Jose Canseco hornswoggles humanity Hoaxes are all over the place. Here's a really good one, though. Nutty Jose Canseco shot off his middle finger on Oct. 29. It was then reattached in surgery. And last week he tweeted the world: "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." It was his very own hoax!