MLB Just Rewrote the Rules — Pete Rose Back from the Ban List!

Here's the headline. Major League Baseball just removed Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson from its permanently ineligible list, decades after banning both for gambling on the game of Baseball Commissioner Bob Manford says, once you're dead, you're no longer a threat to the game. So lifetime bans now expire with your obituary. Let's be clear. Pete Rose admitted to betting on games while managing games. Shoeless Joe. Maybe he got railroaded. But now Major League Baseball saying no harm, no foul. And just like that, the hall of Fame door creaks open. But here's the real outrage. Sports may be the only place left where facts, rules, fairness and effort are supposed to matter. It's now telling every kid in America, cheat, gamble, lie and will still bronze your cleats someday. At this rate, they may as well replace the hall of Fame with a FanDuel kiosk. Because baseball's new message is clear. If you're not cheating, you're not thinking big enough.