I knew this all along.
This is certainly not news and it comes as a surprise to no one. As a lifelong Reds fan, it still hurts to read these words on the screen of my computer.
Pete, you let me down. You committed the cardinal sin of baseball.
As much as I would love to see you in the Hall of Fame and still coaching my beloved Reds, you do not belong there. You forfeited that right when you placed your first bet on baseball.
At least you bet they would always win...Geesh!
3 comments:
It's not the hall of good guys. It's the Hall of Fame... for the greatest guys to ever swing a bat or put on a mitt.
There are cocaine adicts, wife beaters, murderers, draft dodgers, and who knows what else in the Hall of Fame.
Why shouldn't Pete be allowed in along with the other shady characters.
I think if the players had to bet on themselves they would have a winning season again.
Some people claim Pete's offenses are "different" because they were baseball related. If so, then they need to go back through the Hall of Fame and get rid of all the guys who took performance enhancing drugs. Whether baseball considered it "legal" or not doesn't matter, it affected the game by causing us to believe certain men were capable of great things on the field when really they were capable of taking drugs that made them seem like they were capable of those great things.
I'd rather see a clean and sober player hit a ball and be thrown out at home than see an amped up steroid user hit one out of the park. And as someone who could recite the starting line-up of the Big Red Machine when she was three, I totally believe Pete deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.
Also, Luke and "Anonymous" are very smart people :)
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