Jose Canseco as Sonny Crockett

With Jose Canseco so much in the news lately - it got me thinking of this idea that I've long held.

Months ago I found this screen test by Jose Canseco (with a cameo by Darryl Strawberry) and it got me thinking that Jose Canseco would make a better Sonny Crockett from Miami Vice than Don Johnson ever made.

Someone should reshoot Miami Vice with Jose Canseco and Darryl Strawberry starring as Crockett and Tubbs. The idea has really grown on me and I have become convinced that if MTV or ESPN were to do this that it would be a big hit.

For the other roles on the show - I would cast:

Joe Torre (or Jimmy Kimmel's Uncle Frank) as Lt. Martin Castillo (originally played by Edward James Olmos)

Serena Williams as Det. Gina Navarro Calabrese (originally played by Saundra Santiago)

Anna Kournikova as Det. Judy Troplin (originally played by Olivia Brown)

John Kruk as Det. Stan Switek (originally played by Michael Talbott)

Martina Navratilova as Det. Larry Zito (originally played by John Diehl)

All the producers would have to do is have the "actors" play it straight and it would be off the scale funny. Can you imagine how funny Jose Canseco would be trying to be smooth, angry or anything other than vacant? Nick at Nite or TV Land could produce this show and then run the originals back-to-back. It would become "must see TV".

I would also have the producers try to get everything on the first take so that you get to see Jose Canseco having trouble reading cue cards or putting on the wrong facial expressions. The show would be just one long series of funny out-takes. How could it not be a hit?

The only change I would make to the original is instead of having tons of extras - I would just have an occasional girl in a bikini (to save on production costs and to add to the eye candy quotient).

Don't you think that this would be awesome? Wouldn't you crack open a beer and watch this?