Jose Canseco vs. Alex Rodriguez

[larry bourget]

Re: Jose Canseco vs. Alex Rodriguez

MLB should make Canseco Vice Commissioner.

LB

[Nnunnari]

Re: Jose Canseco vs. Alex Rodriguez

Canseco has been telling the truth the whole time but he is a snitch.
He ratted out his good friends and teammates, people that went to battle with him for years. He's a scumbag who deserves no respect.

[kingjammy24]

Re: Jose Canseco vs. Alex Rodriguez

cjclong: agreed. but i'm not saying he ought to be respected per se or he wrote the book for altruistic reasons. i'm simply saying that when it came to naming steroid users, the man was completely accurate.

at this point, canseco has said he regrets writing the book. "..the 44-year-old Canseco said he "wanted revenge" on Major League Baseball because he believed he had been forced out of the game. The book was his means of getting even, and he named names "to show I was telling the truth" about steroids in baseball, he said..."If I could meet with Mark McGwire and these players, I definitely would apologize to them," Canseco said, according to the New York Daily News. "They were my friends. I admired them. I respected them." his life has turned out sadly and he'd probably be the first to blame himself for it. in his recent A&E documentary, he said he made a lot of mistakes. all of that said and aside, i think that when it comes specifically to this steroid issue, he's really the only voice with any authority and accuracy. if he came out now and, hypothetically, said ripken or gwynn had done them, it'd be shocking but also very hard to ignore or dismiss given his perfect track record on the matter.

larry: i agree as well. who else is going to do anything? selig and fehr? har har.

rudy.

[whatupyos]

Re: Jose Canseco vs. Alex Rodriguez

Was Canseco's 2nd book ever published? I have yet to see it anywhere, but maybe I'm just not looking hard enough. Or maybe no one carries it.

Aaron

[allstarsplus]

Re: Jose Canseco vs. Alex Rodriguez

Canseco is far from an honest man. He just happens to be right on a number of his steroid allegations. If he had a chance to get into the HOF do you think for one minute that he would have admitted his own steroid use or implicated others. While he was playing he lied about not using steroids. The only reason he has written these books is $money and trying to get even with baseball because he doesn't think he got the respect he dererves. Canseco is like a snitch in a mafia trial. He may be useful, but he deserves no respect.

Well said!!! I hate to give Canseco any credit for being right as I don't find his motivations pure. I had hoped he wasn't right with regards to ARod.

[GrndSlm]

Re: Jose Canseco vs. Alex Rodriguez

I feel that you guys are missing the point....Eveyone looses with this steroids situation. Players, MLB, the Union, ect...If there was a correct way to handle this then it would have been taken care of years ago. Jose opened a can of tuna that caused a major headache on baseball. Over the years many people spoke to me about Jose the rat. But, everything he said was right on the money. His presentation sucked but the information was correct. Even his complaints about the union and baseball were on the money. Why do you think AROD confessed? The union failed him with the confidentiality agreement negotiated with the players. All of those 2002-2003 exams were supposed to be used only for a survey and not go public. The union assured the players that the names are only to be used by "there" union.
With this in mind, no player will voluntarily say that they used performance inhansing drugs unless they are under oath. Even then, the information gets leaked by a federal grand jury and now by the testing process used by MLB.
Alex had no other choice but to go public.....
Also, he didnt sue Jose because that would open him up for cross examination ,which now we know, would have forced him to committ perjury.

thanks,
Juan Iglesais
GrndSlm@aol.com