Reds Corridor of Famer Marty Brennaman Rips MLB For Timing Of Pete Rose Choice

Longtime Reds announcer Marty Brennaman is thrilled Pete Rose is now eligible for the Hall of Fame — nonetheless he admits he’s nonetheless acquired a bone to pick with Most important League Baseball … telling TMZ Sports activities actions the selection must have been made YEARS previously.

Brennaman — who often known as most of Rose’s memorable moments in a Cincinnati uniform — didn’t make many bones about it all through a sit-down with us the day after Rob Manfred lifted Rose’s lifetime ban … explaining, “I merely felt he had served his jail time, for those who’ll, far longer than he truly must have wanted to do it.”

“And,” Brennaman added, “the precise reality they rushed to make him eligible inside in a matter of months to me was the improper strategy to go about doing enterprise.”

Rose, in spite of everything, was barred fully once more in 1989 … after he had wager on video video games all through his time as Reds supervisor. Throughout the ensuing years, he and his family had petitioned fairly a couple of cases to try to get the punishment lifted.

Brennaman made it clear that whereas he was fully blissful it’s lastly achieved, he wished Manfred would have merely taken care of it whereas Rose was nonetheless alive.

“I’m merely attempting to reconcile in my very personal ideas why they waited as long as they did,” he knowledgeable us.