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Jose Canseco has claimed he plans on suing Major League Baseball and the the Major League Baseball Players Association for “lost wages–and in some cases, defamation of character,” according to the Associated Press. Canseco says that he has been completely ostracized from the sport, and the reputation that has been put on him has made it difficult for him to make money. Apparently, Canseco was also upset that he and Mark McGwire haven’t been admitted to the Hall of Fame yet.

Jose, are you out of your mind? Let’s take this one at a time, starting with Cooperstown. If we completely ignore steroids, we see that you do have yes, 462 homeruns, but you also have a .266 career average and a whopping 1942 career strikouts, more than double his career walk rate. If steroids didn’t exist and he put up the same numbers, there would have been a definite chance that Jose would be the second 400-HR man to not make the Hall after Dave Kingman. But let’s get serious. Steroids were a part of his career, and that is heavily condemned by the baseball community. And it’s not like he was a casual user, Canseco spread steroids like a California wildfire, popularizing them across the sport.