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 ...
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