Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It's Wednesday, May 14th.

Derek Benriper, Enoceris here with you on this episode.

We have some deep dive Astros talk later on in the show.

Chan the Rome of the Athletic will join us for that, cover a lot of ground with him.

The team kind of in the middle right now that needs to do a few things better in order to

become clear-cut buyers as the trade deadline approaches in two and a half months.

But tons of baseball news because just after we hung up with Joe Sheehan on our Tuesday episode, we received the press release that surprised many folks in the baseball world.

Less so given recent events than it probably would have had this come down even six months ago.

But Commissioner Rob Manfred reinstated Pete Rose, shoeless Joe Jackson, and 15 other players from Major League Baseball's permanently ineligible list.

And to be perfectly blunt, Eno, there is no topic in baseball I enjoy

talking about and reading about less than Pete Rose. And I think it's because my mind has been

clearly made up. It's very simple for me. Pete Rose bet on baseball as a manager. And that's

the rule that you can't break in baseball.

So to reinstate him even after his death seems like a very bad decision from Rob Manfred, point blank.

And that doesn't even dig into anything else we've learned in the time since that ban came down more than 30 years ago about Pete Rose's life.

In those details, right, allegations of a sexual relationship with a minor, like that

makes him irredeemable to me.

I don't want to show grace to a person with those allegations.

So it's a non-starter for me, and it leads to a bunch of other questions, like, well, why would Manfred do this?

What's in it for him?

And people are asking now, does Pete Rose get a chance to go to the Hall of Fame?

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