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Jose Canseco refuses to go down looking. cheap jerseys from china. The 47-year-old former major league slugger still wants to play professional baseball in 2012. Canseco, once a feared Bash Brother for the Oakland As, is willing to return to the independent league to keep his career alive. Hed still like to sign with a team in the Mexican league, even though it suspended him earlier this month after allegedly refusing to undergo a doping test. Hows this for a wild card: Canseco says if theres a Major League Baseball team willing to take a risk on him, he can still hit 30 to 40 home runs this season. "Ive got plenty of power," he said Tuesday by phone from Las Vegas. Canseco showed flashes of it last season as a player/manager for the Yuma Scorpions of the North American League. The former AL MVP hoped he had a deal to play this season for the Quintana Roo Tigers. Mexican league president Plinio Escalante claimed Canseco refused to take the test, which was treated the same as testing positive in the league. Quintana Roo Tigers team president Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez said doping control doctors advised Canseco against taking the test because he was using a medicine to produce testosterone. Canseco, who last played for the Chicago White Sox in 2001, said he needed a prescription for testosterone treatment for the last five or six years. Canseco was shown using testosterone-boosting gels in the 2008 A&E documentary, "Jose Canseco: The Last Shot." "I think the whole world knows Ive been on testosterone therapy," Canseco said. "My levels are normal for what the 47-year-old levels are. They didnt want to accept that, I guess." Canseco, of course, has long admitted using steroids. In Cansecos 2005 book, "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big," he claimed he introduced Oakland Athletics teammate Mark McGwire and other stars to steroids and performance-enhancing drugs. He wrote about injecting himself and McGwire in bathroom stalls, and how the effects of the drugs were the reason he hit 462 career home runs. Canseco still has mixed emotions about writing the book. "I do in a way, because I suffered a lot," he said. "My family suffered a lot. Im still suffering because of it. I cant get a job in Major League Baseball managing, coaching, whatever. I paid the price to tell the truth. But if it fixed the game, if it saved a kids life along the way, its worth it. Its a constant back and forth battle. "When you look at it, in the big picture, it did fix Major League Baseball. It did correct everything. I believe there is no more steroid use in baseball. It changed the game, for the better." Canseco used his very active Twitter account to reach out and apologize to his former manager, Tony La Russa. On March 8, Canseco posted, "(at)TonyLaRussa boy did I mess up by writing that book tell big mac i am sorry." La Russa retired over the winter after winning the World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals. McGwire, 10th on the career home run list with 583, is their hitting coach. He was hired after the 2009 season, and the following January he admitted using steroids when he was a player. Canseco doesnt expect either man to accept his apology. "No, theyre not supposed to call me," he said. "They cant call me. Im like the leper or the pariah. No one from Major League Baseball can even talk to me because I told the truth and fixed the game." Canseco said there are "couple of years" left in his bat, even his legs can no longer produce the 40-40 speed he had once. Canseco once claimed to have squandered the roughly $45 million he earned over his career, pawned his World Series rings and purged his memorabilia collection to try and satisfy debts against him. But he said hes driven to play by his love of the game, not money. "Theres no reason to give up when you love the game," he said. "Believe me, you dont make money playing this stuff. You dont make money playing independent baseball. They pay nothing. I can make more money not playing baseball than playing baseball." If he strikes out in his bid for a baseball comeback, Canseco would like to manage, in any league. "I have so much information, so much knowledge of the game," he said. He has kept his name in the spotlight the last few seasons with celebrity boxing matches, an MMA bout, reality TV, and he even competed on Donald Trumps television show, "The Celebrity Apprentice." He recently called out former NBA superstar Shaquille ONeal on Twitter to fight him in an MMA-style bout. He says ONeal is open to the fight and believes it could be the next big thing in a post-MLB career stuffed with the wild and wacky to keep afloat. Canseco even cut short an interview because he had just parked at a Las Vegas gym to train. "Im about to work out," he said. "I need to gain 30 pounds if Im going to fight Shaq." cheap nfl jerseys. Basketball fans around the globe will be watching as Kobe Bryant makes his season debut - 240 days after tearing his left Achilles - against Toronto, a team he has used as his own personal punching bag. wholesale jerseys. The final ranking of the tournament was then decided on penalties. The Union opened the scoring in the 29th minute when forward Jack McInerney brought in a long ball behind the Impact defence, just inside the box.With 41 games in the books marking Torontos halfway point in this season, its time to take a look at the performance of each of Torontos fifteen roster players. Obviously grading these players causes imbalances because role, expectations and talent are not distributed evenly. Fairly or not, some players grade-out higher (or lower) because more (or less) was expected of them this year. Most float around the average, with a few peaks and valleys surrounding them on this list. Ed Davis Davis has been a revelation this season. He came into the 2012-13 campaign struggling to get minutes in Dwane Caseys rotation, but an injury to Andrea Bargnani forced him into the starting lineup and it now looks like hes there to stay. Hes