Canseco says A-Rod took steroids

The New York Daily News is reporting that Jose Canseco was "surprised" not to see Alex Rodriguez's name on George Mitchell's list of Major League Baseball players who took steroids.

Wait. What?

Suzy Waldman and various media worshippers have been telling us that A-Rod's talent comes straight from the gods. That he is the pure, naturally all-powerful Adonis who is destined to break Barry Bonds' steroids-tainted all-time home run record in a few years and restore baseball to its rightful place along with Mom's apple pie and white picket fences.

"All I can say is the Mitchell Report is incomplete," Canseco said. "I could not believe that (Rodriguez's) name was not in the report."

Hate Canseco for being the douchebag that he is, but you've got to admit that his book and his outspokenness about the use of steroids in baseball, including admitting his own steroid use, was a major catalyst in getting the issue the attention and scrutiny it's receiving today.

And as annoying and self-serving as Canseco has been with his accusations, has he been proven wrong yet? He's certainly been proven right a few times.

And the obvious consensus is that Mitchell's report named only a fraction of the players who did take steroids.

As one sports radio talk show host said the day the report was released, "there are a lot of players and former players out there today breathing a big sigh of relief, having feared they might be named."

And was it just a coincidence that the Steinbrenners waited until just after the report came out to give a final sign-off on A-Rod's $275 million deal? Think, perhaps, that they wanted to make sure he wasn't on that list before committing that much money to someone the fans hate to begin with?

Suzyn Waldman cries on the air after Yankees eliminated

Suzie Waldman emcees an Irish wake for Mussina

Did anyone catch Suzyn Waldman's WCBS 880 radio interview with Mike Mussina prior to this afternoon's game against the Red Sox?
He sounded extremely depressed. No surprise there, after losing his spot in the Yankees' starting rotation.
Waldman, in a rare, no-doubt-accidental departure from complete Yankee ass-kissing, asked him what he thought of the irony that Ian Kennedy, the Minor League phenom called up to take his starting job, has been described as a "Mike Mussina clone."
Mussina bristled, and said something to the effect of, "we won't talk about that until they ask me to clean out my locker and he takes my jersey."
Waldman signed off for the commercial break in hushed tones, like she was broadcasting from the scene of a funeral.
I guess, in a sense, it was.