Saturday, August 14, 2010

Just Go Away

So Jose Canseco is back in baseball.
He'll be the bench coach (I guess he'll teach the guys to shoot up steroids) and a DH for two home series for an independent team. The 46-year old Canseco has become a clown but the Laredo Broncos of something called The United League are the ones who should be embarrassed.
Shame on Laredo for stooping to such depths.
I know minor league baseball is always looking to do something to bring people to the park and generate excitement. But hiring Canseco, who was a flop in a similar capacity in the independent Golden League in 2006, is just pathetic.
However, I will say this about Canseco. Without his book that blew the cover off steroids in baseball, we might still be in the steroid era. Do you think Bud Selig would have looked to clean things up on his own? Of course not because if he did, he would have tried to do so before Canseco's book.
Canseco shamed baseball into doing something and once congress got involved it started the wheels in motion.
While baseball isn't completely clean, I think we are past the steroid era as we see more "normal" statistics and not the bloated stats when steroids were rampant and not tested for.
Still, it would be nice if Canseco just went away for good.

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