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: 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.
Book Review: crack book
Summary: 4 Stars
its a crack book you will finish fast and feel kinda different. i picked up this book to see what he had to say about the red sox. he dident say much but it was still a good read. i hate a-rod too jose. he dident do my wife thoBook Review: 3.5 Stars... Money-grabber? probably so. Truth-teller? probably so (with a grain of salt)
Summary: 4 Stars
In 2005 Jose Canseco wrote "Juiced" in which he "outed" the baseball steroid scandal for what it was. Canseco was derided for doing a money-grabbing job, but a funny thing happened along the way: it opened the floodgates, including congressional hearings and a supposedly stricter baseball policy on steroids. Now comes the sequel, in which Canseco muses on what has happened since his first book came out.
in "Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball" (259 pages), Canseco goes on in his "hold no prisoner" way on what he feels is right and wrong with how the baseball steroid scandal has unfolded since his first book. Canseco looks back at the indignation of the baseball world when "Juiced" came out, only to be proved "right" of course. He has choice words for the likes of Rafael Palmero: "Palmeiro knew he was a steroids user, and he knew I knew. [...] Now here we were, only months after the hearings, and Rafi tests positive. Who's lying exactly?" On the Mitchell Report: "Senator Mitchell claimed he had personally all the players connected to the scandal. Maybe he called a lot of players, and maybe, for all I know, he called every single one of them. But he never called me."
On the "outing" of Magglio Ordenez and A-Rod, Canseco sounds pretty vindictive, but then again, he tells it how he sees it and it's difficult to argue with him. only time will tell if Canseco is right on these calls, but with his track record, I wouldn't bet against Canseco. Is Canseco self-serving in this book? of course he is. Is this another "money-grabbing" job? likely. But the facts have been with Canseco and this book doesn't diminish from that fact. (As a total aside, I read in today's newspaper that Canseco's house is being foreclosed on...)
Book Review: DISAPPOINTMENT BIG TIME
Summary: 1 Stars
CONSIDERING THE AUTHOR, I SHOULD NOT EXPECTED MUCH BUT EVEN FOR JOSE THIS HAD TO BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENTS IN READING. FLAT OUT TERRIBLE.Book Review: Roger Wilco Over and out
Summary: 4 Stars
I wouldn't recommend you open Jose Canseco's new book "Vindicated" unless you are ready to let go of your fantasies about baseball -it starts off on Roger Clemens and it is not good----that is really going to fire up the old Rocket. Arod takes a big hit too with direct quotes.
Once again the pictures alone tell the whole story. I beleive Canseco.
It is a good book if you like straight talk with a bit of a righteous edge.
You would be hard pressed to find someone who loves baseball as much as I do.I have had a love affair with the sports since I was a little boy growing up in California. I have it bad.
I also love and admire Roger Clemens. He is one of my all-time sports heros. I think that other than Sandy Koufax he is the greatest pitcher that the game has ever seen. When Roger Clemens signed with Houston where I live, I bought a Season Ticket package the very next day. I went to nearly every game he pitched and I loved watching him---he was amazing to see. I flew to St Louis to see him pitch in the playoffs. He is a credit to the sport and I don't care if he did steroids or not they cannot take away what he accomplished. There is one thing I also know and sadly so does everyone else thanks to Roger Clemens and his unwillingness to be straight about it.
It is my firm belief that Roger Clemens used steroids during his career in Major League Baseball. We all know it; the public knows it, his trainer knows it, his best friend in the world knows it, and as much as it bothers him Roger knows it too. Canseco makes it pateently clear and inescapable.
Fortunately for Roger he is loved and he is white so he will be forgiven. Unfortunately for The Rocket he literally decided to make a federal case out of it. When he did things went bad for him.It seems that what would have blown over pretty quickly after the release of the Mitchell report didn't. My guess it the Mitchell report fervor would have run its course and been forgotten in about two weeks. Roger's ego dragged it out several months. It would have all gone away quickly and quietly had he just walked up and said ya I tried the stuff several times, in the end I didn't like how it made me feel so I stopped, but no. He had to take the world on. He denied the accusations not only publicly but under oath. He literally made a federal case out of it....not just the clich?. Just like Bill Clinton never counted on the Lewinski blue dress, Roger never imagined someone would pull out a bag with his blood, his DNA and the evidence that would hang him. Now people think he is a liar and an idiot.
I still think the world of him. He was a great pitcher, a wonderful asset to the sport and he is a very good man. I live in the community he lives in. Though I don't know him personally I know people who do. Everyone that knows him says he is a first class human being.
Take a deep breath Roger, time will heal it. Look at Clinton. In the end you will feel the love. But I am afraid your little stunt cost you the Hall of Fame on the first ballot and that ego of yours is going to take a beating on that fateful day in 4 ? years.
Jose -- keep he faith baby
KC