Canseco’s book, Juiced, may have very well started the Steroid Revolution, leading baseball to accept that it had a problem, and his naming of names which turned out to be pretty accurate gained him a certain amount of credibility. Then, he followed that up with a sequel, in which he named more names, most notably Alex Rodriguez.

Now that the paychecks have likely slowed down quite a bit, Canseco is saying that he regrets naming names in his books. Really? Do you think he’d give back the paychecks and the “fame” that he got as being the steroid “outer”? I don’t.

In an interview for an A&E documentary, Canseco said he “regrets mentioning players [as steroid users]. I never realized this was going to blow up and hurt so many people.”

How in the world did he think it wouldn’t hurt so many people. Did he write the book with the intention that no one would read it? Did he think no one would follow up on his allegations? Did he expect Rafael Palmiero and friends to just say, “oh yeah, I did ‘em, and it won’t hurt me at all for everyone to find out”?

Canseco is an idiot and an attention whore, plain and simple. Why else would agree to let Vai Sikahema beat his ass? He loves the spotlight, and will say and do anything to stay in the spotlight.

Don’t believe me? Canseco will fight Danny Bonaduce in January in a “Celebrity Boxing Federation” bout. Aren’t there already enough alphabet titles in boxing?

Please Jose, stop talking and writing and getting beat up for attention now.

Also not in the videos was former manager Joe Torre.

With Clemens, you have to assume that it’s the whole steroids-Congress thing that the Yankees don’t want to be associated with. Then how do you explain Jason Giambi starting at first base and Andy Pettitte being the final Yankee pitcher to take the mound? I can understand not allowing Clemens to pitch for you this season, but to ignore what he accomplished for the Yankees is pretty low.

Oh yeah, and Chuck Knoblauch (also of Mitchell Report fame) was in the video montage.

As for Torre, you can only assume that they now realize that they screwed up with him and are trying to pretend it never happened. They fired Torre because he didn’t do well enough with what they gave him, and proceed to miss the playoffs, while the Dodgers are likely going to coast right on into the post-season.

I can only assume that it was good ‘ol Hank Steinbrenner making these decisions, because really — who else would screw this all up this badly. Well done, Hank. Another part of the Yankee’s organization that you are incapable of running — remembering.

So now that Lance is returning to the “sport” he loves so much, it seems clear to me how he needs to handle this: SAVE EVERYTHING. No one is going to let Lance return to the Tour and win it again without some serious accusations. If I’m Lance Armstrong, I’m hiring an international team of doctors to draw blood and collect urine weekly, or even daily, for the next year.

Tour de France organizers are apparently not thrilled with the man they’ve been suspicious of for years returning to their race, and they say that he will be held to the strictest standards.

The right move, therefore, is for Lance to make a preemptive decision to have himself tested over and over again to remove all doubts of his cleanliness.

Winning the Tour de France unfortunately isn’t enough. He needs to win it and please even the most strenuous anti-dopers. Whether he was clean or not for the first seven wins, to me, is irrelevant. His legend for those first seven wins is secure. What matters now is that the gaze of the whole world will be on him in his comeback and he already carries some sort of presumption of guilt. He needs to prove the doubters wrong, and the only way to do that is to preserve his proof throughout the journey.

Armstrong needs to have a team of doctors with him throughout his training to document his regimen, as well as collect samples of him for testing in the present and the future. If he’d doing nothing wrong, this should be nothing more than a minor inconvenience. On the other hand, winning his eighth Tour de France, and doing it as cleanly as can be humanly proved, would not only win over his critics, it may vindicate his past performances and secure his legendary status.

Felix Hernandez hit a grand slam off of Johan Santana Monday, one of the most unlikely things to ever happen on the diamond, and ESPN’s crew of trivia-istas came to the rescue to help make sense of it all. Take it away Jayson Stark and Rob Neyer.

Joe Calzaghe is officially a free agent after parting ways with long time promoter Frank Warren. Warren had been pushing for Calzaghe to face Kelly Pavlik, but Calzaghe is adamant that he wants to go out against Roy Jones. Expect Calzaghe to make a strong push now at finalizing the Jones fight, while Pavlik will likely fight Sergio Mora or Marco Antonio Rubio later this year, before fighting Arthur Abraham in early 2009.

Barry Melrose was apparently de-blacklisted, as he is now the new head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning. The mullet is officially returning to the NHL.

Shaq’s freestyle rap this weekend may have cost him his ability to fight crime. Sheriff Joe wants Shaq to turn in his badges after the Big Aristotle was heard ripping Kobe a new one in a freestyle rap in New York.

Terry Bradshaw admitted taking steroids while he was playing football to recover from injuries. Shockingly, 30 years later, Bradshaw is not dead, nor has his “roid rage” forced him to kill anyone. I don’t even remember him hitting any home runs in his NFL days…

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Evander Holyfield is apparently having some financial troubles and will lose his 54,000 sqaure foot house to auction. He is also behind on his child support, and owes a boatload of money on loans for his home landscaping. It’s absolutely shocking that a former boxer is in financial trouble.

Winky Wright is still delusional and thinks he’s going to fight Oscar De La Hoya in September.

