Jose Canseco Tugs at America's Ear Yet Again
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by TLong
Jose Canseco is at it again. Two years after making waves in baseball with his candid talk of steroid abuse by numerous players in his book Juiced, Canseco is set to release another book, this time taking aim at more players; most notably Alex Rodriguez.
I have no idea if Alex Rodriguez took steroids or not, but every sensible bone in my body says that he didn't. His body shape is pretty much the same as it has ever been, his hasn't been injured at all throughout his career (as steroid users normally are), and his numbers have been good from the second he entered Major League Baseball. If there's one "superstar" who I'd say has never taken steroids, A-Rod would definitely be on the short list of my answers.
However, this news of Jose having "stuff" on A-Rod is particularly funny because people are now viewing Canseco as a credible source. When Juiced was released, people wrote off Canseco's testimony as crazy, considering that J.C. wasn't one of the more intelligent baseball players in recent memory. He's had a number of off-the-field incidents as well; so basically, people just thought he was out to make money and get 15 more minutes of fame.
Then a funny thing happened; Jose turned out to be right. All of the Congressional hearings about steroid use in professional sports, and the steps that Major League Baseball has taken to curtail steroid use have come directly from Jose's testimony. Considering that nobody except for my brother, the biggest Jose Canseco fan in history, believed Canseco's comments prior to all of the dirt that was uncovered, it was shocking when he turned out to be the honest one.
This time around, people are taking Canseco seriously before his book comes out. I don't think he has any inside information on Rodriguez, for a number of reasons, but people at least have to hear him out since he turned out to have hit the nail on the head with his last book. Hate him or love him, Canseco definitely has America's ear right now. The only remaining question is whether or not the testimony of a former steroid user will be enough to drive the drugs out of professional sports for good.
