Canseco’s lack of ethics exposed again
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Jan 24, 2008 
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This blog is generally a Jose Canseco-free zone because he’s a publicity-hungry clown.
But this latest bit of news is worth mentioning. According to a report in the Times, the FBI was contacted when Canseco tried to extort money out of Magglio Ordonez. In return for investing in a movie he wanted to make, Canseco would keep Ordonez’s name out of his book.
Ordonez elected not to press charges. “I don’t want any problems. He is probably desperate for money. I don’t understand why he is trying to put people down,” he said.
Canseco denied the charges. But then, this is the same guy who denied using steroids then wrote a book boasting about how great they were.
Let’s review for a second:
1. Professional journalist Don Yaeger passed on working with Canseco on his latest book, saying that his information is faulty. “I don’t think he’s got what he claims to have, certainly doesn’t have what he claims to have on A-Rod. There’s no meat on the bones,” Yeager said.
2. Canseco was dumped by his publisher, Berkley Books.
3. Canseco is now collaborating with Pablo Fenjves, the guy who teamed with O.J. Simpson to write If I Did It.
4. Now comes this latest story about extorting money.
You know what the sad part is? In late March, Canseco will leak information from his new book about Rodriguez and it will become a story just as the season is ready to start. He’ll find some unethical dupes to do his dirty work (probably WEEI in Boston; they love Canseco) and suddenly A-Rod will be surrounded by writers at his locker.
This is what baseball has become in the wake of the Mitchell Report. There never seems to be chance too just pick up and move on.
Hey Pete
Screw that dope-he should be banshing somehwere and nver heard from again. here is some good news-per roto world:
The Yankees and Robinson Cano are close to a four-year, $30 million contract, according to FOXSports.com’s Ken Rosenthal.
Either Cano’s agent was lying Tuesday when he said no discussions had taken place or this has come together as quickly as any deal in history. A four-year contract would take Cano right to free agency. He was a super-two player this year, so he was going to have four years of arbitration. Jan. 24 – 1:25 pm et
Jose Canseco is slime.
So he just randomly chose Ordoñez?
I hope the Yankees give Cano that contract. He is more than worth it.
Boras contacting the FBI makes me wonder if he did it because he knew he pulled the same stunt with A-Rod. Someone wrote something on here a while back (I think it was SJ44) about Canseco being angry with A-Rod because he wouldn’t give him money for a business venture he was working on.
Jeremy
January 24th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I hope the Yankees give Cano that contract. He is more than worth it.
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Sports Illustrated is also reporting the same thing with two additional team option years tacked on to buy out his first two years of free agency.
I read elsewhere that Canseco is “Executive Producer” of a movie based on his 1st book. One of his functions is to raise money. He was looking to Ordonez to “invest” in his movie. That is how he will be able to beat the extortion rap. He was not seeking blackmail money, you see, he was simply looking for investors. Yeah, right.
Didn’t A-Rod say something a few weeks ago about Jose being mad at him because he turned him down regarding money?
If so then it would fit with what I read today.
I hope they’ve got something concrete in the way of extortion evidence. Send him here to Toledo. We’ll throw him in the same cell with Maurice Clarett. A couple of fine fellows.
pat, I remember that too! Jose is such a slime ball.
When I watch Canseco’s interviews on TV, he comes across as being delusional and someone whose brain is a bit fried. Some psychiatric help may not be a bad idea for him.
But hasn’t at least *some* of Canseco’s accusations re PED use turned out to be true? (McGwuire, etc.?)
I’ll say it again…what exactly did this $20 million+ Mitchell Report get us exactly?? More publicity for a sleazebag like Canseco?? Yuck…
The fans are ready to move on but the media (ESPN) wont let us.
Outstanding points, Peter. Thanks.
Can-snake-o can eat it………
Can-snake-o can eat it…
Baseball (players, union, media, commissioner, owners, GMs, managers,trainers, et al) did this to themselves. Canseco is just a bench player in the whole saga often full of it, but sometimes spot-on. Now that the court has upheld the feds getting the list of the 100 players who tested positive that initial go-round, it should be interesting to learn who Mitchell left out?
Pete,
I want to know the whole story! The baseball media did not do its job so guys like Canseco have to do it for them. I am not ready to move on until Mickey Mantle is restored to his proper place.
Did you see how Dan Naulty gained 7mph. after using steriods?
Can you imagine how much it helps a good pitcher.
Blaming the Mitchell report for A-Rod being suddenly “surrounded by writers at his locker” in the wake of a Canseco accusation is just preposterous.
Pete –
Most real fans want to know the whole story of MLB looking the other way for years about drugs/steroids et.al in the clubhouses. All are culpable here from the Commissioner down to the clubhouse attendants, and yes, even the media.
It’s the biggest baseball story in years, yet you kept saying how boring the off season was and bringing in
‘guest bloggers’ when the first group named were Yankee players.
Why that attitude?
More Mitchell fall out. To me Mitchell is the same slime ball Canseco is , just packaged better.
Count of Monteconfusion,
Pete is exactly right. Bud Selig threw the players under the bus to save his own skin after being an enabler for years. And now a blood sucking leech like Canseco will try to profit from it resulting in the horses–t accusations players like ARod and others may have to go through because of it.
Pete,
I am curious why you feel WEEI in Boston is enamored with Canseco. I often listen to that station and have not noticed that tendency. I’m not saying it does not exist…just that I have not noticed it.
Maybe that wasn’t Pete at all, who wrote that last couple of paragraphs. Maybe it was one of the “guest bloggers” with an ax to grind directed towards Boston sports talk radio (which isn’t better or worse than sports talk radio in any other city, believe me).
I hate to think a sportswriter like Pete would inject a little Snidely Whiplash into his own blogging.
This just in…
some baseball players did steroids in the past.
I can’t take it any more. And we still have the hearings in February to get through. Now we need another round of this from that creep Canseco. Please, make it end. I just want to watch baseball.
Adopt the strict Olympic standards and just move on already. No one cares anymore except perhaps the New York Post and TMZ.
Sure. WEEI. And ESPN. And SI. And Sportsline. And WFAN. And MSNBC. And every sports blog known to mankind. And you, likely claiming that you’re only commenting on/complaining about the fact that the media keeps giving him attention. You guys and your faux-indignation regarding characters like Canseco perpetuate crap like this.