I'm sure nobody cares, but I found this story funny. Mainly because it's amazing how pathetic Jose Canseco has become.Canseco, who has taken to the celebrity boxing matches in his post-baseball career, called out the Yankee slugger while in Springfield, Mass., to promote his match Friday night against Pittsfield, Mass., fighter Todd Poulton.Canseco has long professed a dislike for Rodriguez, who Canseco wrote about in his 2008 book "Vindicated," the followup to his 2005 steroid tell-all "Juiced." In "Vindicated," Canseco said he introduced Rodriguez to a steroid dealer and that Rodriguez repaid the favor by coming on to Canseco's wife, Jessica, in the late '90s.When Canseco was asked by Masslive.com at the weigh-in which baseball player he would most like to box, Canseco said: "Who I would love to fight the most if I could pick a baseball player - Alex Rodriguez get your ass into the ring, I'll beat you to a pulp."...Canse...
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