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