Editor’s note: This is a bonus Weird and Wild. To read the main W&W column, click or tap here.Well, people always said that ever-entertaining Angels right fielder Jo Adell had a good head on his shoulders. But what a way to prove it.We can think of multiple ways a guy like him might want to do a Jose Canseco impression. Hitting a grand slam off the center-field TV camera in a World Series? That would do it. Writing a New York Times bestseller? That would work.But instead, our man Jo used his head to summon his inner Jose this way Tuesday night, on a ball launched by Rockies DH TJ Rumfield.
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— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) June 3, 2026We barely need any kind of excuse to start reminiscing about that fateful night in 1993 when Canseco bonked a ball over the fence in Cleveland with his own thick noggin. But boy, do we have one now. So let’s check out Canseco’s most famous brain cramp one more time, split-screened with that Adell play that will have us all singing: “Can’t Get You Out of My Head.”
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— David Adler (@_dadler) June 3, 2026Oh, man. What heady times. But it wasn’t just those of us at Weird and Wild World HQ who went all head over heels as we watched that Adell head-clanker this week. Nobody we know felt that déjà vu wave more than longtime Rockies broadcaster Jeff Huson. And why is that? Because he was once Canseco’s teammate on those ’93 Rangers.It’s 33 years later, and Huson hasn’t stopped chuckling over Canseco’s most famous use of his cranium. So imagine what it felt like for him to see it happen again.“You go to enough ballgames and ballparks, and you think you’ve seen it all until you see something like that,” Huson told Weird and Wild. “And then, for it to happen again, you’re like: No way.”Ha. Why does this column even exist? Because in baseball, there’s always a way.So who better to analyze the technique of these two spectacular over-the-fence head butts than Huson, right? Right. We sent him the two videos, and he broke them both down, um, head-to-head.ON CANSECO: “You watch Jose. He’s going back, and he just completely whiffs on it. There’s no glove. Nothing. Just flat, straight off the head — header into the goal type of thing. That was a thing of beauty.”ON ADELL: “So that one’s a little bit different, because he got some leather on it, and then it really just redirected to his head. Most of the time, you’ll see that ball go off the glove and then maybe over the wall or hit the wall, or something like that. But his redirected it (from glove to head), so he didn’t get as much force behind his as Jose.”Hmmm, sounds like Huson thinks Canseco is still right up there at the head of this class. But what’s especially fitting is that Adell brought that Canseco play back to life in a World Cup year. So we had to ask the question we know America had swirling around its own head.W&W: “So which of those two guys would make the best candidate for Team USA?”HUSON: “Well, I still think Jose, just because he can get more force behind it and maybe sneak it past the goalkeeper.”W&W: “True. And Jo actually would have been called for a foul, right? It touched the glove, so wouldn’t that be a handball?”HUSON: “Yeah, it would. So it would have been another corner kick.”Of course! But now here’s the important part: There is life after you’ve just deflected a ball off your head. Adell needs to not lose his head and remember that.In Canseco’s case, he did a masterful job of changing the subject — by talking his manager, Kevin Kennedy, into letting him pitch in Fenway Park a mere 72 hours later.So even though that didn’t end well — by which we mean he blew out his elbow on the mound and needed Tommy John surgery — let’s give him this: It was a shrewd distraction from stylishly caroming home runs off his head.As Huson quipped at the time, “Everywhere we went, people kept screaming: ‘Hey Jose, how’s your head?’ But since he pitched, they all say: ‘Hey, Jose, how’s your ERA?’”Back here in 2026, it’s hard to recommend that Adell try following that bizarre script. But when we asked Huson what advice he’d offer Adell after his classic head-over-heels moment, Huson didn’t hesitate.“I’d tell him: Embrace it,” Huson said, “It’s OK. I would say: You know what, dude? We’ve all done something on the field that just makes us cringe. So see if maybe you can get an endorsement out of it. Like a good Tylenol commercial. Something that takes a headache away.”Right. Adell just needs to keep his head up at a time like this — and remind people of the biggest irony of all:It was only a few weeks ago, you’ll recall, that he had a day that just might have been the greatest defensive game ever. So how does it make sense that the same guy who robbed three home runs in one game also just deflected a fly ball over the fence with his dome? Huson had some thoughts on that.You know that old biblical expression, he told us, that the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away?“Well,” Huson said, “in this case, it’s Jo taketh away — but he also giveth.”Or, of course, there’s one other explanation. And if you’ve ever read the Weird and Wild column, you know exactly what we mean. How could the same guy possibly have reached those two defensive extremes in the same season? C’mon. It’s so obvious. It only makes sense because it’s …Baseball!
