Canseco shot up McGwire

[All-Night John]

...and Giambi, Pudge, Palmeiro, and Juan Gon. (http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/story/278200p-238361c.html)

His new book looks like a must read. Those are some pretty huge claims. Of course his credibility ain't too great, but I would hardly be surprised if most of what he's saying is true.

[Burr]

Canseco, who played for seven big league teams in a 17-year career - including a brief stint with the Yankees in 2000 - expresses no regrets in the book. In fact, he predicts steroids and human growth hormone will eventually be decriminalized and help people lead longer, healthier and sexier lives.

LOL. Whatever.

[Sub-Z]

Canseco played with the Rangers like 15 minutes and let a ball bounce off his head for a home run, while what he says could be true I kinda doubt it. Also Big Mac wasn't HUGE MAC back when Canseco was playing with him.

[Burr]

LOL..

JOSE CANSECO’S BOOK FOUND TO BE THESAURUS-ENHANCED
Jose Canseco’s tell-all book “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big,” was found to be enhanced by the use of a thesaurus and Microsoft Word’s spell check on Wednesday. The long-awaited book was to hit stores February 14, but the release may now be delayed while baseball officials look into the allegations. “We are absolutely certain Jose's writing wasn't enhanced by dictionaries, thesauruses, or other grammar-improving devices,” said Regan Books publicist Paul Olsewski.

Investigators received a pre-release copy of the book on Tuesday, and by Wednesday they had enough evidence to go public with the charges of impropriety. “It became pretty obvious throughout the book that Jose was addicted to the thesaurus. For example, instead of ‘performance-enhancing drugs,’ we found 12 references to a ‘recital-improving pill’ and a 26 instances of the term ‘presentation-augmenting remedies’,” said Al Gaffin of the U.S. Department of Syntax. “We weren’t born yesterday. ‘Recital’ is an obviously misused synonym for ‘performance,’ and only doctors and professors refer to ‘drugs’ as ‘remedies’.” Gaffin added that the Commission failed to find even one run-on sentence or dangling modifier throughout the entire book, and that Canseco’s subject-verb agreement was “pure genius.”

[All-Night John]

Page 2 had some exclusive exerpts (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=schoenfield/050208). Best of all:

I've always wanted to stay in the game and run an organization, so after the Red Sox hired Theo, I studied all this 'Moneyball' stuff and learned about OPS and VORP and EQA and DIPS ERA and so on. I wrote a couple computer programs to help evaluate players, showed Theo the software and he hired me as a consultant. It was my advice to acquire Schilling and get Bellhorn and trade Nomar. Next thing you know, the Sox are World Series champs! I hadn't felt that good since the night I spent with Madonna in her Manhattan apartment! I think this is the first step in me becoming a GM someday. Hopefully some of things I've written in this book won't come back to haunt me and get me blackballed from the sport I love.
Thank you, Jose!

[Burr]

LOL WTF this stuff is way off the wall. Is he tempting a libel suit from every player in MLB? Pretty amazing stuff if true.

[MalcolmBrass]

And now he says Brett Boone has shot up too! Anything to sell a fucking book! Jeez...I think he will go down as the biggest Black Sheep in the league since Jim Bouton wrote Ball Four (a terrific book, BTW).

[All-Night John]

Heh, sorry Burr. That Page 2 stuff was fake. ;)

And I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Boone was juicing. I hear his name mentioned often in talks about steroids. It's suspicious when a guy bulks up and adds so much power later in his career.

[Burr]

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[Octocamo]

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[Burr]

Tres bien!

[MalcolmBrass]

My only problem with Canseco's comment in the book about Boone is that he states he hit a double against the M's and while standing at second asked him about having gotten so massive over the off season, when the local paper looked up the stats and saw that Canseco never hit a double against the Ms at that time to begin with! My only problem is that as a writer I don't need another fiction writer as competition...;)

I saw the book at Costco Sunday and almost picked it up, if only for a laugh.

[All-Night John]

Could've been a single and an error. ;)

I think what Canseco was doing was throwing out the names people are already suspicious of, such as Boone, so they'd be more apt to believe him.

[Pig]

McGwire hit 49 in his rookie year when he weighed 170 lbs. He's always had the power. Enough said.

[All-Night John]

McGwire hit 49 in his rookie year when he weighed 170 lbs. He's always had the power. Enough said.
Steriods aren't just about increasing power.

I just finished the book. It wasn't the greatest read, unsurprisingly. Rather redundant at times. Jose's clearly delusional about a few things, and the valid points he does make are generally obvious ones. Not much to say about his steroid allegations; he pretty much only mentions the obvious targets, anyways. But overall, Jose doesn't seem like such a bad guy. I never thought he was, really. He just needs a decent dose of reality.

Edit: He also made sure to clarify that steroids will shrink your balls, but they will not shrink your dick. Good to know.

[Burr]

If they shrunk your dick, nobody would use em. Balls are nice and all, but who really cares about 'em?