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Barry bonds. when barry bonds went through the balco trial in champiwhich eventually convicted of obstruction, not on the drug use but was to have said to failed the test back in the early 2000s. barry bonds was a pariah in baseball, and as great as he was and much as he could still hit, nobody would touch him after that, and i don't don't see alex rodriguez with the yankees. i don't see him -- maybe playing for some minor league team that wanted to sell tickets. >> mike, back to the p.e.d.s and alex rodriguez. no positive drug testing. no real proof, then, that he did, in fact, use performanc...

Baseball great alex rodriguez. an arbitrator reduced the suspension for the new york yankee slugger to 162 games. major league baseball had suspended rodriguez for 211 games for allegedly violating major league baseball's anti-doping rules. a-rod's rep, saying they respect the drug prevention and treatment program. the arbitration process as well as the decision released today by the arbitration panel. jason carroll is following the story for us from new york. so what are the fans saying? >> reporter: kwell, you know, obviously fans are weighing in on this issue. the man himself, alex rodrigue...

What's the arbitrator trying to say here? the panel? >> essentially, all they're saying is, we didn't think his crimes against the game related to p.e.d. use were worth 211 games of his money. we're just going to give him a full major league baseball season which is as long as you could imagine. steve howell, a seven-time drug offender back in the day was, had his lifetime suspension overturned i think 119 days, but this -- 162 games and the postseason, we could be looking at the end of alex rodriguez, fredricka, as player in this game. >> he's 38 years old. the idea that he would sit out for ...

>> yes, fredricka. now a statement in the from major league baseball. they're weighing in on this basically saying, while we believe the original 211 game suspension was appropriate, we respect the decision rendered by the panel and will focus on our continuing efforts on eliminating performance enhancing substances from our game, and also, fredricka, since we last spoke, the yankees sent us a statement as well saying the new york yankees respect major league baseball's joint drug prevention and treatment program. the arbitration process as well as the decision released today by the arbitratio...