This man changed baseball more than anyone. While Bud Selig was looking the other way as players were hitting 60 and 70 home runs a year and soaking up all the money that was coming in to MLB, Canseco was honest and exposed these clowns for what they were.
His numbers in chicago his last team his stats were better than when he was in his prime and the next season he has no job, jose makes sence he was black balled period
I've read both of Jose's books. I know quite a bit about steroids. He was on the money. Everything he is saying in this interview...he did come through....and even though he took a lot of crap for a while, the more time goes on, the more he has been completely proven right. Anyone who is still bagging on him for being a snitch or a liar is completely full of it.
porcupinecraig I read his book and I agree with you. It was a great book. I was a female bodybuilder and never took steroids but knew alot about them. Everything he talked about was absolutely true. People need to leave him alone. Look at all the things that came out since his book. BALCO trials and even A-Rods suspension. He was right and not the only who did them. It all came out eventually.
porcupinecraig *_Yup you are so right! Me & my family was also on his side!! I knew he wasn’t just being messy!! But I’ve always backed up the underdog aka the unpopular side lol.._*
Jose was indeed blackballed! But America loves you Jose! We all watched you in the hearings! All the rest of the players should have been arrested for lying under oath ! You were the only one telling the truth!
Tell the truth , suffer the most.Straight up bush league how MLB handled it. Just like organized crime except for the body floating tits up in the Hudson.
People don't like to be told truths they don't want to believe It's easier to just exist in a decided state of ignorance and only listen to things that validate your own predetermined biases
I remember watching this interview when it first aired. I remember being kind of blown away by what he said. But I definitely did not dismiss it. I don't believe at all that his intentions were pure or good, but considering all that came to light in the years following, this interview was one of if not the starting point of changing the course of history for baseball.
Anytime they srop the line “its all in the book” yeah, they do. Money grab. If he was so determined to be honest the book would have been a free blog or something . Canseco is fake news. What is NOT fake news is that cool arch top guitar in your pic.
He definitely was blackballed in baseball but he was the one player that helped clean up baseball but also at the point in time nobody cared cause everybody was making money during that era in baseball plus it was a fun time to watch baseball too
All the players that called him a liar and said he was just trying to sell books at some point after were caught using PED's, or confessed to using PED's, or are even dead from overuse of PED's! So, why has Jose Canseco not been vindicated by CONGRESS, MLB, OWNERS, and other PLAYERS?!!
My dog just left a pile of Jim Rome on the carpet. My dog just left a pile of Jim Rome on the carpet. My dog just left a pile of Jim Rome on the carpet.
Jim Rome asks a lot of leading questions, it's amusing that the union was pushing against steroid testing; if that was the case (which I think it was) then why didn't the union protect Jose when he wasn't publicly admitting to steroid use. Bonds was WAY more obvious a steroid user between 2003-2008.
Jim Rome put him as 'on the bubble' for HOF, even Jose doesn't consider himself to have had a HOF career (though really coming down to not having 500 HR's and he would have that if not benched for collusion to lower pay in his last 2 seasons or if he had gotten to continue playing.)
he definitely got blackballed, from the game and from 500 HRs........but honestly, he should have reached it before the blackballing. Injuries and the 94 strike really killed his potential numbers.
Basically he introduced the steroids which is a banned drug owners look at the records and they saw the single season get passed so many times and they saw the individual homerun record get passed by Barry bonds who obviously was on steroids
Baseball blackballed him and now this is his way of getting back at them. Im sure all the other self absorbed juice heads that were involved relized this was happening to him and turned a blind eye. I can see why hes mad at baseball
I said all along since the steroid talk that if MLB said X, Y and Z is banned but there was no testing in place they are partly to blame. Yes anyone who took PEDs cheated but when you ban things like that or supplements you have to test for them.
I seen this interview years ago . I think the average person would be totally amazed at who actually took the juice in all of sports. The Hall of Fame is filled with people doing anything and everything to succeed. Can you imagine how many rule violations that went unchecked from a corked bat to grease hidden in their glove. Cheating is cheating, but the majority never got caught.
baseball was in dire straits after the 94' baseball strike. ped's in baseball saved baseball, and the mlb didn't want to admit to it. they only wanted the sport to become popular again. so the mlb turned a blind eye to the steriods the players were using, because it was invigorating the sport. shame on the other players and the sport-itself, for not admitting that canseco was right. and i have to applaud canseco for his willingness to withstand the fire and criticism for telling the truth. the sport is a lot better today, for canseco letting the world know what was actually taking place.
