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Listen to the legal experts on this. weve talked to the legal experts on this. it is highly unlikely that a judge is going to do that, however, rodriguez is going to take his fight to the federal court. he is going to ask for an injunction to allow him to keep playing baseball while he continues to fight. im also told that in terms of how this all went down, you know, what happens is rodriguez team was looking at a lot of different scenarios as this was playing out. as the arbitrator was trying ...

Briefcase and announced this is f-ing bs and used real words before he stormed out. dan, did any of this do any favors? >> whether youre in court of law or arbitration hearing throwing a tantrum is never good idea. it will never help you. he is upset that bud selig the commissioner, wont testify. that is like a criminal defendant in new york city wanting a district attorney to he have or federal defendant wanting the u.s. attorney general to testify. unless bud selig has material evidence if he ...

Make him throw strikes to you. here we go. san quentin giants baseball. come on. >> lets go, lets go. >> lets go now. >> one for a single. one for a home run. >> when i first got in in 2003, there was the giants and the pirates. so i went out there for the pirates. >> he dont even want to throw a strike, curtis. he dont even want to throw a strike. >> first day, i suit up in a pirates uniform. i felt like i was a kid again. >> lets go. stay focused. >> attack mode, baby, attack mode. >> being fa...

Its interesting to have come to this park for 50 years and it goes 100 years of playing baseball and they lost won the series here 95 years ago. babe ruth was staying at the buckminister hotel, carl mays beat the cubs. here we are 95 years later an they did it again. >> you know dan and you know this well. the problem of the written word is it sticks around and sometimes comes back to bite you. you wrote in a column at the beginning of the season back in february, the following, my friend. the j...

>> the beach isnt as important as you. im here. thats all that matters. >> youre absolutely right. aint nothing more important than visit with you. we try to leave the fences outside our visit. its not about me in here. its not about the prison system. it is just about what we have. what, what, were trying to do. you should have a break in a couple of months. >> sure hope so. come back up here. best part of the visit is to be with him, talk to him, give him a hug, tell him i love him again, hear...

>> shepard: breaking news now on fox news channel. we mentioned alex rodriguez, suspended for 214 games, set to begin this thursday, august 8th. this would take him through 2013s regular season and postseason and 2014. by the time he got back to baseball, if the suspension stand, he would be 39-1/2 plus years old and one can question whether he would be able to do even what he did last year, which wasnt much. alex rodriguez, though, plans to appeal the suspension, its our understanding, so his i...

Career, and once seemed the candidate to become the next home run king. he is currently fifth on the list. alec rodriguez has been facing criticism from fans and commentators. the cover of the "new york post" puts it simply: just go. ed a tam -- adam houseley is live. were expecting multiple news releases at this moment. >> yes, shepard. the first one i just got, it says in part, major league baseball issued the following discipline for violation office the joint drug prevention treatment progra...

No wince interested in them. its all about alex rodriguez and its the waiting game. >> adam mentioned melky cabrera but he was available for the postseason last year after his suspension. >> he served the 50-game suspension and they were going into the playoffs. the giants decided not to bring him on to the postseason roster. they went on and won the world series, but that was an interesting decision. we get him back but were going to still keep him off the field. the yankees tonight, as a-rod i...

Involved. were not going to see that used. the other question is why are the yankees playing him? because a-rods camp suggest that the yankees dont want to pay him the $34 million he has left either. so theyre not going to say hes healthy, ware not putting him in the lineup. so looks like well see alex rodriguez on the field tonight which will be falls nateing. >> shepard: everybody knows how powerful the yankees organization is and how powerful bud selig is. anyone who knows baseball knows the ...

Have multiple. he says, quote, is a point to point out that 16,000 total europe and blood tests were conducted on players worldwide under the mlb drug program win. the important additions of the gcg -- hgh, were confident in the testing program. he says the cases illustrates the strength of the program is not limited to testing but we attack the issue on every front. so, obviously bud selig was hoping this thing would go away, as lot of people in baseball were. the players were told by the playe...