ESPN: Jose Canseco, uncensored, in Los Angeles

Plus a swagerific pic of Canseco...where it looks like he’s set to star in “Quex-Ul: In the Zone!”

“Here’s the problem. If you let Major League Baseball police their own environment, they won’t do it. To them, they have to protect their players,” he said. “I never spoke with Magglio or his agent. Meanwhile, what does he do? He runs to Major League Baseball. For what? Protection. ‘Protect me, please. He’s coming after me now.’ He needs Major League Baseball to protect him, and what they’ve been doing all along is protecting their own.

“It’s like when Rafael Palmeiro [testified before Congress] that he never used steroids. I’m like, ‘Wait, I injected this guy. Something’s going on.’ What guy in his right mind would testify before [Congress], wag his finger at [Congress] like they were little children, and all of a sudden, a month and a half later, take steroids and get caught? No. He was caught way before that. But he was very close to accomplishing 500 home runs and 3,000 base hits, so Major League Baseball basically said, ‘We’ll allow you to accomplish that and hold back the results in exchange for testifying against Jose Canseco.’ Then what happened? Very simply, MLB got smart. … They throw the evidence to a reporter—they have reporters on [their] payroll—and the reporter leaks it out.”

“The whole thing doesn’t make sense,” Canseco said, once again addressing the Ordonez allegations. “If I’m trying to extort money from you, and you involve the FBI, how do you catch me? You engage in a conversation with me and have the FBI record it. It’s very simple. Why didn’t that happen? I tell you why, because they’re liars, liars, liars, liars and liars. That’s all they are. Major League Baseball and all of the players say, ‘If we get together and tell a huge lie, it’s thousands against one guy.’ But the truth stands.”