he admitted to betting on baseball and on, but not against, the Reds.[2] After Rose's ban was instated, the Baseball Hall of Fame formally voted to ban those on the permanently ineligible list from induction.



Maybe this explains it Doc: Informaion link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Rose

 

[DrLeftover]

Thank you for underlining my point dear lady.



That is why Selig will not overturn the call in Detroit and give Galarraga the perfect game that HE earned and which was taken away from him by a self admitted blown call by an idiot ump who was thinking about meeting some call girl after the game instead of doing his job of the moment.



Because if he did what is right there, he'd have to eventually revisit the ban on Rose.



He won't do that.



Ever.

 

[Jazzy]

Do you, Doc, think Rose should be in the hall of fame?