Jose Canseco

If you miss Jose Canseco - and, really, who doesn't at this point? - for the small fee of $9.99 and airfare to Los Angeles, you can compete for a chance to spend a dream day with Jose and possibly win one of his prized baseball possessions. Even better, the whole thing will be captured by camera crews for a new reality show starring Jose and the handful of fans who come up with the most imaginative and outrageous ideas for their day with the Prince of Performance Enhancement. My first reaction to this was that Jose had reached a pathetic new low, which is no small task.

Athletics: Olmedo Saenz's homer gave the team eight players with at least 10 home runs, tying the Oakland record set in 1970. The A's won the season series with Boston, 6-4, winning four of six in Oakland.Red Sox: Outfielder Darren Lewis has just two errors this season and 13 in an eight-year career.Rangers: At 85-56, Texas is 29 games over .500 for the first time in franchise history. Juan Gonzalez easily stole his third base of the year when Indians catcher Einar Diaz missed a pitch while jumping out of his crouch.

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- This is what happens when you play in the same division with the team that set an American League record with 114 victories: The Toronto Blue Jays won 88 games and still looked like a big loser, finishing 26 games behind the off-the-charts New York Yankees in the American League East.They won as many games as the AL West champion Texas Rangers, but were widely viewed as a team still working its way back to respectability after breaking up a two-time world championship team in the early 1990s.

Devil Rays: Tampa Bay is 7-16 since Jose Canseco went on the disabled list on July 10.Indians: Center fielder Kenny Lofton missed his eighth straight game because of a strained right hamstring.Pub Date: 8/07/99

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The American League East might be the deepest division in baseball, but the still-fledgling Tampa Bay Devil Rays don't have to worry about that yet.The New York Yankees get Roger Clemens? Not a problem.The Orioles sign Albert Belle? Whatever.The Devil Rays are not laboring under the illusion that they will be competing for a playoff berth this year, so the highly publicized off-season machinations of the other clubs in the division did not cause any competitive angst in the front office.

All-newcomer team1B -- Mo Vaughn (Angels): New leader in the clubhouse.2B -- Roberto Alomar (Indians): Should be happier in Cleveland.SS -- Edgar Renteria (Cardinals): Latest All-Star shipped out by Marlins.3B -- Dean Palmer (Tigers): Could anchor resurgent lineup.C -- Charles Johnson (Orioles): Big defensive upgrade.OF -- Albert Belle (Orioles): Will ratchet up the intensity level.OF -- Brian Jordan (Braves): Is he really worth $40 million?OF -- Devon White (Dodgers): Still great in the field.

TORONTO -- The Orioles couldn't find a safe place to hide last night. They either were getting bullied by Jose Canseco or punished by the smallest player at SkyDome. They were an equal opportunity victim.With two outs and the score tied in the sixth inning, pint-sized second baseman Craig Grebeck roped a two-run double to left (( field, and Jose Canseco homered twice as part of the beating administered by the Toronto Blue Jays in a 7-3 victory before 26,363 that assured the Orioles of finishing no higher than fourth in the AL East.

HittingPaul O'Neill, Yankees: 3-for-5, 2 HRs.Jose Canseco, Blue Jays: 3-run homer.Pub Date: 9/11/98

Devil Rays: Quinton McCracken has 13 career homers, including seven in 67 games this season. In the first 274 games of his career, he had six.Blue Jays: Jose Canseco's RBI single extended his hitting streak to eight games.Angels: Tim Salmon has nine homers at The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, tying him with Ken Griffey and Jose Canseco for the most by a Rangers opponent.Pub Date: 6/16/98

Athletics: Ben Grieve tied the team rookie record with his 29th double, a mark currently shared with Jose Canseco (1986) and Brent Gates (1993). The A's bullpen is 0-6 with three blown saves since the All-Star break.Devil Rays: Tony Saunders (Glen Burnie) also won back-to-back starts May 8 and May 13, 1997. Randy Winn hit eight home runs in three minor-league seasons.Rangers: Pitcher John Burkett, who left Saturday's game in Minnesota because of stiffness on the right side of his neck, will make his scheduled start tomorrow.

