Is it time to lift Pete Rose's lifetime ban?

[Zavulon]

5. You can still hurt the game betting on your own team.

For example, you can tinker with your rotation to have certain pitchers available on days when you're placing bets, making your team more likely to lose other games.

Rose lied for 15 years, and when he finally came clean it was to sell a book and it was during a Hall of Fame induction ceremony, where guys who were being welcomed into the Hall were being overshadowed by an egomaniacal gasbag who broke baseball's cardinal rule. I'd sooner vote for Mario Mendoza or any of the steroid freaks before voting for Rose.

What they should do is build a Hall of Statistical Achievement where everyone with a certain number of hits, homers, batting average, RBI and / or runs scored gains you admittance, along with similar standards for pitchers and their categories. Let everyone with 3,000 hits in, for example, and then the gasbag gets inducted into SOMETHING. I hope he never, ever, EVER gets into Cooperstown, and the Hall of Fame will cease to have meaning to me if he does.