Canseco is a self serving .......

[Jeffy25]

Slightly off-topic, but speaking of self-serving a$$holes, how did I know this was coming? A true attention whore if ever there was one.

sweet!

[guidi2009]

Would I want to hang out with Canseco? no, but he did what Mcgwire and others didn't. He told the truth

[Jeffy25]

he told the truth 5 years later

so did A-Rod

[HoustonGM]

Would I want to hang out with Canseco? no, but he did what Mcgwire and others didn't. He told the truth

Once his career was over and he needed to make money.

You can't praise Canseco for telling the truth a couple years after he retired when he was in financial straits while at the same time criticizing McGwire for telling the truth because he wants to contribute to baseball again.

[Jeffy25]

touche HGM

[BenFink]

While Jose did prove to be right on many accounts, he has also obviously gone way to far with all of this. He's taking all the credibility earned and spreading it quite thinly.
He knows he can say anything and he'll get TV time and book sales, therefore the incentive is for him to blabber on about anything.
I think Canseco should be done, he said what he wanted to say now go away.

[TheNamelessPoet]

Funny
I just watched the Rookie again last night

the 3 jerseys of guys on the team
Boggs
Canseco
Mcgriff

[oriole^]

Once his career was over and he needed to make money.

You can't praise Canseco for telling the truth a couple years after he retired when he was in financial straits while at the same time criticizing McGwire for telling the truth because he wants to contribute to baseball again.

Maybe. But McGwire's being let back in with open arms, and Canseco will likely be stoned to death if he sets foot in a major league stadium again.

Canseco blew the whistle, and he blew it loud...and he's been right more often than...well, McGwire.

[YEAH DAAAAWG]

Canseco was also trying to essentially damage the industry of baseball. He was pissed because he thought he was blackballed out of the league and wanted revenge.

[Arctic Blast]

So...McGwire isn't being self serving by admitting to things now that he wants back in to the game? Sorry, that doesn't make sense. If Canseco was doing so when he wrote the books (and he was), then McGwire is doing the same thing now.

[YEAH DAAAAWG]

So...McGwire isn't being self serving by admitting to things now that he wants back in to the game? Sorry, that doesn't make sense. If Canseco was doing so when he wrote the books (and he was), then McGwire is doing the same thing now.

He's already back in the game, he was on the Cardinals coaching roster before he came out and talked about it. He didn't have to fess up to it like he did. At all.

[grasshopper]

Canseco is a scumbag, yet he told the truth. McGwire held on to the lie until he re-entered baseball this year. Who is actually the bigger scumbag? The only reason Mark came clean is that LaRussa whispered in his ear. And he still is lying. "I only used it to come back from injury. " He was a steroid case in college.

I think McGwire is way worse than Canseco.

[HoustonGM]

Canseco is a scumbag, yet he told the truth. McGwire held on to the lie until he re-entered baseball this year. Who is actually the bigger scumbag?

Canseco didn't tell the truth until he needed money.

The only reason Mark came clean is that LaRussa whispered in his ear. And he still is lying. "I only used it to come back from injury. " He was a steroid case in college.

And you know this how? Why would he admit to the most damning thing of all (using steroids in 1998), but lie about when he started?

[HoustonGM]

http://bases.nbcsports.com/2010/01/t...think.html.php

I actually agree with 90% of what La Russa says regarding McGwire in this interview. And I completely understand both the intellectual and emotional reasons for why he defends Mark McGwire. But for him to continue to claim that he had no idea what was happening in his clubhouse without anyone accusing him of incompetence, willful ignorance or tacit complicity is utterly baffling to me.

The only conclusion I can draw is that those who claim L'affaire McGwire is such a big deal are not nearly as serious about the subject of steroids in baseball as they are in scoring easy points and trafficking in phony moral outrage. Because if the outrage was real, it would be directed at Tony La Russa. And Bud Selig. And the owners, agents, managers, sponsors, reporters and everyone else who either knew about steroids or were willfully blind to the issue back in the day.

[Jeffy25]

So...McGwire isn't being self serving by admitting to things now that he wants back in to the game? Sorry, that doesn't make sense. If Canseco was doing so when he wrote the books (and he was), then McGwire is doing the same thing now.

I feel Canseco is self serving because of his current attitude. I don't see McGwire coming clean on any of this to self serve at all. I think he feels he needed to. It's not like he was forced to, he could have coached and never came clean.

Canseco just wants attention, and wants people to think he still matters.