Canseco isn't helping anyone but himself by hanging the game out to dry.(The Closer)

Well, Jose Canseco, oh doer of good, oh knight in shining armor, thanks for saving the day.

Your tell-all book will sell, because it breaks the clubhouse's code of silence and violates an unwritten rule of the game. You aired the dirty laundry of your baseball brethren.

Fans will react by saying, "Good, it's time to clean up baseball." To that, I say: Come up with a plan that gets guys off steroids and levels the playing field.

Remember, steroids were not prohibited by baseball when Canseco played, and he benefited from them--on the field and financially--as much as any player. He, too, abused the system, and he never said a word when he was putting up 40-40 numbers while on the juice.

Canseco also says baseball blackballed him when he was 38 home runs short of 500 for his career. Let me tell you something from my experience: Owners and general managers will put up with superstars who cause problems. If a guy no longer can play at the elite level and still causes problems, he's out of the game. A G.M. sees an unproductive player who also is a clubhouse cancer as a liability. If a player is a good guy who won't negatively affect young players, he gets to stick around as a bench guy, a fourth outfielder or a long ...