Just a random thought that struck me, today.

Jeremy Mayfield could be to NASCAR what Jose Canseco has been to baseball.

Guy being blackballed by his sport … been around it a long time … caught up (apparently) with some seedy stuff (Canseco admits to using steroids; Mayfield denies using meth) … and in position to do some serious damage to the sport by shifting into “I’ve got nothin’ to lose” tell-all mode.

Mayfield has the capacity to be that sort of loose cannon. It doesn’t make him a good guy or a bad guy, if he goes that way.

But remember: Most all the negative/scandalous things Canseco said and wrote about baseball have turned out to be accurate.

Will that be the case with Jeremy Mayfield?

Let’s wait a year or two and see. Maybe after the book comes out.