What's that I hear? It's the sound of baseball groaning again as word spread of Jose Canseco's upcoming sequel to "Juiced".

Although the working title is reportedly "Vindication", here are some other suggestions for the title:

1.    "More Juice: First you got the liquid and now you're getting the pulp"

2.    "Juiced part Duhhhh"  [spelling "Deux" is not as easy as some might think]

3.    "Juiced II: how I squeezed more money out of the publishers"

A lot of people are tired of Canseco. They think he's a buffoon and a rat.

Here's the thing about Canseco, he's doing it for the same reason that a lot of players leave great situations on a good team to descend into the lowly ranks of the non-contenders: the money.

However, there is another possible motivation: he's looking to stick it to the American public and MLB. Great drama.

Here is the general flow of criticism over time about his first book: 

1st        Canseco is a rat

2nd       Canseco is a lying rat

3rd        Canseco is a juiced lying rat.

Only the first seems to be completely true, and I'm not even sure that it was deserved. So we want the truth, but we're going to call them a "rat" if they give it to us?

Whatever the reason for his first book (and I'm not entirely sure that it was only about money), a large number of his claims were true. For fans clamoring to clean up the sport, you should be supporting Canseco. You should be telling everyone criticizing him to shut up.

Some may be suspicious and wonder, "Why didn't he just name everyone in his first book?" You might as well ask hy J.K. Rowling why she didn't reveal everything about the Harry Potter storyline in the first book of that series. You keep the audience coming back for more.

Canseco may be a publicity hound, but so far there is nothing to indicate that he's lied about other MLB steroid users, and that's why you can be sure that when his new book comes out, every MLB player who ever used steroids will either read the book or have someone else read the book and give them a synopsis. Hey, some people don't like reading.

If you can separate all the other negative stuff about Canseco's personality from his claims (a Herculean task for most), you'll find that he's refreshingly honest. He's confessed to his own steroid use without having been caught first, and he's accurately named several players who used steroids. At least he's far more honest than every one of his thousands of his MLB peers who know the truth and aren't talking.