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Jose Canseco Up To His Old Tricks, This Time With Shaq

Found May 06, 2013 on Baseball Hot Corner:
PLAYERS: Jose Canseco
TEAMS: Oakland Athletics
Jose Canseco refuses to fade into the sunset, desperate for publicity and one last shot at being a household name. Once again Canseco took to Twitter to reignite his feud with basketball big man Shaquille O’Neal. Poor Jose will take attention wherever he can get it. So here it is! The former Oakland Athletics slugger provoked the verbal spat with a tweet to Shaq calling him a ***** which started a barage of bantering and not so friendly fire from Shaq. hey ***** @shaq — Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) May 5, 2013   Canseco garnered the response he had hoped to elicit with Shaq firing back tweets calling his a snitch and threatening to break his jaw. The slugger realizes this is another opportunity to make a quick buck and continued to tweet about the potential ring appearance throughout the evening on Twitter. Shaq get ready for the fight of your life — Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) May 5, 2013   Shaq .commit to a time and date and let’s get it on .when I beat u it will make ubthe laugh...
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