Jose Canseco now feels guilty for mentioning players’ names in his book “Juiced”, which focused on the use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball.
During the A&E Network’s one-hour documentary “Jose Canseco: The Last Shot,” Canseco said he “regrets mentioning players [as steroid users]. I never realized this was going to blow up and hurt so many people.”
During the program, the 44-year-old Canseco said he “wanted revenge” on Major League Baseball because he believed he had been forced out of the game. The book was his means of getting even, and he named names “to show I was telling the truth” about steroids in baseball, he said.
Canseco last played in 2001 and retired in 2002 with 462 career home runs, a .266 batting average, 1,407 RBIs and 200 stolen bases for eight major league clubs.
Among the names Canseco named in “Juiced” as alleged steroid users were Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro and Sammy Sosa. All three addressed the congressional hearing on steroids, with McGwire’s testimony damaging his chances of being voted into Cooperstown and Palmeiro’s unequivocal denial of steroid use haunting him when he later tested positive and was suspended.
“If I could meet with Mark McGwire and these players, I definitely would apologize to them,” Canseco said, according to the New York Daily News. “They were my friends. I admired them. I respected them.”
What a shocker – Canseco feels guilty for being a rat and throwing players and former teammates under the bus. He sold his soul for a cheap dollar and 15 minutes of fame and now he realizes nobody likes him. The sad thing is that given the opportunity, he would probably do it all again.
