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Sep 9, 2008 7:21 pm US/Eastern
Miami-Dade Committee Votes To Remove Canseco St.
Commissioner Joe Martinez Pushing To Remove Jose Canseco Street
Martinez Wants The Name Change Due To Canseco's Admitted Steroid Use
Item Must Go To Full Board of County Commissioners For Final Vote
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
A Miami-Dade County Commissioner is one step closer to getting retired baseball star Jose Canseco's name removed from a South Florida street.
Commissioner Joe Martinez, whose district includes Jose Canseco Street, thinks it's an embarrassment to have a street named after Canseco due to his admitted steroid use. Martinez proposed a resolution Tuesday to have Canseco's name removed and the resolution unanimously passed the Governmental Operations and Environment Committee.
"If you were to tell me he's altruistic, and he did it for a particular reason, of you know, 'I really wanted to cleanse myself and do it,' but to make money, to become relevant, again, to be in the limelight," said Joe Martinez. "To do that, I think he did it for the wrong reasons."
Before Canseco's name comes down however, the item has to pass a final vote by the full board of County Commissioners.
Jose Canseco Street runs along SW 16th Street from 102nd to 107th Avenue.
Canseco graduated from Miami Coral Park Senior High. He revealed his steroid use, as well as that of other players, in his 2005 book, "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big."
Martinez believes Canseco's self-admitted indiscriminate and illegal use of the performance enhancement drug has marred his name enough to warrant taking down his name from the street.
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