Comments on: Canseco to A-Rod: “Call me a liar”

By: Old Lady

Old Lady — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:25:47 +0000

I can understand why Pete, a journalist, would want A-Rod to answer back to Canseco’s charges.

But in a case like this - given the accusations, who’s making them and the way they were presented - you never ever ever should address it with anything more than “no comment”. It confers credibility where there pretty much is none, and every word A-Rod says will be parsed & (mis)interpreted.

Plus, I doubt A-Rod wants to give Canseco any free publicity for his book by talking about its content.

By: Renee in Boston

Renee in Boston — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:12:07 +0000

i’d love to know what these players/mlb as a whole did to canseco to make him so angry and vindictive.

it’s one thing to “come clean” about your own personal steroid use, but why call all these guys out on it jsut for publicity? and then point fingers at every dominant player still in the game. somebody made him very mad

By: DonVitoOfDaBronx

DonVitoOfDaBronx — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:06:28 +0000

By definition, any garbage that Canseco spews from his mouth is not news. My opinion, Peter, and I am sure that many of your followers agree. Period.

By: Baja

Baja — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:24:54 +0000

Peter,
Would you call them on it, even if there was nothing to be gained for you, and they would sell more books? If I was advising Arod, I’d tell him not to feed the troll. At the end of the day, you’re out of food and Jose is still a troll.

By: Drive 4-5

Drive 4-5 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:48:09 +0000

A Rod is in a damned if you do/ damned if you don’t situation. He has nothing to gain by acknowledging Jose Canseco, especially after Canseco’s original editor quit on him and claimed there was no evidence to back the claim. A Rod is better off letting Don Yeager’s words speak for him.

When he fired Scott Boras A Rod hired media consultants. I’m sure they are advising him to not elaborate on the matter. A Rod can’t get hurt if he says nothing, but words can be held against him.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:47:49 +0000

Hank Steinbrenner Responds on Canseco. http://www.northjersey.com/sports/Hank_Strikes_Back.html

By: pat

pat — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:46:52 +0000

“What flavor is that A-Rod Kool-Aid? ”

Same flavor as the Hater-Ade that many others drink.

(Sorry Clare and Pete! I couldn’t resist.)

By: Clare

Clare — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:46:00 +0000

Peter,

You totally ignored my point in favor of the kool-aid crack. My point, again, is only Canseco gains if ARod responds. You cannot really fail to see that, can you?

You are not ARod and judging him by what you would do is irrelevant.

By: Jim Clark

Jim Clark — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:45:21 +0000

Mike R. I don’t know if you or how many people out there know this but back in the early 1990s before the internet, Canseco owned a 900 number. You could call and pay a few dollars to hear recent news from him on what he was up to. I certainly never called so I don’t know what great insights he passed on about hitting or Bruce Springsteen shows.

By: pat

pat — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:43:19 +0000

If “Max” is somehow McNamee, does that help or hurt Clemens?