sure he's a shady character, but only a delusional person would believe that mac wasn't on steroids when canseco and giambi definitely were.  

i personally think all power hitters from the mid-80s until 04 should be kept out of the hall of fame...

The time he drove his car into his own house.

This book is just another sign that our generation of baseball is going to go down in history as the "juiced ERA"

These guys are all adults.  Performance-enhancing drugs have been a part of the game long before steroids came along and they will only get more sophisticated (and, perhaps, undetectable).  As the illicit drug trade has shown (and, for that matter, any form of prohibition) the black market always figures out a way around the rules.  Wringing your hands over it is naive.

I wonder what will happen when the first genetically engineered player breaks the home run record?

Consider the source.  It isn't that any of this would surprise me, if true.  It's just that he has been threatening to "tell all" because he was pissed a few years ago that no one would sign him to a MLB contract.  Basically, he is claiming that every big slugger he's played with used it.  Is he trying to boost sales of his book or is he telling the truth?

He slammed his wife's head against the dashboard too. Don't forget about his domestic violence.

The source is not great, but what he is sounds not only reasonable, but probable. I just hope Carney stayed away from that B.S.. He looked pretty beefed up in "Angels in the Outfield."

...independantly confirms this, then I'm not believing it.  Jose Canseco's a blowhard and he's probably making stuff up to make himself look good.  Kinda like Pete Rose releasing his book and his "apology" right before the HOF inductions to steal Eck and Molitor's thunder.  Jose Canseco is out for only one person, himself, and that makes him untrustworthy.  Now if anybody else of the Bash Brother-era A's says something about McGuire and steroids, then it's probably true.  But Canseco?  I have my doubts.

play in Oakland,(without staying up past your bedtime, that is,)then your opinion doesn't mean much. Whatever your personal opinion is, you're certainly entitled to it --  but it's laughable to hear teenagers and those of you in your early 20's talk like you know what was up in the 80's and early 90's.  You have absolutely no clue. I'm not a big fan of what Canseco let himself become -- but if you think for a second Mac wasn't juicing, you're as naive as they come.  Canseco busted his ass for the A's -- I've never heard a teammate say a bad thing about him. That counts -- not what you think you know.  

...is the image of Canseco and McGwire standing together in a bathroom stall, injecting steroids into each other's bums.  How the hell did you guys fit in their Jose?

I love Big Mac, and I would not be surprised if he did use steroids.  But I won't believe it just because Canseco says it.  He has everything to gain and nothing to lose by implicating all these big names in his book.

And for those of you who said this, it is NOT naive to think Big Mac got big through legal means.  There are plenty of substances on the market which will pump you up without you having to break the law (andro being one of them at the time).  Assuming that McGwire was juicing just because he got huge is irresponsible and stupid.

Could these three guys really fit into one bathroom stall?  Or even two of them?  Something about Jose, Mark & Jason slinking into a bathroom stall to inject each other's rear ends just steps a little bit lower than I care to dwell on.  I hope Canseco is simply chasing the dollar by creating the sleazist scandal he can come up with.  

this is probably as close as he can come to corroborating canseco's allegations without breaking "the code"
from today's sf chronicle article:

However, ex-A's pitcher Dave Stewart wouldn't say Canseco's accusations weren't true.

"I could never say 'Josie' is a liar," Stewart said. "I don't like his work ethic, and I don't like him as a teammate. But one thing I can't say about him is he's a liar.

"As far as what Josie's saying, I can't deny it or verify it. I'm not going to pretend it didn't happen because I don't know. We weren't in the same circles, but I'd have to say he definitely knows what's going on in his circle. Nobody I associated with on the team was a steroid user (among the players Stewart mentioned: Lansford, Rickey Henderson, Dave Henderson and Dennis Eckersley).

"If this is all made up, he'll suffer some serious damages. But if you're an admitted steroid user, believe me, you'd know who uses them."

those who don't think mcgwire used roids must fall into one of two categories, people who are delusional / stupid, and those who were big fans of his and won't be convinced without videotape and dna evidence, and maybe not even then.  i'm reminded of a certain chapelle show episode on oj simpson, michael jackson, and r kelly.  

the one thing i don't believe is canseco's claim that he didn't have sex with madonna, but who can blame him for lying about that...