Another professional athlete is hoping to show off his survival and manipulation skills on the CBS reality show Survivor.

Jose Canseco, who competed in Major League Baseball in the '80s, '90s and some of the 2000s, wants to add Survivor to his resume. Canseco, who is perhaps more commonly known for his steroid scandal, made a public plea to Survivor host Jeff Probst on Thursday:

Canseco certainly wouldn't be the first professional athlete to compete on Survivor. Past athletes who have played in seasons of Survivor include Jeff Kent, Brad Culpepper, John Rocker, Scot Pollard, Cliff Robinson, Gary Hogeboom, Steve Wright, Grant Mattos, Tyler Fredrickson and Crystal Cox. Notable celebrities associated with sports who have played the game include Jimmy Johnson and David Samson.

It remains to be seen if Probst or anyone from Survivor casting will take notice of Canseco's plea, though he does have reality show experience. In 2005, he was a cast member on the VH1 reality series The Surreal Life. He was also cast for a season of The Celebrity Apprentice in 2011.

Probst has previously talked about the possibility of an all-celebrity season of Survivor, admitting that fellow executive producer Mark Burnett isn't a big fan of the idea.

"I don't think it's dead, even though I've said it's dead because Mark Burnett has told me it's dead," Probst told Entertainment Weekly, of the possibility of a celebrity season. "I think the only way 'Celebrity Survivor' works is if for some reason there was an event and you had momentum for the country - a benefit or something where enough celebrities said, 'All right, I'll give you six days.' And we'll do six episodes. We'll vote someone out every night. I think we could do that."

Probst also admitted that they could get some "cool people" lined up for a special celebrity season, adding, "they would have to have a reason to leave their life behind and take a week off from work. Guys like Jimmy Fallon - he is a fan. He'll send me emails and say, 'Oh my God, that was a great episode.' But Jimmy Fallon hosts a gigantic show. There's no way he's leaving for six days if he has six days off. But maybe one day. And we've worked on a format that we could do that would be super fast. You could still have an hour to check in with your manager if you need to, but we'll still kick your a-."

Meanwhile, Survivor's 33rd season kicks off Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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