I recently signed up for Twitter (@grahamdude) to promote this site. Anyone who reads regularly knows I follow Jose Canseco, and sometimes, he apparently reads what I write, too. Canseco is actually fairly entertaining and unhinged on Twitter as is Ozzie Guillen. The famously flippant White Sox manager had several Tweets last Friday slamming actor [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jose Canseco’
Five baseball people I wish had Twitter
Posted: 16th March 2010 by Graham Womack in Entries inspired by TwitterTags: Babe Ruth, Casey Stengel, Jose Canseco, Lou Gehrig, Satchel Paige, Twitter
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It seems I have angered Jose Canseco
Posted: 9th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Entries inspired by TwitterTags: Jose Canseco
I posted an update to my Twitter page last night about my thoughts here on Jose Canseco wanting to fight Herschel Walker in a Mixed Martial Arts bout (pray for Jose.) I had written my entry here after reading Canseco Tweet yesterday, “I will crush him,” like Drago in Rocky IV with a Twitter account. [...]
Canseco at least winning the Twitter battle with Herschel Walker
Posted: 8th February 2010 by Graham Womack in Entries inspired by TwitterTags: Jose Canseco
Like 325,288 other people, as of this writing, I follow Jose Canseco on Twitter. I signed up for the social media service a few weeks ago, partly as a way to promote this site and also to have another skill to market to prospective employers. Without a doubt, Canseco has provided me with the most [...]
Port-mortem on McGwire: Five more questions with Dale Tafoya
Posted: 26th January 2010 by Graham Womack in InterviewsTags: A Legacy Subpoenaed, Bash Brothers, Dale Tafoya, interview, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire
Faithful readers of this site will know that in December I reviewed a book about Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco, Bash Brothers: A Legacy Subpoenaed. The book’s author, Dale Tafoya subsequently contacted me, and I interviewed him. A few weeks after that, McGwire finally admitted to using steroids during his career. Thereafter, his former trainer, [...]
Baseball history and social media, together at last
Posted: 17th January 2010 by Graham Womack in Entries inspired by TwitterTags: Jose Canseco
I took the plunge today and finally signed up for a Twitter account. I first heard of Twitter a couple years ago and was cool to the idea for a long time. I heard it’s basically a site comprised solely of Facebook status reports, and I just can’t see the attraction of that. I don’t [...]
Who to trust, Canseco or McGwire?
Posted: 12th January 2010 by Graham Womack in Drugs in baseballTags: cause for debate, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire
Amid the hoopla surrounding Mark McGwire admitting he used steroids, an exchange he had with Bob Costas got my attention. In an interview on MLB Network on Monday, Costas read excerpts from Jose Canseco’s autobiography, Juiced, which claimed he personally injected McGwire. “‘Right before a game, we would load up our syringes and inject ourselves’,” [...]
Interview with Dale Tafoya
Posted: 29th December 2009 by Graham Womack in InterviewsTags: Bash Brothers, Dale Tafoya, interview, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire
I got an email last Saturday from Dale Tafoya, the author of Bash Brothers, which I reviewed here on December 23. I got a little nervous when I first saw Tafoya’s name in my email inbox, as my review of his work was, at times, less than flattering. Tafoya was cool, though, saying that he [...]
Book Review: Bash Brothers
Posted: 23rd December 2009 by Graham Womack in Book reviewsTags: A Legacy Subpoenaed, Bash Brothers, book review, Dale Tafoya, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire
As faithful readers of this space will know, I interviewed Jose Canseco in April 2008 on his promotional tour for his book, Vindicated. While researching Canseco in the days leading up to our meeting, I came across a notice for a forthcoming book on the former Oakland Athletics slugger and his teammate, Mark McGwire. The [...]
Transcript: My interview with Jose Canseco
Posted: 18th November 2009 by Graham Womack in InterviewsTags: interview, Jose Canseco
I put batteries into an old recorder today and discovered I still have my interview with Jose Canseco from April 2008. I interviewed Canseco in Oakland on his promotional tour for Vindicated, the follow-up to his bestseller, Juiced. I snapped the following picture that night: Being that the former Bash Brother starred for the Oakland [...]
Okay, Jose
Posted: 6th August 2009 by Graham Womack in Drugs in baseballTags: cause for debate, Jose Canseco
Last week came the news that yet another standout baseball player, this time David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox, had flunked a Performance Enhancing Drug test in 2003. Amidst the flurry of media attention that followed, my pal Jose Canseco (hey, I once interviewed the guy) stepped in with some typically audacious comments. Canseco [...]