Canseco's book hit in cleanup spot

0 Comments | USA TODAY, October, 2008 | by Christine Brennan

With Major League Baseball at its postseason peak, it's only fitting that Jose Canseco would pick this time to drop back into our lives.

Canseco is talking again, and this time he's doing it in an A&E Network documentary. In it, the best-selling author of Juiced says he "should not have written" his infamous tell-all book and specifically "regrets mentioning players" as steroid users, including Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro, all of whom happen to be suspected steroid users. (Palmeiro even has the positive drug test to prove it.)

"I never realized this was going to blow up and hurt so many people," Canseco now says.

It's true, it did blow up, but while it hurt a handful of people with extraordinarily big muscles, it helped about 300...