I'm hardcore against match-fixing, but that wasn't Pete's crime. It's Time.

Let Pete Rose in.

Pete Rose, yesterday, submitted a petition for reinstatement for his life ban after the Dowd Report.

Anyone who knows this blog knows how against sports-fixing I am.

But anyone who has evidence that Pete Rose fixed any game (for or against the Reds) would be the first such evidence found.  Dowd, and only years later, THINKS Rose might've bet against the Reds.

But nothing was found, even as people knew Pete had bet on the game.

Put whatever other limitations you have to, but he belongs in the Hall.

Let him in.

PS:  Maybe if (under strict guidelines to ensure that only certain such bets would be allowed) players bet their own money in support of their own sporting endeavors, some of these players might be arsed to care a little more...