you re like, what? you just don t believe it is true. reporter: so for now bill, lion watch 2015 well and truly underway. pretty much every news station in the l.a. area is up here with a camera. we ll want to see when p-22, or griffey, p-22 is such unpersonal name comes out. bill: if it is 500 jonathan and he is still there what is strategy for encouraging him to be get out of there? reporter: they hope he will quietly decide to up and leave and take off. they tried more aggressive methods. went in there, poking him with a long pole. they fired some tennis balls in. they fired beanbags at him. nothing would budge our dear griffey at that point. part of the problem, according to fish and wildlife workers, we re here. who wants to come out and find a whole bunch of reporters standing outside of their
wanted a little peace and quiet. he wanted everybody to go away, including us pesky reporters. then they believe in the dead of night when he knew it was quiet and we had all gone that s when he came out. two fish and wildlife workers went into that crawl space this morning. they crawled in on their hands and knees. they had a telemetry pole. they did a visual check and griffey was gone. i asked one of the guys who was a very big guy were you carrying a tranquilizer gun when you went in there? he said, no. showed me his huge meaty hands and said i ve got these two hands. if i can hand mile kids, i can handle a mountain lion. a braver man than me. i imagine a cat food commercials, cans of fancy feast. my photographer and i thought about going down to the local butcher getting a few big
i want to say something before i ask you a question. i ll not very shocked by a rod. a rod was not very loved to the fans. he was number two to griffey. more people remember him for the 2004, the worst moment in world series history where he tried to slap bronson arroyo s arm. we put this onus on a rod, a rod, a rod. he was supposed to be the best ever. i don t think anyone ever grew up loving a rod. what about the other all stars that are involved in this? johnny peralta, nelson cruz? this on the back of ryan braun s suspension for the rest of the year, cabrera from the padres. are we not paying enough attention with all of these all-stars getting in trouble with this biogenesis clinic that baseball is not nearly as clean
jenna: you don t think he should get the honor? how do we know how many are with the steroids or weren t? even he said when he was with texas he took them on and off and hit 156 home runs there. how many would he have hit without em? to me you put him in the bonds category and sosa s category. they re over here. but the good guys like aaron and ruth and mays and griffey, they re legitimate home run hitters. jenna: we ve heard that expression there s no crying in baseball. there s no asterisk either. well, that s true, but the fans know. some people say, well, how do we know it s steroids? hey, look, 54 home runs in 2007, and they started to crack down, george mitchell s investigation. since then 35, 30, now he s only at 17 homers. he s only hitting .264, it s not like he s having a great year. jenna: he hasn t necessarily been a player that performs well
see what s going on so i can, you know, do some rehab and get back at it. now, when he pulled out of that tournament on sunday, the conspiracy theorists suggested some of them perhaps there was a link to the car accident, as you remember, thanksgiving. so somebody asked him about it. tiger, at the masters, you mentioned that after the accident you had a sore neck. is there a connection, or is there zero connection. absolutely zero. it started my neck started bothering me when i really started to practice a lot. he said he didn t feel the neck pain until two weeks before the masters. completely unrelated to the car accident. put that to bed. when you have a car accident, sometimes you don t feel it for a while. that s right. it may it may be six months later. so you d better wear a neck brace. you just never know. even just a little five-mile-an-hour rear ender. it happens. a great story out of seattle. check out the front page of the seattle times. what to d