Men are jerks. Okay I know it’s not fair to say that all of them are based on the statements of one guy. Jose Canseco, to be specific. But his comments are so assholeish that it makes me hate his entire gender. Unfair, I know.

Back in the day, Jose used to date Madonna. In fact, he claimed she begged him to get her pregnant. But apparently Canseco has nothing nice to say about Madge anymore – in fact he criticized both her age and her dating habits. And while that’s nothing new, he did it in such a douche baggy way that I actually feel protective and defensive towards Madonna. And I don’t like feeling that way.

Jose Canseco can’t get over the fact that his 50-year-old ex Madonna is dating 22-year-old Brazilian model Jesus Luz.

“Oh, my God! Doesn’t she realize she is 60-years old? Come on!” he told Usmagazine.com Saturday at the 7th Annual World Poker Tour Invitational at Commerce Casino in L.A.

Of Madonna (who took Luz to NYC’s Kabbalah Centre on Saturday), Conseco told Us: “When she is 80, what is she going to date — a guy who is 10 years old? It’s getting crazy!”

Madonna doesn’t seem to mind their nearly 30-year age difference.

A source close to the singer recently told Us Weekly that while she and Luz are not serious, “she is seeing where it goes.” Said her pal, “She loves showing her ex that she can still get the youngest, hottest thing out there.”

[From Us Weekly]

It’s not like Canseco was just off by 10 years – he was saying Madonna was 60 as an insult. And if a 60-year-old guy were dating a 22-year-old woman, I bet Jose would be giving him props. He clearly feels threatened by Madonna and her massive success – which is astronomical compared to his own career. Maybe he should spend a little more time actually doing something – anything really – and a little less time slamming his ex.

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Apparently Madonna has always had a penchant for baseball players. According to the kinda-reputable Jose Canseco, Madge wanted to use him for his baby juices. Canseco claims that his people were contacted by Madonna’s people, and the pair met. Even though he was married at the time, the singer made a move on him, which he claims he rebuffed. For the most part. Yet the two kept spending time together off and on, for reasons that he doesn’t really make clear.

Jose Canseco says Madonna not only wanted to hop into bed with him – she wanted his baby. The former Yankee slugger told Us magazine Madge wanted some of “his genes” so she could give birth to a Cuban sibling for Lourdes, her daughter with fitness trainer Carlos Leon.

“She had a Cuban child and wanted another one,” said Canseco, 44, who helped blow the lid off baseball’s steroid controversy. “She wanted to get married and have a child with me. I’m Cuban, 6-foot-3, athletic, built,” said Canseco…

Canseco says he first met the Material Girl in 1991 at her home in Los Angeles, and she quickly moved into seductress mode. Madonna played Canseco a masturbation scene from her “Truth Or Dare” movie on the TV, then started smooching him. But the buff ballplayer balked, telling Madonna he was trying to work things out with his wife.

“She said, ‘I have lots of money. Don’t worry about that,’ ” Canseco recalled. “I had to leave at that point so I got up and left.” Canseco says she always thought she could talk him into the sack someday. I think she thought she could persuade me or seduce me over time,” he told the magazine.

[From the Daily News]

The article in Us Weekly goes on to say that Canseco and Madonna kept meeting up for several months, which is what he was alluding to in the “seduce me over time” comment. Which doesn’t make sense, since he already claimed that he rebuffed her advances and didn’t want to father her child. Why would he keep bothering with what sounded like awkward encounters for no reason? Probably because it’s either exaggerated, or Canseco wasn’t quite as faithful as he plays it.

Jose Canseco is shown on 8/28/07, thanks to photographer Rachel Worth for WENN. Madonna is shown on 5/22/08, thanks to WENN.