bud selig is the commissioner of a major sport and he's trying to clean the sport up. >> where was bud>> if there's no agreement with the union, you can't drug test. he was trying to get them to agree to it. >> i'm a little more cynical about what went on. in the late '90s, you had everybody loving sosa and maguire and the ballparks battling it out. a lot of people knew some fishy business was going on. >> is steroids worse? >> i think it's changed now. i think it's more hgh, things like a-rod was taking. hopefully this will deter other players from going down this road. >> i want to move on to another topic. boomer, i know this is in your wheel house. selection of the women's u.s. skating. america gets three spots in the sochi olympics. but instead of taking the top three skaters, they're giving one spot to the fourth place finisher, ashley wagner. that bumps the third place finisher out of the olympics. the rules are set up to do this, and the idea is that wagner, a former champion, just had a bad night. they're judging her more on the body of work. is this fair? >> a lot of teams ar

rodriguez filed a lawsuit against major league baseball and bud selig, saying, quote: >> frederick horowitz issued a gag order that seemed to be working, as rodriguez discovered, selig would not have to testify that day or any day. rodriguez stormed out. >> i lost my mine. i kicked a table and slammed a briefcase and went out of the room. i knew it was restricted, and i knew it wasn't fair, but what we saw today was disgusting. the fact that the man from milwaukee that put this suspension on me with not one bit of evidence, something that i didn't do, and he doesn't have the courage to come look at me in the eye and tell me this is why i did 211? i shouldn't serve one inning. >> with the arbitrators' ruling now in place, what is next for alex rodriguez? >> no that we have the opinion of the arbitrator, which he essentially split the desire of rodriguez and the baseball suspension, the arbitrator was trying to effect a decision that didn't appear that he was getting involved in the politics of these two parties. and i think that's something that will probably resolve this problem and get rid

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we called bud selig.er oath testimony pointed upstairs and said i didn't decide the 200 game punishment. it was bud selig. it was his decision. he was required to answer tough questions about his understanding of the collective bargaining agreement. how it came to 211 games. why 211 for him but for others who failed the drug test was 50 or 65 games. jenna: i'll talk about that but it doesn't alleviate some questions about your client. he didn't testify. >> because the proceeding was a sham. it was a farce. when bud selig wouldn't take the stand despite our request to call him, to answer the very tough questions under oath that he would be faced with, alex said i'm not participating in this charade any more. he left. he was scheduled to testify the next day. it was not even contemplated that bud selig would be blocked from testifying or the arbitrator would allow that. he was a vital witness. jenna: quick final question for you, joe. there have been other players associated with this scandal that have come

>> there is a fear agenda on behalf of major league baseball, particularly commissioner bud selig to make himself look tough on steroids. alex rodriguez is the easiest prey by far. there is a commissioner that turned a blind eye when bonds and sammy sosa were breaking records when everyone in their right mind knew they were taking steroids. their capsizes were tripling. it was okay for selig then. it increased the revenues for baseball and personal profit as owner of the milwaukee brewers. when the mitchell report comes, he has to become tough on steroids. the actions taken by major league baseball by alex rodriguez in this investigation are frightening. if i'm a major league baseball, i'm horrified by what went down. there was criminal conduct in an effort to try to get alex rodriguez. >> what i'm hearing from you and please correct me if i'm wrong, because this sounds terribly egregious that bud selig wants to take down an innocent man, that sounds prepos per rouse. >> if you know anything about bud selig, it wouldn't sound prepos per rouse. if you know anything about the evidence,

a-rod said it's a witch-hunt all along. >> i think what we make of timing is this is about bud selig.me 50 years as he said last night. he's about to retire. this is him spiking the football on the issue of i am tough on p.e.d.s. it was almost like they couldn't resist the brain trust at major league baseball. they couldn't be happy with just tagging alex rodriguez with the longest p.e.d. suspension in the history of major league baseball. had to be on "primetime" and "60 minutes" and had to get anthony bosh there in full makeup on his boat sunsets in the background. given the fall "60 minutes" had with benghazi report and report on the nsa and now this, this is ugly. >> i want to keep it focussed to bosh and a-rod. this is something else that continues to strike me. here's a guy, alex rodriguez, who has publicly, consistently, adamantly denied using these performance enhancing drugs. he'll say under oath i didn't do it. here's the explanation. >> he would open himself to be on a ride to prison on perjury charges. remember, for a lot of these steroid cases, some athletic icons thinkin

