Reds HOFer Marty Brennaman
Rips Main League Baseball
Ticked Over Timing Of Rose Determination
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TMZSports.com
Longtime Reds announcer Marty Brennaman is thrilled Pete Rose is now eligible for the Corridor of Fame — however he admits he is nonetheless bought a bone to choose with Main League Baseball … telling TMZ Sports activities the choice ought to have been made YEARS in the past.
Brennaman — who known as most of Rose’s memorable moments in a Cincinnati uniform — did not make many bones about it throughout a sit-down with us the day after Rob Manfred lifted Rose’s lifetime ban … explaining, “I just felt he had served his jail time, if you will, far longer than he really should have had to do it.”
“And,” Brennaman added, “the fact they rushed to make him eligible within in a matter of months to me was the wrong way to go about doing business.”
Rose, after all, was barred completely again in 1989 … after he had wager on video games throughout his time as Reds supervisor. Within the ensuing years, he and his household had petitioned quite a few instances to attempt to get the punishment lifted.
Brennaman made it clear that whereas he was blissful it is lastly achieved, he wished Manfred would have simply taken care of it whereas Rose was nonetheless alive.
“I’m just trying to reconcile in my own mind why they waited as long as they did,” he informed us.
Nonetheless, Brennaman stated he is positive Rose’s household and mates are “probably jubilant” … though a plaque in Cooperstown nonetheless could possibly be a methods away — because the Corridor of Fame stated Tuesday Rose will not be eligible for enshrinement till 2027.
