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Rose is banned from baseball. A player who has been banned from baseball should not be inducted into the HOF. I don't care if the ban came after he was a player or due to things he did as a non-player. It's simple, the Commissioner banned him from baseball, Rose signed the agreement, no HOF. I don't feel any pity for him either. He knew what he was doing. He lied about it for years and tried to fight the system to convince people to remove his ban on the basis he didn't bet on baseball. Then when he finally realized that, that wasn't going to work he tried the other tact and finally admitted to betting hoping that people would feel sorry for him and reinstate him. Too late.
I think it's pretty much an open and shut case. Both in terms of whether he should be voted into the HOF and if his ban should be removed.
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