I don't know if I'm directly trying to take on the whole baseball establishment. I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

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.

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

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