Jose Canseco appeared on the David Letterman show last night to promote his new book Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball
. I’m not sure why Canseco suggests that he is battling to save baseball; perhaps it has something to do with his defense of Roger Clemens from steroid allegations by trainer Brian McNamee? (“Canseco visits Letterman; defends Clemens again,” March 31)
“We trusted each other, we played a lot of golf together,” Canseco said. “His family knew my family. His wife and my wife at the time talked a lot and we shared private information, and, yeah, we kind of jested and joked about using steroids, but I never injected him, never supplied him, never saw anyone give him steroids and he never tried to acquire steroids from me. And I would try to actually give him information about myself, but he never seemed like he used it at all.”
Canseco then goes on to tell about the wonderful comraderie and high morality in Major League Baseball by explaining how Alex Rodriguez may have slept with his wife at the time.
“I started realizing that he somehow acquired her beeper number and her phone number and started calling her,” Canseco said. “I definitely believe and I know that something happened after that … “
“But you said, ‘You believe and you know,’ so which is it?”‘ Letterman asked. “You know for a fact or you believe something happened?”
“I know for a fact, but I think my ex-wife Jessica could answer that better,” he said. “You should probably have her on the show.”
Canseco re-visits Rafael Palmeiro’s testimony before Congress; Canseco believes there was a conspiracy between Rafael Palmeiro and Major League Baseball to cover up and suppress Palmeiro’s positive steroid test result in order to allow Palmeiro to credibly testify against Canseco before Congress. Watch the video at the Late Show with David Letterman website.
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Millard writes about anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs and their use and impact in sport and society. He discusses the medical and non-medical uses of anabolic-androgenic steroids while advocating a harm reduction approach to steroid education.
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