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I'm not sure why Atlantic City is worried about its gambling revenue -- as long as they have Jose Canseco desperately attempting to get in a boxing ring and fight someone, they are bound to be raking in the profit.

Canseco, finally willing to admit that he is desperate and strapped for cash after losing his house, is looking for a boxing opponent in a match that would take place in the big AC on July 12th. But it gets even better.

Canseco and promoter Damon Feldman are seeking a challenger to fight the Oakland Athletics veteran on July 12 at the Bernie Robbins Stadium in Atlantic City. The chosen opponent will be paid $5,000. Brave souls should e-mail fightcanseco@aol.com
. Canseco's opponent will be revealed in this column next week.

Philly.com made the steroid jokes; I'm not going to squeeze that already bone-dry orange. Instead, I'm just going to laugh about the fact that he is so desperate for an opponent, and so convinced that no one worthwhile will sign up, that he has created an email account.

This essentially opens up the tryouts to the public. The sad thing is, there are literally thousands of doods that could not only kick the tar out of Canseco, but need $5,000.00. Picking someone that met both qualifications would be ideal. Instead, we will probably end up "the savior of baseball" fighting a Pauly Shore look-a-like shortly before the apocalypse actually hits.

H/T: Hugging Harold Reynolds