Pete Rose and Donald Trump, what a double-play combo
Does anyone believe that Major League Baseball would be reinstating Pete Rose if one of the president's whims had not demanded it? Never mind MLB's lawyerly rationale that the rule against gambling by baseball people need not protect the game from deceased gamblers. MLB has aligned baseball with the zeitgeist, which is no longer persnickety about lying and contempt for norms. Exhibit A is Rose's twice-elected rehabilitator.
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