Gambling is a crime? Does Gary Bettman and the NHL know this? The NHL is embracing sports betting. Perhap you should call him and warn him about the criminal elements.Gambling is a crime much worse than cheating. You are now bringing a criminal element into the game. The biggest scandal in the history of baseball is the Black Sox. Gamblers got involved and we know what happened. MLB will do whatever it has to to avoid anything like that again. Rose bet on his own team, but what if he was in over his head and some gamblers threatened him unless he threw some games. It can be a slippery slope. That is why he will never get in.
Question, if they took away the Astros WS, would you agree that Rose should stay out?
Anyways, simply throwing together a bunch of hypothetical what-ifs is not the way to build an argument.
BD