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After months of talking about naming names in a tell-all book, retired slugger Jose Canseco is about to do just that.

 

The New York Daily News published details of the former slugger's book, which is still in the editing stages, in Sunday's editions.

 

Canseco writes that he personally injected Mark McGwire with the drug and that he saw McGwire and Jason Giambi inject each other, according to the paper.

 

McGwire, who has long denied steroid use, said in a statement to the paper: "I have always told the truth and I am saddened that I continue to face this line of questioning. With regard to this book, I am reserving comment until I have the chance to review its contents myself."

 

Giambi's agent, Arn Tellem, took issue with Canseco's credibility.

 

"This book, which attacks baseball and many of its players, was written to make a quick buck by a guy desperate for attention, who has appeared on more police blotters then lineup cards in recent years, has no runs, no hits and is all errors," Tellem told the Daily News.

 

Canseco writes that President Bush "had to have been aware" of rampant steroid use on the Texas Rangers when he owned the club in the early 1990s, the Daily News reported.

 

Canseco also claims he introduced the performance enhancers to Rafael Palmeiro, Ivan Rodriguez, and Juan Gonzalez when he joined the Rangers in 1992.

 

The White House had no comment on Canseco's specific allegation, but did say the President called on leagues and players unions to eradicate steroid use in his 2004 State of the Union address.

 

The book is due in bookstores Feb. 21.

 

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So there were group steroid injections? Good times.

 

The Pudge comment is interesting considering all his injuries in the late 90s. I had never really thought of him as a steroid user, but I can kind of see it now.

 

Juan probably took roids.

 

Pamleiro...who knows

I was reading about this earlier. Canseco needs to have his privileges of speaking to the media revoked. I think he needs to be stripped of his 1st amendment rights... He's such a tool...

 

Obviously, I'm exaggerating about revoking his rights, but who's gonna take this guy seriously anyways?? Giambi's lawyer is 100% right. This is all coming from a guy who is extremely desperate for attention. He'll say about anything right now to get the focus on him and make some money.

The front cover of the Daily News is hiAdmin! It may be Super Bowl Sunday and all but you couldn't tell from the cover.

So there were group steroid injections? Good times.

 

The Pudge comment is interesting considering all his injuries in the late 90s. I had never really thought of him as a steroid user, but I can kind of see it now.

 

Juan probably took roids.

 

Pamleiro...who knows

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with Palmeiro, we do know he took stuff that made his bat hard

Canseco confessions

 

Tell-all outs steroid users

 

By MICHAEL O'KEEFFE

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

 

 

 

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.

 

"Hoo boy," one top major league executive said. "This is going to be bad."

 

Canseco apparently dropped the title he told reporters a year ago he would use, "Dare to Truth."

 

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.

 

White House spokesman Ken Lisaius declined to comment on the allegations, but he noted that President Bush called on players and owners during his 2004 State of the Union address to get rid of steroids and applauded the beefed-up drug policy Major League Baseball and the Players Association agreed to in December.

 

"This President's position on steroids has been clear for some time," Lisaius said.

 

The book is an homage to steroids, and Canseco says that he not only used them, but that all players should. He concedes that kids shouldn't use them and no one should abuse the muscle-building drugs, but Canseco practically offers a how-to guide to steroids and human growth hormone.

 

He also says he never would have made it to the major leagues - much less become the 1988 American League MVP - without their help.

 

Canseco, who played for seven teams before retiring last spring after an unsuccessful comeback attempt with the Los Angeles Dodgers, is not likely to be received warmly by many of his old teammates. He harshly criticizes baseball's double standard for white players and says that both owners and the Players Association were complicit in the spread of steroids in the late 1990s.

 

The book, which is still being edited, dishes plenty of dirt about the wild life of a young, rich ballplayer with a healthy sexual appetite, among other shocking revelations, but also talks about the harsh treatment he and his brother received from their father, and the painful death of their mother.

 

Perhaps the biggest shock in the book? Canseco says he never slept with Madonna. They made out in her Manhattan apartment one night, he claims, but that's as far as it went.

Disappointing, but certainly belivable.

Wouldn't be surprised, sad really...

Pudge has always had "the look" of a steriod user, which isn't neccessarily proof positive, but I wouldn't be surprised.

 

Also, I saw him last week, and he looks significantly "deflated", for what it's worth.

 

I would be a little surprised if that were true about Palmeiro, but who knows...

Pudge has always had "the look" of a steriod user, which isn't neccessarily proof positive, but I wouldn't be surprised.

 

Also, I saw him last week, and he looks significantly "deflated", for what it's worth.

 

I would be a little surprised if that were true about Palmeiro, but who knows...

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Pudge doesn't really surprise me, I've thought about the possibilities of him being a steroid user before. He's built like a truck, or a fitness celebrity for that matter.

I never really thought about Palmiero though.

ah, Jose Canseco. The most believable of all sources.

 

not that i don't think it's true.

ah, Jose Canseco. The most believable of all sources.

 

not that i don't think it's true.

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He may sell a book to me. Nothing beats steroid abuser gossip. :thumbup

good for Jose. Here's a guy who got blackballed for doing nothing wrong, and doing what so many other players do. So, he came out with a book pointing out some of these guys who haven't gotten any crap, and in the process making money that MLB screwed him out of (although not nearly as much)

I can see Mac, Pudge, and Juan Gone doing it. But nothing about Palmeiro ever said roider.

Mark McGwire is a painfully obvious one. The dude had acne, the huge jaw, man-boobs, and got freaking huge in his later days. Pudge and Juan Gon are believable too, but I'm not sure about Ralphy. I'm sure if they're low on cash they'll have a bookdeal/expose to let the fans know.

