I’m sure you saw this on Inside Edition, the Los Angeles Times or even WSJ. We are all a big too into schadenfreude, are we not? Oh, yeah, we are. I feel better cashing in my plastic bottles to buy groceries if I know that Jose Canseco is living in a modest house and owes $2.5 million to Washington Mutual. Read on and on:

“I do have a judgment on my home and it to me is very strange because it didn’t make financial sense for me to keep paying a mortgage on a home that was basically owned by someone else,” he said in an interview that aired Thursday.

“I live in a much smaller home. I’ve got way less than I had before,” Canseco told INSIDE EDITION’s Jim Moret. 

Jim Moret asked Canseco, “Are people thinking, ‘Hey if this can happen to Jose Canseco, it can happen to me’ ?”

“It’s happening to anyone and everyone,” was Canseco’s answer.

Maybe his new book, Vindicated, will help him pay the rent.