averaged 14.2 ppg and 8.3 rpg in the month of January and has shot a sterling .552 from the floor during that time. While the team is better defensively when he is on the court, Davis himself is still allowing an opposing 21.0 PER at the power forward spot, so he still has room to improve, but the organization has to be thrilled with the quantum leap Davis has made on the floor so far this season. -- Grade: A Jose Calderon Without trying to lean too hard on hyperbole, Calderon basically saved this season for the Toronto Raptors. His insertion into the starting lineup brought a tremendous calm to the teams offence without being a drain on the teams defence. His leadership has been invaluable and his play has been so effective that prized off-season acquisition Kyle Lowry has had to make do with an unanticipated reserve role during the teams turnaround. -- Grade: A Amir Johnson There is no player on this Raptors team that better exemplifies the kind of club the Raptors want to be. Hes tough, active and willing to do anything his coaches ask of him. His offensive repertoire has expanded greatly around the basket to include some fundamental footwork and a surprisingly effective sweeping hook. He still struggles to guard his position one-on-one, which leads to a lot of cheap fouls, but his play alongside Davis has made Torontos frontcourt surprisingly difficult to deal with. -- Grade: A- Alan Anderson Anthony Parker 2.0 has been another under-the-radar gem, and his microscopic salary belies his effectiveness off the bench this season. He averaging 12.3 ppg off of the bench for Toronto this season and hes already had multiple game-altering performances. -- Grade: B+ DeMar DeRozan DeRozan started the season strong, suggesting that he might have it in him to live up to his lucrative four-year, $38-million contract extension. However, his play has fallen off dramatically since then, hes shot below 40 per cent over the last 12 games, and hes frequently invalidated by aggressive single coverage. He continues to struggle at living up to Torontos (potentially outsized) expectations. -- Grade: C+ Terrence Ross Unlike DeRozan, Ross has steadily improved as the season has worn on. His defence has been typically reliable, hes shot 37.5 per cent from three this month and hes offered several highlight-worthy finishes at the rim. Overall, he needs to shoot much better and learn to pass more often, but for now, hes quieted those reach talks that surrounded him on draft night. wholesale nfl jerseys -- Grade: C+ Jonas Valanciunas Valanciunas is right around where he should be as a rookie big man, which is inconsistent but showing flashes of his great potential. His offensive game has been stronger than expected, but his defence has been slightly weaker and he fouls far too much for a starting centre. His rebounding has also fallen short of expectations and well see if he can have more of an impact on the boards when he returns from his broken finger next month. -- Grade: C+ Kyle Lowry Lowry has probably been the biggest disappointment of the season so far. While his stats have been solid (hes currently sporting a very fine 22.3 PER), his actual on-court performance has left a lot to be desired. Hes struggled at balancing his role as a scorer with his role as a distributor, constantly leaving his teammates high-and-dry after defensive gambles and he has not demonstrated the kind of leadership the club had expected of him as a six-year veteran. Hes still a big part of the teams future, and hes still supremely talented, so everyone just has to work harder to make this relationship more functional the rest of the way. -- Grade: C Landry Fields Fields started the season about as poorly as one can, but hes been on an upswing since returning from surgery and is coming off his best game as a Raptor against L.A. on Sunday. He was billed as a glue guy and thats what hes been of late. His defence on Kobe Bryant was stellar, his rebounding has been tremendous and, now that his teammates are looking for him on those backdoor cuts, hes having a scoring impact, too. Its just unfortunate that his jump shot has remained horrendous. -- Grade: C Quincy Acy Acy sure is active, and hes learning from exactly the right mentor in Johnson, but he has to cut down on the blown defensive assignments if he wants to earn minutes in a healthy Raptors rotation. -- Grade: C- John Lucas III Hes been fine as a fill-in, but his jump shot disappeared once preseason ended and doesnt offer enough elsewhere to offset his lack of scoring. -- Grade: C- Aaron Gray Grays rebounding, his one great strength, has been missing this year, making it hard to justify playing him in anything but situational matchups. -- Grade: C- Mickael Pietrus He played better than Rasual Butler did in this role last season, but his body is breaking down and he doesnt have it in him to contribute to an NBA team like he used to. -- Grade: D+ Linas Kleiza For whatever reason, Kleiza cannot replicate (or even approximate) his international effectiveness in the NBA. Not even extended minutes at his natural power forward spot could jumpstart his game this season. -- Grade: D Andrea Bargnani Whats there left to say? One of the best things to happen to this teams record this season was losing Bargnani to injury. His laconic play has finally soured the front office on him and hes now firmly entrenched on the trading block. -- Grade: D- ' ' '

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Los Omega Seamaster 1848 Limited Editions Replica de Relojes 70th Anniversary, presentados en Baselworld 2018 celebran el Replica Watches nacimiento de uno de los iconos más importantes de la marca. Y lo hace con una reproducción casi exacta de los modelos originales Replicas Relojes La primera familia de relojes creada por Omega fue el Seamaster, lanzada en 1948. Quién iba a pensar en aquel momento que a sus 70 a?os los relojes iban a parecer tan atractivos como lo fueron entonces. Porque eso son los nuevos Omega Seamaster 1848 Limited Editions 70th Anniversary.

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