Move over, Jose Canseco. Another player who admitted to using “stuff” to enhance his game wants to join in on pointing fingers at who’s to blame as Major League Baseball continues to battle league-wide drug abuse issues.

In a report by USA TODAY, Yankees first-baseman Jason Giambi — a man who should feel obligated to send portions of his career earnings to the Save BALCO Bums Campaign* (campaign juice/funds provided by anonymous donors) — called out the MLB for not apologizing to its fans long ago (from the USA TODAY report):

“I was wrong for doing that stuff,” Giambi told USA TODAY on Wednesday before playing the Chicago White Sox. “What we should have done a long time ago was stand up — players, ownership, everybody — and said: ‘We made a mistake.’

“We should have apologized back then and made sure we had a rule in place and gone forward. … Steroids and all of that was a part of history. But it was a topic that everybody wanted to avoid. Nobody wanted to talk about it.”

When asked why he used steroids, Giambi replied:

“Maybe one day I’ll talk about it, but not now.”

Now that is full disclosure the MLB must envy, especially coming from Giambi, a man of infallable integrity.

So maybe Giambi expects the league to look past the asterisk behind his name and take in his opinion because, as one can assume, everyone cares about his steroid-related opinions — he is, after all, an expert.

Had the league scheduled an apology right after Giambi’s, in 2005, they would be better off today, according to the slugger.

Giambi’s apology was one politicians write on a daily basis. What’d he apologize for? For taking… well, he couldn’t get into specifics. He just knew he was sorry.

After the most absurd apology in history (after Bill Clinton’s “Ya’ll caught me… finally” apology to end the Lewinski scandal), the MLB accepted Giambi back into the league as a known “cheater” and did nothing to punish the records he attained while he admittedly using “stuff.” And after an impressive allegedly “steroid-free” 2005 campaign, a year after discovering he suffered from a benign tumor (also known as a “steroid bubble” in some insider circles), he received the 2005 MLB Comeback Player of the Year Award.

Kids - live your dreams! (I’m assuming kids are the correct audience, and who the entire steroids issue is all about, right?) One day, you too can cheat your way to the top and criticize the people who continue to ignore fellow cheaters like you!

There’s a saying - “Don’t bite the hand that fed you.” The MLB should feel betrayed by Giambi’s latest comments. It was the league who helped feed Giambi (and his brother) millions of dollars, even when first hearing of his link to steroid use. Back in December 2004 the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Giambi told a grand jury investigating BALCO in 2003 he used steroids and growth hormone. Only after the testimony leaked, he felt obligated to apologize.

Now, Giambi sits atop a holier-than-thou position, telling the league to apologize for going easy on players like himself.

How would Giambi feel that same MLB apology included a hard-line against the records of admitted steroid users? This would mean immediate “Delete” button uses of the two major whistleblowers, Giambi and Canseco. Not included: possible retro payment lawsuits for earning fraudulent dollars from the league by way of cheating. (Not so sure this is possible, but it’s a thought.)

Players like Giambi are fun to watch - in press conferences and media quote pages. They admit to a vague list of items like “stuff” and “things” but point fingers at the biggest entity and say “they made me do it!”

The MLB lost control of the entire steroids/performance enhancers issue a long time ago. But Giambi, of all people, is in absolutely no place to call anyone out. If anything, he should send flowers, a “Thank You” card and chocolates over to the league who did not throw him under the bus back in December 2004.

I know a certain slugger in San Francisco who would kill to get the Giambi treatment, but he never will. So Giambi should do himself a favor and keep his mouth shut.

Another line of advice comes from something an old grade school teacher once told me - “When you point your finger at someone, remember, there are three other fingers pointing right back at you.”

*Please Note: Save BALCO Bums Campaign is not a real campaign as far as I know, although its existence is not at all too far-fetched.