Amidst the seriousness of today's Mitchell Report, I gotta say I found this funny:Before George Mitchell released his report and held his news conference Thursday, a most surprising visitor attempted to enter: Jose Canseco.And the pieces come together. If Canseco just wanted to hear what George Mitchell had to say, then why did he show up instead of just turning on the television? One theory (okay, my theory): so he can be on television and show his smiling mug to the world which could only say "see, told ya so." And by getting kicked out of the press conference, and winding up on ESPN to which Baseball Tonight host Karl Ravech responded (paraphrased) "this is now officially a circus", Canseco did get his point across (along with letting people know that he has a new book coming out, surprise surprise.)
Canseco, a virtual certainty to be named in the report, tried to get into the news conference room but was turned down by Major League Baseball officials.
"It's OK," Canseco said, smiling. "I'm not in the media."
Canseco, whose 2005 book "Juiced" set off a chain of events that led to the current tougher drug-testing plan, said he was coincidentally staying in the same hotel, the Grand Hyatt, where the news conference was being held. Doug Ames, Canseco's business manager, said the former slugger was in town to announce a deal for his book "Vindicated," the sequel to "Juiced," in which Canseco detailed his own steroid usage and that of fellow players.
But imagine being responsible for something (one could say that Canseco's book is in a large way responsible for this Mitchell Report) and then being denied entry to see the fruits of your labor. Wow. Although other fruits of Jose's labor probably lie in those book sales.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
12-13-2007 @ 6:25PM
ron said...
Ever stop to think that the publisher and agent might have put him up to it??? Ever hear of advertising money cannot buy???
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12-31-2007 @ 12:02AM
SCOTT ELLISON said...
IM CONFUSED ABOUT CANSECO, SOME PEOPLE ARE CALLING HIM A HERO. HE LOOKS AT CAMERAS AND SMILES AND HIS FACE AND HIS ACTIONS SAY...SEE...TOLD YOU SO! BASEBALL LEADERSHIP...HA! THEY KNEW THIS WAY BACK THEN AND DID NOTHING, IT WAS GREAT WHEN IT SERVED THE PURPOSE OF WHOS HITTIN HOMERUNS AND BREAKING RECORDS. CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT WAS SAID ABOUT CANSECO IN 2005 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS AT BASEBALL HQ.?
LEADERSHIP HA! CANSECO LEFT AFTER 17 YRS. HE IS NO HERO BLOWING WHISTLES. HERE'S A MOVIE CANSECO SHOULD WATCH...SCENT OF A WOMAN...HERE'S A NEW CONCEPT. DON'T RAT OUT YOUR BUDDIES A SPORT, AND FELLOW COLLEGUES. HE DID THIS FOR WHAT? MONEY PERSONAL GAIN, ALL FOR WHAT? MONEY AND PESONAL GAIN.
A REAL MAN SAYS I MESSED UP...ME I DON'T KNOW OF ANYONE ELSE THAT DID. AND IF I DO KNOW MORE I'M LIKE A SHIP THAT NEVER REACHES SHORE. A NO COMMENT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE. LIKE BOB COSTAS SAID HE 'S 40+YRS OLD AND HE IS BETTER THAN GUYS IN THEIR PRIME AT THEIR 20'S...AND WHAT ABOUT ROGER CLEMENS HIS SIZE AND STRENGTH AND WINS AT AN EVER INCREASING AGE...HE COULD SPECULATE BUT TEST THEM..
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12-31-2007 @ 1:01AM
RON said...
MLB is afraid of the truth.
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12-31-2007 @ 10:34AM
John Floyd said...
Canseco is no hero!! He is worse then a moffa rat. He did it strictly for the money and he will still make more money. He is out of baseball and has nothing else to do so he writes a book telling on other to justify what he did.
It is disturbing to know that nothing can be done to him except keep him out of the Baseball hall of Fame.
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1-05-2008 @ 7:47AM
James Matuszek said...
Ballplayer turned salesman, Jose Canseco is not the nicest person in New England sports. When playing for the Boston Red Sox, on a rehab assignment to Triple A Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Canseco was quoted in the local media, criticizing Pawtucket as a place he would never return. At Pawtucket, Canseco was rude to young fans and the local media. Now that Canseco is out of baseball, he is trying to get the attention he so alienated as a player.
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