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Jose Canseco Turned Away From the George Mitchell Soiree
Published 12/13/2007 by Mullet at FanHouse
Filed under: MLB Gossip, PEDsAmidst the seriousness of today's Mitchell Report, I gotta say I found this funny: Before George Mitchell released his report and held his news conference Thursday, a most surprising visitor attempted to enter: Jose Canseco. Canseco, a virtual certainty to be named in the report, tried to get into the news conference room but was turned down by Major League Baseball officials. "It's OK," Canseco said, smiling. "I'm not in the media." Canseco, whose 2005 book "Juiced" set off a chain of ...

Canseco denied entry to Mitchell news conference
Published 12/14/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Canseco denied entry to Mitchell news conference Stalling procedure? Before George Mitchell released his report and held his news conference Thursday, a most surprising visitor attempted to enter: Jose Canseco. Canseco, a virtual certainty to be named in the report, tried to get into the news conference room but was turned down by Major League Baseball officials. “It’s OK,” Canseco said, smiling. “I’m not in the media.”

Chuck Knoblauch: 98 Career HR*
Published 12/14/2007 by emmettjones at Sports Business Digest
... (c) Lord of the Rings. Mitchell’s report documented 86 different baseball players (to differing degrees) usage of illegal drugs. Some of the old school names in the report? Chuck Knoblauch, Mo Vaughn, Lenny Dykstra…Some of the big names in the report? Miguel Tejada, Eric Gagne, Brian Roberts, Andy Pettitte, and of course, Roger Clemens. Impressed? Eh, not so much. For starters, baseball spent $20 million dollars so that Mitchell could (re)read Game of Shadows, Juiced (poor Canseco… they wouldn’t even let him in the press conference !), look at some before and after pictures ...

Post-report report
Published 12/14/2007 by Jim at Sox Machine: Chicago White Sox blog
... , but they have to be feeling relieved that the only four mentioned were Jose Canseco, Armando Rios, Jim Parque and Scott Schoeneweis, with Schoeneweis really the only notable case. Don Cooper had some interesting insight on that one: As for Canseco, he tried to gain entrance to the press conference but was denied. He also wondered aloud why Alex Rodriguez wasn't mentioned in the report. And so continues Canseco's remarkable post-career career path. Speaking of former Sox, Joe Cowley gave Frank Thomas a tip of the hat ...