a-rod's lawyer firing back at mlb commissioner bud selig. >> when i see bud selig on national tv andension and makes me gag and makes players gag. first and foremost he has ability to make every television talk about alex. dennis: he couldn't testify. >> wouldn't raise his hand and take an oath. lori: a-rod still plans to report for spring training. dennis: in denial. shopping at your local farmer's market without ever leaving your sofa? a new website delivers locally sourced items right to your door. ashley and tracy talk to the founder of good eggs next hour of "fox biz." [ male announcer ] this is the story of the little room over the pizza place on chestnut street the modest first floor bedroom in tallinn, estonia and the southbound bus barreli down i-95. ♪ this magic moment it is the story of where every great idea begins. and of those who believed they had thpower to do more. dell is honored to be part of some of theorld's great stories. that began much the same way ours did in a little dorm room 2713. ♪ this magic moment ♪ tracy: happy monday, i'm tracy byrnes. ashley:there is

. >> well, baseball commissioner bud selig called, instant replay, only used to determine home run callsnd initiated by the umpires but starting this season, fan interference, force and tag plays, foul fair calls, and batters being hit by a pitch and baseball players will be provided with one challenge in the game and a second potential challenge if the first one is upheld. only that if a manager has used up all his challenges umpires would now be authorized to initiate a review on their own. tony russa, estimated that almost 90% of all potential calls are now reviewable. that's a good thing for major league baseball. i'm michael eaves and that's a look at sports. >> actor russell johnson passed away at the age of 89. johnson played villa answer, from films it came from outer space. >>> dave madden from the partridge family died. danny bonaduce posted on facebook, he taught me to drive a car when i was 10, one of my great memories. >>> an act of compassion is spreading the word about autism. the mother was so touched by the way a stranger treated her daughter, she decided to start a blog

publically with the yankees front office, handed a 211-game suspension in august by commissioner bud selig for his role in a sweeping doping investigation, despite never failing a test. the penalty was reduced on saturday, still the longest such punishment ever levied. >> the fact that he obstructed their investigation, in some ways blocked their path to finding all the truth in this whole matter, i think that's really what bud selig went after. >> for 20 years, rodriguez dominated baseball's lucrative and hot spotlight. >> number 500 for alex rodriguez! >> reporter: he cracked home runs with ease, dated stars, made for than $350 million. but controversies have tarnished his image and cost him huge, $25 million this upcoming season which has some fans crying foul. >> i think it's ridiculous. i think he's being used as a scapegoat. >> it's a sad day, because i'm a yankee fan, i've been a yankee fan, i'm an a-rod fan. >> now, a-rod's attorney is expected to seek that injunction in federal court on monday. the last one challenged in the courts was in 1976. erica, that one was unsuccessful. 19

that's mainly bud selig, an outgoing commissioner has been trying to protect his legacy and the legacy of the sport trying to eradicate steroids. i don't think they'll ever get rid of them. with advances of medical technology, they'll never get rid of them. but even if it's just putting on a show of trying to eradicate them, baseball has come a long way of doing that, and they're doing a very good job even if some of their methods were in the bio jenist case was a little under handed. >> in the majors and the minors, they face long suspensions. it's funny that people think they can still cheat the cup test. >> i think there is always going to be someone who thinks they can. the drugs are always going to be ahead of the test and there will always be players on the fringes, whether it's a triple-a who just can't get that major job, or a player who was tested last year and whose only shot back in is a little something tricky on the medical end. there will be always those players trying to do it because they don't have a whole lot to lose and the rewards as we've seen with the contracts ar

