Posted on 02/06/2005 9:31:27 AM PST by AmishDude
Swollen ex-slugger Jose Canseco lays waste to the game that made him famous in a shocking new book, outing several stars as steroid abusers, the Daily News has learned.
The book, "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big," published by Regan Books and scheduled to hit bookstores Feb. 21, already is causing a firestorm in baseball circles. Players, agents, union officials and Major League Baseball executives have been burning up the phone lines over the past several days trying to find information about the book's contents.
"Hoo boy," one top major league executive said. "This is going to be bad."
Canseco apparently dropped the title he told reporters a year ago he would use, "Dare to Truth."
The longtime Oakland star, who made a brief appearance with the Yankees in 2000, claims he introduced steroids to the game and injected fellow Bash Brother Mark McGwire in the rear end numerous times in clubhouse bathroom stalls.
He also describes watching disgraced Yankee slugger Jason Giambi and McGwire injecting each other when they both played with the Oakland A's, and says he personally taught All-Star and potential Hall of Famers Ivan (Pudge) Rodriguez, Rafael Palmeiro and Juan Gonzalez to use 'roids after he was traded to the Texas Rangers in 1992.
Canseco claims the team's general managing partner at the time - an aspiring politician named George W. Bush - had to have been aware that his players were using performance-enhancing drugs but did nothing about it.
White House spokesman Ken Lisaius declined to comment on the allegations, but he noted that President Bush called on players and owners during his 2004 State of the Union address to get rid of steroids and applauded the beefed-up drug policy Major League Baseball and the Players Association agreed to in December.
"This President's position on steroids has been clear for some time," Lisaius said.
The book is an homage to steroids, and Canseco says that he not only used them, but that all players should. He concedes that kids shouldn't use them and no one should abuse the muscle-building drugs, but Canseco practically offers a how-to guide to steroids and human growth hormone.
He also says he never would have made it to the major leagues - much less become the 1988 American League MVP - without their help.
Canseco, who played for seven teams before retiring last spring after an unsuccessful comeback attempt with the Los Angeles Dodgers, is not likely to be received warmly by many of his old teammates. He harshly criticizes baseball's double standard for white players and says that both owners and the Players Association were complicit in the spread of steroids in the late 1990s.
The book, which is still being edited, dishes plenty of dirt about the wild life of a young, rich ballplayer with a healthy sexual appetite, among other shocking revelations, but also talks about the harsh treatment he and his brother received from their father, and the painful death of their mother.
Perhaps the biggest shock in the book? Canseco says he never slept with Madonna. They made out in her Manhattan apartment one night, he claims, but that's as far as it went.
Originally published on February 5, 2005
A lot of denial.
Nope. Not even gonna go there.
LoL. Now, I can just see her off camera, freaking, about her missing cell phone, calling Kerick (like he had nothing better to do post 9-11) to shake down Fox employee for stealing her phone.
Did we ever find out if it turned up? And where?
The libertarian in me doesn't give a damn if ballplayers use steroids.
Does anyone have a link to the picture of him fielding a home run and the ball hit him on the head and bounced over the fence?
Yeah...hard to believe that athletes with millions of dollars to gain would even think about using performance enhancing drugs. For years the government told us they didn't work. Turns out they do.
That was a classic ... unforgettable!
no kidding and I worked out at the same Gold's Gym that Mark McGuire worked out in Walnut Creek Ca when he was in Oakland. I can't say for sure but he never looked like he was on steroids in Oakland. I've been working out naturally for years and you can tell when someone is on roids.....He bulked up quite a bit more in St Louis.....now Mark did have a baby brother that worked out there too and he was a total roid rager......imbecile jerk and he had all the trademarks of steroid use
Of what?
Oooh, that George W. Bush really approved of performance enhancing drug taking? What monumental B.S.
BTW, yes, it is after the time period Canseco is referring to, but in last year's SOTU Bush was roundly mocked for bringing up the issue and then later in the year the topic gains prominence and there are sudden murmurs that maybe it needs presidential attention...after he'd already made it clear he was paying it.
Oh, brother. The only denial going on is Bush haters thinking there is no topic they won't grab to bash him over.
Hmmm, he must have injected those "roids" in the wrong places.
cue music:
injecting those "roids"
in all the wrong places
so you can't fill all those little empty spaces
cause you're injecting those "roids", in all the wrong places
Canseco lived in Colleyville, Texas while playing with the Rangers and this week Heritage-Colleyville makes national news for steroid use among it's football players...coincidence? Maybe not.
Canseco was a wife-abusing jerk when he lived in Colleyville....still a jerk !!
What are you, an idiot?
What?! Why are you talking to me like that?
I asked what you were referring to about "denial" and you come back with an isult?
What is your problem?
And this is about Canseco dragging Bush into this and saying he had to been aware of players using.
The part about Bush is an aside of no meaning. There is nothing concerning Bush to deny or not deny.
The denial is about McGwuire and others and widespread use of such drugs in major sports.
Keep in mind several things
Ah, thank you very much.
Thank you for the clarification. I don't see posters denying the use of steroids, though. (I suspect McGwire stopped at some point. Why use steroids and andro at the same time?)
I would say they both deserved each other. don't care for either one and wish people would keep their sex lives to themselves. Who cares who he had sex with or didn't have sex with and for that part Madonna too. I think people say all those things because the opposite is true but they want everyone else to think they great. Seems to me to advertise it all the time would mean they are not what they say they are. Phony....trying to make themselves look good to other people all the while not doing what they claim to do. Yep, phonies and then they write about it. $$$$$$ What some people won't do for a dollar.
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