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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232458.Juiced_Wild_Times_Rampant_Roids_Smash_Hits_and_How_Baseball_Got_Big?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1172947212m/232458.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232458.Juiced_Wild_Times_Rampant_Roids_Smash_Hits_and_How_Baseball_Got_Big?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/136038.Jose_Canseco">Jose Canseco</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11286354?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 1 of 5 stars<br/>So I had a debate with a couple of guys at work the other day about the Mitchell report and the whole steroid scandal in baseball. My point on the issue: yes, baseball players were cheating, but it's really no secret, and like other past scandals in sports, you have to put the records and stats into historical perspective. I decided I should educate myself a little more on the subject, especially Barry Bonds, so I went to the library looking for 'Game of Shadows', the expose by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters, whose main target in Barry Bonds. All copies of the book were checked out, so I decided to check out the precursor to all of the recent madness, this book. <br/> <br/>Quite possibly the most poorly written book I have ever read. Jose's education never went beyond high school (where he did poorly), and it shows. Why, outside of selfishness, he didn't hire somebody to interview him and write the book, I have no idea. The book has absolutely no flow, and while he goes about calling pretty much everyone in baseball and the media a hypocrite, he contradicts himself so many times that the word hypocrite loses all meaning. I get a particular kick out of his assertion that the media is racist towards Latinos (which it most certainly is), and then complains that Alex Rodriguez gets a free pass. And as I write this, he's signed a deal to write another book; splendid. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/291532?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>