Disgraced former baseball star Jose Canseco has told the New York Daily News he will show his support for Caitlyn Jenner by living as a woman for a week.
Canseco explained that he “didn’t understand” Jenner’s transition from male to female at first, but ultimately started supporting her when he saw “what it really entailed.”
“I wonder what I would look like as a woman.” Canseco tweeted. “Move over, Caitlyn.”
Canseco refused to provide many details on what his supportive week will look like, but he offered that he will be “dressing up and living as a woman for a week” and that meant, ahem, “full everything.”
To watch how it turns out, turn to Canseco’s web series, Spend a Day with Jose.
Still Dem Boyz
Greg Hardy helped a group of Cowboys fans by making a $300 donation to their GoFundMe page.
The page’s purpose was to raise money to fly a banner over the Eagles’ training camp that read, “We Got The Division.” The page was brought to Hardy’s attention on Twitter, and the defensive end decided to help out.
Hardy’s contribution came with a suggestion as well. He asked that the banner read, “We Still Dem Boyz” instead. The owner of the page obliged, and even added an extra addition.
“We thought it’d be a hell of a way to honor his contribution by updating the banner for the fly-over, and adding a little something for his contribution,” the page reads. “The banner will now read WE STILL DEM BOYZ! #SACKSCOMIN.”
How soon they forget
Jonathan Papelbon is with the Washington Nationals and finally free of the baseball situation in Philadelphia, years after he begged to be traded.
Now he says he was made the scapegoat for a bad baseball team.
Papelbon, who recorded his first save with his new team Thursday, joined Grant Paulsen and Danny Rouhier on Friday on 106.7, The Fan, in Washington and was asked about his bad reputation.
“I don’t know where it comes from,” Papelbon said. “I think honestly it came from people just trying to find what was wrong in Philadelphia, and I kind of became the scapegoat. I was the only one in the clubhouse I felt like that answered questions honestly and was honest with who I was as a player, and was honest about where our team was at.
“I think that maybe took it in the wrong direction because I was honest. I don’t know where it comes from, but the only thing that matters to me is what my peers think and what my teammates think. I just want to win and be a good teammate. That’s all that matters to me.”
Papelbon shouldn’t pretend that he doesn’t know where his negative reputation comes from. There was the time, while playing with the Boston Red Sox in 2010, he called Manny Ramirez a cancer. Then he said the Phillies lacked leadership in his first year with the team, and during the middle of his second season with them he pretty much asked to be traded.
Phillies fans also won’t soon forget Papelbon making an obscene gesture toward them after they booed him when he was ejected in a game last September.
Spellbound
The Indians have traded relief pitcher Marc Rzepczynski to the Padres.
Wrote Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com: “Not sure how Cleveland fans feel about losing Rzepczynski, but Cleveland copy editors are ecstatic.”
Sports quiz
Which MLB team originally drafted Marc Rzepczynski in 2007?
Answer
The Toronto Blue Jays in the fifth round.
Quote of the day
“If there’s anybody who could rock a mullet, it would be Austin. He’d be the only one to try to do it as well.”
Arkansas Coach Bret Bielema on freshman tight end Austin Cantrell’s hairstyle