abolishing guaranteed contracts in the 2016 bargaining rounds. he s trying to point to that. instituting lifetime bans for single violations of drug policy, further insinuating its corrupt investigation program from any variety of defense by accused players, any variety of objective review. now he s criticizing the process there. he s really taking a shot at three different things that he wants to point out as being wrong with major league baseball, wrong with his teal maybe, to take away from the idea that, hey, did alex rodriguez use drugs that he wasn t supposed to. i did talk to many other players around the league. some of them do have concerns, these larger issues with is baseball overstepping its bounds in cases like this. so it is a smart tactic of alex to try to gather support. however, those same players that i ve spoken to don t want their cause tied up with alex rodrigu rodriguez. they feel like this is a separate issue. i do have to thoet for you guys. you mention that
alex rodriguez. we now know he s going to be sitting out the 2014 season after losing an appeal over his record setting drug suspension. 162 games, to be exact, this season. can t play in any post-season playoff games either. rodriguez denies the drug use alleged in the investigation though and the thing is, he says i m going to keep fighting this. cnn s sports rachel nichols has more on the story from charlotte, north carolina. i know a-rod has claimed in the past the yankees aren t behind him on this because they want to get out of giving him that huge paycheck for the season. what more do you know about that? reporter: well, this is a tactic. look. alex rodriguez s legal team has clearly decided in the past few months that the best defense is a good offense so they are trying to make this into a larger issue, really trying to make this about anything that is not did alex rodriguez let someone inject him with steroids. take a look at the statement that he released here. this inj
rodrigu rodriguez. i like bud selig. the first time the guy used drugs, he broke the rules. he got caught. then he said he wouldn t do it again. then he got caught doing it again. he tried to cover it up and now he s finally caught and appealing. why would you take his side? why would anybody take his side unless they were a union shop steward. in this case, that s the case. does anybody who s objective take his side? it s not a matter of taking rodriguez side. he is due rights. he was not going to take the medicine that major league baseball was doling out, swallow it and in essence ending his career. you don t think he s coming out after being out of baseball for two years and say you know what, i ll take my $61 million and go home. in all due respect to bud selig and the owners, baseball profited during the years of barry bonds and sammy sosa. but they cheated. absolutely they cheated. but everyone made money off of that will era. it started to become an issue
some people disregarded the idea that it would be an embassy that embassies are relatively hard to attack, that it could be a consulate, a small outpost or an airport, an airline. this is a creative group, a group that although it might be difficult is considering actively how to put a bomb in someone s body. it is putting figuring out how to insert one inside of a pet. this is not the group that would only just look at obvious targets like an embassy or consulate. amazing story. thank you so much. richard engel and evan kom man. coming up, a fallen star totally different star. major league baseball has suspended alex rodriguez. a-rod of the yankees for this season. up next, he s the biggest name yet to go down in major league baseball s effort to rid the game of can steroids. but the story doesn t end there. also, if there s one republican democrats would love to knock off next year, it s mitch
are fans quite upset with alex rodriguez and this steroid era. but i go back to my previous point. i think baseball profited. home runs were up. runs per game were up. baseball somewhere? 98, the sport was rejuvenated. i think there was a time where baseball fans looked at the record books and cherished those records. unrnl to, the steroid era oh blitz rated that record book. i think more often than not a lot of people look at peds and say it s a sign of the times. there s too much money to be made. if i m an athlete, i might look for an advantage. not saying that i would do it, but people go out and say if i can go out there and become a $10 million or $11 million a year dollar player, you know what? i might go do that. mark, the way to promote more home runs. you narrow the strike zone. you shrink the strike zone. make it tough on the pitchers. bring in the outfield run walls if you want more home runs. you re making it sound like