A-Rod: Bud Selig ‘hates my guts’

Rodriguez also acknowledged being “angry” at the Yankees, but said he hopes to be playing third base for them on Opening Day.

“All I want to do is play baseball,” he said. “This has been a disgusting process for everyone. I’m embarrassed to be involved in it.”

Rodriguez denied having named other players in an effort to exonerate himself and questioned Selig’s motivation in slapping him with the most stringent penalty ever given a baseball player for an alleged PED violation.

“He hates my guts,” Rodriguez said of Selig. “It’s 100 percent personal. This is all about his legacy. To put me on his mantle would be a big trophy for him.”

Rodriguez also said that at one point in the hearing, Manfred said to him, “This wasn’t my decision, it was Bud Selig’s decision.”

It was unknown whether Rodriguez’s lawyers will continue with his defense minus their client.

There will be some kind of group discussion sometime tonight,” Tacopina said.

Asked if he would be back at the hearing on Thursday, Rodriguez said, “I’m going home to see my daughters.”

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