Longtime Cincinnati Reds announcer Marty Brennaman ripped Major League Baseball for their timing on their decision to reinstate Pete Rose from the permanently ineligible.

Commissioner Rob Manfred’s decision Tuesday to remove Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, among others, from baseball’s permanently ineligible list was a requisite first step toward these two legends of the game potentially being enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.