Jose Canseco wants to work with Major League Baseball to teach high school athletes about the dangers of anabolic steroids. Canseco is sending a proposal letter to the MLB describing the role he could play in the elimination of steroids from baseball (”Canseco offers assistance to baseball, union on steroid issue,” February 10).
“I think I have the ear of the nation now,” Canseco said Tuesday. “I think everyone realizes I have not in any way, shape or form tried to create smoke and mirrors like Major League Baseball has and the players have. I have been excruciatingly honest about what’s going on in baseball.”
Canseco’s attorney, Dennis Holahan, said he was sending a letter to Fehr and Gene Orza, the union’s chief operating officer, offering the former slugger’s assistance. Canseco, who has admitted using steroids, offered few specifics about what he planned to discuss in his proposed joint meeting, other than he was concerned about the “welfare of baseball.”
“The goal is to come up with a plan to rid baseball of steroids once and for all,” Holahan said.
Jose Canseco identified numerous MLB players as steroid users in his books “Juiced” and “Vindicated.” Initially, the allegations were dismissed. But in the years since the publication of Canseco’s books, practically all of the accused have either admitted to using steroids and/or been implicated by various steroid investigations.
Alex Rodriguez or A-Rod recently admitted using steroids earlier in his career further increasing Jose Canseco’s steroid-user-identification credibility. Nonetheless, few people believe Canseco would be an effective steroid education spokesperson in high schools. One reader compared it to hiring “Louis Farrakhan to help ease racial tensions,” “Ken Lay as a corporate ethics consultant” or “Keith Richards as a substance abuse counselor”.
Jose Canseco and Danny Bonaduce, both admitted anabolic steroid users in the past, are fighting each other in a celebrity boxing match organized by promoter Damon Feldman and available on internet pay-per-view on January 24, 2009. Former baseball player Jose Canseco was ridiculed after he was knocked out in a boxing match with former Philadelphia Eagles football player Vai Sikahema (”Fame game not over for scorned ex-slugger Canseco,” January 23).
“People want to see him get beat up,” Feldman said. “That’s what it’s all about.”
The exhibition takes place at an ice skating rink in Aston, Pa., and can be ordered on Internet pay-per-view. Vince Papale, the former Philadelphia Eagle who inspired the movie “Invincible,” is the guest referee. Recognizing the limited athleticism of the fighters, the bout features only three, 1-minute rounds. Against Sikahema last July, Canseco was flattened with a left hook 30 seconds into the fight and was finished after a few more punches.
There is a level playing field as far as performance-enhancing drugs are concerned as both Canseco and Bonaduce have experimented with steroids and/or HGH. But Canseco at 6-4 and 260 pounds dwarfs Bonaduce who is 5-6 and 180 pounds. The edge might go to Canseco, but anything could happen since Jose Canseco stopped using anabolic steroids last year.
A new off-broadway play about the Major League Baseball steroid scandal opens at the New York City Center MTC Stage 2 on November 18, 2008. Daniel Aukin directs the Manhattan Theatre Club production of “Back Back Back.”
Does greatness always come with a price? Can only someone with nothing to lose tell the whole truth? From the acclaimed writer of last season’s MTC Stage II hit The Four of Us and Bach at Leipzig comes a stirring new drama about America’s favorite pastime. Back Back Back follows the turbulent careers of three very different teammates in baseball’s steroid era whose clubhouse secrets bring them under federal scrutiny.
On Tuesday, Canseco said a gel he was using to try to restore his testosterone level wasn’t working, so he went to a Tijuana pharmacy seeking something better.
“I didn’t go down there looking for steroids,” Canseco said while seated on a bench outside the courtroom with his girlfriend, who gave only her first name, Heidi. “I needed something to help me get my own levels back to normal, just to get me to, you know, normal working conditions, I guess.
“Well, when you have no testosterone level, you’re depressed, you lose muscle mass, no sex drive, no libido, you have nothing,” he added. “You’re kind of like tired, depressed all the time. You just don’t want to do anything.”
Jose Canseco was stopped while crossing the international border at San Ysidro with his girlfriend Heidi Northcutt and her 7-year old daughter. Customs searched Canseco’s car and discovered a bottle of HCG obtained from a Mexican pharmacy. Jose Canseco was detained for 9 hours and released after he consented to a search of his house in the Los Angeles area.
Canseco was charged with “one count of introducing a mislabeled drug into interstate commerce” in federal court today but did not enter a plea. … Read the rest of this entry »
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