If Braun only got 65 games, why is Pete Rose still banned for life?

Over the last 24 hours since posting my last blog about the Ryan Braun suspension, I've had one thought and

one thought only that keeps coming back through my mind over and over again. Why is it that Braun, who now has multiple times cheated the game of baseball, only gets suspended from baseball for 65 games and yet Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson are still banned from baseball forever. Now I know Shoeless Joe is dead. But shouldn't he be reinstated and put into the Hall of Fame?

Shoeless Joe Jackson played for the Cleveland Naps from 1911 to 1915 and the Chicago White Sox from 1915 to 1921. He still holds the record for the highest batting average by a rookie when he hit .408 in 1911. He batted .340 or better for eight seasons. In 1919, the White Sox faced off against the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series. Back then the series was a best of nine. The Sox, considered by some to be the best team in baseball history, lost to the Reds five games to three. Jackson hit a Series best .351 with a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage. In 1921, Jackson along with eight of his teammates were acquited by a Chicago jury of throwing the 1919 World Series. However the first ever Commissioner of Baseball, Kennisaw Landis, said that the ruling wasn't right and banned all eight players from baseball for life. Jackson was considered illiterate. He didn't know how to read or write. He was included in the ban because he had placed an X on the paper that the other seven players signed that stated they would throw the game for gamblers. But most people have argued that Jackson's play was proof that he never tried to lose. To this day, 92 years later, Jackson is still banned from baseball.

Pete Rose played from 1963 to 1986 with the Cincinnati Reds, Montreal Expos, and Philadelphia Phillies.

He was one of the last player managers as he managed the Reds while playing from 1984 to 1986 then continued to mange the team until 1989. He holds the record for most hits in a career with 4,256 hits. He had a career batting average of .303 with 1,314 RBI. He made the All Star team 17 times, won the Rookie Of The Year in 1963 and won the National League MVP in 1973. While as a manager, Rose was found to be gambling on baseball. It was discovered that Rose was betting on his team...to win. That's right. He would place bets that his Cincinnati Reds team would win ballgames. He was banned from baseball for life.

So I don't get this. Jackson played his rear end off in the 1919 World Series, yet he gets a lifetime ban. Pete Rose bet on his team to win, meaning he never altered his managing style to fix the outcome of a game yet he gets a lifetime ban. How is it then that Ryan Braun only got 65 games when he literally cheated the game? Rose and Jackson didn't cheat. Braun did. If Bud Selig is only going to suspend Ryan Braun for the remainder of the 2013 season, then he needs to reinstate Joe Jackson and Pete Rose and both need to be immediately inducted into Cooperstown. It's not right to the memory of Jackson or to Pete Rose that a real cheater in Ryan Braun can get away with cheating baseball and they have to continue serving lifetime bans for lesser crimes. Come on Bud Selig...do the right thing.