When Jose Canseco released his steroid tell-all Juiced in 2004, everyone called him a self-absorbed, washed up ball player who was just seeking attention. Now, with all the hububb around the Mitchell Report and Canseco being vindicated, he’s decided to write a follow-up version called, well, Vindicated. Apparently you can add unoriginal to self-absorbed and washed up.

Robert Saunooke, Canseco’s lawyer, told The New York Daily News and The New York Post that the book, which has a working title of “Vindicated” will be co-authored by former Sports Illustrated writer Don Yaeger.

“Jose already has a lot of stuff put together,” Yaeger told The Daily News. Disappointed by the Mitchell report, Canseco hopes to publish “an unjaundiced view, without the rose-colored glasses” of steroid use in baseball, Saunooke told The Post.

“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.

“Stuff”! Hearsay! Opinion passes off as fact! So basically it’s going to be a Harlequin Romance version of the Mitchell Report. A-Rod should get his legal team ready.

Reports: Canseco’s new book expected by Opening Day ‘08 [ESPN]
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