Not really news…but it’s in the paper

From today’s Enquirer: ST. LOUIS – Twelve years later, baseball commissioner Bud Selig still is examining Pete Rose’s application for reinstatement. The career hits leader agreed to a lifetime ban from baseball in 1989 after an investigation concluded he bet on the Cincinnati Reds to win while he was manager of the team. Rose applied for reinstatement in September 1997 and met with Selig in November 2002. His effort to gain reinstatement appeared to falter after he admitted in his 2004 autobiography, “Pete Rose: My Prison Without Bars,” that his previous gambling denials were false. “It is under review,” Selig said Tuesday during a question-and-answer session with the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. “He did, as you know, accept voluntarily a lifetime suspension from Bart Giamatti, and there really isn’t much more I can say about that. I did agree to review it. It is under review. We do spend some time discussing it. But it’s not I think approp...