first baseball, now couch-surfing

we've now entered the second phase of the foreclosure crisis. first, it was normal folks like you and me. now, it's attacking past-their-prime athletes.

ladies and gentlemen, jose canseco is homeless.

"All us guys, we've been doing this for years," Canseco claims. "The only thing anybody seems to want is bigger and better these days. So we just kept getting bigger, and our numbers got artificially high. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but we're all starting pay the price."

While he refused to elaborate further, Canseco plans to name several other baseball players in a new book, tentatively scheduled for release in July. "I can't tell you who, but the names could surprise you."

ok, i totally made that up...but i'd bet something like that might get congress a little more motivated to sort this thing out.