Jose Canseco, the self-proclaimed “godfather of steroids” in baseball, is working on his third book. The increasingly prolific writer is going to avoid discussing anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs and focus on himself. The book is tentatively entitled “The Truth Hurts” and deals with how Canseco’s revelations about steroid in baseball affected him personally, professionally and financially.
Jose Canseco’s first book, “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant Roids, Smash Hits and How Baseball Got Big”, is the bestseller that ignited the steroids in baseball scandal. Canseco identified several professional baseball players as users of anabolic steroids in “Juiced” including Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi and Rafael Palmeiro.
After many of the accused baseball players admitted steroid use, Canseco wrote a second book called “Vindicated” celebrating the fact that many of his allegations were proven truthful. In addition, he included additional information about Alex Rodriguez and Roger Clemens not included in his original expose of steroid users in baseball.
A book about the turmoil in Canseco’s personal and professional life after he blew the whistle on steroids in baseball may not attract many readers. Few people think Canseco should be surprised about the reaction to his revelation of baseball’s steroid secret.
Jose Canseco’s life has been entertaining such as when he fought to a three-round draw with Danny Bonaduce in a celebrity boxing match in January 2009. People wanted to see Jose Canseco “get beat up” and the down-and-out Canseco was happy to oblige by going against the former child star of the “Partridge Family”. Jose Canseco was willing to subject himself to this humiliation for a small appearance fee.
Canseco had previously shown his desperation to earn extra income in a boxing match with former Philadelphia Eagles football player Vai Sikahema. Canseco was ridiculed after being summarily knocked out by Sikahem.
Jose Canseco revealed in the A&E documentary “Jose Canseco: The Last Shot” that his natural testosterone levels were suppressed from using anabolic steroids for over two decades. Canseco experienced classical post-cessation symptoms of anabolic steroid induced hypogonadism (ASIH) such as low libido and depression.
Canseco also got himself into legal trouble when he tried to smuggle some human chorionic goandotropin (hCG) across the Mexican border in an effort self-medicate his low testosterone levels.
Most recently, Canseco has entertained people with comments made via his Twitter account.
“I could easily hit a softball further than alex rodriguez can [hit] a baseball any day,” he wrote. “I am challenging alex rodriguez to a home run competition all the monies will go to charity … alex rodriguez if you are listening to not back away from this challenge … I will understand if you back away from this challenge because you are use to backing away from the truth and not commenting on it.”
Amusing but will anyone buy “The Truth Hurts.”
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