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Coral Park and Jackson High

I believe everything Canseco said except that he didn't sleep with Madonna.

 

I mean c'mon...

This is the perfect script for one of those crazy Korean baseball comics. McGwire bending over and injecting steroids into Giambi's ass, hilarious.

This is the perfect script for one of those crazy Korean baseball comics. McGwire bending over and injecting steroids into Giambi's ass, hilarious.

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:lol :lol Clever.

LaRussa rips Jose Canseco

 

 

Cards manager Tony La Russa came to the defense of Mark McGwire (left) amid allegations from Jose Canseco about steroid use. (Chris Lee/P-D)

 

Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, who had Mark McGwire on his teams in Oakland as well as St. Louis, angrily fired back Sunday at former A's star Jose Canseco. Canseco, according to a New York Daily News story published on the weekend, claims in his upcoming book that he injected McGwire with steroids and that McGwire and Jason Giambi injected each other with steroids while all were with the A's.

 

"I just hope that the paper that made a big deal of Jose's accusations gives the same attention to those of us who know Mark," La Russa said. "I couldn't disagree more. I categorically refuse to accept anything that Jose says about Mark."

 

La Russa said that upon hearing of the Canseso book he talked to Cardinals coach Dave McKay, who was involved with McGwire's workouts in Oakland and St. Louis.

 

"The biggest key for McGwire is that all of his strength and size gains came from five or six days a week of hitting the gym with a very disciplined workout, his protein intake and careful dieting," La Russa said. "He was probably in the gym 10 times more than Jose, and Jose was bigger."

 

La Russa added that McGwire, as the latter admitted, also had taken androstenedione, which was a legal supplement in baseball until last year..

 

"I've seen (McGwire's) workouts and I've seen what he went through," La Russa said. "I shake my head at Jose taking a personal thing and ... making excuses for himself by demeaning someone else. It reminds me of when he was trying to come back with Montreal and he got cut. He claimed baseball was trying to blackball him. This was a time when baseball was looking for players all over the place, and they're blackballing Jose?"

 

La Russa questioned Canseco's motivation in writing the book.

 

"The more sensational the actions, obviously the better chance he has to recover some of his money. My guess is that he's in dire straits for finances," La Russa said. "And it's almost a human condition that he's probably jealous as hell of Mark - that Mark's kept his life together instead of what Jose did to himself. I think it's a matter of needing money and being jealous."

 

The Daily News quoted one baseball official as largely agreeing with La Russa. The official said that Canseco's claims in the book about steroids and rampant sexual impropriety in baseball were nonsense.

 

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BURNED!!!!

La Russa Disputes Claims in Canseco's Book

 

 

Jose Canseco, right, accuses Mark McGwire of using steroids while they were members of the A's.

 

Tony La Russa had two young sluggers on his Oakland Athletics teams of the late 1980's. Mark McGwire trained vigorously to become one of baseball's most productive power hitters, La Russa said yesterday. Then there was Jose Canseco, who reportedly implicates McGwire as a steroid user in his new book.

 

"I am absolutely certain that Mark earned his size and strength from hard work and a disciplined lifestyle," La Russa, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals since 1996, said in a telephone interview yesterday. "When he was a kid in 1987, he hit 49 home runs. It's a real shame. For some people, this is going to put a stain."

 

La Russa said Canseco and McGwire were "not really close," and he strongly disputed the idea that McGwire used steroids, let alone allowed Canseco to administer them.

 

"We detailed Mark's workout routine - six days a week, 12 months a year - and you could see his size and weight gain come through really hard work, a disciplined regimen and the proteins he took - all legal," La Russa said.

 

"As opposed to the other guy, Jose, who would play around in the gym for 10 minutes, and all of a sudden he's bigger than anybody."

 

Dave McKay, who coached McGwire in Oakland and in St. Louis and monitored his workouts, defended him yesterday.

 

"I swear on a stack of Bibles, I never saw him ever go anywhere near anything that would have a chance of hurting his body like a steroid," McKay said in a telephone interview. "He's a guy who's always preaching about health. I can't ever dream of Mark using steroids."

 

La Russa and McKay said that Canseco would speak openly about steroids and ignored advice to stop using them. "He'd say, 'Come on, man, what are you talking about? I got the world by the tail,' " La Russa said. "Sometimes you suspected, and then guys would deny it. Jose would make a joke of it."

 

La Russa said he believed Canseco had several motives for writing the book.

 

"He's hurting for money and he needs to make a score," La Russa said. "What's a more sensational thing to say, and who's a more sensational target to pick than Mark?

 

"Secondly, I think he's very envious and jealous that Mark had the career he had. If you line them up side by side, which we did in '86, '87, '88, Jose was the more talented player and, in fact, more intelligent about the game.

 

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Just a sad situation

This is very questionable considering the source (Jose Canseco).

 

Would I put my hands on the fire for Rafael, Pudge and Juan Gone? Hell NO. However, there is a reason why Palmeiro needs Viagra

 

I think McGwire took more than andro.

 

Jose is going to sell a lot of books, perfect timing on his part.

Like ive posted before....ive known Canseco since i was 8 years old and he use to take me to spring training with him till i was about 15-16....i personally saw Jose give Giambi and McGuire steroids...i know that Pudge did take them as well as Gonzalez...I can say though that i personally never saw or heard of Palmero taking anything but Viagra...

Jose is a good guy,he's just mad at the world cause he thinks baseball Black Balled him and in a way they did but trust me i personally told him this book is not a good idea that its just gonna bring more hate to him and he's never gonna be able to show his face again around baseball people...

It certainly explains Juan Gonzalez's demise over the past few years

I like how he calls out Dubbya saying he had to know the steroid abuse was going on while he owned the Rangers.