negotiating session when the baseball's chief arbitrator fredric horowitz ruled that the commissioner, bud selig, did not have to testify in person. >> i just -- i lost my mind. i kicked a briefcase and slammed it and ran out of the room. i knew the system was restricted and i knew it was not fair. >> reporter: the season-long suspension will cost rodriguez about $25 million, leaving him owed more than $60 million from the yankees. some say that collecting that money is at the heart of the battle, resulting in some testy exchanges with the yankees front office during this past season. the team says it respects the panel's decision this past season. >> it is not over, it is not going away, rodriguez's attorneys are defiant, he is defiant, they still feel he will play in 2014 and if they get an injunction, they've got a chance to still do that. >> reporter: at age 38, plagued by injuries and two hip surgeries, questions about whether rodriguez may have played his last game as a big leaguer have swirled since the season ended. >> he's being used as a scapegoat. >> it's a sad day. i've been a yankee

process, and he stormed out of the hearing last november after learning that baseball's commissioner bud seligestify that mlb used unethical tactics about the investigation. >> i exploded and i overreacted and it came from the heart. this is a very difficult process. >> reporter: in all 13 players were suspended last year after mlb found they had used p.e.d.s obtained from the now defunct biogenesis clinic in florida. all suspended for 50 games except for milwaukee's ryan braun who received a 65-game ban. and most fans, if not all saying, that it is justified. >> how do you hand that out to one person and not give it to all of the other people the same way, and if you talk about just a-rod, it is too harsh. >> i think it is not too harsh. no doping in baseball. it is america's pastime. >> reporter: frank thomas inducted into the baseball hall of fame called the rodriguez' s suspension a sad day for the sport. >> reporter: what are your thoughts about what is going on with the alex rodriguez suspension this is. >> well, things spiraled out of control in the late '90s and 2000 era, and it is sad

bud selig didn't testify at the arbitration hearing but said the penalty fit the judgment. >> in my judgment his actions were beyond comprehension, and i'm somebody who's now been in the game over 50 years. >> in a statement following last night's broadcast rodriguez's lawyer said selig's and manfred's appearance on "60 minutes" put forth hubrisness and vindictiveness. >> marlie hall in new york. thank you very much. you can see all of it online at cbsnews.com. >>> minor damage is reported in puerto rico this morning following a powerful offshore earthquake. the quake measured 6.4 and struck just after midnight about 35 miles from the coast. buildings swayed in the capital of san juan some 60 miles from the epicenter. no injuries have been reported though. >>> and this morning it's still unclear when the residents of nine west virginia counties will be able to use their tap water. the water supply in the counties around charleston was tainted by a chemical spill thursday. officials say tests near the state's largest water plant are encouraging. some 300,000 residents are affected. >>> iran h

commissioner bud selig said it will change the game without disturbing it. >> in the past i could begame, get all the replays, and pat courtney, well, he deserved it, but anyway, could be sitting at the ballpark and he couldn't see any of these replays. it's just wrong. >> all 30 mlb owners approved the rule change. >>> and there are two big football games on the schedule for this sunday and one big story line. the denver broncos and new england patriots are getting ready to play in the afc championship game with the winner going to the super bowl. it will also be the fourth playoff meeting between star quarterbacks peyton manning and tom brady. both signal callers talked about their relationship and sunday's matchup. >> i enjoy really trying to get to know, you know, a number of quarterbacks, and any chance you get to spend some time with them maybe in the off-season at a banquet or golf tournament talking a little ball, i've always enjoyed that part of it. i've certainly enjoyed that with tom. ? he's a great player and they've got great team, one of the best offenses in history. i

