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Originally Posted by markf31
The rule is and was pretty clear:
Rule 21(d)(2). Any player, umpire, or club or league official or employee, who shall bet any sum whatsoever upon any baseball game in connection with which the bettor has a duty to perform shall be declared permanently ineligible.
Permanently ineligible. Period. Full Stop.
The rule does not differentiate between betting for your own team or against your own team so any arguments based on that have no merit.
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This is by far the most accurate comment...
Also, being banned by baseball and being ineligible for induction into the HOF are linked, but only by a rule of the HOF. Should the HOF want to eliminate that rule, it is their prerogative. Then it would be strictly up to the voters, just as the PED users are being considered.