Pete Rose has been banned from Major League Baseball for more than 25 years now. I think there is one very simple reason why the all-time hits leader {4,256 for his career} hasn't been let back into the game. America is known as the "land of second chances," and, if Rose had come clean to Bart Giamatti – admitting that he committed the number one sports sin by betting on his sport – he would've ended up serving something like a 10 year ban.

So it turns out that something that we are usually taught before age five would've helped Rose in his adult years. I believe the upholding of Rose's ban by current MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred is a tip of the cap to Giamatti.

Rose will end up going the same route as Shoeless Joe Jackson. He will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame long after he is dead--all because he chose to be un-American by holding onto a lie.