Canseco Smelling Like a Rose

Who would have thought that Jose Canseco was actually right all along?

Apparently, that's the case.

When he came out pointing fingers at all the players in an attempt to clean up the game, everyone tried to discredit him. To be fair, it's not like they didn't have good reason. Canseco himself cheated the game by taking steroids. He has been arrested four times, most recently in October. He's not a model citizen.

But everything he keeps saying about who was and wasn't on steroids continues to be accurate.
In his book "Juiced" he named Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi, Rafael Palmeiro, Ivan Rodriguez and Juan Gonzalez. All of them except Pudge were named either in the Mitchell Report, and just take a look at a picture of Pudge in 2003 and now, and you tell me whether he was on steroids or not.

Good work, Mr. Canseco.

In his newer book "Vindicated" Canseco fingers A-Roid and Albert Belle, among others. Correct again.

Maybe we should have taken Canseco more seriously when he started making these allegations. Turns out all of his "allegations" were actually facts. Granted, the guy is a boob of a human being, but he's actually done a tremendous amount of good for baseball. He's been the one that despite a ton of public criticism has done a tremendous amount of legwork that Major League Baseball would have never done to clean up a game ridden with a drug problem.

So after all this, who would have thought it would be Canseco who comes up smelling like a rose?