WASHINGTON –Former Major League Baseball slugger Jose Canseco tweeted last
night that his finger fell off.
Canseco, 50, had shot off his finger when he was cleaning his gun last month.
According to a series of bizarre tweets Friday night, he reported that his re-
attached finger fell off on a pool table while he was playing in a tournament
in Las Vegas, where he now resides.
He retired from baseball in 2001 and later admitted using performance-
enhancing drugs to improve his game. He wrote, “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant
‘Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big,” about his experiences in 2005.
Canseco was still tweeting — and joking — about the incident mid-morning on
Saturday. The question remains, who was his surgeon?
Dam I was playing in a poker
tournament last night and something crazy happened to my finger that I shot
off and they put back on.
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 14,
2014
I knew something crazy was
going to happen with this dam finger cause it felt like it was falling off.
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 14,
2014
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,
2014
My 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,
2014
This guy called my agent and
sold him the video.of my finger falling off .it looks kinda
funny.lol
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 14,
2014
Dammm I thought the guy was
funny meaning kidding just saw the video .OMG
— Jose Canseco
(@JoseCanseco) November 14,
2014
I could probably hit a softball
further with 9 fingers .less weight means more bat speed. Lol
— Jose
Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 15,
2014
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