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People in the clubhouse from managers to the players saying you know what? go after these guys. we don't want them in the game. and there's a reason we don't just let them cheat. we don't just let them use hgh or steroids. it's because not only does that change the playing field for everybody else and create an arms race for other players who don't want to put those drugs in their body or pressure to do so just to compete, but it does trickle down. we have seen over and over again that when pro players do this, then college players do it to try to get into the pro game. and when college player...

Alex rodriguez has to say. he was zesuspended for 211 game the rest of this season, all of next season. could cost him $31 million. but he's appealing so that means he could still play during the appeal process and he will be playing tonight for the new york yankees. ben ryder is joining us now. what's your immediate reaction to what we just heard? >> one thing is clear, wolf, whatever alex rodriguez did during his time away it was not taking acting classes. the pregnant pauses, the biting of the lip in his introductory statement. none of that was very believable. but that's really beside the ...

There are some details in that statement saying he was disciplined under both the joint drug agreement and the basic agreement. you should the joint drug agreement, we have certain suspensions that can be laid out. mostly we know those as the 50-game and 100-game suspensions. there are a couple other for use and possession, another term they used in that press release. how they do that and how they break that down is going to be very important to the arbitration hearing. now we've got to wait to see when this arbitration hearing happens. and interestingly, this might be alex rodriguez coming b...

And a group of other players to this biogenesis anti-aging clinic. this is just outside of miami where documents, allegedly, were found that named a number of major league players. so as we await the word from bud selig, he's the commissioner of major league baseball, from his office, let's talk about it with some people who know sports very, very well, who know baseball better than anyone. rachel nichols is standing by for us in new york for this news. jason carroll is in chicago where a-rod has vowed to show up to play the white sox tonight. will carroll is the lead writer for "the bleacher ...

Here's how long he was cheating the game. that feeds into the legacy issue that you're talking about. and that's part of what we're going to see trickle out over the next 30 to 40 to 50 days as this arbitration goes through. there's going to be leaks. we've seen that already. it's supposed to be a private process. it's obviously not been a private process. the dirty details are going to come out. and that is going to be hits to a-rod's legacy that baseball was trying to tell him, hey, you can avoid some of that if you agree to a suspension. he didn't want to do that. and now we're going to sta...