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>> what? >> he likes to turn his voice mail christmastime into the song from "the grinch" the theme song. one of his facebook friends challenged him to do it again only this time she'd pay him up to $1,000 for his mike rowe works charity, the catch he had to sing "the grinch" theme in a bath robe as a duet with his dog freddy. somebody's got to do it and mike rowe, rose to the occasion. ♪ your heart's an empty hole ♪ your brain is full of unwashed socks ♪ ♪ there's garlic in your soul, mr. grinch ♪ ♪ i wouldn't touch you with a 39 1/2 foot pole ♪ >> oh my, the voice! >> my gosh! ...

Decades, if not ever. clearly bud selig did not want to anger the union, so a-rod will be allowed to play while he's appealing his suspension. >> bob, is that what this boils down to, the power of the union? we've all read the reports. some of this stuff confirmed. others perhaps will never be confirmed. there is at least smoke, fire, and everything else around alex rodriguez. he still plans to fight this or appeal. >> he does, tamron, because he thinks if he has a suspension through 2014, you know, he'll be 39 1/2 years old. he comes back, he may not be able to play anyway. he figures, what d...

Out of the game for life, but his thing is, if i get suspected through 2014 season, that's two straight years i'm off. i had hip surgeries twice in the last four years. no way i can come back at 39 1/2 and be productive. right now, to be honest, he's better than anything they have and they could use him. they prefer not to pay that money. i think the yankees would rather have the three of us play third base than a-rod just to get out of that contract. >> maybe you two, not me. >> they don't want to use him at that price. a-rod is not worth that kind of money. another third baseman at a fractio...

That's why you'll see the numbers shift a little bit. is that something that's sustainable? they want to take the part time jobs. they need to be turned into full-time employment, but you have to have the revenue, the sales, the consumers to be able to sustain it. and real economists that aren't afraid to show their face will tell you we're not on track for that yet, and that's the problem for obama's re-election in 2012. >> the growth -- the job growth was anemic, better than going down, but it doesn't keep up with population growth. so we're not even keeping up with that. and also the employ...

Numbers shift a little bit. is that something that's sustainable? they want to take the part time jobs. they need to be turned into full-time employment, but you have to have the revenue, the sales, the consumers to be able to sustain it. and real economists that aren't afraid to show their face will tell you we're not on track for that yet, and that's the problem for obama's re-election in 2012. >> the growth -- the job growth was anemic, better than going down, but it doesn't keep up with population growth. so we're not even keeping up with that. and also the employment age ratio is at the l...