HE IS BACK!!! Not only back to playing baseball in the Independent leagues but back taking down the MLB. Mafia Legion of Baseball. That is right. Jose Canseco is playing baseball and investigating the MLB. Opening our eyes to the evil that Bud Selig is up to. Canseco actually called the MLB "the mafia."
Crying about being blackballed and all the protection of big names and blackballing of Cubans that is still active in the Majors.
All I know is that after I read Juiced, everyone Canseco accused either got busted, mysteriously lost tons of weight, retired, got injured, or just plain dissapeared. The man speaks the truth.
Save our National pastime Canseco. You are our only hope.
1. World Cup or Stanley Cup or NBA Finals? Chose one to write about and tell why.
2. Make an all-star lineup of any sport (exp. NBA- C- Bill Russel; PF- Tim Duncan; SF- Larry Bird; SG- Michael Jordan; PG Magic Johnson). You have to fill up all positions too (that includes DH for Baseball)
1. I would be lying to myself if I chose anything besides the World Cup. If you read my latest blogs it is obvious that I am most interested in the event that truly crowns the world champions. In a grueling process that happens once every four years and takes almost two years to qualify for, this is the one tournament that brings the entire world to a stand still. But I would also be lying to all of you if I said I was not interested in all three. I am a sportsnutt after all.
I like most of America have not been watching much of the Stanley Cup although if it were not for the World Cup I would be watching it a lot more. I like playoff hockey for its speed, intensity, physical play, and goal tending. Maybe it comes back to my appreciation of World Cup soccer that I do not need to see a goal to be enternained, but can be equally and sometimes more entertained by the brilliance of one man's sheer will to keep a ball or puck out of his net. It is this position that can make nobodies like Hislop of Trinidad and Tobago and Dwayne Roloson of Edmonton into heroes for there teams, cities, or even nations.
NBA Finals are a blast. This year has been a great NBA postseason and again it has been something else to see how often a game can come down to the final minute. Game three of Heat and Mavs for example. Gary Payton, the old almost washed up ex-Super Sonic, hit the game winner over the Miami Heat in the final seconds last night for a moment of glory in a game and series that looked to be all but over a few minutes earlier. Who would have known that across the world a half day later Tunisia would tie Saudi Arabia in the final minutes of there match and that Germany would break the hearts of an entire country in the final minute of there match. And lets not forget the Stanley Cup. Game 1 seemed like it was all over when the Canes tied it up with 30 seconds left and then went on to win in OT.
So whats my awnser? I guess I don't have one. I am a sportsnutt to the core. I love the drama, unpredictability, passion, and competitiveness of all sports. Even the ones I don't like I have a deep appreciation of the hard work it took to get to there level. This is why I will make sure to see Stanley Cup highlights, watch the NBA Finals, see all of the World Cup, and even tune in for the U.S. Open. Its my life.
2. Ok this is my all-star steroids using baseball team.
C. Pudge, I mean slim, Rodriguez
1b. Rafael, I did not do steroids, Palmiero
2b. Brett, chix dig the long ball, Boone
3b. Ken, RIP, Caminiti
SS. Every quick fielding 40 homer hitting shortsop since 1993
LF. Barry, I take the good stuff so you will never prove it, Bonds
CF. Alex, first to get busted for steroids, Sanchez
RF. Sammy, I apology, Sosa
DH. Mark, lets not talk about the past, McGwire
PH. Jason, I am back on the good stuff try to catch me, Giambi
P. Jose, I taught you how to Juice now I am telling on you, Canseco
RP. Ryan, cheapest roids ever, Franklin
That is one solid steroids team. Some of you forgot Canseco pitched in a game?
Anybody watch the Bonds on Bonds eps? I tuned in for the first three and found them rivetingly boring. It was contrived, uninteresting, and yet I didn't want to miss any of it. The entire steroids issue is fascinating. JUICED Canseco's book of lies that all came true. Read it and loved it. Its the Foul Ball of our time - Jim Bouton must be proud.
*714 Bonds........ You got to asterisks these guys. Once Selig's exhaustive PR/investigation of Bonds turns up with what we all already know - he is pumped with more muscle building drugs than a herd of future Big Mac burgers- you darn well better put the ol * next to his record and do it to Mcgwire and Sosa too.
Is Bonds chase bad for baseball? Probably but I got to say I watch every at bat they update. I am tuning in to see him break the record, see who gets the ball, how much it sells for on ebay, etc. etc. etc. I am interested in the entire STEROIDS chase. I am sick of it and GLUED to it at the same time. I am like baseball in that way a very confused transition period.
As far as the Babe... the gr8 Bambino, sultan of swat, the man the myth the legend. His record had already been broken by aaron and it didn't put a scratch into his legend. The Babe will always be the greatest homerun hitter that ever lived even if he wasn't. Thats the beauty of legends.
JC
Me personally, have never considered myself a fan of BB. Always respected his game, but never considered him one of my faves. Perhaps cuz I always considered Griffey, Jr as my #1 athlete in sports, and Bonds never had the charisma or pure joy for the game as Junior.
That being said, I don't HATE on the man. Why single out Bonds among a generation of juicers?!? He is NOT the only one deserving of an asterisk. So what that he's about to pass up the legendary Babe? Is there any other record in any sport where we pay so much attention to being #2 in the history books? No one even knows who is #2 behind Wilt's 100 points, or Joe D's 56-gm hit streak. So no one will make a big deal of someone finishing runner-up to those hallowed marks. No need to make a big deal about 715 until the man approaches 755...and I just don't see that happening.
Haters all need to get a life. Stop hating someone as if he's the only guilty individual. Blame the system, blame MLB for pretending ignorance. Don't hate the player. Hate the game.
