Jose Canseco says his reattached finger fell off while playing poker
This may have escaped your noticed while the Royals were playing in the World Series, but former major-league baseball player Jose Canseco injured himself while cleaning his gun.
That happened on Oct. 28 when the gun went off and Canseco was shot in the hand, according to police in Las Vegas.
The backstory is important because Canseco said his injured finger fell off while playing in a poker tournament on Thursday.
Yeah, fell off.
The finger apparently had been reattached after the gun-cleaning incident, and, well, it’s just easier to let Canseco’s tweets tell the story:
Ok well I might as well tell you .I was playing in a poker tournament last night and my finger fell off .someone took a video of it.
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 14, 2014My finger should have been amputated from the beginning. It was very loose with no bone to connect it.it was also smelling really bad.
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 14, 2014This guy called my agent and sold him the video.of my finger falling off .it looks kinda funny.lol
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 14, 2014I want to see the video I haven't even seen it yet .
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 14, 2014Dammm I thought the guy was funny meaning kidding just saw the video .OMG
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 14, 2014I’d venture to guess that if a video does surface of the finger falling off that it could set a YouTube record.
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This story was originally published November 14, 2014 at 10:49 PM.