Anthony Bosch will reveal motives of Alex Rodriguez and the extent of their relationship in a '60 Minutes' interview on Sunday. 
 
 Desperate to regain the lofty status he once held as the game’s best player, Alex Rodriguez turned to a shady Miami drug dealer in 2010 and the two began a doping program that would include clandestine meetings, complicated regimens and injections of steroids, insulin and supplements, and ultimately, a historic suspension from the game he sought to rule. 
 
 The CBS news program “60 Minutes” will air the results of its nine-month investigation into the Biogenesis doping scandal Sunday night, including interviews with the chief witness against Rodriguez, Anthony Bosch, and MLB’s chief operating officer, Rob Manfred. 
 
 Among the bombshell revelations in the report is an exchange between Bosch and reporter Scott Pelley in which Bosch helps shed light on the motives of the player once considered a lock for Cooperstown and a challenger to the game’s most hallowed statistic, the all-time home run record of 762, currently owned by Barry Bonds. 
 
 BOSCH: “Alex cared. Alex wanted to know. He would study the product. He would study the substances. He would study the dosages, because he wanted to achieve all his human performance or in this case, sports performance, objectives. And the most important one was the 800 home run club.” 
 
 PELLEY: “The 800 home run club?” 
 
 BOSCH: “Which was only going to have one member. Alex Rodriguez.” 
 
 Robert Sabo/New York Daily News 'Alex cared,' Bosch tells reporter Scott Pelley during the segment. 'He would study the product. He would study the substances.' 
 
 The “60 Minutes” report will also delve into the relationship between Rodriguez and Bosch, whose validation of as many as 500 Blackberry messages between the men was the linchpin of MLB’s case and a large basis of arbitrator Fredric Horowitz’s ruling. Bosch knew Rodriguez’s proclivities, his habits, his behavior, his desire to win — and not get caught. 
 
 The Daily News has also obtained text messages that describe a secretive Rodriguez and an accommodating Bosch, who often delivered the substances to Rodriguez at his home or his hotel. 
 
 “Try to use service elevators. Careful. Tons of eyes,” Rodriguez told Bosch in one Blackberry BBM message the day before he hit his 23rd grand slam, tying Lou Gehrig’s record in June 2012 in Atlanta. 
 
 In a spring training game in April 2012, in which he drove in three runs, A-Rod texted Bosch with what they both appeared to believe was good news. 
 
 A-ROD: “Really good. Explosive.” 
 
 ERIK S. LESSER/EPA Bosch says that Rodriguez's most important objective was 'the 800 home run club... which was only going to have one member.' 
 
 BOSCH: “Go with same protocol.” 
 
 The “60 Minutes” segment also reveals how much it cost Rodriguez to do business with Bosch — $12,000 a month, according to the report — and says that Bosch personally injected Rodriguez because “Alex is scared of needles, so at times, he would ask me to inject.” 
 
 Pelley and the show’s investigative team also delve into the shadowy underworld surrounding Bosch, including the cast of characters who sold Biogenesis documents to Rodriguez and, ultimately, Major League Baseball. 
 
 In Pelley’s interview, Bosch says Rodriguez’s associates intimidated him to try to prevent him from cooperating with MLB in its investigation, a claim Manfred took seriously. 
 
 “The concerns seemed credible, particularly given that he identified individuals that we had our own concerns about,” Manfred told Pelley, who pressed Manfred about the arrangement MLB made with Bosch to pay his legal fees and provide him with security in exchange for truthful information. “The credibility of any witness is determined by…looking the individual in the eye, listening to the story he tells and then lining it up with the other evidence. And frankly, nobody came in and contradicted what Mr. Bosch said.” ||||| By turning to Tony Bosch to help them make a case against Alex Rodriguez in the Biogenesis investigation, Major League Baseball has become a safe house. Bosch feared for his life, CBS reporter Scott Pelley of "60 Minutes" says he was told, because associates of A-Rod threatened Bosch's life after failing to bribe him. So he turned to MLB for protection. 
 
 Bosch also told "60 Minutes," Pelley says, that he developed and administered a PED program, supplying six banned substances to Rodriguez and personally injecting him sometimes because A-Rod feared needles. 
 
 Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz ruled Saturday that Rodriguez must sit out all of the 2014 season, including any postseason the New York Yankees might play. Rodriguez had appealed MLB's original suspension of 211 games, the longest in league history short of a lifetime ban. Rodriguez claims he hasn't used PEDs in a decade. 
 
 A "lengthy interview" with Bosch will be broadcast in full Sunday night that gets into "all of the specifics" of Bosch's relationship with Rodriguez. Here are the details to expect, Pelley says: 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bosch claims that associates of Rodriguez attempted to bribe him to stay quiet. When that didn't work, he says they attempted to get him out of the country, and when that didn't work, he says, he started getting death threats. 
 
 He was afraid for his life, he tells us in the interview, and that drove him into the arms of Major League Baseball. Baseball told him that they would protect him, would give him security and would defend him legally. 
 
 It's hard to imagine Major League Baseball turning into a witness relocation program, harboring Bosch and "protecting" him from associates of A-Rod who allegedly threatened his life. Did the commissioner open up his Milwaukee home to Bosch to keep him out of harm's way from A-Rod's alleged hitmen? It sounds absurd, but what about this story doesn't? Also: If MLB is paying Bosch's way, it's clear that it's OK with him speaking to CBS. Bosch is telling the story it wants told, that A-Rod would do anything to save his hide, to be used against him later if necessary. 
 