there were 14 total clients lynches to the biogenesis anti-aging clinic in miami that essentially bud seligpaid to talk to and give evidence on a-rod and others. 13 of those players accepted their suspensions without going to an arbitration. a lot of people, a lot of those players think a-rod got off easy only because he was allowed to compete after he, in fact, was suspended, because he ruled. so do i think he more money than them, yes? do i think he had more to lose, yes. i also think he's guilty, and i'm not saying that you have to cheat to get the cheats now, but i am saying, they would not have -- the arbitration panel would not have given him a full major league season if they didn't have fairly concrete evidence that he was linked to this clinic. >> and despite the suspension, he's still guaranteed $61 million, which is, on his remaining three years of that contract. right? >> that's correct. now, there are -- morality clauses that baseball and the new york yankees can void, and i'm sure if they could get out from underneath any of that money, they would seek any legal process they c

now with major league baseball going on 60 minutes, spiking the football if you will, piling on bud selig being like hulk hogue an, saying we got 'em everybody that got the mlbta's ire up. for alex rodriguez to go after them now is tactically more ontic. >> because of the peds, the performance enhancing drugs, it seems like almost everything is tainted. what's the solution, should everything be legal, if you do go down that road and say you can take whatever you want, what does that mean for kids? >> about what to do, i personally think this lies on the margins of this debate not the center of the debate. because the center is about more and more testing and all that really does is encourage and incentivize more and more sophisticated cheating, more and more masking agents and more and more ways to beat the tests, which more and more finding refuge with people like anthony bosch the nondoctor. prescribingprescribing medicati. basically treating players like lab rats, that's the only way, or the other way is you have to do a decriminalization program. have a conversation with experts, abou

he quickly challenged the ruling, taking aim at major league baseball and commissioner bud selig in the process. all this in the wake of rod gues >>> a big price for failing to sound the alarm about bernie madoff's ponzi scheme. $2.6 billion to settle various criminal and civil cases involving the madoff fraud that bilked investors of billions of dollars. some of the victims will receive part of the 1.7 billion that j.p. morgan is paying to the department of justice for failing to file a suspicious activity record about madoff's trades. here is what u.s. attorney prique barara said about the bank. >> j.p. morgan as an institution failed and failed miserablmiser because of that failure, in part, for decades, bernie mad off was able to launder billions of dollars of ponzi proceeds essentially through a single set of accounts at j.p. morgan. >> as part of the settlement, j.p. morgan is admitting it violated laws requiring it to monitor customer activity for money laundering. a j.p. morgan recommend presentative said they realize they could have done a better job and is improving practices.

we had bud selig who was overwhelmed. >> and so was the arbitrator. in that ruling, the arbitrator said this length of suspension thebe unprecedented, so was misconduct he committed. that is saying a mouthful for a sport that has been rippled with the steroids problem for the better part of two decades or more. i think on the one hand, it helps major league baseball because it shows they're going after the player no matter how rich. if you violate the agreement, they will go after you. this is unusual. whenever there has been strange -- change on these issues, ,ambling, cocaine, or steroids it is always the federal government that has provided the outside agent of change for these issues. this is the first time to my knowledge that a came internally. no federal involvement. major league baseball department of investigations. it is forcing the longest suspension in baseball history when it comes to dep. >> i'm thinking of the comparison of lance armstrong. a he had not tried to make comeback the last time, he might not have been discovered. is there a

so as a parent bottler he bud selig franchise to somebody in ohio, wherever.eople were knocking at his door to get this and then he would get some profits from those operations, but the killer was he and the ever to have exclusive rights to get the syrup from atlanta. so they got this draft and then they sold it to the bottlers. so that was pretty much his story and its a golden story of american entrepreneurship. he was the son and was working when he was 11 for a newspaper. he continued off and on working as long as he was going to school. he worked at the drugstore, the grocery store and left the ring back to the newspapers. he cleaned up around the shop and the dirty work often as a kid. but one person described him as a human interrogation point. that is he asked questions all the time. he loved to learn how to do things. there was a chance to buy the chattanooga times, it was also a struggling newspaper with all kinds of debt and in 1878i think it was july of 1878, he bought that paper, and i believe the paper cost was $800. $1,500 in debt. he had two or

