Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball by Jose Canseco
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Book Reviews of Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball
Book Review: Not Much New Here...
Summary: 2 Stars
I agree with Watty's review. Way too much rehashing of the best from JUICED. Tedious court testimonies and questions from lie detector tests.
The only real interesting new stuff is about the refusal of the networks and media to accuse Roger Clemens of juicing up. Also of interest--Magglio Ordonez' almost certain steroid usage, and A-Rod's interest in 'roids and Canseco's ex-wife. Check this one out at the library.
Book Review: Yup, Canseco...
Summary: 3 Stars
Tells the truth (as far as I can tell)...
Pats himself on the back constantly...
Absolves himself of all personal responsibility for taking steroids...
Absolves himself of all personal responsibility for injecting steroids in other players...
Collects big $ for writing a tell-all book...
Baseball, like all other pro sports, is saturated with cheaters. And nobody (who's cheating or benefits by the cheating) likes a rat. That's why most players, agents, team management, & media claimed Canseco lied in his book "Juiced" (which I never read). "Vindicated" is merely his *I told you so* follow-up.
Book Review: Vindicated...By No Means!
Summary: 1 Stars
Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball It's so interesting when you've read not one, but two books filled with the type of self-serving truth Jose Canseco has so freely given us...all after the fact, of course! These two offerings might have taken on an entirely different tone had Canseco not allowed his huge ego interfere in very paragraph. Senor Canseco acts as though he is the second coming of an Omnipotent god rather then a simple baseball player who blew it for himself and many others by "Juicing" it up. He has excused himself everything while blaming everyone else on and off the field for his miseries and stunted career. My only hope is that the "Steroid Era" is marked in every book on baseball stats that is of importance. Their stats should not stand along those that were earned by hard work, sheer talent, practice and guts. None of the players he mentions, including himself, deserve a place in the Hall of Fame. Grow up Jose and lose the ego that got you where you are today. I used to be a fan...now I can only tell you how much you disgust me.Book Review: "I told you so," Clemens conspiracy?, not much else
Summary: 3 Stars
The only thing I found really interesting was the amount of censoring out of Roger Clemens' name the big media allegedly did at the time of Canseco's first book. Jose wonders in "Vindicated" if that wasn't deliberate, a GOP plot. Well, given Clemens' testimony before the House this spring, and the partisan division over whether Clemens or McNamee was lying, Jose may be on to something. Or he may not. He gives no reason WHY a conspiracy like this would develop. (Please, no third book about that.)
The only other thing that was in any way news to me was his alleged degree of steroid relationship with Magglio Ordonez.
That said, the before-and-after pics of various actual or alleged juicers, paired with the before-and-after stats.
It's a borderline 2/3 star, leaning toward 3.
Just don't write a third volumne, Jose. We'll know that that one is all about the money.
Book Review: Drug pusher's self justification stink bomb!
Summary: 3 Stars
Vindicated? This book drips with Revenge and self justification as the unholy goals of this scumbag drug pusher. Once Jose Canseco was duly blackballed, he is marketing this filth as his way of dragging everyone else down to his Clintonian level. I confess it's always interesting to learn scandalous details, true or not. It's a page turner, but it leaves one with the impression that most of our baseball "heros" are horribly humanly flawed. Drug pushers like Jose should serve time in prison for his crimes. There should also be established a "Jose Conseco Hall of Shame", with his face on the door mats, toilet seats and urinals. That lie about trying to clean up baseball is just another guilt dodge. Still it was captivating reading to see how many lives he has ruined.
-- Donald C.