This man changed baseball more than anyone. While Bud Selig was looking the other way as players were hitting 60 and 70 home runs a year and soaking up all the money that was coming in to MLB, Canseco was honest and exposed these clowns for what they were.
His numbers in chicago his last team his stats were better than when he was in his prime and the next season he has no job, jose makes sence he was black balled period
I've read both of Jose's books. I know quite a bit about steroids. He was on the money. Everything he is saying in this interview...he did come through....and even though he took a lot of crap for a while, the more time goes on, the more he has been completely proven right. Anyone who is still bagging on him for being a snitch or a liar is completely full of it.
porcupinecraig I read his book and I agree with you. It was a great book. I was a female bodybuilder and never took steroids but knew alot about them. Everything he talked about was absolutely true. People need to leave him alone. Look at all the things that came out since his book. BALCO trials and even A-Rods suspension. He was right and not the only who did them. It all came out eventually.
porcupinecraig *_Yup you are so right! Me & my family was also on his side!! I knew he wasn’t just being messy!! But I’ve always backed up the underdog aka the unpopular side lol.._*
Jose was indeed blackballed! But America loves you Jose! We all watched you in the hearings! All the rest of the players should have been arrested for lying under oath ! You were the only one telling the truth!
Tell the truth , suffer the most.Straight up bush league how MLB handled it. Just like organized crime except for the body floating tits up in the Hudson.
People don't like to be told truths they don't want to believe It's easier to just exist in a decided state of ignorance and only listen to things that validate your own predetermined biases
I remember watching this interview when it first aired. I remember being kind of blown away by what he said. But I definitely did not dismiss it. I don't believe at all that his intentions were pure or good, but considering all that came to light in the years following, this interview was one of if not the starting point of changing the course of history for baseball.
Anytime they srop the line “its all in the book” yeah, they do. Money grab. If he was so determined to be honest the book would have been a free blog or something . Canseco is fake news. What is NOT fake news is that cool arch top guitar in your pic.
He definitely was blackballed in baseball but he was the one player that helped clean up baseball but also at the point in time nobody cared cause everybody was making money during that era in baseball plus it was a fun time to watch baseball too
All the players that called him a liar and said he was just trying to sell books at some point after were caught using PED's, or confessed to using PED's, or are even dead from overuse of PED's! So, why has Jose Canseco not been vindicated by CONGRESS, MLB, OWNERS, and other PLAYERS?!!
My dog just left a pile of Jim Rome on the carpet. My dog just left a pile of Jim Rome on the carpet. My dog just left a pile of Jim Rome on the carpet.
he definitely got blackballed, from the game and from 500 HRs........but honestly, he should have reached it before the blackballing. Injuries and the 94 strike really killed his potential numbers.
Basically he introduced the steroids which is a banned drug owners look at the records and they saw the single season get passed so many times and they saw the individual homerun record get passed by Barry bonds who obviously was on steroids
Baseball blackballed him and now this is his way of getting back at them. Im sure all the other self absorbed juice heads that were involved relized this was happening to him and turned a blind eye. I can see why hes mad at baseball
Jim Rome asks a lot of leading questions, it's amusing that the union was pushing against steroid testing; if that was the case (which I think it was) then why didn't the union protect Jose when he wasn't publicly admitting to steroid use. Bonds was WAY more obvious a steroid user between 2003-2008.
Jim Rome put him as 'on the bubble' for HOF, even Jose doesn't consider himself to have had a HOF career (though really coming down to not having 500 HR's and he would have that if not benched for collusion to lower pay in his last 2 seasons or if he had gotten to continue playing.)
I said all along since the steroid talk that if MLB said X, Y and Z is banned but there was no testing in place they are partly to blame. Yes anyone who took PEDs cheated but when you ban things like that or supplements you have to test for them.
Players should be judged by the game in the era they played in. McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, Palmeiro, Clemens, etc etc etc all deserve to be in the hall of fame. Let's not forget Satchel Paige was a RAMPANT cheater (spit balls, snot balls, etc), Babe Ruth had all kinds of problems and was more of a prima donna than Barry Bonds. Late 80's to the 2010's is the steroid era. McGwire and Sosa should be in just because that home run raced saved the game after the 93/94 strike.
baseball was in dire straits after the 94' baseball strike. ped's in baseball saved baseball, and the mlb didn't want to admit to it. they only wanted the sport to become popular again. so the mlb turned a blind eye to the steriods the players were using, because it was invigorating the sport. shame on the other players and the sport-itself, for not admitting that canseco was right. and i have to applaud canseco for his willingness to withstand the fire and criticism for telling the truth. the sport is a lot better today, for canseco letting the world know what was actually taking place.
I seen this interview years ago . I think the average person would be totally amazed at who actually took the juice in all of sports. The Hall of Fame is filled with people doing anything and everything to succeed. Can you imagine how many rule violations that went unchecked from a corked bat to grease hidden in their glove. Cheating is cheating, but the majority never got caught.
I really dislike the attitude that because those two 'saved' the game after the strike, we should overlook their violations or enshrine them as heroes. The history of steroids in baseball shouldn't be whitewashed, but let's not justify their inclusion in the HOF because they were popular at the time.
I think Jose is full of himself BUT he was blackballed. He also took a lot of heat when his book came out but has been proven correct over time. His book gave the MLB a black eye and the MLB wanted him gone.
***** I have known Cubans who look down on Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. Cubans are like Argentines, they look down on other Hispanic cultures. As far as Canseco is concerned, he was welcomed with open arms in Oakland like no other player before him. If someone made racial slurs to him from the stands in Oakland, they would get their tail kicked. He was not the first Hispanic star for Oakland. Tony Armas was before him, and was quite a player (okay it took a few seasons for him to get polished).
***** Oh the subject of bigotry in America. I am part Italian in ancestry, so I too should be included among Latins. I laugh when Latinos refer to people like me as "Anglos". I am part Irish also. We are Celtic, not Anglo. If you call an Irishman in a Belfast Pub an Anglo, he'll deck you. Anyways, if you read his book, you will notice he ends up not having very many nice things to say about other Latin players also. Hell, he ratted them all out for steroid use. Since you are on RU-vid, go to "kingsnake kills rat". That is how I feel about rats like Canseco.
What? Seriously? Don't you care if your sport is pure or not? Those guys were cheaters and cowards who couldn't face their own physical limitations, or who hadn't the integrity to not take part in the rampant doping. Who cares if Canseco 'snitched'? I'm glad he did, even if he did it for selfish reasons.
Hahahahahah. Just trying to promote his shitty book. Well Jim, I won't answer your questions directly, because I'm busy and don't got time to repeat things, but it's in the book. So read the book.
Do you believe you were blackballed? Check that. Why do you believe you were blackballed? Check that. What’s in the book? Check that. Why write the book and break the code? Check that. Are you a snitch?
