Episode #180 | 06.11.24

Jose Canseco: SWAT Teams, Smuggled Drugs, and Roid Rage

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Jose Canseco was a big league slugger who gave the people what they wanted. Not just massive home runs and a whole lot of stolen bases. He provided entertainment. And his audience, not just baseball fans but the world, ate it up. The private encounter with Madonna in her apartment that nearly cost him a spot on the roster. The obsession with performance enhancing drugs that made him the self-proclaimed godfather of steroids. But entertaining quickly spun out of control. Car crashes. SWAT teams. Smuggled drugs. Before too long, Jose Canseco found himself blacklisted, behind bars, and the focal point of a congressional hearing.

Sources

A's Canseco Is Arrested (NY Times)

The Summer of His DISCONTENT (Sports Illustrated)

Canseco Gets a New Car, Breaks It In With Couple of Quick Speeding Tickets (LA Times)

Jose Canseco on Madonna Trying to Seduce Him, Thinks She’s Bi-Polar (VladTV)

Jose Canseco: Madonna “Wanted to Have a Baby with Me” (HuffPost)

Canseco's Porsche cited -- 'heavily tinted' windows (UPI)

Canseco set to unload jinxed Jaguar (Chicago Tribune)

Jose Canseco's Many Run-Ins With The Law Explained (Nicki Swift)

Jose Canseco Fast Facts (CNN)

Loaded Pistol on Floor of His Car Gets A's Canseco Arrested in San Francisco (LA Times)

Jose Canseco on SWAT & Helicopters Surrounding His Car After Finding Gun (VladTV)

NO EXCUSE FOR THAT KIND OF SPEED (Sun Sentinel)

A'S SEND CANSECO TO RANGERS (Washington Post)

Jose Canseco: 'Juiced' (CBS)

Canseco Arrested (Oklahoman)

Texas slugger Jose Canseco in bar fight (UPI)

BASEBALL; Canseco Flamed By Fans (NY Times)

Canseco lives out rightfield ruckus in Yankee Stadium (Tampa Bay Times)

IN HOT SPOTLIGHT OF FAME, CANSECO FANS THE FLAMES (Washington Post)

CANSECO SMASHES WIFE’S CAR (Sun Sentinel)

Did Jose Canseco Really Improve the Performance of His Teammates by Spreading Steroids? (Econ Journal Watch)

Canseco's Tryout Has Novel Approach (LA Times)

CANSECO TESTIFIES MAN GROPED GIRLFRIEND IN 2001 CLUB INCIDENT (Sun Sentinel)

Canseco brothers liable in Miami Beach nightclub fight lawsuit (Herald Tribune)

Canseco in jail pending alleged steroid use hearing (ESPN)

Canseco twins plead guilty to felony (CBC)

Canseco arrested after he rams estranged wife's car (Tampa Bay Times)

Jose Canseco’s bar fight reenactment

Steroid Use in Baseball: Players (C-SPAN)

Jose Canseco Slowly Becoming the Most Trusted Name in MLB (Bleacher Report)

Baseball: Big hitters strike out following accusations of steroid use (Independent)

The 9 Stupidest Player Arrests in MLB History (Bleacher Report)

Jose Canseco Sentenced for Drug Smuggling (CBS)

Jose Canseco wishes he never wrote book Juiced about steroids (Sports Illustrated)

Jose Canseco Won't Play in Mexico After Admitting to Taking Banned Substance (Bleacher Report)

Jose Canseco Loses Home To Foreclosure (CBS)

The Time Yankees Fans Nearly Broke Jose Canseco by Trolling Him over Madonna (BroBible)

Credits

Hosted by Jake Brennan.

Written by Ted Omo.

Copy edited by James Sullivan.

Scored and mixed by Matt Beaudoin.

Additional music and score elements by Ryan Spraker.

DISGRACELAND theme song, “Crenshaw Space Boogie,” written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava, and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.

*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak