For an admitted steroid user who hasn’t logged an MLB at-bat in nearly two decades, disgraced slugger Jose Canseco is sure getting a lot of play lately. When the 56-year-old Canseco isn’t swindling Barstool out of millions or narcing on former teammates (is it any wonder all his calls to Mark McGwire go straight to voicemail?), he’s usually tweeting about his arch-nemesis Alex Rodriguez.
A similarly polarizing figure thanks to his own ties to performance-enhancing drugs, A-Rod has plenty of detractors across baseball (never forget the time his hilariously bland birthday cake went uneaten), but none bigger than Canseco, who has spent the past several years actively rooting against the former American League MVP. So when news spread of A-Rod’s reported breakup with Jennifer Lopez (a claim the couple has since refuted), no one was happier than Canseco, who actually predicted their split months earlier.
Because humility has never been his strong suit, Canseco savored his victory lap, dunking on A-Rod in a series of scathing tweets while also touting his own prognosticating abilities.
It’s laughable that Canseco, whose post-playing career has essentially been one long publicity stunt, would take the moral high ground, but the former Oakland A did precisely that, alluding A-Rod wasn't faithful to his popstar fiancée. Jose Canseco, six-time All-Star, World Series champion and serial monogamist, who would have thunk?
Canseco must have been devastated by Saturday’s announcement that A-Rod and J-Lo are “working through some things,” though that didn’t stop him from blissfully tweeting about another of his favorite subjects, his firm belief in alien lifeforms. Perhaps Canseco can recruit fellow UFO enthusiast Baker Mayfield to join him in exploring Area 51.
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