Jose Canseco had a small, very Canseco-ian concern about his bobblehead.
The Oakland Athletics held a bobblehead night for Canseco on Saturday, to honor his 1998 MVP season, where the juiced up, polarizing former outfielder hit 42 home runs and 124 RBI. Canseco admitted to taking steroids for nearly his entire career, so when he saw his bobblehead, he wondered why it was so skinny.
“It looks like the pre-Steroid-era bobblehead. It’s got me kind of skinny. Steroid-era would have me more beefed up,” Canseco told Janie McCauley of the Associated Press . “If you weren’t doing chemicals back then you weren’t in. You were an outcast. You were an anomaly. You weren’t part of the game.”
To be fair, the Athletics likely didn’t want to emphasize Canseco’s steroid-filled past, so keeping his bobblehead at a normal size is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
Jose Canseco bobblehead night! #atthecoliseum #oakland #Athletics #josecanseco pic.twitter.com/9CjqDiQR9t
— Mykle (@supmykle) September 3, 2016
Only Canseco would want his bobblehead to be roided up.
The Juiced author also chimed in on David Ortiz’s retirement, telling Karl Buscheck of the San Francisco Examiner he could have played until he was 42-years-old.
Canseco on Big Papi: “He's a baby. Are you kidding me? I could have played till 42 easily. 40? That's a baby.”
— Karl Buscheck (@KarlBuscheck) September 4, 2016
Canseco doesn’t lack confidence. He retired in 2002 at 37 after his power numbers significantly declined. No MLB team would have given him a shot beyond that. The Los Angeles Dodgers passed on Canseco in 2004 because he was clearly finished. Per usual, Canseco is all mouth.
[theScore]
