underneath veterans stadium in philadelphia just to tell kevin ward how proud he was. ward told me, the quoecoach kned never give up, and that was the part of him that was out with me on that major league field. and ward, having played sports from the sand lot to professional level regards mike pettine as his greatest coach. today, more than three decades later, i can picture him, standing on the practice field, behind cb west in his trademark baseball cap with wide, frameless winses, whistle around neck, clipboard in his hand, yelling things like, get him out of here! or who can t go! who can t go! that he notched 326 wins is astounding, but his life shouldn t reduced to even those impressive numbers. instead, it will be perpetuated by the many young men that he coached. still to come, your best and worst tweets, like this.
nicuaragua. they invest billions in countries where performance enhancing drugs are legal and available over the counter. what do we anticipate with a-rod today? we anticipate a-rod to appeal the suspension. he just turned 38 years old. if he repeals he gets another month to play and remind fans why they fell in love with him or i should do air quotes, fell in love with him. he s never been the most lovable of players. the risk is if he loses the appeal and that s highly probable that means he doesn t get to go back on a major league field, 2014, the year he turns 40. he s suggests they re going after him because they don t
to come back? i m going to focus on the positive. obviously, that situation i can t calm it down at the moment, but i m looking forward to coming back to new york. i feel like i owe the yankee fan base my a-game. i don t think they had that last year. ted keith is the baseball editor for si.com. so, your prediction, will a-rod be back on the field, a major league field on monday? i think he ll be back. he said he was coming back this time and the yankees agreed with him. he first said he was going to start playing again and the yankees said, no, you re not. more colorfully than that. he ll be back. i don t know how much of a difference he ll make. certainly an improvement over the third baseman they had, but expecting him to be the all-star player that they had is unlikely. batting .179 in the minors, can he really return to like
gathering more details, susan candiotti is inside and as soon as we get more information on what s going on we ll share it of course with you. here is what else we re working on this hour. just awhile ago president obama spoke out about his health care law. missing from his remarks once again today, reactions by the way to the zimmerman verdict. also, alex rodriguez says he will be back on a major league field next week for his first game of the season and a dark cloud certainly hangs over his legacy. we have a rare interview with a yankee player coming up. and you re being tracked by more than just your smartphone. that s right. when you get into your car and pull out of your driveway, police potentially could be snapping pictures of your license plate.
well. i also need to point out, if i may, congressman richmond, you were the mvp of the congressional baseball game. well-deserved by the way. there has been some suggestion you were tough on your counterpart there. what happened between you two in that game? starting around the seventh inning, i guess the heat was getting to me. i didn t have as much control as i used to have in the first couple of innings, so things kind of got away in that last inning. i will tell you that we raised a significant amount of money for the literacy council and boys and girls club. i want to thank both of those and the national league organization for letting us play on a major league field. that s what makes this country great. we come together in times when we have to to help the next generation, to help those less fortunate. that s the type of spirit we will need to get through this by august 2nd. i m still optimistic. i think the president is bending