Is It Time To Get Off Charlie Hustle’s Case? (POLL)

CBS Sports columnist Gregg Doyel thinks so, and it’s because Pete Rose’s exile doesn’t match up with the penalties for repeat-offending PED users. As reports suggest Alex Rodriguez may not receive a lifetime ban, Doyel points to another famous user:

[Rose] gambled on the game, I know — and has paid enormously for that. He has been banned from baseball for 24 years, spending nearly a quarter of a century as a warning to everyone else in baseball. He has been humiliated, ostracized, prevented from earning a handsome living as a manager or front-office executive…

Meanwhile, Mark McGwire has been a big-league batting coach since 2010. Same guy who made a mockery of Maris and Ruth. Same guy who lied for years about his steroid use until the evidence was just too mountainous to lie anymore. He’s back in the game. Hell, he never had to leave. He’s the hitting coach for the Dodgers now, and every year he’s on the ballot for the Hall of Fame.

So should Pete Rose be forgiven? Or does he deserve his lifetime exile?

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