LAS VEGAS _ There's no mystery to this "Where are they now?" story.
Years after his bitter exit from baseball in 2001, just 38 home runs shy of the then-elite 500 club, Jose Canseco hasn't gone anywhere. He's still talking in wild sound bites, flexing his muscles and dreaming of his chance to grab a bat.
With the passing of time, Canseco is as recognized today as the first player to log 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a season, as he is the man who was dubbed the "Typhoid Mary of steroids" in baseball.
In the years since the fallout from writing "Juiced," his regretful tell-all book that exposed baseball's biggest secret, Canseco hasn't attempted to hide from the backlash.
Nor was his goal to blend into the background after his career as a professional baseball player ended.
Lounging in the pop-up television studio in his Las Vegas home, clad in his work clothes _ a tank top and backwards hat _ Canseco spoke candidly about all the things he's done and the interests he continues to pursue as he welcomed in his 53rd birthday last month.
He wants you to know how far he can still crush a baseball, how many games of bowling, golf and softball he packs into his afternoons and how good of shape he's in compared to many of his former counterparts.
As evidenced by the never-ending stream of consciousness on his Twitter account, Canseco wants to let you into his eclectic world and let you know what he's thinking _ everything from a spat he had with the energy company that unexpectedly shut off power in his Las Vegas home to his thoughts on what Donald Trump would look like as a mythical dragon.
He wants you to know about how his ties with Major League Baseball were severed, much like the time he severed the middle finger on his left hand when the 45-caliber Remington accidentally went off when he was cleaning his loaded gun, and how he desperately wants to heal those figurative wounds.
That affiliation to baseball has long been a nagging itch for Canseco. Years after the steroid scandal turned him into baseball's pariah, one thing remains as constant as his attention-drawing antics.
He'll do just about anything to get back into baseball.