. >> at the same time, a-rod has made this out to be a witchhunt in the part of bud selig.a vendetta at work or is he seeing things that is not there? >> i think he has a history of saying things. he has always been a lightning rod ever since he signed that contract with the rangers. once he earned that contract, he has had that bull's-eye on his back and he feels that unlike the other players who were accused. they all pleaded guilty. he chose to fight. originally it was 211 games. the odds are very strong he will probably never play major league baseball again. >> one of the questions we had with the suspension is that it seemed arbitrary. there was nothing in the cba that said mlb could do that. i was surprised to see the result being a 162-game suspension. where do you think that came from? >> i thought 150 games would be what we see. 211 we could not quantify. where did it come from? we are looking at a season-long suspension no matter what and as we have seen over the past day and a half with everything that is coming out, there was enough evidence to support a season

. >> alex rodriguez declared war on major league baseball and bud selig for singling him out in july.thers were discovered on the client list of a south florida clinic that dispensed performance enhancing drugs. only a-rod chose to fight his suspension. >> new. just as performance enhancing drugs returned to baseball, concussions reared their ugly heads in football. in august, a group of retired players settled their lawsuit with the nfl over the long-term affects of concussions. >> facing 4500 retired players, settling the largest lawsuit in history, shelling out $165 million. >> four months after the settlement, the ex-players have yet to be paid. but the talk about concussions hasn't ceased. johnny manziel accused of wrong doing. who knows if an apology from richie incognito would have kept jonathan martin on the team. but the allegations of harass. kindled a fire storm. >> with anything out of the ordinary, bullied, hazed, any of that. it was a regular football teamful playing with your brothers. >> neither player has played again since october. winston finished brilliantly. but h

radio after he stormed out of a hearing last november, upset after learning baseball's commissioner bud seligstify about allegations mlb used unethical tactics investigating rodriguez. >> i exploded, upset. i probably overreacted. it came from the heart. this has been a difficult process. >> players were suspended after mlb found they had used peds obtained from the defunct biogenesis clinic in florida, all suspended 50 games except milwaukee brewers ryan braun received a 65-game ban. some, not all, saying rodriguez punishment was justified. >> how do you hand out 162 ban to one person and not give anything to all these other people doing the same thing. yeah, i guess it is, if you talk about just a-rod, it's too harsh. >> i think he deserves it. i don't think there should be doping in baseball. america's pastime. >> frank thomas inducted into baseball's hall of fame called the rodriguez suspension a sad day for the sport. >> what are some of your thoughts about everything that's going on with alex rodriguez. >> i've said for years, many years, things spiraled out of control in the late '90s,

is he such a poster child for bud selig? >> they've got to get him the way. >> the right way. >> for everybody else. that's what i think of double standards. >> they suspended stine brunner for two years. >> most lawyers i talk to think that you have a big uphill battle dealing with a federal court on this. and i think with all the benefits that were given to bosch and i think that the information that was obtained potentially illegally, you might have a better case than people think. >> you're darn right we do. and there are times when federal courts are willing to intervene or overturn a reward. we weren't given the same access to any of the evidence. most importantly, you have a situation here where 162 games defies their own collectively bargained for agreements. the jda, there's no calling for 162 games. >> it's 50 and then 100. >> that's why everyone got 50. somehow they thought alex rodriguez should get 212. >> if they want to clean up the game i'm with them. but they got to clean it up where they're not handing cash

when you looked at the arbitration, he wanted bud selig to testify and when selig did not come forwardaid this is a joke. this is unfair. this is a witch hunt. >> storms out, heads to a radio station. >> never seen anything handled like this. he tried to make the point he's being treated unfairly. it's going to go on because he's suspended for 162 games. but it's 183 day season. meaning he with the loophole here can go to spring training with the yankees. do you know what acircus that is going to be if he's out there and banished to the minor league facility, how will yankees handle this? they have to deal well it before it happens. >> we didn't to talk about the $25 million he'll lose as a result of all of that. >> it's good for the yankees from a financial point of view if rodriguez is not around. >> wnbc sports anchor, bruce beck. thank you, sir. >>> an update on that tap water ban impacting hundreds and thousands in west virginia. is there an end in sight? first a reminder of breaking news from washington, d.c., another democrat in congress calling it quits, house minority leader n

