Jose, can't you see?!

Monday night marked the passing of an On-Fire Hall of Fame legend. No, Jose Canseco - the Godfather of steroids who practically built the OFHOF with his bare hands (and artificially enhanced biceps) - isn't dead. Technically. But he's dead to me.

Why? On an A&E special in which he was given a remarkable platform on which to expound upon his recently released sequel to his time-honored classic "Juiced" - a sequel in which he boldly, blindly, and therefore awesomely accuses A-Rod of juicing - Jose instead APOLOGIZED for writing it and said he "regrets" doing so.

Take a look:

Say it ain't so, Jose! Canseco's lying in bed and longingly staring at a video of himself back in the Bash Brothers days notwithstanding, this is rock bottom for Jose. Later in the A&E feature, camera crews capture Canseco attempting to break into his own home after his house has been condemned. The video is of course hilarious, but it is a clear symbol as to the depth of Jose's sudden disgracehood. Once I find the video I will post it.

So the man who gave us not only two "Juiced" books that forced Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro--among others--into seclusion; the man who shared a house with Verne Troyer on the "Surreal Life"; the man who tried to break into the George Mitchell steroids press conference in New York last winter to ask his own questions....only now, after apologizing for the baseball-wide chaos he created, has he truly disgraced himself.

Like Pete Rose before him, Canseco is a man who was a sure-fire, On-Fire Hall of Famer who apologized on national television for the very thing that earned him his first ballot induction. Both should have realized that such apologies won't help their Baseball Hall of Fame chances...and cost them their OFHOF status.

R.I.P. Jose

NOTE: As Allan pointed out, if this is all one big ploy to sell more books and elbow his way back into the national sports consciousness, please discount everything I just said. Stay tuned.