all-star career. and his new memoir aptly titled hang time, my life in baseball which comes out this week. take a listen. it s quite a book. in the early part of it you talk about riding on a plane with jerry west. you re both on the way to d.c. he says to you, you need a statue. you should have a statue. you say, i don t need that. over the course of that you say, no, it wouldn t be bad at all. you are a very humble man. you re not somebody who s prone to bragging but if you could put into words, what does it mean to you to have this city, to have this arena honor you with a statue of your own? just wonderful, you know? really, it s a surprise to me. i didn t know people felt that way. but i thought it was the enjoyment of playing the basketball game. this is part of my life. you know, i m very tankful.
dodged those questions. we will have a forum to discuss all of that and we will talk about it then. reporter: well, under the rules and regulation, rodriguez is allowed to keep playing while he appeals, but his all-star career forever tainted as well as the world of baseball. chris? appreciate the reporting from there, jason. what does this mean for a-rod and for major league baseball? let s bring in rachel nichols joining us from rochester, new york. let s go through the punch points here. in perspective terms, what did yesterday mean historically for major league baseball? yeah, this is a big step forward for major league baseball. it basically told players we will find you. we don t need a positive test any more. we will find you if you are doing something wrong, we are not going to sit and wait around. we are going to begrap aggressi.