Pete Rose is back in the news again. And whenever Pete Rose is back in the news it usually means we have ourselves another Pete Rose controversy, and that sparks a new Pete Rose debate, and we'll rehash the same arguments over Pete Rose that have been going on since the overheated baseball summer of 1989.
That's when commissioner Bart Giamatti banned Rose from baseball for life. Investigator John Dowd and Giamatti concluded that Rose had bet on baseball, which violates Major League Baseball's one sacred tenet.