My Sportsman Choice: Jose Canseco

The author of the article must be kidding!!!! The title says "sportsman"

Not wishing to start another thread and/or debate over steroids...I still have to ask...

TR...did you read the article or just the title? Did you assume because it was a posting from Dibble it should be blasted right at the getgo?

FYI...upon reading the article, Conseco is nominated by the sportswriter, Kostya Kennedy, because he believes that Canseco has saved some young lives.....

The author says that the steroid usage in baseball was mostly ignored, hidden under the carpet, because baseball people didn't want to deal with it.....didn't care.

Then along comes Canseco's book....and we have House Committe hearings....and who can forget those? Bottom line....(and now you don't have to read the article!):

Canseco's book and the hearings "...... reminded people, most importantly reminded young people, that steroids are a very, very bad thing." He concludes: "Canseco's book saved lives. There is something very sportsmanlike about that."

Thanks Dibble, good article.

You don't reward the bad actions, just hecause Jose found a way to make the situation profitable. I acknowledge Jose for "standing-up", but he would have never been in this limelight if he had not broken a big time rule to begin with. He is not a "sportsman" in the true sense.

Kind of like the gangster from LA who killed 4 and was sentenced to die, then wrote a childrens book as a possible way to clemency. I don't think even the Gov and his people from the left coast bought into that.

The Jose situation is not life or death but it does follow the same thought process.

The only thing Jose did was name names. If Bud and the players union had proper drug testing system in place , steriods never would have gotten to be a big problem in the first place and players like Jose never would have used them in the first place.

My choice for Sportsman of the Year - DIBBLE

rz1....disagree with your analogy.....think Jose could care less about forgiveness/clemency.....he wanted the money! Pure and simple.....sell a lot of books....and he did.....

AZred,

I agree the money was the x factor. The other perks are an unintentional by-product of the greed.

RZ....I hear you...bottom line.....Canseco did not set out to do a grand and noble thing!

For those interested I read the entire article twice

This is a man who would sell his mother to make money and has also been known to try and run down his exwife on the street

He didnt do what he did to be a standup guy but for for the money involved,

arizona red--please don't think I let my feelings fro Drivel get in the way--actually the combo of Drivel/Conseco is a pretty fair match up of personalities

TR dont worry MRS Canseco wrote a tell all book trashing Jose.



Question: What was the worst thing about being married to a steroid user?

Answer: Maybe the adultery was the worst part. It was hard to deal with at the time. The steroids definitely hurt my marriage. He changed so much. I basically saw him deteriorate before my eyes. I saw the mood swings. I saw the depression. He also had numerous surgeries. He was injured during the season. His career was hurt. I worried about him. Numerous times, I told him to stop (taking steroids). He told me he had to take the steroids for his career. So I had to be the supportive wife. I was taught to hang in there - through thick and thin. It was about Jose all the time. My life revolved around Jose. We traveled around the country. I had to be supportive.


Jose was looking for the perfect formula for himself to make himself bigger, better and stronger. He thought he was a chemist. He also loves controversy.


His size would fluctuate while he was on steroids. They affected his mind, with the depression. They also affected his body. He couldn't even bend over in the morning. I had to put his socks and shoes on for him. He had to take seven Advil just to mask the pain to get dressed in the morning. Then he would take more medication once he got to the ballpark, just to deal with the pain.


Jose was injured so often. It is (steroids) very hard on your liver and joints and tendons.


At one point, he was just DH-ing, and he could barely make it through DH-ing. So a team would release him and we'd have to move to another city.


Now these poor kids come up and they think they need the steroids to be a better athlete.

Q: What is your overall view of steroids?

A: I watched the steroid hearings (on Capitol Hill on March 17). A lot of the things said that day, I already knew about. I knew steroids were covered up (years ago).


From what I saw when I was married to Jose, steroids were rampant in baseball. I just hope baseball can clean this thing up. Especially with the kids coming up and you hear kids dying because of steroids. Steroids really can cause depression. Jose is lucky he didn't try to kill himself. He's lucky he's still alive. For Josie's sake, I hope he's OK.

Didn't Jessica Canseco pose for Playboy?


Need to do a google search on that one.

i could answer that one but it might seriously offend some people here who thought Jose married her for her mind

the former Mrs. Canseco's book

Gloveman

I see a future lifetime movie in her book