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Jose Canseco shoots off middle finger
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 10:25 am
by Bob Juch
AP wrote:LAS VEGAS -- Former major league slugger Jose Canseco is recovering after shooting himself in the hand at his Las Vegas home.
Metro police Lt. Mark Reddon says officers responded to a call of an accidental shooting shortly after 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Reddon says the former Oakland Athletics outfielder told police he was cleaning his gun in the kitchen when it fired, shooting a finger on his left hand. He was taken to University Medical Center of Southern Nevada.
Canseco is a right-handed batter who hit 462 career home runs and was a six-time All-Star. He also played for Texas, Boston, Toronto, Tampa Bay, the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox during a career that spanned from 1985 to 2001.
An email sent to a representative of Canseco on Tuesday night was not immediately returned.
Re: Jose Canseco shoots off middle finger
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 11:15 am
by smilergrogan
The bullet ricocheted off his finger over his fence into the neighbor's yard.
Re: Jose Canseco shoots off middle finger
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:17 pm
by silverscreenselect
For Jose, losing his middle finger will severely impair his ability to communicate.
Re: Jose Canseco shoots off middle finger
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 4:01 pm
by T_Bone0806
change of pace from his norm of shooting his mouth off...
Re: Jose Canseco shoots off middle finger
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 9:58 am
by silverscreenselect
I couldn't make this up.
Canseco is now claiming his surgically reattached finger fell off during a poker game. I know this is serious, but I couldn't read these tweets and keep a straight face.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/11879 ... poker-game
I've heard of losing your shirt playing poker, but this is a bit extreme.
Re: Jose Canseco shoots off middle finger
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:13 am
by MarleysGh0st
silverscreenselect wrote:I've heard of losing your shirt playing poker, but this is a bit extreme.
Maybe it's the Walking Dead version of strip poker.
Re: Jose Canseco shoots off middle finger
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:18 am
by ne1410s
I've heard of mucking a hand but just a finger?
Re: Jose Canseco shoots off middle finger
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:00 pm
by jarnon
silverscreenselect wrote:Canseco is now claiming his surgically reattached finger fell off during a poker game. I know this is serious, but I couldn't read these tweets and keep a straight face.
According to
TMZ, José was just kidding about his finger falling off again. He had also joked that he'd sell the digit on eBay.
Re: Jose Canseco shoots off middle finger
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 7:00 pm
by Estonut
Jose Canseco DUMPED BY FIANCEE
The reason should not surprise anyone...
Jose Canseco's engagement is officially OVER ... with Leila Knight telling TMZ Sports she dumped the former MLB star because "he's an a**hole."