Jose Canseco was on-hand Saturday night when his former team, the Oakland A’s, gave away 15,000 bobbleheads commemorating his 1986 Rookie of the Year season.
Shortly after throwing out the first pitch, which he claimed was a knuckleball, Canseco was asked what he thought of his likeness appearing in its latest bobblehead form.
As you might expect, Canseco answered in the most Canseco way imaginable.
“It’s pretty good, it’s pretty accurate. It looks like the pre-Steroid-era bobblehead, though,” Canseco said via the Washington Post. “It’s got me kind of skinny. If it would have been the Steroid-era it would have me more beefed up. It looks more like the ‘86 bobblehead.”
To his credit, he’s actually not wrong. The A’s did do a tremendous job keeping the 1986-themed bobblehead looking like the 1986 Canseco as opposed to the juiced up version we would have seen in the 1990’s and 2000’s.
Jose Canseco bobblehead night! #atthecoliseum #oakland #Athletics #josecanseco pic.twitter.com/9CjqDiQR9t
— Mykle (@supmykle) September 3, 2016
Canseco, of course, is known for essentially blowing the whistle on baseball’s steroid problem, having let the cat out of the bag with his 2005 book “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big.”
Ironically, Canseco appeared on the cover of the 1986 Oakland A’s media guide with a big, bold headline reading “The Natural.”
And once again, the world humorously comes full circle.
