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 injustice is major league baseball's first step toward