Short and simple: when all else fails, say you're sorry so you can give a rebirth to your dead career.

Pete Rose has come clean too many years too late. It really isn't the question that he was a gambling man, or that he gambled on baseball, or that he even bet on his own team. History has already judged him. Rose finally comes clean after the media haunts and sports goons have completed their feeding frenzy, when it is finally safe to say the truth in the hopes that a seat in Cooperstown will be readied for him.

And he isn't even sorry.

Perhaps in retrospect, Pete Rose would have been in a far better position today if he had originally come clean and shown remorse. Who can say he would be a Hall of Famer given the past? All I can be positive of is that I am against Rose's endorsement. His 'wish to show personal ethics' is a publicity stunt, and does not warrant any good deeds by the fans, the general public, or Major League Baseball. His autobiography should collect dust on the shelves, and his name should serve as a warning to others who may follow in his footsteps. The Hall of Fame should be reserved to those who celebrate the game, the history, the magic, and the ethics of good sportsmanship, and not for a star baseball player who corrupts the game as he sees fit.

The truth spoken by good 'ol Pete should simply seal his fate where it lies now: on the wayside, full of memories of glory and shame.