This man changed baseball more than anyone. While Bud Selig was looking the other way as players were hitting 60 and 70 home runs a year and soaking up all the money that was coming in to MLB, Canseco was honest and exposed these clowns for what they were.

People called him snitch. Turns out he was a whistleblower.

@edge1000

Ай бұрын

Which means hes a snitch... a whistleblower IS a snitch it literally is the same thing.

His numbers in chicago his last team his stats were better than when he was in his prime and the next season he has no job, jose makes sence he was black balled period

@aphysique

3 жыл бұрын

Of course cause he ratted out MLB & PLAYER'S ALIKE! HE WAS THE ONLY TRUE HERO

I've read both of Jose's books. I know quite a bit about steroids. He was on the money. Everything he is saying in this interview...he did come through....and even though he took a lot of crap for a while, the more time goes on, the more he has been completely proven right. Anyone who is still bagging on him for being a snitch or a liar is completely full of it.

@benjamin29471

7 жыл бұрын

porcupinecraig Snitch part is definitely true. Liar part has been debunked one by one over time...

@deanarupe73

6 жыл бұрын

porcupinecraig I read his book and I agree with you. It was a great book. I was a female bodybuilder and never took steroids but knew alot about them. Everything he talked about was absolutely true. People need to leave him alone. Look at all the things that came out since his book. BALCO trials and even A-Rods suspension. He was right and not the only who did them. It all came out eventually.

@jeffw1267

5 жыл бұрын

+Benjamin Sheffield It's hard to see him as a "snitch", considering the severity of the offenses.

@AnnaLexi

4 жыл бұрын

porcupinecraig *_Yup you are so right! Me & my family was also on his side!! I knew he wasn’t just being messy!! But I’ve always backed up the underdog aka the unpopular side lol.._*

@doughboy5858

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeffw1267 wtf do you mean foo he told on a bunch of people, definition of a snitch lol

I love Jim Rome and I am proud that Jose admitted to all of this. Peace.

Jose was indeed blackballed! But America loves you Jose! We all watched you in the hearings! All the rest of the players should have been arrested for lying under oath ! You were the only one telling the truth!

@peteandrepete528

5 жыл бұрын

Tell the truth , suffer the most.Straight up bush league how MLB handled it. Just like organized crime except for the body floating tits up in the Hudson.

He says “read the book” a lot, but in this case, there was a very good reason everyone needed to read the book!!

Jose, how are you? It's in the book.

@etchosts8162

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@AnnaLexi

4 жыл бұрын

7beers 🤣🤣🤣 *_LOL knock it off!!_*

I am not sure why so many people dislike this guy. Seems to me he just stated the obvious in print.

@mattcarberry368

6 жыл бұрын

People don't like to be told truths they don't want to believe It's easier to just exist in a decided state of ignorance and only listen to things that validate your own predetermined biases

@itshiho

3 жыл бұрын

It's because everything he says and does has a hidden agenda behind it.

@brandons5479

3 жыл бұрын

@Trzn 2 money causes a lot of crazy things to happen. But he doesn’t lie when it comes to what happened during his career.

@j.c.5016

2 жыл бұрын

It's like those students who cheat in class. Yes, you see it but do you want to be the one who raises his hand and tattles publicly for all to see?

@bobcrane2720

Жыл бұрын

@@j.c.5016 cheating in class, more significant if it's a doctor who will become a lousy doctor then if it's a lawyer who will become a typical lawyer.

A great hitter no doubt.

Great interview... Love Jim and Jose

I dont mind him. He's helped clean up the game with the awareness of steroids

@muserussell2377

6 жыл бұрын

Azwel they havent actually cleaned up though

@PrideofPitchers

6 жыл бұрын

Robinson Cano was just banned 80 games, so still not clean. and there's bound to be more out there

@myvideos6356

5 жыл бұрын

Thats 1/2 a major league season, that could be it for some guys..i hope they continue to make punishments harsher

@one7deep7savage7

5 жыл бұрын

@@PrideofPitchers Ryan Braun was wayyyyy after the Canseco saga as well

@shurbret9923

3 жыл бұрын

I’m glad the game has been cleaned up.

