There is a big news coming for Pete Rose.

According to a written statement, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has promised to decide by the end of the month. That’s less than a month of waiting whether Santa would be so generous that Rose will find a reinstatement letter on a red Christmas sock he hang on his wall or he and his lawyers will just have to keep on trying.

Even if the old Charlie Hustle is giving Manfred those puppy eyes, nobody at MLB is suggesting at which way the commissioner is leaning and many believes that there is no reason Manfred will do what his mentor/predecessor Bud Selig didn’t do from 1992-2015 and that’s lifting Rose’s ban for 20 years.

But hey there may be a bit if chance as Manfred may be the most open-minded MLB commissioner. Manfred during an interview with ESPN said that he wanted to have a sports betting discussion with team owners. That is after the fact that baseball really hates gambling.