This has been pretty contentious here before. So why not do it again, since there's news?
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred issued a statement Monday afternoon denying Pete Rose reinstatement to baseball.
Really, he should have been denied just for that awful haircut and suit he wore on Fox Sports during the playoffs.
Seriously, Manfred lays out in great detail the reasons for no reinstatement for Rose, reasons we've heard many times over the last 25 years, since Rose was banned by then-Commissioner Bart Giamatti. You can argue that there are more serious offenses than gambling on baseball -- and you'd be right -- but gambling on the game has been an unpardonable sin since the Black Sox scandal was cleaned up by Commissioner K.