Longtime Cincinnati Reds announcer Marty Brennaman ripped Major League Baseball for their timing on their decision to reinstate Pete Rose from the permanently ineligible.

Pete Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson are now both eligible for baseball's Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by sports gambling scandals.

Pete Rose's reinstatement by MLB surely clears a path for other players, like Barry Bonds, to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. But what if neither of them is enshrined?