Yes, the Jose Canseco saga continues. The former Oakland A’s slugger, who’s only played in a handful of games since joining the Golden Baseball League, has nonetheless received special dispensation and has been admitted into the league’s all-star game, which takes place at Chico (not Chico’s house, but Chico, CA). Canseco, who played one game for the San Diego Surf Dawgs before being traded (at his request) to the Long Beach Armada, struck out 11 times in his first 13 GBL at-bats but has since gotten off the schneid, hitting a couple of home runs for the Armada.
 
He’ll have a shot to show off his power swing as he participates in the league’s home run derby before the contest.
  
Terry Kennedy, manager of the South squad, seems to be excited. Are you?
 
 

Huff was a tremendous pick for the Oakland Raiders.  Huff has played every secondary position in college and excelled at them all.  Huff would be the consensus #1 safety or cornerback in the draft.  He may project to be a better corner in the NFL because of his size 6′0″, 198.  Make no mistake, Huff brings the heat in the running game and loves to blow up running backs.  Huff also has tremendous speed (4.35 40), and no one gets behind him going out for passes.

Huff has played in 51 games at Texas (50 starts) and has made 318 tackles, broke up 44 passes, intercepted 7 passes and forced six fumbles.

Huff should be a starter from Day #1 for the Raiders….position in secondary yet to be determined.

Aaron Brooks is looking to rebound from his worst season in his career (70.0 QB rating), but it’s easy to excuse any Saint for having a bad season last year (due to Hurricane Katrina).  Brooks has been a pretty good QB in his career.  In 85 games (82 starts) he has completed 56.4% of his passes for 19,156 yards with 120 TD passes and 84 interceptions for a career rating of 79.7.  Brooks has also rushed for 1,410 yards in his career (4.1 ypc) and 13 TD.  Brooks is a great athlete with the deep arm that Al Davis likes his QB’s to have.

Marques Tuiasosopo was almost traded to the Cleveland Browns during the draft, but the Raiders braintrust still likes him for some reason.  It can’t be his performance, but to be fair he has only appeared in nine games (2 starts) and has completed 56.0% of his passes for 482 yards with only 1 TD pass and 5 interceptions for a woeful QB rating of 52.2.  Tuiasosopo is a good runner for a QB.

Andrew Walter is the kind of QB Al Davis likes.  Walter is a big guy with a cannon for an arm, but he has no game experience.  He will battle for the #2 job in camp.