What a book it was!! He wasnt lying.

Jose changed my life. I would of never picked up a bat if it wasn’t for Jose Canseco.

@thawkereynolds

8 ай бұрын

Me too, I would’ve never started using steroids. Got me a D3 scholarship

People just hate when someone tells the truth.

He looks like someone straight out of a Mexican soap opera

@spittindatruthaboutrecords9421

Ай бұрын

cuban soap opera,lol but yeah

Jim was skeptical but that book changed baseball FOREVER!!

40 /40 year he was the Michael Jordan of Baseball

@jaywill4ever

4 ай бұрын

He had a terrible World Series, though. MJ never even had a bad game in the Finals.

Check out a documentary on Jose called "the truth hurts". I'm not a baseball fan at all, but it was absolutely fascinating. He was very candid in it.

I remember watching this interview when it first aired. I remember being kind of blown away by what he said. But I definitely did not dismiss it. I don't believe at all that his intentions were pure or good, but considering all that came to light in the years following, this interview was one of if not the starting point of changing the course of history for baseball.

Jose Canseco has the guts to say what nobody else does

Jose is a national treasure

He wasn’t overselling the book.

PUT HIM IN THE HALL OF FAME !!!!!!!!!

@BXpitbull24

5 жыл бұрын

Andrew Flood Then put Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, etc in the HOF

Miss him

@jennifercollin8929

Жыл бұрын

Yup

@Gregory-sm9pf

4 ай бұрын

​@@jennifercollin8929boo hoo,

Jose is a true hero!!!! Happy birthday jose!

he woulda hit 60 hr in tampa had he not got injured

You can tell by the way he speaks he’s telling the truth...

Now a low average and a HR every 11 AB gets you a job for sure

One of the few athletes I envy his talent.

"Read my book" Jose Canseco throughout the entire interview lol!

@brandonmoskos9149

10 ай бұрын

$$$$$$$$

I'm getting a solid vibe he wants us to read a book....

@PR4470

8 жыл бұрын

+Es Gibson Duh..... wouldn't you if you wrote a book?

@shaindaman13

6 жыл бұрын

Anytime they srop the line “its all in the book” yeah, they do. Money grab. If he was so determined to be honest the book would have been a free blog or something . Canseco is fake news. What is NOT fake news is that cool arch top guitar in your pic.

He definitely was blackballed in baseball but he was the one player that helped clean up baseball but also at the point in time nobody cared cause everybody was making money during that era in baseball plus it was a fun time to watch baseball too

Crazy how all this is true and it turned out he was the good guy

JOSE HIGHLY INTELLIGENT PERSON

@Gregory-sm9pf

4 ай бұрын

Yeahhhh, he could a been a dentist, an astronaut, a librarian

All the players that called him a liar and said he was just trying to sell books at some point after were caught using PED's, or confessed to using PED's, or are even dead from overuse of PED's! So, why has Jose Canseco not been vindicated by CONGRESS, MLB, OWNERS, and other PLAYERS?!!

At least he admitted it unlike bonds, the big cheater

Jim Rome should of wore a "Team MLB" shirt during the interview....

Fun Fact he’s also the Red Ranger in Power Ranger Abridge Series

MLB tried to make him the fall guy for steroids in the league. It backfired.

Rome looks redic rocking his “lettuce tight” back in the day. Jose is very Hulk like

Jose Canseco has nice hair👍🏻, no homo now..

I was going to listen to this but then I stopped it and read the book

Jim Rome asks a lot of leading questions, it's amusing that the union was pushing against steroid testing; if that was the case (which I think it was) then why didn't the union protect Jose when he wasn't publicly admitting to steroid use. Bonds was WAY more obvious a steroid user between 2003-2008.

