Canseco Openly Extorting A-Rod

Jose Canseco just keeps on stepping up his sleaze campaign. Now he is openly threatening Alex Rodriguez, daring him to sue him. If A-Rod were to go the legal route, Canseco claims he will have "Max", the fictitiously named steroid dealer expose all his hidden secrets about the Yankees 3rd Baseman.

David Letterman took a play out of the Jay Leno, "I'll whore anything for ratings" playbook and had Canseco on as a guest last night. But it was after the taping as Canseco sat with reporters in the lobby of his hotel when he decided to start making threats.

The best part, Canseco says in an exclusive interview at the Omni Berkshire in midtown, is that Rodriguez can't do anything about it. If A-Rod threatens to sue Canseco or goes on "60 Minutes" to attack his credibility, Canseco will respond with "Max," the Canadian steroid dealer he claims to have hooked A-Rod up with in the late 1990s. If Canseco is sued or attacked, Max - up to this point simply known as an unidentified .steroids supplier - will go public with everything he knows about A-Rod, says Canseco. This, Canseco adds, is not a war that A-Rod can win.

Complete and total scumbag. Canseco did back off the hints he made in his book about Roger Clemens since he has no real evidence about the Rocket.