DamnYankee
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You are arguing to no purpose, I have said before you started posting here they should have banned all the juicers.In sports they are.
People do drugs to play better.
Betters throw games to make money.
Understand the difference?
BTW, Rose admitted he bet on games he was managing, he claims he was betting on his team to win. Nobody will ever know if that is the truth, but it's clear it effects the integrity of the game.
I see.... And drugs absolutely IMPROVE the integrity of the game.... Got it.... You've heard of Gooden and Strawberry, just to mention a couple, right? One can only imagine what Mantle's stats might have been if he hadn't partied so much every night, given what they were as a party animal....
Yes, I understand completely the difference....
Let's suppose, as someone pointed out to me, that Rose bet on his team to win on Tuesday, and in Monday's game he kept the starter in well beyond the point he reasonably should have in order to save his relievers for Tuesday's game. That would mean that he threw a game he didn't bet on in order to win a game he did bet on, but with no legal consequences for the Monday game and no one the wiser.
Now, you want to tell me again how different all this makes it?
In any case, that is irrelivent to Rose, who knew full well that gambling was the one thing baseball never tolerates.
Rose knew full well that if he gambled on baseball while a manager he risked a lifetime ban, and he did it anyway.
End of story.
Not quite, since the argument is not without purpose. There are two different arguments in the Rose saga.
1.) Should he be allowed back in baseball?
2.) Should he be allowed in the Hall of Fame?
I'm not sure which you're arguing, or it you're arguing both.
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