More juicy details to follow, By: Nick Cafardo

Canseco warns of more steroid woes

July 1, 2006

Jose Canseco, whose best-selling book ``Juiced" detailed rampant steroid use in major league baseball, says before all is said and done, ``General managers, managers, trainers, owners, and agents will all be exposed for their coverup."

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Canseco, speaking from his Encino, Calif., home, said the recent revelations attributed to Jason Grimsley about the use of human growth hormone by players will bring forth more names.

``This is just the tip of the iceberg," Canseco said. ``We're going to be shocked about the players who took them and who knew they were taking them. More and more names will come out."

Canseco said he was recently contacted for his input in a steroids investigation being conducted on behalf of Major League Baseball by former senator George Mitchell. The meeting was supposed to take place next week but Canseco, who will resume his playing career Monday with the independent San Diego Surf Dawgs, might be in the middle of the season so an alternative date was being worked on.

Canseco said he's working on a second book, as well as a movie based on the bestseller. The second book will delve into the March 17, 2005, congressional hearings in which players, including Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Sammy Sosa, Frank Thomas, and Boston's Curt Schilling, testified about steroid use in baseball before the Government Reform Committee.

He said he also will write candidly about the politics he's endured since his revelations and he's not expected to be kind to the players who joined him at the hearings, especially Schilling, who denounced Canseco's public disclosures at the time and referred to him as a ``so-called author."

Palmeiro was later suspended when he tested positive for steroids; Sosa has retired.

Canseco has no opinion on whether human growth hormone use is a problem in baseball today. He said in speaking to Mitchell he will ``stick to what I know to be true based on what I've witnessed and my experiences with steroids."

As a former steroid and HGH user, Canseco described the benefits of HGH, which includes a stronger body, a youthful appearance, more energy, and quicker recovery time.

Canseco, who will turn 42 tomorrow, is also coming out with a new energy drink called ``Juiced - The Drink."

Asked whether he's relaunching his baseball career for a possible return to the majors, Canseco said, ``Once you've been blackballed, you're always blackballed."

Canseco said he's heard from no one associated with Major League Baseball for years.

``I haven't heard from a player, a bat boy, nobody," he said.

In playing a few games for a senior baseball league near Los Angeles recently, Canseco said he caught the bug to play again.

``I hadn't picked up a bat in four years and I hit seven home runs in six games with an aluminum bat," he said.

``I'm in great shape, but I'm not in baseball shape so we'll see where it takes me. I'll give it a shot. It should be fun to put on the uniform and play again. I've always loved baseball."

While the movie is a work in progress as funding starts to come in, Canseco, who has appeared in movies and on reality TV shows, is contemplating playing himself.

``There's a scene where I'm depicted as the size I was when I came up, which was about 6-1, 180 and the size I became -- 6-4, 250 pounds," he said. ``It's going to be tough to cast that. But we haven't got that far yet."