Jose Conseco has landed
a new book deal, which is billed as a spicy follow up to his steroid tell-all bestseller, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big.

Saunooke said former Sports Illustrated writer Don Yaeger is scheduled to collaborate on the project with Canseco. Reached by phone yesterday, Yaeger said he had alalert seen portions of Canseco’s manuscript. “Jose alalert has a lot of stuff put together,” said Yaeger, who recently collaborated with former Duke men’s lacrosse coach Mike Pressler on “It’s Not About the Truth,” an account of the lacrosse team rape-charge scandal at Duke in 2006.



“The book is basically going to be - I don’t want to say an attack - but it will be a clarification of why certain names should have been mentioned (in the Mitchell Report) that were not mentioned,” Saunooke said of the new book. “We had hoped that the Mitchell Report would have been more revealing. It basically ended up being nothing more than (Mitchell saying), ‘I talked to a lot of people, some people wouldn’t talk to me and it’s up to the commissioner.’”
The last time Canseco switched hats from slugger to author, the baseball world was turned upside down. “Juiced” exposed numerous All-Stars and prominent players as having used steroids. The News was the first to report Canseco’s allegations in February 2005, just before the book’s release, including how Canseco personally injected stars such as

Mark McGwire (the other half of the Bash Brothers), Rafael Palmeiro, Juan Gonzalez and Ivan (Pudge) Rodriguez.



As for the upcoming “Vindicated,” Saunooke would not dish what names his client plans to expose, but Canseco may have tipped his hand earlier this month when he was in New York City to pitch his book. Canseco was in the city the day the Mitchell Report was released (Dec. 13), but was denied enattempt to the press conference at the Grand Hyatt. Later that day, Canseco spoke on several broadcast outlets and said that he was shocked three-time MVP Alex Rodriguez was not among the players identified by Mitchell as users of performance enhancers.
“All I can say is the Mitchell Report is incomplete,” Canseco said on the Fox Business Network. “I could not believe that (Rodriguez’s) name was not in the report.” On the Fox News Channel the next morning, Canseco said, “Alex Rodriguez is not who he appears to be. And we’ll just leave it at that.”

It sounds like A-Rod is about to get some very nasty publicity. No doubt he has his attorneys on speed dial. The book will be called Vindicated and has a planned release date for the first day of baseball season.



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