 Bosch tells CBS a different story than he did earlier in a previous interview. Bosch denied to ESPN using his Biogenesis clinic to supply PEDs to MLB players, saying media reports about him weren't true. Instead, he claimed to be just a nutritionist. The New Times of Miami broke the story about a year ago that A-Rod and other MLB players got PEDs from Biogenesis, a now-shuttered clinic in South Florida that advertised itself as a chemical fountain of youth. Later, Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers was linked to the clinic, and it resulted in him serving a 65-game suspension at the end of the 2013 season. 
 
 Back in August, "60 Minutes" reported that A-Rod had leaked Biogenesis documents implicating Braun and others to the media, including Yahoo Sports. 
 
 Of course, when A-Rod goes to court, he's going to try and make Bosch look like the worst witness in history. It might not be enough to get A-Rod's suspension overturned — and it didn't sway Horowitz much — but Bosch has shown that he can't exactly be trusted. 
 
 And there's still at least one or two pieces of this puzzle missing. Assuming what Bosch says is true, are we to believe A-Rod couldn't conjure enough money to bribe him? Perhaps Bosch believes that MLB can help protect him from prosecution in U.S. courts, but it's hard to figure how MLB would have any sway there. 
 
 Meanwhile, with A-Rod saying he's still going to spring training at Tampa in five weeks— and the Yankees still owing him three more seasons and $61 million — it's anybody's guess what happens next in this soap opera. 
 
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 Follow @AnswerDave ||||| 60 Minutes will offer the first look at the details in the doping case of Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez, including interviews with Major League Baseball's chief witness against him, Anthony Bosch - who says he injected Rodriguez with banned substances - and the league's COO Rob Manfred. Scott Pelley's report will be broadcast Sunday, Jan. 12 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. 
 
 Rodriguez's 211-game suspension from MLB was lowered by an arbitrator today to 162 games, plus any 2014 playoff games. He has denied using banned drugs as a Yankee and has never tested positive for a banned substance since he joined the New York team. But Bosch's charges, many used in MLB's decision to suspend Rodriguez, include that: 
 
 -He personally delivered banned substances, including testosterone, insulin-like growth factor 1 and human growth hormone to Rodriguez at least a dozen times and Rodriguez paid him $12,000 a month in cash. 
 
 -He personally injected Rodriguez because "Alex is scared of needles, so at times, he would ask me to inject." 
 
 -Rodriguez's mission was to hit 800 home runs and that the Yankee slugger asked him for what he gave MLB superstar Manny Ramirez, a former Bosch client 
 
 -Text messages obtained by 60 Minutes between him and Rodriguez indicate that at times they communicated daily about the substances the slugger took on his "protocol" 
 
 -Says Rodriguez associates intimidated him to try to prevent him from cooperating with MLB in its investigation of the Yankee third baseman. 
 
 MLB's Manfred tells Pelley that he believes the threats Bosch says he received could be legitimate. "The concerns seemed credible, particularly given that he identified individuals that we had our own concerns about." 
 
 But Bosch once denied he ever gave anyone performance enhancing drugs. Manfred and MLB dropped a lawsuit against him and are now paying for security guards and have agreed to cover his legal fees in return for his cooperation. In Rodriguez's own lawsuit against MLB, he charges that this arrangement is essentially a $5 million bribe, which Manfred says is "absolutely untrue." 
 
 Pressed by Pelley that the security and legal fee arrangement is plenty of incentive for Bosch to lie, potentially undermining his credibility, Manfred responds, "The credibility of any witness is determined by … looking the individual in the eye, listening to the story he tells and then lining it up with the other evidence," he tells Pelley. "And frankly, nobody came in and contradicted what Mr. Bosch said." 
 
 Rodriguez turned down numerous requests for an interview with 60 Minutes.
– Refusing to accept bribes from Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez is dangerous business, according to Tony Bosch. The man who allegedly supplied Rodriguez with PEDs and cooperated with a Major League Baseball investigation into the matter tells 60 Minutes that he received death threats after Rodriguez associates failed to bribe him, reports CBS News and Yahoo Sports. Among his other allegations: Bosch would sometimes administer the drugs to Rodriguez: "Alex is scared of needles, so at times, he would ask me to inject." The drugs included human growth hormone and testosterone, which Bosch delivered to A-Rod personally at least a dozen times. Bosch's payment: $12,000 monthly, in cash. A-Rod's goal was to hit 800 home runs and surpass what the New York Daily News calls "the game's most hallowed statistic," Barry Bonds' 762 home runs. Bosch turned to MLB for protection after receiving the death threats. A-Rod's lawsuit against MLB says Bosch's protection program is basically a $5 million bribe, which league COO Rob Manfred calls "absolutely untrue." The 60 Minutes segment looks closely at damning text messages exchanged between Bosch and the slugger. But it leaves two questions unanswered, notes Yahoo Sports: How is it that multi-millionaire Rodriguez was unable to bribe Bosch? And does Bosch think MLB can protect him in US courts, where it has basically no influence?