Pete Rose: A-Rod shouldn’t get cheated out of Hall of Fame

While Sir Lord Greasy of JustBetSuckers still has it at 8 to 1.

Rose was inconsistent and erratic during a radio interview on “The Dan Patrick Show.” Despite saying that A-Rod should be in Cooperstown, Rose said he believes that taking steroids is a worse transgression than a manager betting on his baseball team because juicing can have a direct impact on the outcome of a game. “That’s integrity of the game,” he said.

Rose also said that Manny Ramirez should not get into the Hall. Ramirez is serving a 50-game suspension for for taking hCG, a female fertility drug frequently used to counteract effects of steroids.

...Adding to his contradictions, Rose said that he thought Hank Aaron was upset about Bonds breaking his home run record. “Hank was probably (ticked),” Rose said. “He just didn’t show it.”

Saying that baseball records are “sacred,” Rose conceded that there is no way to put an asterisk on the players who have been tied to steroid use.

“I don’t see how you can do it because we don’t know how many guys are really doing it,” he said. “Are you going to do it for one year, two years, three years, four years?

“With Bonds, how many home runs are you going to take away from him? That’s a tough situation for the commissioner. ... It’s a mess.”