Longtime Reds announcer slams MLB for 'wrong' timing on Pete Rose Hall of Fame eligibility

Longtime Cincinnati Reds announcer Marty Brennaman expressed his frustration with Major League Baseball’s (MLB's) timing of the removal of Pete Rose from the permanently ineligible list. 

Brennaman, 82, who announced Reds games from 1974-2019, said for MLB to make Rose eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame just months after his death was "the wrong way to go."

"I just felt that he had served his jail time, if you will, far longer than he really should’ve had to do it. And the fact...