A-Rod: Bud Selig ‘hates my guts’

“I did nothing. About the Bosch nonsense? Nothing,” Rodriguez said in an interview on WFAN 660 about four hours after he stormed out of his own grievance hearing upon learning MLB commissioner Bud Selig would not be required to testify.

“It was disgusting,” Rodriguez said of arbitrator Fredric Horowitz’s decision not to allow Joseph Tacopina, Rodriguez’s lead attorney, to question Selig under oath on Thursday. “This thing should have ended with Selig on Thursday and me [testifying] on Friday. But he did not have the courage to look me in the eye.”

Rodriguez said Wednesday night outside the law offices of Reed Smith in midtown Manhattan he would not return to the hearing room when the grievance resumes Thursday morning at the Park Avenue offices of Major League Baseball.

“The team’s upstairs deliberating, [Rodriguez] won’t be there [Thursday], and the [legal] team will figure out the rest of the options,” Rodriguez spokesman Ron Berkowitz said Wednesday night.

Jim McCarroll, an attorney who accompanied Rodriguez to the interview, added, “If Selig doesn’t testify, Alex is not going back.”

Tacopina told Michael Kay on ESPN New York 98.7 FM that Horowitz did not consider Selig “a necessary witness.” In a statement released Wednesday evening, MLB explained why Selig did not testify.

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