I really dislike the attitude that because those two 'saved' the game after the strike, we should overlook their violations or enshrine them as heroes. The history of steroids in baseball shouldn't be whitewashed, but let's not justify their inclusion in the HOF because they were popular at the time.
Players should be judged by the game in the era they played in. McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, Palmeiro, Clemens, etc etc etc all deserve to be in the hall of fame. Let's not forget Satchel Paige was a RAMPANT cheater (spit balls, snot balls, etc), Babe Ruth had all kinds of problems and was more of a prima donna than Barry Bonds. Late 80's to the 2010's is the steroid era. McGwire and Sosa should be in just because that home run raced saved the game after the 93/94 strike.
I think Jose is full of himself BUT he was blackballed. He also took a lot of heat when his book came out but has been proven correct over time. His book gave the MLB a black eye and the MLB wanted him gone.
***** I have known Cubans who look down on Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. Cubans are like Argentines, they look down on other Hispanic cultures. As far as Canseco is concerned, he was welcomed with open arms in Oakland like no other player before him. If someone made racial slurs to him from the stands in Oakland, they would get their tail kicked. He was not the first Hispanic star for Oakland. Tony Armas was before him, and was quite a player (okay it took a few seasons for him to get polished).
***** Oh the subject of bigotry in America. I am part Italian in ancestry, so I too should be included among Latins. I laugh when Latinos refer to people like me as "Anglos". I am part Irish also. We are Celtic, not Anglo. If you call an Irishman in a Belfast Pub an Anglo, he'll deck you. Anyways, if you read his book, you will notice he ends up not having very many nice things to say about other Latin players also. Hell, he ratted them all out for steroid use. Since you are on CZcams, go to "kingsnake kills rat". That is how I feel about rats like Canseco.
What? Seriously? Don't you care if your sport is pure or not? Those guys were cheaters and cowards who couldn't face their own physical limitations, or who hadn't the integrity to not take part in the rampant doping. Who cares if Canseco 'snitched'? I'm glad he did, even if he did it for selfish reasons.
Hahahahahah. Just trying to promote his shitty book. Well Jim, I won't answer your questions directly, because I'm busy and don't got time to repeat things, but it's in the book. So read the book.
Do you believe you were blackballed? Check that. Why do you believe you were blackballed? Check that. What’s in the book? Check that. Why write the book and break the code? Check that. Are you a snitch?
People called him snitch. Turns out he was a whistleblower.
Which means hes a snitch... a whistleblower IS a snitch it literally is the same thing.
This man changed baseball more than anyone. While Bud Selig was looking the other way as players were hitting 60 and 70 home runs a year and soaking up all the money that was coming in to MLB, Canseco was honest and exposed these clowns for what they were.
He says “read the book” a lot, but in this case, there was a very good reason everyone needed to read the book!!
I love Jim Rome and I am proud that Jose admitted to all of this. Peace.
His numbers in chicago his last team his stats were better than when he was in his prime and the next season he has no job, jose makes sence he was black balled period
Of course cause he ratted out MLB & PLAYER'S ALIKE! HE WAS THE ONLY TRUE HERO
I've read both of Jose's books. I know quite a bit about steroids. He was on the money. Everything he is saying in this interview...he did come through....and even though he took a lot of crap for a while, the more time goes on, the more he has been completely proven right. Anyone who is still bagging on him for being a snitch or a liar is completely full of it.
porcupinecraig Snitch part is definitely true. Liar part has been debunked one by one over time...
porcupinecraig I read his book and I agree with you. It was a great book. I was a female bodybuilder and never took steroids but knew alot about them. Everything he talked about was absolutely true. People need to leave him alone. Look at all the things that came out since his book. BALCO trials and even A-Rods suspension. He was right and not the only who did them. It all came out eventually.
