The 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot - SDMB, Let's Vote! And Argue!

[kenobi_65]

@Si_Amigo

How about Pete Rose? Shouldn’t they reconsider him given the recent acceptance of criminals in our society.

Unless and until he’s ever removed from MLB’s “permanently ineligible” list, the Hall will never even consider him; some years back, the Hall changed their rules, to specifically exclude anyone on the ineligible list from consideration.

This was thrashed out at length here a few months ago, in a thread about Rose’s death. As I noted there:

@kenobi_65

An excellent player, who became obsessed with his own numbers and fame, and was incapable of admitting that he screwed up, or showing any contrition.

I am absolutely convinced he would have been reinstated, and elected to the Hall of Fame, twenty years ago, if he’d actually been able to admit what he’d done, and stick with an apology, rather than backtracking, and continuing to hang out with gamblers.