Now you can now add Jose Canseco to that list, who adds just another chapter to baseball?s book of juice and needles.

A former major leaguer, Canseco is looking to even to rip our president and former partner of the Texas Rangers, George W. Bush, by saying he should have known about the use of steroids on the team.

Just like it was with Giambi, Canseco?s story of him injecting Mark McGwire with steroids, and witnessing the likes of Rafael Palmeiro, Juan Gonzalez and Ivan Rodriguez do the same, is hard to comprehend.

The question lies if we should take these allegations seriously.

Some might say it?s not even worth discussing -- arguing that taking steroids does not improve the way a hitter views a ball coming in at 90 mph or bending with a sharp curve. Better yet, who would want to take the time to even argue this with a player who once had a baseball bounce off his head for a home run.

Playing the other side of devils advocate is Kevin Kennedy of FOX Sports. In one of his articles entitled "Keep The Integrity In the Game," he compared baseball?s steroid debacle as the new Black Sox Scandal of this decade.

That?s where it?s tough to form an opinion on such an issue that has many pros and cons to both sides.

The argument of steroids not effecting vision is a good one, but the other argument of steroids making the game of baseball possibly seem artificial in its power numbers also presents an intriguing thought to its every day fan.

It miffs me to look at a Palmeiro and see any foul play involved with steroids. Just envisioning his physical body stature, it makes me want to look twice, making sure Gandhi, the man who looked like he had arms and legs as skinny as grape vines, hadn?t appeared suddenly from the dead.

Even though it looked as though my calf could have easily been Mark McGwire?s upper arm, there is no reason to say that he didn?t earn his size from large amounts of time spent in the weight room.

I guess I would have to chosen to be against Canseco on this one and just pass off what he has to say as nonsense. He obviously has nothing better to do than just blast the league he used to be part of.

Don?t get me wrong? I would have taken Canseco?s bat any time in any line up, but I just don?t think now is the time to come out and talk about players other then himself. It was wrong to even say something about any other athlete with not having one bit of information other than the fact he "saw" them take part in the act of injecting steroids into their bodies.

Creating false stories of this magnitude is wrong, as it could turn many fans away from baseball. With thoughts that they have been watching chemicals provide extra units of power to their favorite players, and that it wasn?t their raw, physical, natural talent that brought them to their pinnacle of stardom and money reaping abilities, it could harm the sport for years to come in the eyes of some fans.

I?ll leave you with a quick version of what younger people in our society call story time. As ridiculous as it sounds, my senior little league baseball season last year ended its 20-game schedule without me recording one meaningful, warning track power type of hit. Still, what I got out of it was the satisfaction that I knew I was working with my own talent and not with juices created from a lab.

In regards to this whole Canseco-steroid issue and, ultimately, whether more power equals success, I think Roberto Clemente said it best when he said, "I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs."

Overall, most of the success of the game of baseball relies on its fans, people like you and me. It now becomes our job to come up with our own views on this topic and not let a retired old player like Jose Canseco become a catalyst in assisting in the demise of the great sport of baseball.