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Originally Posted by ThatSeventiesGuy
I've said this before, and will continue to say it: Lifetime bans should be just that. LIFETIME bans.
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Except it says permanent, not lifetime.
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Originally Posted by ihatenames
Yes, but nothing in Rose's ban prevents him from applying for reinstatement.
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No argument there. I recall reading that Shoeless Joe and Mike Devlin did the same with their banishments. The latter being a ghost at league offices for a while.
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Originally Posted by ihatenames
If Rose can make a sincere argument for reinstatement I'd be willing to give him a second chance to be around the game on a conditional basis.
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And as someone that has seen him charge his story more then once on this issue, I'd find his sincerity ringing a bit hollow. Plus all the other items running against any sort of reinstatement, such as inequal application of the rules, what a reinstatement states about the league's policy of players and betting on themselves/trust issues regarding an honest product being provided for the paying fan, and the inertia of over 50 permanent bans for this exact infraction in the league's history pushing against it happening.