recently said the reds will have some latitude to celebrate rose when the allstar game takes place in cincinnati next year thats an encouraging crumb but more enduring forms of recognition are elusive now that rose is off the writers ballot would the expansion era committee ever deign to consider him and would enough hall of famers be outraged by his induction that they would boycott the ceremony or walk off the stage in july rose is still enough of a battler or a master of selfdelusion to believe in bestcase scenarios rob manfred who will succeed selig as commissioner early next year has a lot on his plate but manfred is not particularly burdened by history as selig is and rose clings to the hope that his case will get a fresh look in the spring and summer of 1989 roses son tyler often scurried around the clubhouse and the managers office as a 5yearold minime with spiked hair now tyler is 29 years old stands 6foot5 and helps out with petes autographsigning enterprises at the music store in vegas theyre surrounded by artifacts from the past such as a 15550 framed collage of the rat pack and a 10500 paul mccartney hofner bass guitar amid the smiles and signatures rose is trapped in a bizarre time warp in which he seeks forgiveness and a trace of a wisp of a presence but baseball studiously avoids him and the anniversary of his ban amplifies how little has changed giamatti famously told rose he needed to reconfigure his life twentyfive years later rose is still pleading his case and wondering aloud why hes the only person in the game who cant get a second chance as jerseys bats and balls go out the door hell always be pitching pete rose if i can make the hall of fame ill be the happiest guy in the world rose says but i dont go to bed at night worrying about the hall of fame i understand what it means and what it takes to get there but im the one who messed up why should i get mad at bart or bud selig baseball should give him a second chance rose contends because hes an attitudechanger and a master of outreach those messy loose ends notwithstanding the last thing in the world id do now is bet on baseball he says i would be the cleanest guy in the world when it comes to that because of the scrutiny i would go through you may think im crazy but i think baseball is in a better place if im in it