The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?

The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.

I'm tired of justifying what I've said.