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Canseco on Steroids

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Now, Feb 17 is when pitchers and catchers report. So I guess sports can no longer be an excuse - must do something on Valentine’s!

Anyway, Jose “Typhoid Mary of Steroids” Canseco says he helped Mark McGwire juice up (which Tony LaRussa disputes). He also claims to have taught I-Rod, Rafael Palmeiro, and Juan Gone to juice up. Seems like, at least by his claims, everywhere that Mary went, the roids were sure to go. Sadly, the state of baseball is such that it’s hard to dismiss such claims, even by Canseco. This one claim is especially hard to believe, though:

Perhaps the biggest shock in the book? Canseco says he never slept with Madonna. They made out in her Manhattan apartment one night, he claims, but that’s as far as it went. (NY Daily News article)

Not slept with Madonna at that time? Maybe the roids do screw up with your hormones.