>> bud selig's knowledge last year. he will want to go out with a are bang. >> robinson canoe, and last in the dynasty? >> look for yankees to come in last in the nl east. >> finally any bold out of left field predictions other than lebron declaring free agency? >> the story beyond lebron going to cleveland, beyond the political imemployees of the sochi olympics will be serena williams challenge any member of the top 25 men's tennis tour, becominbecoming the biggesting n the history of the organization. glk happy new year. this story may be over, but you can also find us on twitter at ajconsiderthis, have a very happy new year. >> hello, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm jonathan betz in new york. the new year begins with a blizzard, havoc at airports, millions facing snow and freezing temperatures. >> in harm's way, an american couple in south sudan determined to stay and protect orphaned children. the latest from the war-torn country. >> lighting up and lining up - colorado stores selling marge -- marijuana. >> and r

>> bud selig's knowledge last year. he will want to go out with a are bang. >> robinson canoe, and last in the dynasty? >> look for yankees to come in last in the nl east. >> finally any bold out of left field predictions other than lebron declaring free agency? >> the story beyond lebron going to cleveland, beyond the political imemployees of the sochi olympics will be serena williams challenge any member of the top 25 men's tennis tour, becominbecoming the biggesting game in the history of the organization. glk happy new year. this story may be over, but you can also find us on twitter at ajconsiderthis, have a very >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ >> hello welcome to the news hour, i'm in doha with these our top global news stories. a powerful explosion strikes southern beirut, at least four people are dead. >>> iraq's bloody 2013 records the largest civilian death toll in five years. >>> fighting continues in south sudan as both the government

>> bud selig's knowledge last year. he will want to go out with a are bang. >> robinson canoe, and last in the dynasty? >> look for yankees to come in last in the nl east. >> finally any bold out of left field predictions other than lebron declaring free agency? >> the story beyond lebron going to cleveland, beyond the political imemployees of the sochi olympics will be serena williams challenge any member of the top 25 men's tennis tour, becominbecoming the biggesting game in the history of the organization. glk happy new year. this story may be over, but you can also find us on twitter at ajconsiderthis, have a very .g.t >> the north-east is bracing for a new year's blizzard, the first major storm of 2014 could dump more than a foot of snow in some areas. >> religion versus the affordable care act, an 11th hour audit on the bird control mandate. >> missing the -- birth control mandate. >> missing the chemical weapons deadline - why syria missed the deadline. >> secretary of state john kerry to begin another round of t

alex rodriguez gave one of the quotes of 2013 when he said that bud selig hates my guts, and bud se lig is the commissioner of baseball and guess what? he hates his guts. this is all designed to get him out of major league baseball, and people talk about the 211-game suspension, but it is a figure that baseball put down out, there because they knew it would be reduced to this, and as you point out, if he comes back in 2015, not only nearly 44 years old, with but two surgery repaired hips and has not played more than 134 games for two years. >> and when these guys get busted for performance enhancing drugs, that just changes the dynamic of how good are they? do the records matter? should they be paid all of that money? and fans are outraged, what are we watching? what are we get inting? >> and that is what has been said, alex rodriguez had the chance to be the greatest of all time, an lifetime batting average of .299 and over 600 home runs and now he is headed to be the biggest cheat challenging barry bonds and roger clemens, and yet on this side, these guys knew what they were doing, an

field which began august 5th of last year when he was handed the 211 game suspension by commissioner bud selig violating the basic agreement in the baseball's drug program. rodriguez appealed and was able to play the rest of the 2013 season. then following the yanks' season, his suspension began and today, that ruling from arbitration that the yankees's third baseman original suspension was reduced from 162 games down to any post-season games the yankees may play. this is what major league baseball had to say, for more than five decades, the arbitration process under the basic agreement has been a fair and effective mechanism for resolving disputes and protecting player rights. while we believe the original 211-game suspension was appropriate, we respect the decision rendered by the panel and will focus on continuing effort on eliminating performance enhancing substances from our game. as for alex rodriguez, he respondnd with a statement of his own saying, in part, quote, the number of games sadly comes as no surprise. he went on to say that, quote, this is one man's decision that was not put

