Jose Canseco's Juice is Running Out...

Rob Neyer has a blog entry today about Jose Canseco's new book. Apparently someone named Joe Lavin got a copy from a bookstore a little sooner than anticipated, though it would surprise me if some of the usual book-reviewing types had not already been given a copy. Of course, River Avenue Blues thinks that the original is a satire anyway, a fake . Looking at the original column, I don't see how it can be anything but a fake. Lavin says that Canseco includes a profane, personal attack/insult to Alex Rodriguez at the end of one chapter, which is something I can't imagine a publisher allowing, or even a ghost writer, as Jose had last time with Steve Kettmann. I doubt he's so refined his writing skills in the last three years that he no longer needs a ghost writer, and I can't imagine that even the most inexperienced one would let something like that through. Lavin says that Canseco was upset that he didn't get mentioned more in the Mitchell Report , quoting him as saying, "I was ... [link]