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Yankees. espn reports a-rod's representative and major league baseball, aren't anywhere close to reaching a settlement. abc's aditi roy has more. >> reporter: alex rodriguez warming up and waiting as he played in a simulated game in tampa. the real battle is brewing behind the scenes between major league baseball and his lawyers. at issue how the league will penalize him for allegedly obtaining banned substances from biogenesis or whether he'll appeal. >> it is all speculation. i don't comment on speculation. >> reporter: teammate derek jeter and the manager joe girardi spoke about the pending...

Will they invoke the best interest of baseball clause and ban him for life and play through an appeal which the other players would do if they're not banned for life based on that clause or come to some compromise? year-and-a-half has been thrown out there. we don't know. irony seemingly want nothing to do with these guys because he has been a black eye for the franchise, cost them a lot of money and play tonight, double a. he is scheduled to play tonight for trenton aa for the yankees which is amazing. rick: he is trying to recover from an irjustry and he had surgery in the off-season. what w...

Breach their collective bargaining agreement. there has been a provision in the agreement since 2003, it's a drug prevention and treatment provision, and soliciting players, allegedly, to buy these drugs is a violation of the contract. so major league baseball says they've lost revenue, profit, goodwill. they're not specifying the damages they want to collect from biogenesis, but they're saying, look, you can't go and do this to our players. they are bound by a contract that says they are not going to take drugs like this. and if you're going to knowingly sell them drugs and package them with ...

To have them have the players association grieve the fact he's on the dl. they can grieve it and get him off the dl. he has not asked the players association for any assistance at all. it's unlikely the players association will be forthcoming in their assistance. >> this is before we even talk about biogenesis or anything else. >> soon. >> this might just be the beginning. coming up next how youtube is disrupting the media world. "fortune" magazine's andy is here how youtube's powerhouse is minting money right now. you're watching "morning joe" spored by starbucks. [ tap ]

Can not wait to get back to the game i love. you wonder if it is behind him once and for all. jim gray, sportscaster, fox news contributor, jim, good morning to you. he has a record when it comes to this stuff. i want to get you on record. what do you think of the result from yesterday? >> well, i think that baseball has gone after these guys in this whole biogenesis thing and they have nailed ryan braun. they have been unhappy since he was able to get out of a suspension on a technicality when he was able to say that the proper was flawed which it was and so was the test. he denied and denied...