According to Joe Lavin, Jose Conseco’s new book "Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and The Battle to Save Baseball" connects Alex Rodriguez to a steroid supplier.  The book, which will be officially out April 1, 2008 have spilled the beans on three prominent baseball players, Magglio Ordonez, Roger Clemens, and Alex Rodriguez.  Lavin said he was surprise to run into the book while visiting a Cambridge book store sports section because  he knew the book hadn't come out as yet.  The first player he touched on in his article was Magglio Ordonez.  He simply implied that Ordonez's story was nothing that we haven't heard before. It simply brought up the old news of one player injecting another with steroids, most likely in the buttocks.  Lavin further stated that Canseco shed light on the recent New York Times report, which stated "that Canseco had offered to keep Ordonez 'in the clear' if Ordonez invested five million dollars in a documentary that Canseco was producing." Canseco's said this report was not true.  In fact, he went as far as to say there was "no blackmail and no documentary at all, and that it was Sundance's loss, I guess," (Lavin).

Lavin didn't hesitate to shed light on the Roger Clemens section of the Canseco book.  He promptly said that the "evidence against Clemens is somewhat flimsy." and that Canseco even admitted that he was not completely sure that Clemens took steroids.  He (Canseco) only said during games Clemens would say "he is off to take his B-twelve shots;" which was the way in which players refer to steroids.  Canseco said Clemens would often make jokes such as, "Man, you must have had your juice this morning!" after a player hit a home run off of him. Lavin said Canseco stated in his book that Clemens did not attend the much-talked-about barbeque at Canseco's house, which was mentioned in the Mitchell Report.

Lavin said Canseco wanted to include his suspicions about Clemens in his first book "Juiced," but the publishers refused to allow it.  He said Canseco was taken aback when he (Canseco) told 60 Minutes and ESPN about Clemens and the comments were edited out of the reports. Canseco immediately suspected conspiracy in the making.  I guess no one wanted to believe that Roger Clemens was a Cheater. In fact, we still won't know for sure, but I have my suspicions.

According to Lavin, Canseco said he introduced Alex Rodriguez to a known steroid supplier.  Lavin said that Canseco didn't mention Rodriguez in his first book because he Canseco "hated the bastard." Lavin said Canseco was concerned that people would have put his motives into question if he had included Rodriguez.  One may be wondering why all the hatred. Well, it is simple, Canseco claimed that Alex Rodriguez was trying to sleep with his wife! Wait a minute!  Was Rodriguez married with children while this was going on?  We will never know, maybe not now! This story was taken from http://www.joelavin.com/canseco.html