Reds HOFer Marty Brennaman
Rips Main League Baseball
Ticked Over Timing Of Rose Resolution
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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 acquired 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 referred to 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 simply felt he had served his jail time, if you’ll, far longer than he actually ought to have needed to do it.”
“And,” Brennaman added, “the actual fact they rushed to make him eligible inside in a matter of months to me was the fallacious solution to go about doing enterprise.”
Rose, after all, was barred completely again in 1989 … after he had guess on video games throughout his time as Reds supervisor. Within the ensuing years, he and his household had petitioned quite a few occasions to attempt to get the punishment lifted.
Brennaman made it clear that whereas he was comfortable it is lastly executed, he wished Manfred would have simply taken care of it whereas Rose was nonetheless alive.
“I am simply attempting to reconcile in my very own thoughts why they waited so long as they did,” he instructed us.
Nonetheless, Brennaman mentioned he is certain Rose’s household and associates are “in all probability jubilant” … though a plaque in Cooperstown nonetheless may very well be a methods away — because the Corridor of Fame mentioned Tuesday Rose will not be eligible for enshrinement till 2027.