+Benjamin Sheffield It's hard to see him as a "snitch", considering the severity of the offenses.
porcupinecraig *_Yup you are so right! Me & my family was also on his side!! I knew he wasn’t just being messy!! But I’ve always backed up the underdog aka the unpopular side lol.._*
@@jeffw1267 wtf do you mean foo he told on a bunch of people, definition of a snitch lol
Jose was indeed blackballed! But America loves you Jose! We all watched you in the hearings! All the rest of the players should have been arrested for lying under oath ! You were the only one telling the truth!
Tell the truth , suffer the most.Straight up bush league how MLB handled it. Just like organized crime except for the body floating tits up in the Hudson.
I am not sure why so many people dislike this guy. Seems to me he just stated the obvious in print.
People don't like to be told truths they don't want to believe
It's easier to just exist in a decided state of ignorance and only listen to things that validate your own predetermined biases
It's because everything he says and does has a hidden agenda behind it.
@Trzn 2 money causes a lot of crazy things to happen. But he doesn’t lie when it comes to what happened during his career.
It's like those students who cheat in class. Yes, you see it but do you want to be the one who raises his hand and tattles publicly for all to see?
@@j.c.5016 cheating in class, more significant if it's a doctor who will become a lousy doctor then if it's a lawyer who will become a typical lawyer.
What a book it was!! He wasnt lying.
A great hitter no doubt.
Great interview... Love Jim and Jose
Jose, how are you?
It's in the book.
😂😂😂😂
7beers 🤣🤣🤣 *_LOL knock it off!!_*
I dont mind him. He's helped clean up the game with the awareness of steroids
Azwel they havent actually cleaned up though
Robinson Cano was just banned 80 games, so still not clean. and there's bound to be more out there
Thats 1/2 a major league season, that could be it for some guys..i hope they continue to make punishments harsher
@@PrideofPitchers Ryan Braun was wayyyyy after the Canseco saga as well
I’m glad the game has been cleaned up.
Jim was skeptical but that book changed baseball FOREVER!!
Jose changed my life. I would of never picked up a bat if it wasn’t for Jose Canseco.
Me too, I would’ve never started using steroids. Got me a D3 scholarship
People just hate when someone tells the truth.
He looks like someone straight out of a Mexican soap opera
cuban soap opera,lol but yeah
40 /40 year he was the Michael Jordan of Baseball
He had a terrible World Series, though. MJ never even had a bad game in the Finals.
Jose is a national treasure
He wasn’t overselling the book.
Jose Canseco has the guts to say what nobody else does
Check out a documentary on Jose called "the truth hurts". I'm not a baseball fan at all, but it was absolutely fascinating. He was very candid in it.
I remember watching this interview when it first aired. I remember being kind of blown away by what he said. But I definitely did not dismiss it. I don't believe at all that his intentions were pure or good, but considering all that came to light in the years following, this interview was one of if not the starting point of changing the course of history for baseball.
Now a low average and a HR every 11 AB gets you a job for sure
PUT HIM IN THE HALL OF FAME !!!!!!!!!
Andrew Flood Then put Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, etc in the HOF
he woulda hit 60 hr in tampa had he not got injured
Miss him
Yup
@@jennifercollin8929boo hoo,
You can tell by the way he speaks he’s telling the truth...
"Read my book" Jose Canseco throughout the entire interview lol!
$$$$$$$$
I'm getting a solid vibe he wants us to read a book....
+Es Gibson Duh..... wouldn't you if you wrote a book?
Anytime they srop the line “its all in the book” yeah, they do. Money grab. If he was so determined to be honest the book would have been a free blog or something . Canseco is fake news. What is NOT fake news is that cool arch top guitar in your pic.
Crazy how all this is true and it turned out he was the good guy
One of the few athletes I envy his talent.
He definitely was blackballed in baseball but he was the one player that helped clean up baseball but also at the point in time nobody cared cause everybody was making money during that era in baseball plus it was a fun time to watch baseball too
Jim Rome should of wore a "Team MLB" shirt during the interview....
Fun Fact he’s also the Red Ranger in Power Ranger Abridge Series
MLB tried to make him the fall guy for steroids in the league. It backfired.
All the players that called him a liar and said he was just trying to sell books at some point after were caught using PED's, or confessed to using PED's, or are even dead from overuse of PED's! So, why has Jose Canseco not been vindicated by CONGRESS, MLB, OWNERS, and other PLAYERS?!!
