Jose Canseco names names....and one is the chimp!

[tishaLA]

<snip> Among his many bombshells, Canseco claims:

# McGwire introduced Giambi to performance-enhancing drugs and the three of them used to shoot steroids together. Canseco says players on the A's talked openly about injecting in the bathroom stalls, and the clubhouse was an abuser's paradise.

# During the great home run race of 1998, a reporter's accidental discovery of androstenedione in McGwire's locker, may not have been an accident. Canseco says he believes McGwire put the bottle of the steroid "pre-cursor" in his locker so it would be found, thus creating a smokescreen for his extensive use of illegal steroids. Andro, recently criminalized, was legal at the time.

# Some Major League Baseball owners welcomed or condoned steroid use because they believed a power surge would bring back fans after the disastrous 1994-95 work stoppage. President Bush, who was the Rangers' general managing partner in the early '90s, must have known that some of his players were using steroids but chose not to address the issue. White House spokesman Ken Lisaius declined to comment on Canseco's book, but noted that Bush had urged players, coaches and owners to work together to rid sports of steroids during the 2004 State of the Union address.

# Both baseball and the media routinely vilified black and Latin players who misbehaved while they shielded white stars - especially McGwire - who engaged in similar conduct. <snip> NYDailyNews

[MaineDem]

1. Whoaaaaa....this could be major! (nt)

[Skink]

3. It's not like he ran a stop sign and killed somebody.

[toymachines]

4. oh it should be

but how many stories have you heard about bushie that should call for his impeachment or at least embarass the shrub to no end. but so few actually come to poular media, and then they usually have some spin on them so bush aint so bad. so very tired of this crap.

[StClone]

6. Of interest Didn't Bush allude to Steroids use in a Speech?

Seems like Rove had him put that out to soften any news that his Ranges organization was doing steroids.

[indigobusiness]

2. If they only had steroids that made brains bigger.

Among other things.

[kaitykaity]

5. Sorry, but Canseco's a fame whore.

He'd say anything to get his face time.

>>>>

That's what will be used to dismiss his charges
anyway.

I've never liked him, ever since the Earthquake
series when he made his then-wife pump the gas while
he sat in the car.

[tishaLA]

7. I agree with you completely

BUT I don't doubt anything Canseco says here. He loves self-aggrandizement and he's a disgusting person, but I think these charges will make lots of people quake in their boots and help pull back the curtain on the steroid racket even more than the Giambi/Bonds scandal has. And it's probably appropriate that he assigns blame to the players and the owners alike. Who really disbelieves that owners tacitly encouraged steroid use to bring back fans?

[kaitykaity]

8. Oh, I don't doubt the charges.

But my thought on this steriod thing has always been it's
a wink-wink nod-nod all around. The fans don't give two
shits about how the big boppers big bop just so long as
the balls fly out of the yard.

Fans don't like punch-and-judy singe, bunt, sac fly, steal
baseball. They want Earl Weaver.

Players shooting up to make it happen? Who cares?