2025 MLB spring thread news & notes thread

[Big Poppa Puck]

It was technically only a lifetime ban.

 

[eojsmada]

It was technically only a lifetime ban.

Interestingly posthumous workaround, then?

 

[Voight]

I think with Rose having passed, it opens up the ability for MLB to remove his ban. They just didn't want Pete to either make dumb statements or for the press to spin negative stories and make for bad publicity. If anything, they look like the good guy for "having compassionately listened to the family" and rightly placed him among his peers in the HoF. Manfred didn't even have to acknowledge that he had met with the family and was considering their request. He could have swept it under the rug and kept it out of the press.

I also think they didn't want Pete to gloat how he got the ban overturned, he was now in the hall etc.

 

[HairyKneel]

I think with Rose having passed, it opens up the ability for MLB to remove his ban. They just didn't want Pete to either make dumb statements or for the press to spin negative stories and make for bad publicity. If anything, they look like the good guy for "having compassionately listened to the family" and rightly placed him among his peers in the HoF. Manfred didn't even have to acknowledge that he had met with the family and was considering their request. He could have swept it under the rug and kept it out of the press.

Well f they let Rose in they may as well let the Black Sox players in too. Bonds and Clemens should be in before Pete and Shoeless Joe.

 

[eojsmada]

Well f they let Rose in they may as well let the Black Sox players in too. Bonds and Clemens should be in before Pete and Shoeless Joe.

Didn't the black sox players actually alter their play and cheat, on the field? Far cry from a guy who bet on games that were out of his control.