Writer Joe Lavin (via Deadpsin) says he has come across a sold-too-early copy of Jose Canseco’s second book, “Vindicated.”
According to Canseco, Lavin reports:
“As for Alex Rodriguez, Canseco says he didn’t inject Rodriguez, but that he ‘introduced Alex to a known supplier of steroids.’ Canseco didn’t mention Rodriguez in the first book because he ‘hated the bastard.’ He was worried that people would have ‘questioned [his] motives’ had he included Rodriguez.”
Lavin says the hatred comes from Canseco’s claims that A-Rod was trying to sleep with Canseco’s wife.
âI really, absolutely, have no reaction,â Rodriguez told The Associated Press today when asked about the claim relating to the steroids distributor. As far as the allegation regarding Cansecoâs wife, Rodriguez responded: âI donât know how to answer that.â
There are others — the Yankees-centric blog River Ave. Blues— hesitant to believe the report by Lavin, normally a humor writer. Lavin says on his Web site that he obtained the book, âVindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and The Battle to Save Baseball,â on Monday from a bookstore in Cambridge, Mass. The book is due to be released April 1.
He says Canseco writes about the infamous June 1998 party at his house. Brian McNamee, Clemensâ former trainer, has said Clemens spoke with Canseco at the barbecue and soon after approached the trainer about using performance-enhancing drugs. According to Lavin, Canseco wrote that Clemens did not attend.
Earlier this year, Canseco gave an affidavit to congressional investigators stating Clemens was not there and that he had never seen Clemens âuse, possess or ask for steroids or human growth hormone.â
Lavin writes, “Canseco even admits that he’s not completely sure that Clemens used steroids. … Canseco wanted to include his suspicions about Clemens in his first book, “Juiced,” but the publishers wouldn’t let him.”
With AP