@Billionaireben

Жыл бұрын

Jim Rome put him as 'on the bubble' for HOF, even Jose doesn't consider himself to have had a HOF career (though really coming down to not having 500 HR's and he would have that if not benched for collusion to lower pay in his last 2 seasons or if he had gotten to continue playing.)

His book was published and brought attention to many such as MLB, media, fans, and Congress. His book destroyed MLB reputation.

he definitely got blackballed, from the game and from 500 HRs........but honestly, he should have reached it before the blackballing. Injuries and the 94 strike really killed his potential numbers.

@firebird_spleen4190

7 жыл бұрын

D Fake numbers anyway. He cheated

My dog just left a pile of Jim Rome on the carpet. My dog just left a pile of Jim Rome on the carpet. My dog just left a pile of Jim Rome on the carpet.

Jim Rome has really nice hair.

I love Cuban Americans. Totally against communism and giving up stuff for free. “Buy the book.” True American capitalist. God bless Jose Canseco.

Baseball blackballed him and now this is his way of getting back at them. Im sure all the other self absorbed juice heads that were involved relized this was happening to him and turned a blind eye. I can see why hes mad at baseball

Is Rome actually questioning Jose Canseco about being blackballed?

Hey Jim, call me "Josie" and see what I do to you! Jim "Chris" Everett was NEVER as pumped up as Jose!!!

Base Ruth was clean and will NEVER be beaten.

That's my body; snaps for some reason about that.

Read the book

So, we now know. McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, etc...steroids induced. I like it. Hit 'em hard and deep.

Say what you want about this guy, but everything he said about other players, ended up being the truth.

Great job by Jim Rome as always....and Jose Canseco by telling it like It is.....

Basically he introduced the steroids which is a banned drug owners look at the records and they saw the single season get passed so many times and they saw the individual homerun record get passed by Barry bonds who obviously was on steroids

Players liked Canseco? In Oakland Dave Stewart and others there did not. His only friend was Walt Weiss.

@mrsain19

8 жыл бұрын

i heard the Hendersons liked him. Dave and Rickey.

@one7deep7savage7

5 жыл бұрын

Mark McGwire and him were good friends...Same with Arod...pretty much everyone liked him.untill.they got ratted out

Steroids or no steroids a great player

Did you guys read the book?

@Gregory-sm9pf

4 ай бұрын

I looked at the pictures

Canseco power

baseball was in dire straits after the 94' baseball strike. ped's in baseball saved baseball, and the mlb didn't want to admit to it. they only wanted the sport to become popular again. so the mlb turned a blind eye to the steriods the players were using, because it was invigorating the sport. shame on the other players and the sport-itself, for not admitting that canseco was right. and i have to applaud canseco for his willingness to withstand the fire and criticism for telling the truth. the sport is a lot better today, for canseco letting the world know what was actually taking place.

I said all along since the steroid talk that if MLB said X, Y and Z is banned but there was no testing in place they are partly to blame. Yes anyone who took PEDs cheated but when you ban things like that or supplements you have to test for them.

Told on everyone.

How could anyone take Jim Rome seriously?

Players should be judged by the game in the era they played in. McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, Palmeiro, Clemens, etc etc etc all deserve to be in the hall of fame. Let's not forget Satchel Paige was a RAMPANT cheater (spit balls, snot balls, etc), Babe Ruth had all kinds of problems and was more of a prima donna than Barry Bonds. Late 80's to the 2010's is the steroid era. McGwire and Sosa should be in just because that home run raced saved the game after the 93/94 strike.

I seen this interview years ago . I think the average person would be totally amazed at who actually took the juice in all of sports. The Hall of Fame is filled with people doing anything and everything to succeed. Can you imagine how many rule violations that went unchecked from a corked bat to grease hidden in their glove. Cheating is cheating, but the majority never got caught.

@edge1000

Ай бұрын

Did you watch this interview when it aired?

IM JOSE CANSECOOO!!!!!!!

