I did not even like him when he played. He's a redneck and a cheat.

Absentee father, lousy husband, cheating ballplayer, illiterate moron who isn't smart enough to know when to give up on his pride. . .

Pete Rose, I think, is a really nice guy who fell into an apparent addiction to gambling. He was wrong. He is Hall of Fame material. To keep him out and put players with past drug problems in is unjust to Pete.

Arrogant, contemptuous slimeball who doesn't seem to think very highly of fans, considering how he recently published a BOOK about how he lied. And he still demands to be let back in baseball! One poster here hit it dead on: Shoeless Joe was banned for LIFE. When he died he was instated in the Hall of Fame. So Rose's fans can do the same and wait.

A fatally flawed man, who wants the money and wants it all. Despicable. UPDATE: Now that this offal has finally confessed so he can up the sales of his disgusting self-serving book, I'd like to invite all his defenders on here to talk about him. The ones who have been saying for years that he did nothing wrong, that the accusations were contrived, that Rose was being scapegoated. Come on down, boys, and defend your fallen hero now. And as for putting him in the Hall of Fame, I would say the same of him that I have elsewhere said of Shoeless Joe Jackson. Do they deserve to be in Cooperstown based on their baseball achievements? Absolutely. Did they dishonour and disgrace the game that served them so well? Absolutely. Were they banned for life from the game, and should that translate to banning from the Hall for an equal period? Absolutely, but Jackson is dead, and has therefore served his life sentence. He should now be admitted to the Hall of Fame. Wait for Rose to croak and vote him in on the day of his funeral. He should not receive this honour in his lifetime.

was one of my favorite players, but seeing the man he has become is truly sad.

Sure what he did was wrong, and denying it for so long was wrong, and yeah he may be somewhat of a jerk, but the man still deserves to be in the hall of fame. After all, it's the Baseball Hall of Fame, not the Moral, Honest, Upstanding Gentleman Hall of Fame. If they only allowed flawless players into it then it would be empty.

A jerk. Bets on baseball as manager of the Reds, and then aggressively and contemptuously denies it for fifteen years despite a mountain of evidence. When he finally comes clean it happens to coincide with the release of his autobiography. Absolutely shameless.

Pete Rose is one of the nicest men you can meet. He also didn't bet on baseball. Those allegations were all contrived.

For a manager to fix games due to his gambling problems is the biggest crime in sports. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. But he DID bet on baseball and he DID bet on the Reds when he was the manager. If it ever happens that sporting events are fixed, the games would no longer exist. Period. Imagine if your favorite sport had the integrity of pro wrestling? If you knew who was going to win week in and week out? If you didn't know whether the fix was in? Gamblers MUST be banned for life, and Pete Rose must never be involved with baseball again.