rodriguez? i said for many years. things spiraled out of control in the late the 1990s. 2000 era. it s sad. alex was a great talent. i can t speak for what he s done, on a day like today i want to keep it all positive and today i hope baseball does what s right. as for him, personally i can t say anything. i basically haven t competed against him in such a long time. i know the type player he was. so, alex rodriguez and his team will take their fight to the federal level. again, they re going to ask a judge for a federal injunction to allow rodriguez to keep playing baseball while he keeping legally trying to fight to clear his name. as you know, during the whole arbitration, a process which started in, what, in august, once that decision was initially handed down, rodriguez was allowed to keep playing. he wants to keep playing once again while he takes his fight to the federal level. something that s interesting, fredricka, we got also from the
major league baseball s player association. this is the union basically that represents all the players. players like alex rod krieg ez. one section reez, we recognize a final and binding decision has been reached. well, i think there s no argument from anyone that a decision has been reached, but from the rodriguez camp, it is by no means final and they will continue to fight. so i wonder, jason, would we ever get an explanation from the arbitration panel that would explain how they see a difference between the 211-game suspension versus the 162-game suspension when we re talking, you know, about a whole year you wouldn t play bp with 211, just bailey over a whole year you wouldn t play? what would be 9 explanation, the difference? i think what we might end up seeing here eventually is some sort of explanation in terms of how fred horowitz, the arbitrate. baseball s chief negotiator who oversaw this entire arbitration process. i think what we will end up