JOSE HIGHLY INTELLIGENT PERSON
Yeahhhh, he could a been a dentist, an astronaut, a librarian
My dog just left a pile of Jim Rome on the carpet. My dog just left a pile of Jim Rome on the carpet. My dog just left a pile of Jim Rome on the carpet.
I was going to listen to this but then I stopped it and read the book
Rome looks redic rocking his “lettuce tight” back in the day. Jose is very Hulk like
At least he admitted it unlike bonds, the big cheater
Jim Rome has really nice hair.
His book was published and brought attention to many such as MLB, media, fans, and Congress. His book destroyed MLB reputation.
I love Cuban Americans. Totally against communism and giving up stuff for free. “Buy the book.” True American capitalist. God bless Jose Canseco.
That's my body; snaps for some reason about that.
Is Rome actually questioning Jose Canseco about being blackballed?
Base Ruth was clean and will NEVER be beaten.
Jose Canseco has nice hair👍🏻, no homo now..
Jim Rome asks a lot of leading questions, it's amusing that the union was pushing against steroid testing; if that was the case (which I think it was) then why didn't the union protect Jose when he wasn't publicly admitting to steroid use. Bonds was WAY more obvious a steroid user between 2003-2008.
Jim Rome put him as 'on the bubble' for HOF, even Jose doesn't consider himself to have had a HOF career (though really coming down to not having 500 HR's and he would have that if not benched for collusion to lower pay in his last 2 seasons or if he had gotten to continue playing.)
Great job by Jim Rome as always....and Jose Canseco by telling it like It is.....
he definitely got blackballed, from the game and from 500 HRs........but honestly, he should have reached it before the blackballing. Injuries and the 94 strike really killed his potential numbers.
D Fake numbers anyway. He cheated
Told on everyone.
Canseco power
IM JOSE CANSECOOO!!!!!!!
Read the book
Hey Jim, call me "Josie" and see what I do to you!
Jim "Chris" Everett was NEVER as pumped up as Jose!!!
Did you guys read the book?
I looked at the pictures
Basically he introduced the steroids which is a banned drug owners look at the records and they saw the single season get passed so many times and they saw the individual homerun record get passed by Barry bonds who obviously was on steroids
Say what you want about this guy, but everything he said about other players, ended up being the truth.
Baseball blackballed him and now this is his way of getting back at them. Im sure all the other self absorbed juice heads that were involved relized this was happening to him and turned a blind eye. I can see why hes mad at baseball
How could anyone take Jim Rome seriously?
Steroids or no steroids a great player
Who -- Rome or Canseco? Or both?
I think he really wants us to read his book
So, we now know. McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, etc...steroids induced. I like it. Hit 'em hard and deep.
Players liked Canseco? In Oakland Dave Stewart and others there did not. His only friend was Walt Weiss.
i heard the Hendersons liked him. Dave and Rickey.
Mark McGwire and him were good friends...Same with Arod...pretty much everyone liked him.untill.they got ratted out
I said all along since the steroid talk that if MLB said X, Y and Z is banned but there was no testing in place they are partly to blame.
Yes anyone who took PEDs cheated but when you ban things like that or supplements you have to test for them.
He was blacklisted, so he got mlb back with the books. #revenge
I have a real signed comparison I’m like a righty “ joe Jackson or shoeless joe -Ames senior high school -CIML I’m all out northern player
4.3 Jim
I seen this interview years ago . I think the average person would be totally amazed at who actually took the juice in all of sports. The Hall of Fame is filled with people doing anything and everything to succeed. Can you imagine how many rule violations that went unchecked from a corked bat to grease hidden in their glove. Cheating is cheating, but the majority never got caught.
Did you watch this interview when it aired?
baseball was in dire straits after the 94' baseball strike. ped's in baseball saved baseball, and the mlb didn't want to admit to it. they only wanted the sport to become popular again. so the mlb turned a blind eye to the steriods the players were using, because it was invigorating the sport.
shame on the other players and the sport-itself, for not admitting that canseco was right. and i have to applaud canseco for his willingness to withstand the fire and criticism for telling the truth.
the sport is a lot better today, for canseco letting the world know what was actually taking place.
