mark mcgwire. he is growing to move on over to los angeles as the dodgers new hitting instructor and he comes over with good credentials. the cardinals won a world championship. and he takes over the dodger team that had hitting problems in the later stages. batting. warriors hosting cleveland tonight. highlights tonight and the san jose quakes, tonight at 10:00 p.m. that is the sporting life for right now. >> thank you. >>> promised voters for a cure. prop 31. tonight at 10:00 p.m., ktvu channel 2 news investigates whether voters are getting their money's worth. thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news. some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof! some things will. save up to 15% on an ikea kitchen. some things won't last 25 years.

five other players linked to steroid use are up, including mark mcgwire, sammy sosa and roger clemensbonds had plenty to say about it in an article posted on mlb.com. he says, if you believe i'm a drug person than i don't need to be part of this. if you don't want to put me in for those reasons, that's fine. if you want to put me in for what i did as a player i'd love to be with everyone that deserves it. back in a moment with more sports with henry wofford. stay with us. i put away money. i was 21, so i said, "hmm, i want to retire at 55." and before you know it, i'm 58 years old. time went by very fast. it goes by too, too fast. ♪ but i would do it again in a heartbeat. [ laughs ] ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back. the niners have two guys battling to be the starting quarterback. today the coach decided to blow the whistle. jim harbaugh named colin kaepernick the starting quarterback for sunday. is the controversy over? we have more from santa clara. >> reporter: jim harbaugh stood in front of a hoard of local and national media to explain why he will start a second-year player in st. louis over

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mark mcgwire, he's a one dimensional player who is all about power and if he enhanced his performanceome more powerful you can understand his exclusion. people say steroid users are bad guys. ty cobb wasn't a great guy, he was known to be a bigot and a racist and yet he's in the hall of fame. babe ruth didn't play against the negro league. you can argue his performance was enhanced as well because he didn't play against the best competition. >> jackie robinson, joe di maggio, they were stars in this sport. >> players have very strong opinions saying anyone who cheated should not be inducted. they should be able to say how should you in some way look at all this. what perspective should you use, it's been up to the writers. many of them have said i'll have a witness and see reports. if i have 15 years for a player to be on the ballot let me wait some time to sort this all out and maybe in a decade from now i'll be able to vote thembill: t realize they are the writers who vote and they are purists. take a guy like pete rosa cuesed of gambling. >> he's not in. and yet there are players w

if history gives you any indication, mark mcgwire, who i think is tenth on the all-time list, never receivedhe vote to be inducted. that will be announced january 9th. >> just weird. obviously allegations some of which are very real. never been a definitive answer one way or the other. so do you punish people even though there hasn't been a rock solid case? that's the tough part, you know. so i think fans see it differently than people who vote. so see how it plays out. stay tuned to january. >> critics will say rampant in the '80s and '90s. everybody was juicing. >> we're juicing. >> jamba juice. >>> at a hospital they appeared to be running a special on bouncing baby boys. >> from friday night to monday morning the boys just kept on coming. that's right. every baby born at the university of minnesota medical center just happened to be a boy. 19 of them in a row. then finally, a pink hat, baby girl, right there. ladon ibrahim, she broke the streak. >> ladon's dad just happens to be the ceo of a diaper company. convenient. when dad heard about the blue streak, he donated three months of diap