Matthew Beck of Rotoinfo.com had conducted a telephone interview with controversial former baseball player Jose Canseco.  We recommend that you read the article here, but here are a few excepts:

ROTOINFO: Who was your least favorite teammate to play with during the prime of your career?

JOSE CANSECO: When I was with the A’s it was probably Carney Lansford.  The guy was really bland.  He had no humor what so ever and was very critical of the other players on the team

ROTOINFO: Many players in the Hall of Fame had a major impact on the game because of the impact steroids had on the game of baseball.  Do you feel you should be mentioned in the Hall of Fame for bringing the steroids situation to light?

JOSE CANSECO: It depends how you would define a Hall of Fame member.  I think a lot is defined by the numbers a player puts up but also by what a player brings to the game and how they change the game.  So hopefully in a way I am considered a Hall of Famer by bettering the game and getting steroids out in the open.

ROTOINFO: Commissioner Bud Selig says he had no clue about the steroids in baseball, and I don’t believe him for a second.  If I heard about  steroids in baseball, how is it possible he didn’t?

JOSE CANSECO: Commissioner Bud Selig is full of s**t.  He is just outright lying and trying to protect himself by acting like nothing was going on.  He acts like it was never brought to his attention in any form and pretends like he never suspected anything.  I think the FBI did a prior investigation that brought it up to the commissioner’s attention that there was a problem with steroids in baseball and Selig and his staff just ignored it because the game was flourishing at the time.

ROTOINFO: It seems to most that Barry Bonds is being black balled form the game of baseball.  Do you feel he deserves that?

JOSE CANSECO: The only individual that got black balled was me.  I was out of the game at the age of 35 years old.  Barry Bonds played well into his 40’s and was able to accomplish many feats, home run and slugging titles, on his way to making an incredible amount of money.  If he was going to get black balled it would have happened years and years back.  The obvious case of getting black balled was me at 35 years old and not being able to get a job in baseball.  I don’t believe Bonds was black balled.