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Message: [QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 5279753, member: 1026"] Bottom line to me is the HOF is a museum, yes some symbolic meaning but that continues to erode with various admissions, baseball stats are nowhere near as meaningful any more and various other subjective issues. Lifetime ban eligible after death seems more than enough punishment for gambling (which is now way more popular/acceptable). Sure there's an element of generating stories, publicity and interest but that's kind of the purpose of the sport, the museum and/or baseball governance - increase interest in baseball. If nothing else the new debate over posthumous HOF eligibility is more interesting than the tired debate over the Pete Rose ban that had persisted since the 80's! [/QUOTE]