European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 22 the stars and stripes thursday september 21,1989 what s your 900 no. Soy today Jose by Dave Carpenter san Francisco a looking for excite ment want a Telephone Hookup to a superstar just Plain bored dial Jose but be ready to pay. Thousands of people a Day Are apparently willing to Shell out As much As $10 a Call to heart Telephone recording of Jose Canseco chatting about his misadventures with guns and cars about steroids allegations and on , baseball. Canseco s 900 number went into serv ice this week and an agent for the Oakland athletics slugger says it s a big hit. The phone is ringing off the Jeff Bor Rison the Beverly Hills sports Council said tues Day. Thousands of people arc calling. The response has been very favourable and we re very pleased with the initial the sports Council cooked up the idea this summer with Canseco s approval. How it originally came out was the Media stuff was happening with the speeding and the guns and people weren t getting the Story from the horse s Mouth Canseco said. "1 just wanted to Tell my Side of the Story. Every single Day it s updated. It will Tell you about the game and also what happened to me that Day. Like at the time of the gun incident i d have said i was travelling to the Hospital when a policeman stopped me and i d talk about All the things that happened that the agent declined to discuss any potential profits but they arc obviously lucrative. A caller pays $2 for the first minute and $1 for each additional minute. There arc 4 i minutes of Canseco s recorded comments about guns cars and steroids and it costs $5 for the entire Spiel. Since the outfielder updates the tape with re Marks from that Day s game or events tuesday s tape ran about 4 a minutes. Total Tab $10. That s not the agent said of the financial details. There s a whole 900-Numbcrcraze going on across the country. Tell anyone to Call the answering machine before they form an opinion on this Canseco plugs the Telephone service in commercials now appearing on the esp mtg and Usa Cable networks. I i m Jose Canseco he says cheerfully. "1 want to speak to you so Call 1-900-234-Jose. I la give you the latest scoop on baseball and what s happening in my personal life. If you want to know if i take steroids How fast i drive or Why i was carrying that gun Call me at 1-900 234.j6se." so what does the caller learn about or. 40-40? on driving fast and his arrests for speeding i do enjoy music and exotic cars he says. Obviously they re extremely fast. Sometimes they do lend to get away from you. Forty or 50 Man in these cars seems like nothing. Sometimes you re not really watching the speedometer and you accelerate a Little bit and Boom you re up to70or80mph i Don t really want any Young people to go out there and do that because it s very danger Ous. Please try not to Speed and try to keep it under 55 if you acts Howard Johnson slides into second fur a double As cubs Shimon Duns on awaits throw in second inning. No from Page 17 304th of his career off Steve Wilson 5-4, in the Sec Ond inning. It was the second Homer of the year for Carter out most of the season with a knee injury. Bob Ojida 13-10, pitched five innings. Wooden who came off the disabled list two weeks ago gave up one run in the final four. Acts manager Darcy Johnson benched Darryl Straw Berry and Kevin Mcreynolds for leaving the dugout in the ninth inning of monday night s loss. Keith Miller replaced Strawberry and hit a Solo Homer in the third. Giants 3, dodgers 2 san Francisco Pinch Hitler Mike Laga hit a bases loaded double in his first career at Bat against giants Nemesis Orel Hershiser As National league West leading san Francisco beat los Angeles. The giants maintained their five game Lead Over Sec Ond place san Diego which also won and reduced their magic number to seven. Hershiser i4-i4, lost a career High sixth straight Ducci si9n and the first in five starts this season against the giant against whom he is 15-5 lifetime. The dodgers rapped out 15 hits including 11 against Mike Lacoss. 