Reds Hall of Famer Marty Brennaman Rips MLB For Timing Of Pete Rose Selection

Reds HOFer Marty Brennaman
Rips Essential League Baseball
Ticked Over Timing Of Rose Selection

Revealed May 15, 2025 12:30 AM PDT

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 Essential League Baseball … telling TMZ Sports activities actions the selection should have been made YEARS up to now.

Brennaman — who referred to 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, if you happen to’ll, far longer than he truly should have wanted to do it.”

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

Rose, in spite of everything, was barred utterly 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 number of cases to try to get the punishment lifted.

Brennaman made it clear that whereas he was utterly completely happy 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.

Nonetheless, Brennaman talked about he’s sure Rose’s family and associates are “most probably jubilant” … although a plaque in Cooperstown nonetheless is perhaps a strategies away — as a result of the Hall of Fame talked about Tuesday Rose is not going to be eligible for enshrinement until 2027.