Jose Canseco - This week sing the apocalypse is upon us

If there is flag bearer of the steroid era of Major League Baseball is former baseball player Jose Canseco.

The 1988 American League Most Valuable Player confirmed he wants to help MLB commissioner Bud Selig and union head Donald Fehr to make the game “the great sport that it is”.

The funny thing is that a player who accepted that his 462 career home runs where possible by the use of steroids is now a good option for a league that is trying to put behind an era of usage.

Canseco was the first baseball player to come clean on his issues when he wrote his book “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big”. In this now infamous publication he talked about introducing then Oakland Athletics Mark McGwire to illegal substances.

On his 2008 publication “Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and The Battle to Save Baseball” Canseco tells the story on how he introduced Alex Rodriguez to a steroids dealer, back when they played for the Texas Rangers.

As a side note Rodriguez, now of the New York Yankees, recently admitted to steroid use between 2001 and 2003.

But back to the savior.

Canseco has a point of view of those stormy years better than most; he was a user and also a ringer for others. He might be in a position to do some good and shed that notion that he used baseball as a money making business and his books to make even more dollars.

The Major League Baseball offices are willing to give him the opportunity to help; hopefully something good can come out of this. The problem is that with Canseco you never can tell what might be the end result of this ordeal.