He was blacklisted, so he got mlb back with the books. #revenge

Rome is going gray here but total dye job at CBS....War Just for Men!

I really dislike the attitude that because those two 'saved' the game after the strike, we should overlook their violations or enshrine them as heroes. The history of steroids in baseball shouldn't be whitewashed, but let's not justify their inclusion in the HOF because they were popular at the time.

I think he really wants us to read his book

I didn't want to believe it and i didn't want to except it but it's a fact.

4.3 Jim

I think Jose is full of himself BUT he was blackballed. He also took a lot of heat when his book came out but has been proven correct over time. His book gave the MLB a black eye and the MLB wanted him gone.

I have a real signed comparison I’m like a righty “ joe Jackson or shoeless joe -Ames senior high school -CIML I’m all out northern player

Who -- Rome or Canseco? Or both?

Hey Jimbo if he would have told you what's in the book you wouldn't buy it.

Anything you weren't willing to say then you shouldn't be saying now.

A book he thought would blow Ball Four out of the water ? Yeah not so much.

Tequila sunrise and breakfast;more than likely visit with the family children,;Smoke with me;Grown folk or what not.

He talks about racism in Oakland. I have been an A's fan since 1975. He complains of racism more than any A's player I can think of.

@McDago100

10 жыл бұрын

***** I have known Cubans who look down on Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. Cubans are like Argentines, they look down on other Hispanic cultures. As far as Canseco is concerned, he was welcomed with open arms in Oakland like no other player before him. If someone made racial slurs to him from the stands in Oakland, they would get their tail kicked. He was not the first Hispanic star for Oakland. Tony Armas was before him, and was quite a player (okay it took a few seasons for him to get polished).

@McDago100

10 жыл бұрын

***** Oh the subject of bigotry in America. I am part Italian in ancestry, so I too should be included among Latins. I laugh when Latinos refer to people like me as "Anglos". I am part Irish also. We are Celtic, not Anglo. If you call an Irishman in a Belfast Pub an Anglo, he'll deck you. Anyways, if you read his book, you will notice he ends up not having very many nice things to say about other Latin players also. Hell, he ratted them all out for steroid use. Since you are on KZread, go to "kingsnake kills rat". That is how I feel about rats like Canseco.

1 more thing...if the book is supposed to be about him..why did he take everyone down because his feelings were hurt??

@StringfellowHawke197

5 ай бұрын

Because they ignored and black balled him too by not answering his calls.

jose was a very good player, who cares that he took steroids, i think every pro sports should take steroids

Hahahahahah. Just trying to promote his shitty book. Well Jim, I won't answer your questions directly, because I'm busy and don't got time to repeat things, but it's in the book. So read the book.

Dude has no legs..huge upper body..how did PPL not know he was on.

"why do the book?". To make money. Of course.

@hlspraying7614

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Smith to tell the truth you dumb ass. You obviously don’t like the truth. I bet you support the Clinton s also

If you were on the Oakland As at any point throughout the 90s...youre suspect

What? Seriously? Don't you care if your sport is pure or not? Those guys were cheaters and cowards who couldn't face their own physical limitations, or who hadn't the integrity to not take part in the rampant doping. Who cares if Canseco 'snitched'? I'm glad he did, even if he did it for selfish reasons.

Rome was on roids too

Do you believe you were blackballed? Check that. Why do you believe you were blackballed? Check that. What’s in the book? Check that. Why write the book and break the code? Check that. Are you a snitch?

Being "Black balled" comes from freemasonry.

I want to be like jose canseco, a swoll roided filthy rich retired athlete

@bnegs521

6 ай бұрын

You could do as many roids you wanted and you'll never play a day of MLB Baseball

Girly man?

Go read the book. Really? I don't own a team, but, if I did, I'd probably blackball him on spec.

rome litttle weasel

No if, ands or buts about it

Jose Canseco ceased being Jose Canseco and somehow became CHRIS...bet he doesnt say it again,,bet he does