Re: Canseco to take lie detector test?
I have been really sick all week so I was home and saw that Cold Pizza interview. It was dumbfounding.
Here is a quick summary:
1) 1989 World Series Ring is still for sale. Not for the money, but because he wants to cut all ties from Baseball.
2) Book was written as a promise that he made in 2001. Not for the money, but so he could provide commentary from outside MLB.
3) He would give Greenwell the MVP, but doesn't know how that would work. Greenwell called in and said he'd love to figure out what it would take to get that done.
4) He's received death threats that the FBI are looking into.
5) He alluded to a Pay Per View event with him and a polygraph.
6) He alluded to a movie deal where if they cannot find a 6'5" roid abuser to play him...he may do the acting for himself.
7) He says that his hope is that years from now people will look back at his book and say it helped clean up baseball.
8) He feels cheated and robbed by baseball.
So...basically it was a really crazy interview filled with the bizarro stuff that Jose can come up with. He kept insisting he didn't need the money. He asserted that anytime you ask a major leaguer a direct question and get a vague response you know they are lying.
I mean on the one hand I want to believe him. As a kid I was totally in love with the bash brothers. They were explosive. They were dynamic. They were just plain fun. Now though...it's easy to see that it was likely manufactured.
The one thing that Canseco forgets is that people WERE rooting for him. Maybe not inside baseball, but there were fans who legitmately liked him. ESPN did a fact checking skim of his book and found many of conversations, and claims to be completely false or poorly remembered.
So, while I think there are a whole group of people who have read and support his book...I am still skeptical on it. I guess my hope would be the same of Jose's that people would look back at the book and say that it helped to shine some light on a poor situation.
I have been really sick all week so I was home and saw that Cold Pizza interview. It was dumbfounding.
Here is a quick summary:
1) 1989 World Series Ring is still for sale. Not for the money, but because he wants to cut all ties from Baseball.
2) Book was written as a promise that he made in 2001. Not for the money, but so he could provide commentary from outside MLB.
3) He would give Greenwell the MVP, but doesn't know how that would work. Greenwell called in and said he'd love to figure out what it would take to get that done.
4) He's received death threats that the FBI are looking into.
5) He alluded to a Pay Per View event with him and a polygraph.
6) He alluded to a movie deal where if they cannot find a 6'5" roid abuser to play him...he may do the acting for himself.
7) He says that his hope is that years from now people will look back at his book and say it helped clean up baseball.
8) He feels cheated and robbed by baseball.
So...basically it was a really crazy interview filled with the bizarro stuff that Jose can come up with. He kept insisting he didn't need the money. He asserted that anytime you ask a major leaguer a direct question and get a vague response you know they are lying.
I mean on the one hand I want to believe him. As a kid I was totally in love with the bash brothers. They were explosive. They were dynamic. They were just plain fun. Now though...it's easy to see that it was likely manufactured.
The one thing that Canseco forgets is that people WERE rooting for him. Maybe not inside baseball, but there were fans who legitmately liked him. ESPN did a fact checking skim of his book and found many of conversations, and claims to be completely false or poorly remembered.
So, while I think there are a whole group of people who have read and support his book...I am still skeptical on it. I guess my hope would be the same of Jose's that people would look back at the book and say that it helped to shine some light on a poor situation.
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