MLB commissioner Bud Selig speaks out about A-Rod

  (CNN) — Baseball star Alex Rodriguez, who admitted this week he had used steroids, “shamed the game,” the commissioner of Major League Baseball said Thursday.

“What Alex did was wrong, and he will have to live with the damage he has done to his name and reputation,” Bud Selig said in a news release.

Rodriguez — known to fans as simply “A-Rod” and hailed by many as the best player in the major leagues today — admitted Monday that he used a “banned substance” during the 2001-2003 seasons.

Rodriguez, the New York Yankees’ star third baseman since 2004, made the admission in an interview with ESPN, two days after Sports Illustrated reported that he had tested positive for steroids in 2003, when he was playing for the Texas Rangers.