Jose Canseco: Last Shot 10 p.m. [A&E] At one time, A&E was known as the Arts and Entertainment channel, notable for its programming a cut above normal network fare. And now the channel serves as an enabler for someone who has an apparent publicity addiction. Here's the show's description from the A&E Web site: Canseco "has used steroids himself for the past 24 years. Now, Jose wants to finally get clean, but he's terrified about what may happen when he goes through the process. There has been no medically documented case of someone quitting steroids after using them for so long, and the doctors have different opinions about what Jose will go through physically and mentally.

So Jose Canseco's former lawyer is suing the slugger-steroid user-author for unpaid legal fees. In a Florida newspaper article, it was reported that the fees are alleged to be as much as $500,000, or even more, accumulated over a period of five years. Five years? Who works for five years without getting paid? The lawyer, Robert Saunooke, in an Associated Press story, explained that he considered Canseco a friend and that's why he deferred demanding payment. Canseco's new lawyer said Jose did pay Saunooke, in part with two World Series rings.

Alex Rodriguez declined to address allegations by Jose Canseco, who says he introduced the three-time Most Valuable Player to a steroid dealer. "It's over as far as I'm concerned," Rodriguez said yesterday after his New York Yankees lost, 4-0, to the Philadelphia Phillies. "No further comment on the matter. I'm just excited to be playing baseball." In the book, Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and The Battle to Save Baseball, Canseco writes that he introduced Rodriguez to a steroid dealer named "Max."

You know you have to buy Jose Canseco's new book, Vindicated, if only to keep the characters and their plot lines straight. So ... Mike Wallace was hitting on Canseco's wife at the gym? Alex Rodriguez was yelling, "Ow, that hurts" when Canseco stuck the needle in his butt? Who was this "Max" guy again? But there's a much bigger reason for America to pay close attention to the sequel to Juiced. Because America was absolutely dead-on certain that Canseco's first steroid confessional/tell-all, from 2005, was as big a piece of fiction as Harry Potter -- and America was dead-on wrong.

The crack of the gavel, the smell of freshly brewed coffee and the sight of overgrown men trying to blaze 100-mph lies wound tighter than a baseball past their star-struck target. Ahhhh. Must be spring. Must be baseball season. Today in Room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building - where they've argued health care, discussed terrorism and debated immigration - up to 40 members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will listen to tantalizing testimony and try to decipher just who stuck what into whose backside and when.

Even if anyone thought talk of steroids was going to go away by the start of next baseball season, now comes news that Jose Canseco is coming out with a second book sure to be filled with accusations of performance-enhancing drug use. Unlike the Mitchell Report, Canseco's book probably won't use much ink on the likes of F.P. Santangelo. Canseco certainly will point a syringe at some of the game's All-Stars, thus starting a new round of media 'roid rage. Mr. Flip isn't quite sure what the Mitchell Report was supposed to accomplish, but it seems to have kept this issue alive much more than putting it to rest.

If you miss Jose Canseco - and, really, who doesn't at this point? - for the small fee of $9.99 and airfare to Los Angeles, you can compete for a chance to spend a dream day with Jose and possibly win one of his prized baseball possessions. Even better, the whole thing will be captured by camera crews for a new reality show starring Jose and the handful of fans who come up with the most imaginative and outrageous ideas for their day with the Prince of Performance Enhancement. My first reaction to this was that Jose had reached a pathetic new low, which is no small task.

Good morning --Jose Canseco-- After an 0-for-3 debut with three strikeouts, you deserve to be traded.

JUPITER, Fla. -- Guess I picked the wrong 10-day period to evaluate the ballclub. Orioles manager Sam Perlozzo is understandably excited about the prospect of getting back several of his top players as the World Baseball Classic draws to a close, but I'm going to have to be content in the knowledge that Brandon Fahey is going to be a pretty good player as soon as he gets out of middle school. I've never been known for my great sense of timing, so no one should be surprised that I arrived in Florida right after about half the Orioles' projected 25-man roster headed out to compete in baseball's version of the World Cup. Now, I'm headed home just as most of them are filtering back into camp.

WASHINGTON - In the aftermath of Rafael Palmeiro's steroids-policy violation, the man who accused Palmeiro of using the drugs in a book six months ago declined yesterday either to gloat or to claim his credibility had been upheld. Rather, Jose Canseco - who seems to make a habit of saying the unexpected - came to the defense of his former Texas Rangers teammate. In a daylong series of media interviews, Canseco and his attorney, Robert Saunooke, raised doubts yesterday about whether Palmeiro was recently injecting performance-enhancing drugs - as Canseco accused Palmeiro of doing in the early 1990s.