you know like the nfl they didn't want bud selig to reveal his major league income. >> same way headquartersd then the team scattered they are not a not-for-profit. >> correct. >> is it beneficial for the national football league to get that? does it mean anything? you say they all pay their taxes, nobody is skipping, right? >> nobody is skipping. as a matter of fact, you know, tom osborne, tom coburn came out from oklahoma, the center from oklahoma wanting to just lash the nfl. the fact is they are taxed on all that money. those players are playing immense taxes. >> you didn't see anything wrong with it? >> no, he wanted to change it i'm saying coburn is wrong another level. the fact is all that money at one point or another gets passed business guru are telling me. >> that the nfl is paying its fair share to the folks to the country to the infrastructure? they are? >> they are paying their fair share. they are driving business. they are tremendously important to our economy. by the way, even i-o-i hate to even bring this up. but of the 30 most watched programs on television in the united s

still left with the question of baseball and what damage this does to baseball, tom, and we have bud selig who basically was just, i think overwhelmed by what he thought a-rod had done. >> yeah. and i think so was the arbitrary. in fact, in the ruling that bill madden referred to, the arbitrary said while this length of suspension may be unprecedented for a major league baseball player, so is the misconduct he committed. that is saying a mouthful for a sports that has really been riddled with the steroids problem for the better part of two decades or more. i think on the one hand it helps major league baseball because it shows they are going after a player no matter how rich, no matter how good, if you violate the joint drug agreement, they will go after you and this is unusual, charlie, because in the past, whenever there has been tremendous change on these issues in baseball, whether it has been gambling 100 years ago, coaching in the eighties or steroids related to balco or tomsky it has been the federal government that provided the outside agent of change for one of these issues. this

we had a lot of questions for bud selig.tify. >> i get the argument of why you're singling out a-rod, is baseball scapegoating one guy for a practice they've known about for a long time, i get all that. but you have to unpack that about whether or not this guy is willing to come clean about himself. he once did admit doing steroids. he backed off that. >> he hasn't backed off. he admitted it at a time when he didn't have to. he did it because he wanted to come clean with himself and with the public. he didn't have to do that. >> but it hurts your legitimacy, your credibility -- not yours, his. when he doesn't sit down and say did i do them? yes. do the full lance armstrong vient where i did all of it, everybody does it. >> this is not lance armstrong where he went on this crusade to destroy and threaten and hurt people who got in his way. >> but the admission about doing the drugs, admit that and everything else becomes believable. >> you're assuming that it's true. based on this evidence, i will tell you scientifically it a

>> it will be bud selig's last year as commission he should he will want to yoiu with pardon the expression, but a bang. and i think the over under is going to be 15. >> the yankees have lost some big names andy pet it's, mariano rivera, robinson cano, curtis granderson, might lose a-rod next year, are we seeing the end of the yankees dynasty? >> for the short-term absolutely, yes . lack for the yankees to come in last place in the al east. >> wow, we are going to miss george stein brenter. >> we are. >> finally any bold out o of let field predicts other than lebron declaring free agency? >> the story of the year i don't understand lebron and the u.s. making the quarter finals and sochi olympics will be serena williams challenging any member of the top 25 member of the men's tennis tour to say best of three-set match and the biggest tennis match that we have seen nay generation. >> since billy jean king and bobby rigs. >> there you go. >> that will be interesting: thanks for your prei can. >> thank you. >> the show is over but the conversation considers on our website. on facebook or good p

