And this should be the final word on it: Rose Denied.

Whether or not you agree with it is another matter, but Pete Rose has been denied reinstatement again, and that should basically be the final word on the matter for a while.

I think it's clear to anybody that Pete Rose is certainly not a contrite man -- he wasn't on the baseball diamond either.

According to ESPN's account, Rob Manfred said:

"Mr. Rose's public and private comments, including his initial admission in 2004, provide me with little confidence that he has a mature understanding of his wrongful conduct, that he has accepted full responsibility for it, or that he understands the damage he has caused," Manfred said in his decision.

And those comments mean that should be the last word of it, because, much like many people who waste the state's time in parole hearings which we know will never result in the person's release under any circumstances, he's never going to get reinstated.

I mean, there are legal things I've done on many levels that I would never acceptably, while I'm alive, "understand the damage" in that regard.   There are certain things which a person does that there is no way the person could ever satisfy those conditions.

However, Rob Manfred DID leave one crack open on another discussion on the one important thing which is probably the only reason Pete Rose would be reinstated in the first place:

"In my view, the considerations that should drive a decision on whether an individual should be allowed to work in Baseball are not the same as those that should drive a decision on Hall of Fame eligibility," Manfred wrote. "... Any debate over Mr. Rose's eligibility for the Hall of Fame is one that must take place in a different forum."

However, this decision probably slams that door too.

Whether you agree with the decision is one thing.  I think it's clear this needs to be the final word on reinstatement, at least as long as Rose is alive.