Jose Canseco Tweet of the Day

You should note that he said "human being." I'm pretty sure he believes there is some form of artificial intelligence that will not only take over the human race but can also beat him in a long ball competition. Unless that was a euphemism for porn.

I desperately want to see Canseco fight 48-year-old Herschel Walker. Who do we have to call to get Canseco's ankle bracelet removed for 30 seconds?

Jose Canseco Tweet of the Day

Pete Rose Solutions

The Cincinnati Reds are set to honor Pete Rose at Great American Ball Park September 12, 25 years and a day after he broke Ty Cobb's all-time hit record. Rose is unavailable on September 11, the actual date of the record-setting performance, because of a prior commitment at a Kentucky casino. Sometimes these stories write themselves.

Anyway, former MLB commissioner Fay Vincent, who followed into office Bart Giammati, the man who banned Rose for life in 1989 for betting on baseball, is furious and in an email sent to the New York Post said "I totally disagree with the (Bud) Selig position. Either enforce the Rules or reinstate him."

I've got a solution to this problem: just reinstate Pete Rose and let's all get on with our lives for Todd Benzinger's sake. Who the hell cares anymore? The guy bet on baseball, yes, but Bud Selig made a rule that the winner of the all-star game secures home field advantage for its league in the World Series. Which is the larger crime? Correct: the all-star thing. And if the Reds want to honor one of their all-time greats for breaking a hit record that may stand forever, let them. That's like if Tampa Bay wants to honor Jose Canseco for his ground-rule double in 1999, let them.

Jose Canseco's Glorious Return To (Semi) Pro Baseball

An Independent League team, the Laredo Broncos, have hired Jose Canseco to DH and bench coach for their next two homestands. Baseball's favorite snitch was hired by the Broncos for his hitting acumen and positive clubhouse presence but certainly not for a publicity stunt. Isn't that right, some guy who fell into the General Manager position?

"We gave him this option," Broncos general manager Jose Melendez said on the team's website. "He felt baseball was over with. We're the ones who encouraged him to come back and return to the game of baseball and back to where his beloved fans can see him again."

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"He's going to do a lot of work with kids, doing a lot of camps," added Melendez. "Doing all this for an independent team is a lot of sacrifice on his part. Jose is an amazing baseball player and accomplished so much in his baseball career, it would be great for the rest of the Broncos players to learn from him as well."

Like I've always said, if you want your young, impressionable ball players to learn the game, hire baseball's most famous dope fiend. Sure, it will probably sell a few more tickets but you can't honestly expect me to believe Canseco is going to be a role model for some not-even minor league kids. He's stuck more needles into people than your local tattoo artist.

Does anybody think Canseco is doing this for the good of the game instead of his cash deprived wallet? Canseco was recently evicted from his home in California for a lack of paying rent. It's too bad Canseco's MMA career stalled out after Hong Man Choi pummeled him at Dream 9. I'd pay to watch Canseco get beat up roughly twice a month.

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