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Old 02-03-2015, 04:51 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by chucksabr View Post
Well, given that baseball's expressed penalty for a player gambling on games his team is involved in is permanent ineligibility, I'd say Pete Rose hasn't served nearly enough time.

In any event, if Pete Rose's sentence is commuted, then wouldn't Baseball have to commute the sentence of every manager and player who has ever been declared permanently ineligible for gambling?

I wouldn't be opposed to it. However, when Rose was banned there was a stipulation was that Rose could apply for reinstatement every year after ten years had passed. So there is language in Rose's ban that allows for reinstatement.
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