Well.....now you want your cake and eat it too.....LOL!! I mean the same question could be asked about laws we already have in the books on everything from illegals, the rich, the poor, white color crime and so on and so forth....but we won't get into politics.
Most of us gamble on future earnings and do not even think twice about it. Think about that when you send in your next mortgage payment.
No cake and I am not hungry. I am serious here. You have the scum of the Earth allowed to play or represent the game, but some one who lays a bet on his own team to win a game...the horror!
I mean I agree that he should be re-instated.....but where did THAT comment come from?
Everyone assumes that if you place one or two bets (or visit casinos) you are automatically a compulsive gambler. You know most people who gamble have no problem gambling within their means. The "slippery slope" argument is lost on me. Not everyone who has a drink at lunch is an alcoholic either.
By the same token If you spent your bonus before you get it (credit) you owe if you don't get it.
See ya
Tony
Ya but as others have said, what if he has money on a game and he pulls out all the stops for THAT game at the expense of pitchers arms and the teams long term goals. The 1919 Black Sox scandal scared MLB and for good reason but I think people don't care much about morals these days whether drugs (steroids included) , assaults, other assorted crimes and degenerate behavior. So everybody just do as you please with no worry about consequences
But gambling can quickly lead to fixing games to win or lose and people may never know or believe what the intent was -OH! dammit Tony I admit it- I've always hated Rose I can't be impartial.
Digging at what? Its a simple statement. Wife beating, okay. Drug dealing, Okay. Felonious Assault (assault with a deadly weapon), okay. Assaulting a police officer, no problem. Convicted of loansharking and raquetering? what's the matter with that? But place a bet on your own team to win! Out with you, you villainous scum!
My post was not an indictment on all baseball players. It is simply illustrating the idiocy of singling out one man out of all these others who have GONE TO PRISON for felonies, but are still allowed to be part of baseball and represent this sport as roll models. I have the same beef with the NFL, including my beloved Bengals with the best felons in the business.
See ya
Tony
:up That would be a good indication that he was betting while he was playing too. And let's ask this. If Pete Rose were an average player would anybody care that he was banned for life? No! Because people would say that he disgraced the game and he should be made an example of. Why let the fact that he was a good ballplayer change that? To me it just makes it more important to punish him. Let everybody know from rookies to veterans, bench players to all stars that the rules on gambling are clear and there will be no exceptions or mercy for those that break them. Too bad MLB didn't take the same stance with steroids.
you are not putting performance bonuses and betting in the same context are you?
That can cause just as much pressure to win at all costs as a bet to win the game.
A lawyer or judge convicted of a felony can NEVER be a lawyer (represent a client) or a judge again. They are disbarred almost every time. A professional sports figure who is convicted of a felony is allowed to play the day after they get out of prison. Politicians are allowed to continue to be politicians only if the people vote them back in to office.
You will go against your own good sense to win an argument like me. 
