Hello and welcome to 30 for 30 podcasts, our series of original audio documentaries from ESPN Films and ESPN Audio.

My name is Jody Avergare.

And this is the first episode of our fourth season.

Last season, we brought you a five-part series on the world of Bickland Yoga.

This season, we're going back to individual documentaries, five different moments in time.

Our first one is one that applies a small lens to a big story, steroids in baseball.

For years, especially in the 90s, steroid use by major leaguers was kind of an open secret,

but not one that many players were willing to talk about.

These players, by the way, were huge, giant necks,

bulging biceps, enormous home runs,

and one of the biggest and most controversial players was

Jose Canseco.

He was the one that finally decided to break the code of silence, and he did so by writing

a book.

This is the story of how that book came together, and it's also a look at whether an important

message will ever be heard when it's coming from a notoriously unreliable narrator.

A quick warning, this episode contains mature language.

Now, here's 30 for 30's own Andrew Mamba with Juiced.

The very first time I had the idea or the thought of the book, Juice, when I'll tell you exactly, I remember it.

Jose Konseko had always talked about writing a book.

But on this day, in March 2004, something changed.

Konseca had retired from baseball two years earlier, but he was only 38 home run shy of 500,

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