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Pete Rose: Kobe Bryant's death put Astros' sign-stealing scandal on back-burner

Former Big Red Machine great and Hit King Pete Rose isn't done talking about the Houston Astros' sign-stealing scandal, suggesting Thursday to Fox Business' Stuart Varney that betting on your own team to win - as Rose insists he did before he was banned from baseball in 1989 - is not as egregious as sign-stealing or steroid use. And the Reds Hall of Famer said he believes the scandal will get uglier.

"I'm not sure what the commissioner can do but I'm sure when they get to Spring Training, a lot more is going to come out because there's gonna be some players that point the finger at this guy because he's mad because that team traded him, or this guy because this guy took his place," Rose told Varney.