Come To Think Of It...Canseco Targets A-Rod in New Book

 
Jose Canseco's new book,  Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and The Battle to Save Baseball , is due out in stores on April 1st. That's April Fool's Day, quite appropriately. And according to the Web site of freelance writer Joe Lavin, the book alleges that Canseco introduced A-Rod to a steroids distributor.  Oh, and by the way, apparently A-Rod was trying to have sex with Canseco's wife too. Lavin claims he obtained Canseco's book from a bookstore in Cambridge, Mass. On his Web site, he claims that Canseco says he didn't actually inject A-Rod with steroids but introduced him to a known supplier of steroids. The book apparently also alleges that Magglio Ordonez used 'roids. Lavin wrote that the reference is “that old yarn of one player injecting another with steroids, possibly in the buttocks.”  A-Rod's reply to Canseco's steroid claim? "I really, absolutely have no reaction."  His reply to the claims about Canseco's wife? "I don't ... [link]

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