John Dowd is the former Major League Baseball investigator who bought down Pete Rose in 1989, and more than a half-century later he's clearly no fan at all of baseball's banned hit king.
Dowd trumpeted commissioner Rob Manfred's decision Monday not to lift Rose's lifetime ban for betting on baseball.
"Well, I thought the decision was right on the money, and it was done in a very honest, fair way ... the way those things ought to be done," Dowd said in a call-in interview with the MLB Network. "And I'm very proud of the commissioner for protecting the game and the integrity of the game.