Word: canseco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Jose Canseco laced a broken-bat single into left to score Luis Alicea for the go-ahead and division-winning run, the roar was deafening but only about a minute long. I suppose that is something, since people even stopped gulping down their beer at that moment...
...slugger Jose Canseco stood outside on the sidewalk and personally greeted fans at Fenway Park, while San Diego Padres players handed out free caps before the game. Despite those efforts-and incentives like cut-rate seats on opening day-major league players returned to work to find tough (and often sparse) crowds waiting. Said Brewers owner Bud Selig, baseball's acting commissioner who canceled last year's World Series: "We got a lot of work ahead of us." --By Kathleen Adams, Lina Lofaro, Belinda Luscombe, Alice Park, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin and Sidney Urquhart
...found myself chanting "Jose, Jose," I realized that it is the uniform, not the player inside, to which I have a loyalty. After all, Jose Canseco was the embodiment of Satan when he crushed the Sox in the playoffs in 1988 and 1990. This explains how my grandmother, a diehard fan who listened to almost every Red Sox game in the Morgan Magic season, couldn't tell the difference between Wade Boggs and Roger Clemens...
...while greedy players and foolish owners may have stopped working for a while, the Red Sox just took an extended off-season. And I am not a Jose Canseco fan or a Roger Clemens fan; I am a Red Sox fan. So when my brother called me up Wednesday morning out of the blue, saying he had just bought Opening Day tickets, I cut my classes and went...
...thumbs up to old Roger during this holiday season, even if he threatens to walk away from baseball if a salary cap is passed. He means well--he should just keep his trap shut a little more often. Hopefully Canseco can teach him a thing or two when he speeds into town...