I didn't want to believe it and i didn't want to except it but it's a fact.
I really dislike the attitude that because those two 'saved' the game after the strike, we should overlook their violations or enshrine them as heroes. The history of steroids in baseball shouldn't be whitewashed, but let's not justify their inclusion in the HOF because they were popular at the time.
Hey Jimbo if he would have told you what's in the book you wouldn't buy it.
Anything you weren't willing to say then you shouldn't be saying now.
Players should be judged by the game in the era they played in. McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, Palmeiro, Clemens, etc etc etc all deserve to be in the hall of fame. Let's not forget Satchel Paige was a RAMPANT cheater (spit balls, snot balls, etc), Babe Ruth had all kinds of problems and was more of a prima donna than Barry Bonds. Late 80's to the 2010's is the steroid era. McGwire and Sosa should be in just because that home run raced saved the game after the 93/94 strike.
1 more thing...if the book is supposed to be about him..why did he take everyone down because his feelings were hurt??
Because they ignored and black balled him too by not answering his calls.
I think Jose is full of himself BUT he was blackballed. He also took a lot of heat when his book came out but has been proven correct over time. His book gave the MLB a black eye and the MLB wanted him gone.
A book he thought would blow Ball Four out of the water ? Yeah not so much.
Rome is going gray here but total dye job at CBS....War Just for Men!
He talks about racism in Oakland. I have been an A's fan since 1975. He complains of racism more than any A's player I can think of.
***** I have known Cubans who look down on Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. Cubans are like Argentines, they look down on other Hispanic cultures. As far as Canseco is concerned, he was welcomed with open arms in Oakland like no other player before him. If someone made racial slurs to him from the stands in Oakland, they would get their tail kicked. He was not the first Hispanic star for Oakland. Tony Armas was before him, and was quite a player (okay it took a few seasons for him to get polished).
***** Oh the subject of bigotry in America. I am part Italian in ancestry, so I too should be included among Latins. I laugh when Latinos refer to people like me as "Anglos". I am part Irish also. We are Celtic, not Anglo. If you call an Irishman in a Belfast Pub an Anglo, he'll deck you. Anyways, if you read his book, you will notice he ends up not having very many nice things to say about other Latin players also. Hell, he ratted them all out for steroid use. Since you are on CZcams, go to "kingsnake kills rat". That is how I feel about rats like Canseco.
Tequila sunrise and breakfast;more than likely visit with the family children,;Smoke with me;Grown folk or what not.
Being "Black balled" comes from freemasonry.
Dude has no legs..huge upper body..how did PPL not know he was on.
"why do the book?". To make money. Of course.
Tom Smith to tell the truth you dumb ass. You obviously don’t like the truth. I bet you support the Clinton s also
Rome was on roids too
jose was a very good player, who cares that he took steroids, i think every pro sports should take steroids
What? Seriously? Don't you care if your sport is pure or not? Those guys were cheaters and cowards who couldn't face their own physical limitations, or who hadn't the integrity to not take part in the rampant doping. Who cares if Canseco 'snitched'? I'm glad he did, even if he did it for selfish reasons.
If you were on the Oakland As at any point throughout the 90s...youre suspect
Hahahahahah. Just trying to promote his shitty book.
Well Jim, I won't answer your questions directly, because I'm busy and don't got time to repeat things, but it's in the book. So read the book.
If he wants to admit his own mistakes, fine. Absolutely no reason to bring down others, just to make a profit. This man is an absolute disgrace.
Bear10312 completely disagree. If you know things like this are going on you should absolutely be reporting it. Your thinking is idiotic
Do you believe you were blackballed?
Check that.
Why do you believe you were blackballed?
Check that.
What’s in the book?
Check that.
Why write the book and break the code?
Check that.
Are you a snitch?
Girly man?
You took roids, do what's right and you have a job
I want to be like jose canseco, a swoll roided filthy rich retired athlete
You could do as many roids you wanted and you'll never play a day of MLB Baseball
Go read the book. Really? I don't own a team, but, if I did, I'd probably blackball him on spec.
No if, ands or buts about it
Jose Canseco ceased being Jose Canseco and somehow became CHRIS...bet he doesnt say it again,,bet he does