So, if you have read my blog for awhile, you know I love Pete Rose.  Sure, I think he isn’t a great man, and I think he made some terrible mistakes, the biggest of which was lying about all the other things he has done wrong.  I think, 20 years from now, we might be saying some of the very same things about Roger Clemens.  Still, Rose was one of the best players I have ever gotten to watch play… and he loved this game.  Again, if you have been reading me for a while you also know that I lay much of the blame for the steroid scandal at the feet of MLB, much more than at any one individual player.  They allowed the don’t ask, don’t tell culture to exist that lead to many players thinking it was all right to use something, anything, that might keep them on the field, in the game, drawing fans to buy tickets.  Well, the story in the Daily News yesterday and Peter Botte story today show how MLB says one thing but does another. If this ticker exists in the Vistor’s clubhouse, it must also exist in the Home teams clubhouse, why would the Yankees have separate feeds coming into the stadium.  Sure, the point the team makes is that info is available in every newspaper, but for years certain performance enhancing drugs were available at your local GNC too.  (That changed when many herbal supplements came under the regulation of the FDA in 2000.)  What is the signal that you are sending with that, even if right next to the ticker is the sign saying MLB will ban you for life if you bet.  Who is reading the black and white sign when the colored lighted sign is scrolling above it?  Do I think we should be up in arms about such a thing?  No.  But I think we should look at how MLB and individual teams handles such issues when it comes down to the big ones.  Are they walking the walk, when they talk the talk?