Rebutting Jose Canseco’s Agent

March 8, 2010

tags: Head Homerun, Herschel Walker, Jose Canseco, MMA, Twitter

Jose Canseco’s agent, Mike Keck, angrily tweeted at me the other night after our post on Jose Canseco’s awesome twitter account. Apparently something in the post was misspelled, and Mr. Keck is apparently a stickler for good grammar and syntax, etc. I can only imagine the intense torture he goes through reading his client’s tweets. He said I must be bored (He was kind of right on that one. It was a quiet weekend.), made fun of me for this site having a low “ranking,” said: “LOL @ being bigger than Jose in any aspect,” and was basically the consummate professional. Stand-up guy. Aaaannnnyway, I was pondering the not being bigger (read: better) than Jose in any aspect part, and got to thinking: Keck might be right, kind of. I may not be better, but I think I’m at least AS GOOD as Jose in many respects, but let’s see.

Yep, I can hop around a boxing ring like an idiot for 90 seconds, flail about, and tweak a muscle (? 1:14) before getting the shit kicked out of me by a giant Chinese guy. So we’re even there…except I wouldn’t actually do that because, well, cause it’s stupid.

Then there’s the infamous “Homerun Off the Head” incident. I have to link to the video because MLB took everything off all the embeddable players.

I like to think I’m actually better than this. But I suppose it could happen. I doubt it, but I guess it could happen. Still, this is yet another “aspect” in which is Jose Canseco is not better.

I am very confident that I could get more than one person at a presser. I have a lot of journalist friends. I could do this. At the very least, I could get one. So…if you’re keeping track, we’re up to three “aspects” in which Jose Canseco is not better than me. On another note, isn’t it Mr. Keck’s job to get people to come to these pressers?

This next point is a three-pronged bullet-point.

First, the much-ballyhooed, potential MMA bout between Canseco and Herschel Walker. You can vote at this wonderful site as to whether you want the two to fight. There have been 800 or so votes so far and it’s pretty close, but right now, the masses don’t want the two retired stars to fight. This whole episode is actually kind of sad. Two incredibly talented guys, who made tons of money, trying to fight each other because they need to pay the bills
Next are Canseco’s continued pleas on Twitter for someone to pay $1,000 to spend a day with him. It first started out as a we-can-do-anything type of deal, but it’s since changed to just bowling, working out, fighting, or getting arrested. “If I select u for spend e day with me here are ur options and rules. We can go bowling ,work out, wecan spar mma style ,play any sport and (about 6 hours ago via TweetCaster)….Well also maybe bredak the law and get arrested (about 6 hours ago via TweetCaster).” Regardless, he (probably Keck) set up a fancy schmancy e-mail address for the whole thing: adaywithjose@josecanseco.com. I’d send in your resume fast, this one’s not gonna last.
Finally, there’s the whole reality show and the self-made, autobiographical movie that he wants to make. Sigh. It’s really all about self-promotion with this guy.

These last three are really shameless attempts at making a quick buck. And really, who could blame him. The guy has some serious tax problems (as I surmised in my last post, and for which I was poo-poo’d by Mr. Keck)..which explains the manic, “just tell the IRS to go to Hell. If we all do it, they can’t stop us!!!!1!!” tweets. So…OK. I’m better on this point. I don’t owe a whole shit ton of taxes.