The Feds, the fans, or whoever wants to know about the real story of steroids in baseball should look no further than Jose Canseco’s tell-all tomes, “Juiced” and “Vindicated”. Start there, take the newly released BALCO records as your proof and let the chips fall where they may.

And now with A-Rod on that list of 104 players that allegedly tested positive in 2003 (per the BALCO records), is there a record in the steroid era that can be trusted? Is there still a reason to look up to these guys, pay up to $2,000 per seat per game and drink the ‘it’s all about entertainment’ Kool-Aid?

Just asking, could this revelation come at a worse time for the Yanks? The Yankee Years and now this? CC Sabathia and Mark Teixeira, welcome to the maelstrom. Oh by the way - the Yanks have A-Rod for 9 more years.

A-Roid on the juice in 2003? Keep in mind that this was a time when steroids were not yet banned in the MLB. But A-Rod (who is presumably ‘Mr. Rodriguez’ in today’s New York Times) denied that he ever took, or was tempted to take, steroids or HGH in his career in a 60 Minutes interview with Katie Couric. He says he always felt he was in a ‘dominant position’ on the playing field. Hmmmmm.

Below is the December, 2007 interview:

Sadly, the oh-so-dominant year in question (the AL MVP award and the 2003 home run title) probably was not a clean one. But that was so long ago. It’s hard to remember that far back, right? Or is it?

Is it me, or do baseball players have incredibly bad or strangely selective memories? They forget taking steroids, they forget relationships with faded country singers, they forget they speak English, they forget to hand over the keys after a night of drinking and they forget start times of baseball games. This seems to happen all the time.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I would remember someone (and not the team physician, either) injecting me with steroids. Through a needle. In my posterior.

But I guess I’ll have to ask the MLB Players Union about that, because apparently they have all the answers.

And once again, the guy everyone in the MLB would like to forget, Jose Canseco, just keeps surfacing like the Ghost of Christmas Past. Would someone give this man a movie deal already?

And the villain, at least according to the players, will not be so much Canseco for telling the truth, but the mole inside the then-COO of the MLB Players’ Association, Gene Orza, who did not have the lab results in 2003 destroyed as they should have been.

Because ignorance is bliss.

By the way, catchers and pitchers report to Spring Training this weekend. Get psyched!

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