A week before it was supposed to hit the shelves, apparently a Boston area bookstore “accidentally” sold a copy of Jose Canseco’s newest book Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball. The lucky owner of the book promptly went home and offered up a review of the book, and Deadspin ran with it.

The book alleges that Canseco introduced Alex Rodriguez to a “known steroid dealer” and that A-Rod was trying to bang Mrs. Canseco. The original review came from Joe Lavin, of the aptly named joelavin.com, and he said:

“As for Alex Rodriguez, Canseco says he didn’t inject Rodriguez, but that he “introduced Alex to a known supplier of steroids.” Canseco didn’t mention Rodriguez in the first book because he “hated the bastard.” He was worried that people would have “questioned [his] motives” had he included Rodriguez.

Why all the hatred, you ask. Well, Canseco claims that A-Rod was trying to sleep with Canseco’s wife. Apparently, even after Canseco had been nice enough to help A-Rod find a friendly steroids supplier, A-Rod kept calling Canseco’s wife.

And, in case there’s any further confusion about Canseco’s true feelings, he ends the chapter by saying:

So A-Rod, if you’re reading this book, and if I’m not getting through to you, let’s get clear on one thing: I hate your fucking guts.”

You know, I’ve found that there is no better way to enhance your credibility than to proclaim that you hate the guy your making accusations against. Canseco may have been right about a lot of things in his first book, but that doesn’t mean that we will all blindly follow him as he attacks people he hates. I’m not saying A-Rod is or isn’s juiced, I’m just saying that if you want to accuse him of being sauced, this is probably not the best way to do it.

As for A-Rod trying to bang Canseco’s wife, I completely believe that. In fact, after Roger Clemens’ testimony in front of Congress, and the ensuing flood of evidence and information, there’s not much I won’t buy into in that field. Does anyone else have a suspicion that Canseco and friends are involved in all kinds of wife banging escapades with each other? Someday there will be a movie about the infamous Jose Canseco pool party of 1998 that will change how we view this generation of ballplayers more than steroids ever could.

It took about a whole four hours after this article appeared on Deadspin before the print news cats got a hold of it, which resulted in Newsday quoting A-Rod’s official “I have absolutely no comment.”

I will say that I give Canseco the benefit of the doubt on some steroid stuff because he was quite accurate in his first book. But this book looks far shadier than the first one. He openly hates A-Rod, yet somehow left him out of the first book? Why wait?

He also accuses Detroit Tigers slugger Magglio Ordonez in Vindicated. You may remember that Ordonez went to the FBI last year when Canseco allegedly demanded an “investment” from Ordonez in a film he was making in order to keep his name out of his next book. Yeah, nothing fishy about that either.

This book just screams “crying for attention,” and something will have to quickly prove to be true in it for Canseco to be taken seriously the second time around. I’m sure we’ll get quite a bit more on this next week when the book officially hits the shelves.

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