Pete Rose has made a formal request to be reinstated to Major League Baseball, and new commissioner Rob Manfred agreed to meet with Rose and hear him out.
“I want to make sure I understand all of the details of the Dowd Report and Commissioner Bart Giamatti’s decision and the agreement that was ultimately reached,” Manfred said Monday morning, via ESPN. “I want to hear what Pete has to say, and I’ll make a decision once I’ve done that.”
I’ll tell you what, that’s big time progress right there. Bud Selig repeatedly rebuffed Rose’s efforts to talk to him and have the ban overturned.
Rose, 73, baseball’s all time hits leader with 4,256 hits, has never actually apologized to MLB although he’s shown remorse from time to time. Is he ready to formally apologize now? And does an apology grant him a pardon and a lifting of his lifetime ban? What do you say?
