Quote Originally Posted by Kirby101 View Post
The reason it is different is because Baseball had no formalized rules for this type of cheating, and Manfred gave the players immunity if they talked. Every club house had the rule that gambling on baseball meant being banned for life when Rose did it.

I am not saying one is worse than the other.
Not formalized, but they had been direct that there would be punishments.

Their biggest mistake was giving the players immunity. Now, rather than the player's union looking like the bad guys, the league does. They should've started a mini civil war in the union, that was their best route to solve this issue.