Comments by "" (@NinjaKittyBonks) on "Top 10 Worst Cheaters in Sports" video.

  1. Semantics: Pete Rose bet on his team while he was manager and MLB has rules against betting on their games and is called cheating. Pete Rose said he ONLY bet on his team to win.... who knows? What about the games his Reds played and he DIDN'T bet.... does this mean he didn't think they would win or sent a message to bookies that he would "sabotage" his team in some way, via management decisions? Honestly, I doubt he ever threw a game or intentionally sabotaged his team in order to lose a game. His intentions are not in question, he broke one of the cardinal rules of baseball and then LIED about it for what.... 15 years? Had he come clean in one of the first 50 times somebody with a microphone asked him if he bet on baseball, he would be in the HoF today and I would approve. America LOVES to forgive, but endless lying and denying for soo many years... that bridge gets very hard to build. As great a player as he was, I support the decision to never allow him into the HoF. Not because he he didn't earn it with his play on the field, but because he spend years and years and years lying about it. Ever wonder why nobody else so important to the game of baseball ever bet on his team?.... the can see what happened to Pete Rose. He will make the HoF, when he is near death or posthumously, should he pass unexpectedly.
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  2. And when he DIDN'T bet sends a message to bookies that he thinks his team may lose! Regardless of his intent or whether he intentionally mismanaged the game (I highly doubt it) At the end of the day, 15 years of lying to everyone was his downfall. Had he come clean many, many years earlier and showed some contrition and least a spoonful of regret about the lies... he would be in the Hall today. Watergate, Chappaquiddick, Lance Armstrong and countless others would not put the shovel down and dug themselves way to deep to get back out again. Truly a very sad thing for the best hitter in baseball :(
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