8-10, in five innings. Bui four los Angeles runners were thrown Oul on the bases. Padres 5, reds 1cincinnati Rookie Andy Bencs won his fifth straight decision As surging san Diego helped its cause in the West by beating punch less Cincinnati. The Victory coupled with Houston s 3-0 loss to at Lanta gave san Diego sole Possession of second place. Tony Gwynn drove irm rec runs and Ercito Santia go Hil a two run Homer for san Diego which won for the 20th time in 25 games in dealing Cincinnati its eighth straight loss. Braves 3, astros 0 Atlanta Gary eave making his first major league Start out pitched 20-Gamc Winner Mike Scott a Atlanta topped Houston ending the astros five game winning Streak. Ron Gam and Rookie Dave Justice hit Solo homers for the braves in the fourth inning against Scott 20-9. Who had beaten Atlanta six straight times. Eave. Who had a 13-3 record at Richmond before being called up last week allowed iwo Hils in 7 i innings. Pirates 4, Phillies 2 Pittsburgh Jose Lind and Gary Redus had three Hils apiece As Pittsburgh won for the ninth time in 10 games. Al from Page 17 Tartabull each drove in two runs and Kansas City helped by four Chicago errors beat inc while sox to stay 3v games behind Oakland. Larry Mcwilliams 2-0 As a starter since being acquired from Philadelphia on sept. 2, allowed three runs and six hits in seven innings. Sieve Farr Pilch cd iwo innings for his 18th save allowing one Hil. The royals scored five runs in the second inning off Richard Dolson 4-11. Rangers 5, mariners 3 Arlington Texas Brad Arnsberg pitched two hit Relief for 5vi innings after Charlie Hough matched the shortest Start of his 20-year career As Texas beat Seattle. Hough retired just iwo waiters and left after giving up two singles and two walks. He was visibly upset when he was replaced arguing with manager Bobby Valentine on the Mound and then flipping the Ball to Arnsberg 15 feet Incaviglia broke a 3-3 tic with a Solo Home run his 19lh, in the sixth inning off Jerry Reed 6-7. Ruben Sierra hit his 27lh Homer in the eighth. Sierra went 3 for-4 with a triple and has 322 total bases breaking the team record of 315 set by Al Oliver in 1980. Rainout in new York new York rain forced postponement of tues Day night s game Between the new York Yankees an Milwaukee Brewers. The game was rescheduled As pan of a twi night double header wednesday. Computer system beat him . Fighter complains . A boxing writer Moscow american super heavyweight Larry Donald thought it was the system and not his oppo nent who Defeated him wednesday at the world Amateur boxing championships. Donald was one of three american boxers to see action. Two of them lost leaving the . Team with v four wins wins and three losses. Five of its 12 boxers have yet to see action. The . Winner wednesday at the olympic sport Center was Tonga Mcclairy of Racine wis., who out pointed Yoshio Osawa 38-14 in a 132-Pound bout. The other . Loser was Paul Vaden of Puyallup. Wash., who was out pointed 16-11 by Lazlo Gal of Hungary at 156 pounds. I won it Ain t no doubt Donald a shoe Salesman world Amateur Moxim from Cincinnati said of losing 17-15 to Sevilen Russinov of Bulgaria who was a Bronze medallist at 201 pounds at the world championships in 1986 at Reno Nev. The 12-year-old Donald who has been boxing Only since 1987, had a Good first round. Russinov then Hurt Donald with a left Hook in the second round and began catching him with rights to the head. Many of Donald s punches were left jabs thrown while backing up which arc considered insignificant punches ignored by inc judges under the computerized scoring three of the five judges push their buttons within a second of a punch being thrown it is recorded As Point by the computer. Russinov caught the judges attention with one at a time hard right hands while Donald often punched in combination. I knew Hie system was t in my favor Donald said. The judges can t keep up with the combinations. They Only catch one the 19-year-old Mcclain kept firing both hands to the head until he tired in the second half of the third round. I was trying to set a big Lead and i got winded said Mcclain who was penalized a Point for hitting Low in the final round. He was hitting on the break so i got just As dirty As he did Mcclain said. Vaden fought with a cold chronic bad Back and a damaged left wrist. That still did t Stop me from performing Well said Vaden after an uninspired performance
