Canseco shooting for a comeback

[Gantry]

Jose is looking for 500:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/sports/7427794.htm

Interesting to note that Peter Gammons three biggest wastes of talent from 1980-2000 are all RBIers - Gooden, Strawberry and Canseco...

[BeefMaster]

What team would be that desperate?  Really, it's too bad Jose doesn't play football, because I'm sure the Raiders would pick him up in a heartbeat.

By the way, there was a Canseco reference on "Arrested Development" last night - Jason Bateman's character is visiting his dad in prison, where he plays on the softball team, and the dad has a line similar to the following: "You think you have it hard?  We play (some other prison) next week, and the word is that they're getting Jose Canseco!"

[Gantry]

I think Canseco could be servicable as a part-time DH.  Not sure if he'd bat over .250 if he played full-time, but you could have worse players on your team.  The attitude has to die down at some point, I'm sure all the time away has humbled him a bit...

[Glassjoe]

...but you could have worse players on your team.  

And on "my" team, we call this guy Ruben Sierra--really nice pickup Yanks. You can buy anybody in baseball, and THIS is what you come up with???

[erhajj]

I would love to see Jose come back.  
I met him once and he signed a card for me.  I still have it.  

Who else has any RBIer's autograph?

[Mets_bs]

I have HoJo's autograph framed above my desk

[fknmclane]

I'm not even sure I can comment on this sad state of affairs.
Jose needs to go away and stay away for good.  Yeah, he was the man for a while and did the 40/40 shit, but he needs to zip his damn lips.
80%?  That's ridiculous.
40-50 homers a year just because he's still in pretty good shape?  Another joke.  It's called a curveball.  I dare him to try and hit it.
The fact that the Yanks were listed as a potential suitor is also a joke.  That's just his agent blowing smoke up everyone's ass.  Simple as that.
Ruben Sierra is the man.  He's serviceable and was the best option.  When he played for the Rangers he was a force to be reckoned with, a to 10 MLBer.

[BeefMaster]

When [Ruben Sierra] played for the Rangers he was a force to be reckoned with, a to 10 MLBer.

Yeah, but when he played for the Rangers, it was 1991.

[fknmclane]

Yeah, Torre hasn't never been of a fanof Sierra.  He's not exactly the brightest guy in the world but he has a pretty sweet stroke.  I'd take him over the burdened Raul Mondesi.

[RockRaines4life]

I saw him at Spring Training in 98, I think it was 98, but I think that was the last year he tried to come back to baseball.

I also saw HoJo at spring training in 98 when he was trying to come back.  He had always been my favorite player when I was a kid.   I saw the Mets play at Baseball City against the Royals and I sat two rows right behind his parents.  I could tell it was his parents because after the game he came up and talked to them.  His mother was knitting the whole time except when he came up.  Then she would put down her knitting and yell "Come on Howard."  I think he struck out a couple of times and didn't get any base hits.

Also I met HoJo a couple years ago when he was the Brooklyn Cyclones hitting coach.  They were playing in Pittsfield Mass. and I had my girlfriend wear my old HoJo jersey.  He saw it and came right over to us and talked for a while, posed for a picture, and signed my HoJo game bat I had bought years back.  He definitely went out of his way to talk with us and was a really geniunely nice guy.  Made me glad I had picked such a nice guy to cheer for when I was a kid.  

[Mets_bs]

Yeah, HoJo is one of the nicest and most friendly players I've ever seen. I actually got my autgraph when I was 10 and he gave a speach at my school. He ran out of 8X10s but just kept signing anything kids would give him. I had him sign the back of my notebook, ripped it off that night, and my mom framed it. What I remember most about that day was he stopped and talked to every kid he gave an autograph to, asked their name and everything. It's always nice when a player takes the time to give back to the fans, it made my childhood.