bosch told 60 minutes that: >> also appearing in the 60 minutes piece was mlb commissioner bud seligerating officer. that has drown strong criticism from the mlb players association. in a statement they said: >> that arbitrator they referred to is rob manfred. rodriguezs at the same time that baseball has disregarded facts address law in this case, the league says in part: >> for on the field news, we turn to the nfl. next week's conference championship matchups are set, new england will travel to denver, that means tom brady and the patriots will meet peyton manning for the third time. the 49ers travel to seattle to face their bitter rival for the third time this season. that's your look at sports this hour. >> getting a fresh start. >> from living the life that i live, i thought by now, i should be dead. >> a unique business that's giving troubled women a second chance at life. al jazeera america. >> welcome back to aljazeera america. just ahead, a non-profit helping women turn their lives around for two decades, but first let's look at where rain and snow may fall across the count

radio after he stormed out of the hearing last november upset after learning baseball's commissioner bud seligtify about allegations mlb used unethical tactics while investigating rodriguez. >> i exploded. i was very upset. i probably overreacted. it came from the heart. >> reporter: in all 13 players were suspended last year after mlb found they had used peds obtained from the defunct biogenesis clinic in florida. all suspended for 50 games except for ryan braun who received a 65 game ban. some say rodriguez's punishment was justified. >> how do you handout 162 ban to one person and not give anything to all these other people that are doing the same thing? but, yeah, i guess it is. if you talk just aren't rod it's too harsh. >> i think he deserves it. >> reporter: frank thomas inducted into baseball's hall of fame called the rodriguez suspension a sad day for the sport. what are some of you thoughts about everything going on? >> i've been upset for many years. things spiraled out of control in the late '90s, 2000 era. it's sad because alex was a great talent. >> reporter: will rodriguez get t

when i see bud selig on national television talk about the suspension if it makes me gag and makes the foremost, he has the ability to talk about every station in talk about alex. he wanted to raise his hand and takes the oath. connell: the ruling has been made all next season so what argument do you make with the legal team? what is the basis and given what the arbitrators already ruled? >> it is basically twofold. that the penalties handed out is a violation with the agreement between the union. connell: how was it a violation? >> the collective bargaining agreement either call 162 game suspension. connell: you say that they impeded the investigation? >> there is no evidence of that. there was no findings that alex did some of the things that he claimed. connell: how do you explain the of blackberry messages going back and forth as shown last night on "60 minutes"? >> i will say that it was an burst during the arbitration hearing there is an original version that does not look exactly the same as the final version. number two, there is not any wording in any of those messages ever fr

a-rod argues this was a vendetta against him by baseball commissioner bud selig lo is retiring.e is hoping that the fact he never failed his test along with bosch's checkered past will get him back on the field. this is live shot from the you courthouse. a-rod said i'm confident when a federal judge reviews entire record that the testimony of a criminal whose own record that he dealt drugs to minor and lack of credible evidence put forward by mlb that the panel blatantly ignored the law and facts and will overturn the suspension f this punishment holds it will cost him $25 million and will prevent him as bosch said was the ultimate goal of hitting 800 home runs. martha: incredible. thank you very much. bill: jim gray will be up this hour. talk of the sports world. that "60 minutes" piece was very compelling. >> it sure was. very, very big stuff. we'll see where that goes. bill: indeed we will. how bad is the confusion on obamacare? a newspaper known to be very kind to the administration admitting it is a, mess. martha: plus the white house sticking up for iran in this case and f

chance is small, but they have interesting arguments, saying paying the guy, not letting them call bud seligional museum of history. >> reporter: the smithsonian usually usually usually exhibits the first down and that has been on display here for the past few years, and starting today the public will be able to see mrs. obama's second inaugural ball gone and officials think it's going to be a big draw as one of the museum's most popular exhibits. >> my better half and my dance partner, michelle obama. >> with that introduction last january, the president ended all the suspense, the first lady was wearing red, the same young designer she chose earlier for her husband's first inauguration. after that big reveal woo talked about that. he said he was floored the first lady selected his designs for both inaugural balls. >> it was a wonderful process to be able to work on it and put so much into a dress that is a part of history. >> now, for the first time in modern history, people will be able to see a first lady's second inaugural dress at the smithsonian. >> it looks different than when she wa