"Well, Katie, you're putting me in a tough spot," he said in an excerpt released Friday. "I mean, these are guys that I play with. They're my teammates, friends, people that I respect, people that I play with every day.

"If anything comes of this, would be extremely disappointed. I mean, it would be a huge black eye on the game of baseball. A lot of fans, they just want to know a lot. They want to know the truth and I think in this George Mitchell investigation ... maybe they will get what they want."
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"I think baseball's done a fine job of implementing some very strict rules," A-Rod added. "I mean, I got tested eight or nine times. I know some of my teammates got tested, you know, seven, eight ... times, and, you know, if you think about where the game is today versus where it was six years ago, I think Major League Baseball has made some nice strides."