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Above the Fold - Did Jose Canseco attempt to blackmail Magglio Ordonez?
The Wayne Fontes Experience - A Detroit Lions Blog — Late last night a New York Times story hit the wires, claiming Jose Canseco has been accused of "encouraging" the Tigers Maggilo Ordonez to invest in a movie project, in return for keeping his name "clear" of Canseco's upcoming steroids tell-all sequel to "Juiced." In other words, clear = edited out of the book, and encouraging = extortion/blackmail. Four people in baseball confirmed that referrals were made from Major League Baseball to the F.B.I. regarding Canseco’s actions relating to the six-time All-Star outfielder Magglio Ordonez, who was not mentioned in Canseco’s earlier book or in any other report on performance-enhancing ...

Above the Fold - Columnists say the darnedest things
The Wayne Fontes Experience - A Detroit Lions Blog — Friday is the time on Sprockets when we dance the day on TWFE when we take a tour of the Detroit columnists. They are in //sarcasm on// fine form //sarcasm off// today. The only columnist active at the Freep is Michael Rosenberg, who says everything the Detroit blogosphere said about the Jose Canseco blackmailing Magglio Ordonez story yesterday. As always, the fishwraps are a day late, and losing money hand over fist... Naturally, many people forgot that Jose Canseco is a gossip-mongering, media-craving, steroid pusher. But Canseco has done his best to remind us. Canseco ...