Jose Canseco Wants to Help Baseball

It seems as though Jose Canseco's initial goal -- back in 2005 -- was to bring down baseball in some sort of vengeful compilation of all the dirt he had on anyone related to the game. His claim that he was being blackballed by the league in some sort of collusive effort to ensure no team gave him a chance to play could easily be construed as the motive.

Now, in the wake of the Alex Rodriguez revelation from earlier this week, Canseco appears to desire a change in direction. He wants to help baseball move forward and ultimately rid the game of performance enhancers.

According to Canseco's lawyer, Dennis Holahan, he's sending a letter to the MLB Players Association. Holahan wouldn't elaborate much on what was contained in the letter, except to reiterate that Canseco just wants the game clean. You could accuse the former slugger of just wanting another job, considering he can only embarrass himself in a celebrity boxing match so many times. On the other hand, he did decline to comment on anything A-Rod related this week, so maybe he's truly turned over a new leaf and he just wants to move on and focus on the positives of not using.

For a guy who was once the pariah of the sports world, he's gained a ton of credibility in the public eye the past few years, as not one word of what he has written has been proven false.

"I think I have the ear of the nation now," Canseco said Tuesday. "I think everyone realizes I have not in any way, shape or form tried to create smoke and mirrors like Major League Baseball has and the players have. I have been excruciatingly honest about what's going on in baseball."

In fact, do you want to know how much his credibility has grown in the eyes of Major League Baseball?

"Let's take a look at the letter and see what's inside the letter. It will be interesting," MLB spokesman Rich Levin said. "We'd be glad to get correspondence from Mr. Canseco and we'll deal directly with him."

Raise your hand if you ever thought you would eventually read something like that when he first released his book three years ago.