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Former Major League Baseball slugger Jose Canseco has made numerous claims, some more dubious than others, in the 22 years since he retired from the game.
Interestingly, a large portion of those claims have absolutely nothing to do with baseball.
Canseco’s latest bizarre statement occurred, as usual, on his Twitter account when the 59-year-old randomly tweeted that he had met an “alien ghost.”
I met an alien ghost that asked me for chocolate and hamburgers
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) July 17, 2023
Trying to figure out the weird part of this.
— GregFromNJ (@gregfromnj4) July 17, 2023
If you say this line in the In and Out drive thru they will give you a free Double Double.
— 512KB (@I0II0II0II0I0II) July 17, 2023
That’s it. That’s all he said. No context. No further explanation. Perhaps it was a followup to this tweet…
Some aliens visited me and told me where I can find a family of bigfoot they want to adopt me
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) June 18, 2023
Amazingly, that isn’t even anywhere close to the strangest thing Jose Canseco has ever posted on social media.
For example, in 2020, Jose Canseco wrote a series of tweets about how he was going to teach “dream control seminars.”
“I am going to teach dream control seminars,” Canseco explained. “After you get your masters in dream control you will be able to enter a facility where you will be put in an [sic] coma induced dream state for whatever time you choose and be able to do whatever you want with no restrictions whatsoever…”
Not even a month before that, Jose claimed that he had been in contact with Bigfoot.
Can Bigfoot or aliens get Coronavirus I need to know because I have had contact with them
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) April 18, 2020
In 2016, Canseco asked then President Donald Trump (who he referred to as “little buddy”) if he could be the head of the Federal Reserve.
Hey little buddy @realDonaldTrump good pick on bobby for Japan. I would be open to Ambassador of Cuba job or Fed Chair. See u soon
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) December 12, 2016
Then there was this “scientific” lesson taught by the former MLB All-Star…
“If we could get ammonia to Mars we could make an atmosphere,” he tweeted.
“By my calculations if we nuked the polar ice caps on Mars we would make an ocean of 36 feet deep across the whole planet,” Canseco continued.
“And then it appears that redirecting Saturn’s moon Triton to collide into Mars could make the planet habitable faster,” Jose followed up.
“Yes I DID think about the missing magnetic field,” he then clarified. “It is created when the Triton collision liquidates Mars outer core into molten iron.”
Got all that?
I had a headache so I pulled my brain out of my head and put it in my pocket and told it to calm down
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) March 31, 2023