Jose was paid by the University of Florida studen'ts speaker's bureau (Accent) to speak to the students last night.
http://www.alligator.org/pt2/050414canseco.php
I didn't make it to the speech, but it sounds like some of the questions he was asked were pretty funny. Particularly the one about ball shrinkage.
I just love the editing on the article. My favorite line by the writer is...
The Florida Alligator wrote:
Former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco, who was paid $35,000 by Accent, UF’s speakers bureau, to speak Wednesday night, read his whole pre-prepared speech without making eye contact with a crowd of more than 1,000.
So is a pre-prepared speech a speech that's already written before you sit down to write it? I'm thinking someone's not going to be making a great grade on their journalism class this semester.
