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Jose Canseco returning to baseball

By Mark J. Miller | Scoop Du Jour – Mon, Feb 13, 2012 7:38 AM EST

US PresswireAt the start of this offseason, Jose Canseco was supposed to face off against Lenny Dykstra in a pay-per-view fight (that Dykstra thankfully didn't show up for) and now he's back in the news as he attempts to return to baseball.

The 47-year-old Canseco, who hasn't played pro ball for 11 years, is going to try out for the Mexican League's current champs, the Quintana Roo Tigers, according to the Chicago Tribune.

"Back in baseball I knew I would play this year you just gotta believe in your dreams," Canseco tweeted Sunday. "Leave on redeye tonite to start spring training."

Canseco, of course, was the American League MVP back in 1988 but sealed his spot in baseball's history in 1995 when he released his book, "Juiced," which chronicled his steroids use and claimed that 85 percent of major leaguers used performance-enhancing drugs.

In his 17 years in the majors, Canseco hit 462 homers, 340 doubles, and maintained a batting average of .266.

The Tigers, by the way, play their home games in Cancun. Not a bad place to try and make a comeback.

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22 comments

John DP • 1 month 28 days ago
Jose,please go away into the Florida sunset. Learn to live on your pension, and try to be a better person.Just try. Suerte.
Del • Dallas, Texas • 3 months ago
Jose Canseco returning to baseball as what?
A Yahoo! user • Fresno, California • 3 months ago
Real life Kenny Powers
- ~PANCHO~ 3 months ago
  Fresno??? lmao
- Turd Ferguson 3 months ago
  Fresno....lmao.....who could it be?
M R • Irvine, California • 3 months ago
"Back in baseball I knew I would play this year you just gotta believe in your dreams," Canseco tweeted Sunday. Also added, "steroids are part of my dreams, too."
combosrt • 3 months ago
I hate to think of all the fights in the playgrounds of the kids who defended this #$%$ back in the day.
Craig • 3 months ago
Unreal! Who checks these posts? The books came out in 2005 not 1995!
Chris • 3 months ago
2005... not 1995... great writing Yahoo!
cogwheel • Chicago, Illinois • 3 months ago
Is it a wheelchair league ?
blazer 49 • 3 months ago
Why ???????????????????
MIA • 3 months ago
Get the facts straight, Conseco has actually been playing ball each of the last two years, albeit minor league ball.
~PANCHO~ • 3 months ago
Hey Hooter! Cespedas....the Cuban kid....just signed with the A's for 4 years @ $36 million!!!!! Bahahaha.....all the crap you talked about this kid. Let's see if you are cheering him out once he becomes the A's best player. He probably already is now, since they gutted out half the roster. Oh wait......Coco Crisp is the best player on that sorry team. lmao
- Del 3 months ago
  Whoa...didn't see that coming. He'll be fun to follow. He has a knack of getting into the slot position early in his swing which gives him a longer area of impact and a ton of torque. Get your tape measures out.
- Scott 3 months ago
  That's #$%$ funny. Hooter has been shi - ott talking this guy for the last couple weeks.
- str A's hooter 3 months ago
  I hope Cespedes makes me eat my words. I have been ragging on his crude swing, but he does have some raw power. Wish Mark McGwire can return to the A's as their hitting coach and fine tune Cespedes' mechanics.
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williamH • Signal Hill, California • 3 months ago
Total loser. Total big mouth. Stay home and save us the grief.
GREATER GOOD • Portland, Oregon • 3 months ago
The legend that prevented MLB, it owners, and players from lying and cheating fans out of their money. I would go to Cancun to see a couple of weeks of games. He witnessed the same roid use at yank stadium that Torre, Georgie Boy and jeter all saw, and hide the facts from us in order to take our disposible cash
A Yahoo! User • Irvine, California • 3 months ago
"Southbound and Down" Starring Jose Canseco as Jose Canseco
Scott • Irvine, California • 3 months ago
Nice uni. The Long Beach Armada folded 2 years ago.
M_B_E • 3 months ago
MLB hates him because he exposed the ugly truth about baseball and steroids. Still love the time the baseball bounced off his head.
~PANCHO~ • 3 months ago
What is this knucklehead even thinking? Maybe he found the other "juice" like the old men from the movie "Cocoon" drank. This guy is a serious attention w h @ r e. He needs to guy try and get back together with Madonna. Jose....give it up amigo.
bobby • 3 months ago
Can we say washed up loser? Go back to the hole you came from and seal it up...
Mike • Mt Prospect, Illinois • 3 months ago
who would want to play with a snitch
- str A's hooter 3 months ago
  Mike, it took courage for a ballplayer to step up to the plate and expose the corruptness of the game. It brought forced Congress to come in and clean up Baseball from High School to MLB. It may have saved countless lifes.
- It Came from Fresno! 3 months ago
  NY Hoots, I wonder how much courage he would have had without royalties from his book. He's a huge piece of krap.
- ~PANCHO~ 3 months ago
  Str....when Jose first came out and said all this.....MLB turned their heads the other way and claimed Jose was full of chit. Do you remember that? I do. And when it came down to Congress......he sat back and got to say " I told you so!".
  He didn't step up with courage......to me, he brought out stuff you're not suppose to that belongs in the clubhouse. That's a no-no. Though he was only telling the truth, MLB is the one to blame for everything. Jose was just being "real" at the time.
  Bottom line, Jose is full of hot air and himself.
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itsthateasy • Newark, New Jersey • 3 months ago
Im fine with this...i would like to see a few more balls sail over the right field fence at the expense of Canseco's noggin.