lets a make a teal. and we have doors number 2 and 3. baseball commissioner bud selig and alex rodriguez could use a little help from monty hall. let s make a deal. a throw back to a show. that s exactly what a rod might be stuck doing. here s his choice, strike a deal for a suspension that could last until he s nearly 40 or mlb will move to ban him for life. in this week s sports illustrated cover, in the last days of a rod, the yankee slugger said, quote, i m not giving up. i have tremendous faith. hopefully there s a couple more chapters in this book. i have faith. perhaps faith in arbitration. b.j.schecter is executive editor for sports illustrated. thanks for coming on the program. thanks for having me.
rap concert. the whole crowd stood up to them. is it good for them to become quasi celebrities in the public eye? what s the pattern for them? high profile case. how do they find that normal balance in life and is it just best to get away or is it best to go out in front of the public view? i think that is a good question, luke, and i think that s something that they re going to have to deal with. realize, it s only been three months since these women were released and there may be something on the surface that allows them to go out and wave and say hi to people or something like this, but, luke, there are emotional chains that are stronger than any steel chains this man could have put around their ankles as he s chained them into a bedroom and these chains take a long time to the physical scars are going to disappear but the emotional scars, the ability for
i deserve to go to jail for life. that s what they should have heard and he took that away from them. clint, you make an important point there, that hopefully people can learn from it. crystal was talking about how the nation responds to looking at these criminal acts. the notion of coercion. it s a big topic. those are the things the law cares about a lot. as soon as an individual talks about the threat of violence. big difference between what the defendant castro is delusionally asking or how it works, last question, walk us through how this actual plea works because a lot of people think of these kind of crimes and they imagine a trial scene and we cover trials. we know about 97% of crimes are dealt with through the plea bargain process, not an actual trial. walk us through that piece of
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here is major league baseball seems to have evidence that alex rodriguez tried to tamper with the evidence, tried to get to witnesses and tried to, you know, tamper with the investigation. that is the big thing here. and that gives bud selig, the commissioner, powers in the best interests of the game, to take harsh action. this is his second offense but normally under the collective bargaining agreement we d be talking 100 game suspension. he has the power to suspend him for life. i don t think that ever will happen but it s a huge bargaining chip and i think that s why alex rodriguez s representatives are at the bargaining table right now. for those of us who have not followed this story very closely, ari mel ber, walk us through his options and what do you think based on what we know about him being very humble and all of that. what do you ultimately think he ll decide? he s kind of backed up