Marty Brennaman makes the MLB's decision to reset Pete Rose after his death

The long -time Reds broadcaster Marty Brennaman questioned Major League Baseball's timing in order to reset Pete Rose, and did only months after Rose's death.

The MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced at the beginning of this week that Rose together with 16 other players would be excluded on the permanent inadmissible list.

While Brennaman, who was called from 1974 until his retirement by Reds Games in 2019, is happy to see that Rose was an option for the Baseball Hall of Fame, he wanted it to have happened while the red greats were still alive.

“I'm just trying to reconcile in my head why they waited as long as they were,” said Brennnaman during an interview with TMZ. “And then, within a few months after Pete's death in September, they now come out and announce in a large way that they have lifted the suspension and made him and 'Shoes' Joe Jackson.

“I only had the feeling that he had served his prison time if they were supposed to do it longer than he really should have done. And the fact that they had justified him within a few months was the wrong way to do business for me.”

The news has inspired Reds fans and Roses family members since they were announced on Tuesday.

The decision was made after a long lobbying from Roses lawyer Jeffrey Lenkov and a seat between Manfred, Lenkov, Roses daughter Fawn and the MLB chief Communications Officer Pat Courtney in December.

Rose seemed too aware that he would probably only undo his exile through baseball after his death, said Brennnaman.

“He had reached the fact that it would only happen after his death,” added Brennnaman. “He also said to a number of different people. He obviously wanted it to happen while he could enjoy it. At the same time, he made the comment that it was more for the family than anyone else.

“So he obviously thought of his children and improved the legacy, which was sometimes very, very cloudy, we all know.”

Rose's son Pete Jr. During a special Ballfield engagement in the district of Sedamsville in Cincinnati on Wednesday, reproduced in a special Ballfield dedication in Sedamsville.

“That is the thing. You made a decision that was great. But it won't bring back,” said Pete Jr. to Cincinnati Enquirer.

“It is the part of the human element in which I still process when I don't have a father. It's not even a year,” he continued. “I understand what kind of size, what kind of player he was, but we talk about dad.

“And that's the most difficult.”