# Jose Canseco's Finger Falls Off While He's Playing Poker **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 15, 2014, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670 "2014-11-15T02:49:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/1 "2014-11-15T02:49:38Z")
I don’t know how this clown can top himself, but somehow he does. Please, let loose with the terrible puns. > **[Jose Canseco's Reattached Finger Fell Off During A Poker Tournament](https://nesn.com/2014/11/jose-cansecos-reattached-finger-fell-off-during-a-poker-tournament/)** > > Jose Canseco is having an eventful week. One day after going on a Twitter rant about “comet transport” being the “key to our survival,” the former MLB slugger took to the social media platform again to tell another, well, interesting story.... ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/2 "2014-11-15T03:44:09Z")
So his hand wasn’t as good as the other players’. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/3 "2014-11-15T03:46:07Z")
**running coach** , that was a thing of beauty. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/4 "2014-11-15T03:47:53Z")
It must have been a really bad hand. The Suicide King must have chickened out and just chopped a finger off instead. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/5 "2014-11-15T03:49:25Z")
Could be worse. He’s lucky he didn’t hit his gutshot draw. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/6 "2014-11-15T03:55:31Z")
Thats an All-In Bet that I don’t want to match. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/7 "2014-11-15T04:03:32Z")
“That’s quite a tell you’ve got there, Jose.” ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/8 "2014-11-15T04:07:12Z")
They should post a photo of the event. Even a thumbnail picture would do. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/9 "2014-11-15T04:21:23Z")
I’m not that good at tells, but I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have a ten. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/10 "2014-11-15T04:35:50Z")
“Don’t splash the pot. No seriously, you’re getting blood everywhere, Jose.” ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/11 "2014-11-15T05:26:44Z")
I hear he got into a dispute with another player, but when the floorperson came over to make a ruling they found he didn’t have a leg to stand on! Wait, I think I fucked it up. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/12 "2014-11-15T06:16:03Z")
They were serving hors d’oeuvres and pigs in blankets at the game. You know, finger food. ---
**Author:** ![dgrdfd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@dgrdfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dgrdfd)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/13 "2014-11-15T06:31:49Z")
Unrelated and paraphrased from memory - a few years ago Jose posted on Twitter about winning a seniors over fifty softball tournament…someone replied back noting he was 48. One of the funniest exchanges I’ve ever seen on Twitter. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/14 "2014-11-15T06:50:58Z")
Reminds me of Neo’s interrogation scene from _The Matrix:_ “How about if I give you the finger…” ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/15 "2014-11-15T07:25:47Z")
“God Damn Jose! That’s NOT what _ **chop the pot** _ means!” ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/16 "2014-11-15T08:44:57Z")
I’m remembering George Burns giving Walter Matthau the finger in “The Sunshine Boys”. ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/17 "2014-11-15T09:30:09Z")
But luckily for Jose, later that night he did win the “Bad Beat” ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/18 "2014-11-15T14:03:13Z")
Some good replies here, but I think Canseco’s [tweets about comets](http://nesn.com/2014/11/jose-canseco-goes-on-weird-twitter-rant-about-space-comet-transport/) from the day before are still funnier: > [@](#): > > Comet Transport is the key to our survival . > > Galactic Beings have used comets as star taxis for eons > > Comets are faster than anything we could ever build and have their own power solving are two problems > > If Earth can control the comet transport system we will run the Milkyway. Think about that Yes. Think about that. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/19 "2014-11-15T14:22:58Z")
> [@ZenBeam](#): > > Some good replies here, but I think Canseco’s [tweets about comets](http://nesn.com/2014/11/jose-canseco-goes-on-weird-twitter-rant-about-space-comet-transport/) from the day before are still funnier: > Yes. Think about that. And now my head hurts like a baseball bounced off it. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670/20 "2014-11-15T14:40:20Z")
Man, you should have heard the fart. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jose-cansecos-finger-falls-off-while-hes-playing-poker/704670.md?page=2)