 All the players were cooperative except for José Canseco, who was intimidating.He disliked his original part and insisted it be rewritten, and the writers grudgingly made him as heroic as possible.He was originally slated to wake up in bed with Edna Krabappel and miss the game (in a parody of "Bull Durham"), but Canseco's then-wife, Esther Haddad, objected.