The guy who named names about supplying steroids to NFL players was found dead, along with his on-again, off-again girlfriend. Police have called it a homicide investigation. UPDATE: Medical examiner is calling this a likely murder-suicide.

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That seems to be the sentiment in San Francisco right now, as they try to move out of the Barry Bonds era, apparently into the “no one’s at our ballpark” era. The Giants continued to move on this week, as they stripped AT&T Park of anything and everything Barry.

No more 756 or 762 signs. No more pictures of Barry throughout the park. The Giants plan to put up a plaque honoring Bonds’ final home run as a Giant.

Not a bad way to treat the guy who paid the rent for the past decade, huh? The Giants aren’t even waiting for the proverbial body to get cold before getting remarried. The Giants basically survived on what Bonds provided for the past few seasons, and not only did they not offer him a contract for this year, but they are in some kind of hurry to remove any memory of Bonds as a Giant from baseball fans.

I don’t mind that they didn’t offer Bonds a contract this year, but it would be nice if they didn’t become all hypocritical now, and completely run from the fact that Bonds was a Giant. Not only was he a Giant, he was the Giants. Did you see the crowds at AT&T Park after Bonds broke the record, or when he was out for the last month with his injuries.

Barry Bonds is the reason that San Francisco no longer plays at Candlestick Park. Bonds is the reason they had the All-Star game last year. Bonds is the reason that that team has made a fortune in the past few years. You didn’t see them tearing down Bonds’ pictures last season when he was paying their bills, but how quickly they forget.

We’re now officially into the 2008 season, and Bonds is still unsigned. In my opinion, he is being blackballed. Why wouldn’t a team want the league leader in on-base percentage? Steroids? Come on, you think that these teams care about having steroid users on the roster? Because you know how tough it was for Andy Pettitte, Jason Giambi, Garry Sheffield, Paul LoDuca and the rest of the stars of the Mitchell Report to get employed.

Baseball’s stance on steroids and now more recently Bonds is just too hypocritical to believe. The man can still hit a baseball as well as any man in the world, but nobody wants to sign him. He’s been convicted of nothing, and teams that are refusing to sign him for PR reasons, or to blackball him should be ashamed of themselves.

But none should be more ashamed than the San Francisco Giants. This man was the face of the franchise for the last decade, and they go out of their way to make sure you forget 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.

2007 Horse of the Year Curlin made his 2008 debut Thursday night in a prep race for the Dubai World Cup. The $6 million Dubai World Cup next month will go a long way towards breaking Cigar’s career earnings mark. It’s great to see a champion horse continuing to run, rather than being sent off to stud.

The FBI opened a probe into Roger Clemens‘ testimony in front of Congress. This is good for no one.

The Clemens FBI probe could lead to complications with Clemens’ 10-year contract he signed to work with the Astros.

Ricky Hatton says that Junior Witter priced himself out of a possible matchup. Witter disagrees, saying he’d fight Hatton for peanuts.

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Coming off of his decision loss to Kelly Pavlik on Saturday, Lou DiBella has told BoxingScene.com that he is in talks to put Jermain Taylor in the ring with Roy Jones Jr. in June or July on HBO Pay-Per-View. The fight would take place at a catch weight of 170 pounds.

Harry Carey has been dead for 10 years, and the state of baseball announcers has only gotten worse since. I had a chance to meet him once, as a fan, and he was as much or more like Will Ferrell’s impression as you could imagine — but in a good way. I don’t think I’ve watched a Cubs game and enjoyed it in 10 years now.

Is anyone surprised that Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens haven’t talked in over a month?

Hank Steinbrenner says that football has a bigger steroid problem than baseball, and doesn’t know why baseball is being treated so unfairly. Unfortunately for baseball, people only care about performance enhancing drugs if it affects statistics, and football’s stats just aren’t the same as baseball’s.

It looks like the Jason Kidd-to-Dallas trade may actually happen. **UPDATE: DONE.**

The NFL Scouting Combine begins tomorrow. Other than the NFL Draft and free agency, this is the only real meaningful week of the NFL offseason.

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From ESPN.com:

“U.S. attorney spokesman Josh Eaton now says that the reference in Thursday’s government court filing regarding Bonds testing positive was actually referring to a November 2000 test that was previously disclosed in the indictment of Bonds and had already been reported.”

Is it me, or is Bonds somehow going to come out of this Mitchell Report/Steroids in Baseball saga about as guilty as when he went in? As long as he keeps denying everything, they are having a quite difficult time actually proving anything against him. Compare Bonds to Roger Clemens right now and who comes out looking cleaner? Bonds does.

Unfortunately, the damage was already done on this story, as most people will never forget seeing the “Bonds Failed Drug Test in 2001″ headline. I’ve defended Bonds before, and still do, to an extent. He may have been juiced, but at the time he broke no rules in baseball.

It’s funny how this all started as a witchhunt to discredit Bonds and turned into the discrediting of every star of this generation, while Bonds is still in the exact same spot he was in 2002.

I will not turn this into another defending Barry piece, but I thought I needed to do my part to help spread the story of the not-failed drug test.