Disgraced former MLB player Jose Canseco wants Trump to appoint him ambassador to the UN

Jose Canseco Capas Jr., a former Major League Baseball player who admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs during his MLB career, wants President Donald Trump to appoint him to the soon-to-be-vacant U.S. ambassadorship to the United Nations:

Hey little buddy @realDonaldTrump I am interested in United Nations leadership .dm me for ideas and confidential 90 day plan #readynow

— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) October 9, 2018

Canseco's attempt to get Trump to appoint him to the ambassadorship to the UN struck me as rather odd (although it sounds like a serious effort by Canseco to get Trump to appoint him) for a number of reasons:

• Canseco has never actually retired from playing baseball. As recently as earlier this year, Canseco played in a few games for the Normal CornBelters of the independent Frontier League.
• Canseco doesn't have any prior diplomatic or political experience of any kind that I'm aware of.
• Canseco publicly admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs in a 2005 book titled Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big.

In the unlikely event that Trump were to appoint Canseco to the ambassadorship to the UN, the MLB steroid scandal would likely be a topic of conversation during any U.S. Senate confirmation hearing, and Canseco might have serious trouble getting Senate confirmation because of his role in the baseball steroid scandal.