Commentary: Canseco has his 60 minutes of shame

If you’re so tired of reading, hearing and seeing Jose Canseco you want to throw up, join the crowd.

Unfortunately, he has us right where he want us. It’s all Canseco, all the time.

You could see it in the smirk he wore Sunday night during his interview with Mike Wallace on “60 Minutes.”

He knows he’s making us nauseous. He knows we can only half believe him. He knows he’s making himself look like a raving lunatic.

And he just doesn’t care. He seems happy, happier maybe than he’s been in years, because, once again, everyone is focused on him.

He’ll be back on “60 Minutes” again tonight and will probably be on ESPN soon. I’m writing my third column on the pea-brain in a week. Columnists all over the country are doing the same thing.

We can’t help ourselves. It’s what you’re talking about. It’s what everyone’s talking about.

And what’s major league baseball saying about Canseco?

It doesn’t know what to say.

The worst thing I heard while watching “60 Minutes” on Sunday night was Mike Wallace saying baseball commissioner Bud Selig had declined an interview.

“Declined an interview? What?”

Accused serial killers might decline interviews on national television. Not the commissioner of baseball.

Selig should have leaped at the opportunity to discredit Canseco on national TV. Unless, of course, Bud thinks he might just be telling the truth.

There are reports that an MLB spokesman will surface on tonight’s show. Let’s hope so.

Let’s also hope Wallace asks a few more pointed questions, as he did when he had Canseco back-pedaling on his contention that he “often” injected Mark McGwire with steroids. “Often,” Canseco finally admitted, was really just once or twice, and his memory was hazy on even those numbers.

“It was a long time ago,” Canseco told Wallace.

It’s exaggerations like that, along with Canseco’s sheer lack of credibility as a human being, that make all of us skeptical about what he’s saying. But I think we’re all scared, too.

We’re scared to death he might be telling the truth. Or at least some of it.

What I’d like to see is someone take the gloves off with Canseco. I’d like to turn on the TV tonight to see Rafael Palmeiro or Pudge Rodriguez calling Canseco a liar to his face.

Yes, everyone he has accused or implicated with his slander has denied it. But they’ve done it politely, with their teams or attorneys making these nicely worded statements about how they feel sorry that Jose has sunk to such depths.

Nobody should feel sorry for this despicable rat. Even now, he shows not an inkling of regret for what he did to himself, for what he did to others when, if he’s telling the truth, he introduced them to steroids, nor for what he did to the game that provided him with wealth beyond his wildest dreams.

In his own way, Canseco was a predator when he played. He had few, if any, close friends. By his own admission he wasn’t “buddy-buddies” with McGwire, his old Bash Brother teammate. He wasn’t close with Raffy, or Pudge, or Juan Gonzalez.

But I admit it, he’s got me. I’ll watch to see what he says again tonight.