People, people, people. How many times do we need to go over this? It seems that every time we have another steroids revelation and talk turns to how that affects the player's Hall of Fame qualifications, all of the Pete Rose people come out of the woodwork to say that Pete should get in if the Steroids Guys are in.A whole batch of them came out in the comments for this post about Sammy Sosa's Hall of Fame chances.
What many people fail to realize is that the rule Rose broke is more important to baseball than any rule about steroid use.
I don't know if you know this or not, but since he's commissioner of Major League Baseball, 
