Canseco confessions (smirk knew of steroid use)

[donsu]

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/story/278257p-238313c.html


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.

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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.
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Conseco also says that all ball players should use steroids, that steroids have made the game of baseball what it is today.

and Conseco said he never slept with Madonna but they did make out one time.....what an interesting twist.

so now we know why smirk mentioned steroids in his speech. they can now refute the book by saying that the pres. said in his speech that he is against steroid use - ring around the rosy...

why did the writer refer to Conseco as "swollen"?

[DenverDem]

1. Hence the strange pre-emptive strike on roids in last year's sotu.

busholini is such a self serving sociopathological prevaricator.

[cthrumatrix]

2. bush only cares about achieveing the end results...not the means

to achieving them

[Psephos]

3. * is an ass, but we should wait for real evidence nonetheless

If Canseco says * "must have known," that's an opinion, not evidence. If Canseco is right (and I suspect he is), then the evidence is waiting to be uncovered. Businesses keep detailed records.

[candle_bright]

7. Good call

I'm a huge Canseco fan, and even have a baseball he autographed in 1993 at the Oakland Coliseum.

But we do indeed have what is only opinion unless and until something solid corroborates this and makes it fact.

[Blue_Tires]

4. ttt

lol

[DrWeird]

5. I'll take republicans seriously on the steroid issue...

when they take Arnold Swartzeneggar to task.

[Psephos]

6. Couldn't have said it better myself n/t