There Will Never Be Another Jose Canseco

I didn’t word it quite right in the vid but yes i know doing steroids is cheating lol

The play where that fly ball bounces off his head and into the stands is classic 😂

Anyone remember when Jose went to twitter to request legal advice because his chandelier was being repossessed?

Tbf to Canseco, the MLB doesn't want anything to do with NOT because of his use of steroids. They don't want anything to do with him because he ratted out the league and ruined MLB's cash cow entertainment product.

Bonus Canseco Story: In 2011, during his run as a player-manager for Yuma Scorpions, Canseco played a series against the Lake Country Fielders. This was the team owned in part by Kevin Costner, and it was an absolute disaster, to the point that nearly all the position players went on strike during said Scorpions series. The result was a position-swapped game where pitchers played the field and what position players were left (mostly catchers) pitched. Jose Canseco got his first and only win as a starting pitcher this game. If you need a video topic, look into the Fielders. Their story gets wild.

Almost killing a turtle is definitely worse than doing drugs

Sammy Sosa forgetting how to speak English in front of congress was fcking hilarious.

He was the reason i started collecting baseball cards as a kid

As far back as 1990 Jose was considered something of a joke? I mean that's what Raphael said about Casey Jones' Jose Canseco bat in the 1990 TMNT movie. But OTOH, isn't it around 1990-91 that his 1986 Donruss rookie card peaked at $100?

my dad played softball with Jose Canseco and I met him but I was too little to remember :(

I dont care if it was the roid era, Canseco was a blast to watch....the HR he hit in the 89 ALCS at Sky Dome still shocks me to watch it....he absolutely destroyed it.

After the MLB players strike in '94, there were a lot of fans who were mad and swore off watching MLB. When the strike ended viewership was way down. MLB needed something to get the fans interested again. Cal Ripken breaking Gehrig's record brought some of them back- but not enough. Players hitting bombs made fans happy and the home run race between Sosa and McGwire was exactly the kind of spectacle MLB needed. It is no surprise that MLB turned a blind eye to the steroids for as long as they could. It sucks for players like Griffey and Frank Thomas to have had to compete on an unfair playing field. It really sucks for the clean guys who never made it to the majors because someone on steroids took their spot.

Jose Canseco was the face of baseball in the 80’s and 90’s.

I love the fact that his name translates to english would be Joe Drydog

dude was my favorite player when i was a kid 12 or 13ish for that he has a special place in my heart

He blew the lid off of the steroids scandal. Say what you want to about him, but he deserves some credit for that.

Rip baseballs 1989-1989 after he hits them out

When you see people as characters, the oddest make life better.

Here is basically what happened (yes I'm leaving some ugly things out= like his Roid rage incidents and incident with his wife Ester). Jose' started using steroids when his career in the Minors was at make or break point. He instantly turned heads and made the MLB club with Oakland. he was an exciting player . For next 4 years he was excitement personified. MLB said NOTHING about steroid abuse as they needed to generate interest because younger fans were turning to other sports. Then came these GIANT (almost cartoonish- like pro wrestlers) players bashing record numbers of homeruns . Once the cat was out of the bag because Baseball beat reporters were seeing players using or their gear the MLB decided to "crack down" . MLB's idea was "let's get rid of the biggest offender". They looked at Canseco's numbers and saw - "hey if we don't kick this guy out he will have Hall Of Fame numbers". So they basically blackballed him out of the game. He said " oh yeah ..? well I will write a book about my experiences in Baseball and I'll NAME NAMES. In his first book "Juiced" every player he named (except Ivan "pudge" Rodreguez) was either caught with steroids or failed the drug tests. He then went on a couple years later and wrote a follow up book that shed more light on it and let people know that PITCHERS were doing steroids as well - Roger Clemens being the biggest offender. Clemens even threw his own WIFE under the bus when a delivery of Human Growth Hormone (HGH) arrived at his home in Texas - saying it was HERS. I invite all the Canseco haters out there to read his book or books and tell me is Canseco or all the players slagging him (Bonds , Palmeiro, Giambi) telling the truth. He never hides it or denies it. Bud Selig turned a blind eye to all of this for over 8 years.

10:42 That’s literally, in order, the things you find in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. The coincidence is unreal.