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Marty Brennaman: "(Pete Rose) dies and dammit, five months later they elect to make him eligible again. I've got a real problem with that."
Pete Rose Jr. described the news as long overdue. Major League Baseball removed his dad’s name from the permanently ineligible list on Tuesday — eight months after his death and nearly 36 years after the Cincinnati Reds legend received a lifetime ban from the game.
ESPN broadcaster Karl Ravech spoke about MLB's possible motivations for the removal of Pete Rose, among others, off the permanently ineligible list.
Mike Schmidt: "There's a cloud.. ... I think if you posed the question to all the living Hall of Famers right now, I think it would almost be 50-50."